RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
October 17, 2014 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2014 at 9:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's possible, useful, and there is a mechanism for propagating and then refining what is possible and useful on this planet. How's that for a how and why?
(I'd hesitate to suggest that there is/was a "need" for subjective experience in the same way that I would hesitate to suggest that there is/was a "need" for ants to exist in this universe, so I'm not sure that this even applies. As far as capacity goes, you know my thoughts, but to lay them out again, very simply. The ability to interact, the ability to quantify those interactions, and a limitation on both to a specific frame of reference handles the capacity of matter for subjective experience in toto. Matter can do this, and can be/quite often is limited thusly. I've never understood or seen the mystery you see in that.)
(I'd hesitate to suggest that there is/was a "need" for subjective experience in the same way that I would hesitate to suggest that there is/was a "need" for ants to exist in this universe, so I'm not sure that this even applies. As far as capacity goes, you know my thoughts, but to lay them out again, very simply. The ability to interact, the ability to quantify those interactions, and a limitation on both to a specific frame of reference handles the capacity of matter for subjective experience in toto. Matter can do this, and can be/quite often is limited thusly. I've never understood or seen the mystery you see in that.)
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