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RE: Brain Waves and God
July 6, 2009 at 6:44 am
(July 3, 2009 at 7:04 pm)obsessed_philosopher Wrote: ... and so I wonder, if the part of our brain that is stimulated that is made us feel like there is an etherial presence in the room, therefore making it a measurable concept, wouldn't that make our experience of god real?
Sure, if you're a Solipsist.
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RE: Brain Waves and God
July 6, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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My apologies, obsessed_philosopher. Solipsism is...
Quote:... the philosophical idea that one's own mind is all that exists. Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.
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So basically I was saying that, if a person's brain was stimulated in such a way as to cause him to think God was present in the room, that would make God real only if Solipsism is true.
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