(August 29, 2014 at 12:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 29, 2014 at 12:02 pm)Ben Davis Wrote: Reality would exist irrespective of our ability to experience it. We know this because we've been able to demonstrate mechanisms which work irrespective of the existence of experience.Really? I think we should slam on the brakes right here, and you can explain how we demonstrate things without the necessity of them being experienced.
That's really the core problem with the issue. Reality apart from our experience is to my mind a pretty meaningless concept. We can say something likely exists, but that's it. It's as unknowable as God is.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza