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Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by brankoB on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:48PM (#20519507)
Why believe that a god is reponsible for the gaps rather than believe that we simply don't have the answers yet and that eventually science will give us them (as it has in the past, countless times)?
Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by d1zzy on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:14PM (#20519792)
I would take this further: even if we NEVER get those answers (because of some inherent physical limit in our observation and understanding of physical phenomenon, similar to how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means it's impossible to observe accurately both momentum and position) it still doesn't mean there needs to be "god" introduced in the equation to explain that which is unexplainable.

Once you accept that not everything is knowable, not everything is observable, not everything is explainable and not everything has to have a purpose, and all that is perfectly fine without the existence of a divine being, then why do we need to add a divine being in the mix?

Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by blackflame7000 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:30PM (#20519959)
I think the main reason is that if we reach that limit of knowledge, we will always be left with the question, "How did something come from nothing?" I don't know if humans will ever be able to explain that question as it's not something we can experience. That naturally lends itself to the conclusion that there is something greater than us in the universe that can manipulate the physical world we observe in ways we do not understand. Whether that is the colliding of multiverses or divine intervention we wouldn't and couldn't ever know.
Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by eternalny1 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:51PM (#20519543)
So we essentially arised out of (nothing, at this point) to understand why we did?

Gap of logic.

Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by glitchc on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:16PM (#20519809)
Not at all. It’s perfectly okay in science to say we don’t know how that happens yet. Deciding that we’ll never know is an irrational leap. The “never” is a strong statement and requires proof. Can you prove never? I don’t think so. Then why assume it?
Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by monktastic1 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:58PM (#20521699)
Well, there's never a way for me to know whether solipsism is true, or to even calculate a (meaningful) probability of it being true. In fact, this applies to probably infinitely many strange metaphysicses. All I know is that I'm conscious (or, more precisely, that "consciousness is"). I can say that "assuming the standard scientific metaphysics is correct, science might solve it," but that assumption is enormous and untestable.
Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by d1zzy on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:16PM (#20519815)
That's assuming that "arising" is done as some part of logical plan. The universe doesn't have to be logical, physical phenomena doesn't have to follow human observation and logic. It's crazy hubris to assume the opposite IMO.
Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by eternalny1 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @06:09PM (#20520432)
> So we essentially arised out of (nothing, at this point)

Think about that for one second, if you can ever comprehend what this "nothing" is.

There was something before you, and Einstein got it with regards to the fact you can't understand that.

We're getting closer.

Rest easy.

Re:What If Consciousness Comes First? by eternalny1 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @05:58PM (#20520294)
God is less of a deity but more of a fact.

Something from nothing.

I am in no position to question this ... even given all my dead-end searches.