(April 13, 2015 at 11:48 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: The way I look at, we all have bias towards our perception of ourselves. Yet we believe there is an objective value or worth to ourselves, even if we don't know it. Sure our perception of ourselves will be bias but we do believe there is an objective nature to ourselves and an objective value.
Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to give meaning to ourselves.
I emphatically withhold belief there is an objective value or worth to anything if the definition of objective means it is out there somewhere on its own. I do believe in the actual existence of something, left fairly unspecified, which appears to me to be particles, fields, etc and assemblages thereof. My observations of the behaviors of these show them to be simple and common and wholly unlike Truth, Beauty and The American Way. No, Value and Worth are subjective, bias ridden and I do not believe they have any intrinsic qualities, just those assigned to them by me and my communities.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
