(October 6, 2014 at 9:15 pm)whateverist Wrote:(October 6, 2014 at 9:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I would argue that emergent properties would answer your objection.
Additionally, in your last sentence, you are assuming that god(s) are external of the mind. If they are only a mental construct, your argument goes down the subjective shitter ... and we are back to humans defining their own morals and meaning.
Besides he still has his own difficulties to answer for. Certainly no gods have been established so far. It seems a little strained to argue that everything we experience is only made possible by something hypothetical. Seems to me more likely that the apparent problem itself is hypothetical.
I just can't get excited by little puzzles where the definition of words appear to pose such a fuss that we are supposed to question tangible reality. "Significance" a 25¢ word of little actual significance beyond the tasks we ourselves assign it.
Well, when the facts don't support you, a retreat into semantics is pretty smart tactics, I suppose.
