RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 31, 2014 at 6:29 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 6:31 am by bennyboy.)
(March 31, 2014 at 5:49 am)Alex K Wrote:The experience is intrinsically real. The attributes we make about the nature of the experience, or its source, are not.(March 31, 2014 at 3:11 am)bennyboy Wrote: Only experiences are facts.
What please is the qualitative difference between an experience and conclusions from a scientific observation?
So when you do scientific observation, you are really having the experience of looking at a microscope, or of writing down your results, or of reading your published work with pride. But none of all this tells you whether you are looking at a microscope inside a BIJ, or writing down your results on a Matrix reconstruction of paper, or reading the work as represented in the Mind of God. Most importantly, it does not give you good information about whether the universe is a physical monism, an idealistic monism, a substance duality, or something else.
Caveat: the same goes for religious attributions. Just because you see Jesus flying down from the sky to tickle your tummy with a magic feather, doesn't mean there's any underlying reality to that experience.