On 12/31/2013 03:03 PM,
bil...@m.nu wrote:
> 2.The brain does infact exist in time and space; however, thinking
> doesnt.
my point is that thoughts and thinking ARE part of the brain as a whole,
which is existential, so the PARTS of the whole, like thoughts and
thinking are therefore existential TOO
unless you are saying that "thinking" exists outside of the brain in
some type of central server like a God's mind, I would entertain a
discussion like this
On 12/31/2013 12:39 PM, Burkhard wrote:
> Problem is of course that this approach gives you_all_ the gods, and
> elves, unicorns, Cthulhu etc too. "X exists" becomes simply a trivial and
> uninteresting statement, true for (almost all?) X. "How" they exist by
> contrast, and how that affects the logic of statements about them,
> becomes a quite interesting question.
the effect is the same, the stories might be different, then again if
you imagine a particular story to be true, that story IS existential as
well WITHIN the brain, AT LEAST
perhaps there is an overarching reality of God OUTSIDE THE BRAIN, but I
can't think of a proof of it
as well, even our EXPERIENCE of our senses of what is OUTSIDE THE BRAIN,
in your conscious, is your brain's INTERPRETATION AND REFLECTION of your
senses, not necessarily what is OUTSIDE THE BRAIN
can you think of a proof that anything exists outside the brain?
not that nothing does, but if you start saying that you have to PROVE
that God exists as something OUTSIDE the conscious, THEN, you have to
prove that ANYTHING exists outside the brain to maintain that critique
of God in particular
--
Dale