RE: Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism
September 12, 2014 at 2:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 2:31 am by Cyberman.)
"Seems to imply" is totally your own perception. I'll make it simple.
How do I know that the colour I see as red is the same as the one you see?
The best way would be to measure the wavelength of light of that colour and see if we agree. Regardless of what we think, the light itself will continue to be red.
In your Matrix scenario, if we all inhabit the same reality - however artificial - we should expect measurements of that reality to concur. That it's an artificial reality has no bearing whatsoever on our experience and perception of it and can, in fact, be discarded from consideration; since there would be no way to distinguish its artificial nature from a non-artificial one.
If you now want to switch gears and talk about hallucinations that's fine. However, that wasn't the deal when I entered this so you'd be talking on your own.
How do I know that the colour I see as red is the same as the one you see?
The best way would be to measure the wavelength of light of that colour and see if we agree. Regardless of what we think, the light itself will continue to be red.
In your Matrix scenario, if we all inhabit the same reality - however artificial - we should expect measurements of that reality to concur. That it's an artificial reality has no bearing whatsoever on our experience and perception of it and can, in fact, be discarded from consideration; since there would be no way to distinguish its artificial nature from a non-artificial one.
If you now want to switch gears and talk about hallucinations that's fine. However, that wasn't the deal when I entered this so you'd be talking on your own.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
