What Arguments from Opposing Worldviews Give You Pause?
November 15, 2013 at 10:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2013 at 10:44 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
I think it's a good intellectual exercise to remember that one's own worldviews are not impregnable and to investigate what weaknesses are present. And I say 'worldviews' because I don't think there is exactly a case where a person has a singular, totally cohesive worldview (i.e there's tensions, perhaps contradictions in the positions one holds to).
Anyhow, what opposing arguments to your worldviews to you find give you pause? For me personally, I think the Cosmic Consciousness Arguments give me the most pause as of late. They seem to give good evidence from quantum mechanics for some kind of immaterialism, which to my eyes resembles the philosopher Berkeley's immaterialism. Namely, it seems to indicate that there needs to be some consciousness that's observing everything at once. I could very much understand why one might call this a god. And this is particularly problematic for me, since I'm both a physicalist and an atheist.
Maybe some of you don't think there is a opposing argument that troubles you, at least to your atheism. I'm not quite there, I guess. *shrugs*
Anyhow, what opposing arguments to your worldviews to you find give you pause? For me personally, I think the Cosmic Consciousness Arguments give me the most pause as of late. They seem to give good evidence from quantum mechanics for some kind of immaterialism, which to my eyes resembles the philosopher Berkeley's immaterialism. Namely, it seems to indicate that there needs to be some consciousness that's observing everything at once. I could very much understand why one might call this a god. And this is particularly problematic for me, since I'm both a physicalist and an atheist.
Maybe some of you don't think there is a opposing argument that troubles you, at least to your atheism. I'm not quite there, I guess. *shrugs*