RE: Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?
March 31, 2014 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 11:22 am by Whateverist.)
(March 31, 2014 at 11:03 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 31, 2014 at 12:29 am)whateverist Wrote: To say that a thing is natural is one and the same with saying it is real or exists.I think this plays on semantics. Today psi phenomena are considered supernatural. If somehow, it was confirmed (something that hasn't been convincing yet) then you would shift it into the natural column. If that is the definition then I guess I'm a naturalist too. I just have a more expansive concept of what is real and existing.
Don't be too sure.
(March 31, 2014 at 11:03 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Intentionality is a real phenomena and must have a place in any coherent philosophy of mind. It's not that a naturalistic solution hasn't yet been found; ontological naturalism as a paradigm disallows it.
I wonder though whether a coherent, entirely satisfactory philosophy of mind is anything we can reasonably expect. If the best that could ever be accomplished were a few observations on various aspect of the mind, I wouldn't be surprised. Philosophy is ultimately a verbal enterprise of description and I don't put a lot of stock in the powers of language.
(March 31, 2014 at 11:03 am)ChadWooters Wrote: I agree than just throwing around the word God does little to further our understanding. You will notice how I never use the word myself when discussing this issue, because I think the issue is about the fundamental nature of reality: whether its Whiteheads 'monads' or as I suspect a unified ground of being that also has dispositional properties.
Noted. So it is your disposition to impute dispositional properties to the great what-is? I suspect you are projecting but I respect your right to do so.
