RE: If beauty doesn't require God, why should morality? (Bite me Dr. Craig.)
July 25, 2014 at 9:18 am
(July 25, 2014 at 9:12 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm saying that personal consciousness is only possible if the framework accomodates it. You couldn't have a purely mechanical universe which also had consciousness-- unless the capacity for consciousness is already intrinsic to the framework.
But couldn't consciousness arise from purely mechanical processes? If so, the natural/mechanical framework certainly supports consciousness. The only existence of which we are aware contains both subjective realities and objective realities. I don't see why they can't overlap as they certainly seem to.