RE: A Conscious Universe
January 29, 2015 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2015 at 9:02 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 29, 2015 at 8:41 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: i don't know about confident assertion but it looks like the default assertion to me. If we find evidence to the contrary, we'll go there. Otherwise...The evidence is treated as objective support for a claim. However, we still have the same problem: the supposedly objective evidence is collected using purely subjective means: looking through microscopes, holding a stopwatch in your hand, etc.
Put it this way: what would be the difference between the Matrix running a simulated world in which all our physical commonalities are as we now experience them, and our "real" world? Unless you know where your experiences come from, we're looking at circular reasoning: I know where experiences come from, because I experience things, and based on those experiences, it seems most likely that they come from _____.
