(October 2, 2019 at 5:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Unfiltered stream of consciousness?I'm not sure what you mean.
(October 2, 2019 at 5:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Do you now think that everything can be explained, as you reject the fundamental criteria of a brute fact above? That's going to be hard to fit into your gap manufacturing. You don't know what a brute fact is, and you can't cogently describe any rational problem with a brute fact. Further, any issue you raise with brute facts will be disastrous for your god concept. God is, after all, the ultimate brute fact.We can define 'God' in many different ways. I don't think God is an "ultimate brute fact" or the natural universe might as well be God. If we accept that everything has an explanation then there must be something absolutely simple. It makes the most sense that that is the end of explanations, so why stop the reasoning process before we reach it? The argument is that if we can't observe it somehow, it doesn't matter.
Is god arbitrary, irrational, and not consistent with how we investigate reality? Is god reducible?