RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 24, 2015 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 2:04 pm by bennyboy.)
(May 24, 2015 at 8:00 am)Cato Wrote:(May 22, 2015 at 10:30 pm)bennyboy Wrote: There is nothing intrsinsic to the senses and to the flow of ideas which show whether I'm in the Matrix, the mind of God, a BIJ or an actual physical space.
Until there is evidence demonstrating that there is something more than what you are calling physical space, the idea remains wholly unsubstantiated and wildly speculative at best; fiction. Even if there were some undetectable reality as you propose, me, you and everyone else are obligated to navigate existence as if physical reality is the only game in town due to our evolved traits. Musing about some ultimate reality becomes rather pointless; a true what if d-o-g spells cat investigation.
You are setting an unproven assertion as the default position, but this is wrong. The default must be that existence is experiential, since it is through experience that all else is. . . well, experienced. This is true for ALL experiences-- even those of learning and knowing.
So if you want to say all those experiences by which we learn and from which we infer physical reality are of a certain nature or have a certain ultimate source, you're going to have to step up to the BOP. You don't get to claim that "seems" is "is" and make skeptics bear the burden of proving you wrong.