(August 17, 2014 at 12:05 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I doubt it daily, based on the fact that I can't account for consciousness through naturalism. But I guess that means I've been pushed to the view that perhaps this universe isn't all that there is, and after death we 'naturally' proceed to the next stage of consciousness, whatever or however that might be. This isn't to say it makes me wonder if "GOD" is real, because adopting that view would be to take a step backwards, philosophically speaking.
I don't understand why, in the absence of a satisfying account of consciousness, you would be tempted to think consciousness persists after death. (Before birth too?)
In general, when something is hard to understand in terms of what we presently understand about the natural world, do you find non-natural options tempting?
Whatever there is that can be understood at all I would consider natural. If there is anything super-, it is simply how hard some things are to understand. Assigning a difficult phenomenon like consciousness to the black box of 'the supernatural' doesn't tempt me.





