RE: Consciousness: Is it seperate from the human body?
September 29, 2014 at 9:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2014 at 9:45 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We don't have to fully understand something, for example, to make a list of things it is not. You may not fully know what the engine block of your car in comprised of, what alloys go into it's construction...but you do "fully know" that paper is not the answer to that question.
I mean, assuming full knowledge will ever be within our grasp is one -hell- of an assumption, but the assumption that might be inferred from the other remark you made, "in this life" is what? That we may know it in the next? You'd have to make the exact same assumption as in the first case (that full knowledge is possible)...and then add another, that there was some other place or time where we would even be present to "know it".
So yes, even assuming both are delusional, one is at least 1 notch less delusional than the other.
(and you can approach this from the POV of saying that perhaps the brain as a tool cannot know everything - but some other tool, not in evidence, assumed to exist, can - for some unknown reason, also not in evidence, and assumed)
I mean, assuming full knowledge will ever be within our grasp is one -hell- of an assumption, but the assumption that might be inferred from the other remark you made, "in this life" is what? That we may know it in the next? You'd have to make the exact same assumption as in the first case (that full knowledge is possible)...and then add another, that there was some other place or time where we would even be present to "know it".
So yes, even assuming both are delusional, one is at least 1 notch less delusional than the other.
(and you can approach this from the POV of saying that perhaps the brain as a tool cannot know everything - but some other tool, not in evidence, assumed to exist, can - for some unknown reason, also not in evidence, and assumed)
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