RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 29, 2014 at 9:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2014 at 9:24 pm by Angrboda.)
Holy fuck. What is it with people tossing around multi-hour videos? "Ain't nobody got time for dat."
As I've noted previously, there are multiple dimensions upon which explanations can be ranked, and on most of them, a god as an explanation doesn't rank very high.
One of the main problems being there just isn't enough specificity to "god as an explanation" for it to tell us very much. Lacking more specifics, it becomes a non-starter. If you start adding the specifics of this or that god, it quickly becomes apparent that there are not good, rational reasons for adding this specific rather than that specific, this god rather than that god, and the whole explanation collapses in on itself for lack of evidence for the particulars.
I'm into reading a book at the moment, so I doubt I'll find time for the video. The problem isn't that physicalist explanations are inadequate — they are — but theist explanations are even less sufficient.
As I've noted previously, there are multiple dimensions upon which explanations can be ranked, and on most of them, a god as an explanation doesn't rank very high.
One of the main problems being there just isn't enough specificity to "god as an explanation" for it to tell us very much. Lacking more specifics, it becomes a non-starter. If you start adding the specifics of this or that god, it quickly becomes apparent that there are not good, rational reasons for adding this specific rather than that specific, this god rather than that god, and the whole explanation collapses in on itself for lack of evidence for the particulars.
I'm into reading a book at the moment, so I doubt I'll find time for the video. The problem isn't that physicalist explanations are inadequate — they are — but theist explanations are even less sufficient.
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