Why do we need god?
March 25, 2014 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2014 at 1:43 pm by Rampant.A.I..)
They could, but this says nothing for the validity of the conclusions from subjective experience. In other words, this is a philosophical rephrasing of "it's true because I feel it is true."
By attempting to redefine subjective truths as objective, Chad is literally trying to redefine reality as he subjectively wishes to see it.
Subjective experience is an artifact of internal conscious experience, objective experiences are empirical and of the world external to consciousness. It is testable, and can be checked against the objective empirical experience of others.
What Chad is saying is that if he stands on a street corner and announces he has an invisible purple bowling ball in his hand, if he can convince other people they also have invisible purple bowling balls, it is now true that each person is in fact holding an invisible purple they were simply unaware of before, and have made a discovery about reality.
By attempting to redefine subjective truths as objective, Chad is literally trying to redefine reality as he subjectively wishes to see it.
Subjective experience is an artifact of internal conscious experience, objective experiences are empirical and of the world external to consciousness. It is testable, and can be checked against the objective empirical experience of others.
What Chad is saying is that if he stands on a street corner and announces he has an invisible purple bowling ball in his hand, if he can convince other people they also have invisible purple bowling balls, it is now true that each person is in fact holding an invisible purple they were simply unaware of before, and have made a discovery about reality.
