RE: On naturalism and consciousness
September 14, 2014 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2014 at 5:33 pm by MusicLovingAtheist.)
Here's my philosophy. If I know something exists and I can observe it and experience it, I have faith in it's existence. Yes, I use the word faith here because I don't actually know how consciousness works. Experience tells me that things that are empirical aught to be scientific. Since you're saying that there cannot be a natural explanation for consciousness, that only leaves on other alternative - magic, god, superstition (one in the same kind of bullshit). I don't know what the fuck that philosophical mental gymnastics you said means about the spoon, but I think I already get where you are going with this just based off what you said about consciousness. The only way of explaining the world is scientific and even science can't explain everything. Everything else falls under the category of we don't know. Not magic.