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- Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:59 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
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Re: What is consciousness?
There's the issue of reducibility and there's the issue of emergence. If the latter, is it strong or weak emergence? All theories are vague at this point, especially the emergentist's, which says that given the right kind and degree of complexity, poof! consciousness. No idea of how it could happen...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 4:51 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38598
Re: What is consciousness?
The point of the argument is a negative one. It's to block consciousness from being reduced to physical facts. I could tell you what my theory is as to what consciousness is or how it fits into other things, but what's the point of talking about that with materialists if they don't agree with the p...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:33 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38598
Re: What is consciousness?
I understand the irreducibility arguments for consciousness as being a defeater for physicalism, not necessarily as evidence of God. Some, like Joe and others draw theistic implications form this irreducibility as part pf a rational warrant argument, but I prefer to stick to basics. There's more to...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is consciousness?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 38598
Re: What is consciousness?
There have been a couple of posts on Cadre about how consciousness is supposedly not reducible to the brain, but no one seems to have any idea what conscious is then - or at least not that they want to admit to any one. I challenged BK about this on this post: http://christiancadre.blogspot.co.uk/2...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:39 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: urgent message for Met
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9937
Re: urgent message for Met
Happy Birthday, met!!!
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:56 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33714
Re: What is hell?
My point was that a lot of Christians think there is a central message to the Bible, and therefore it is not "ridiculous" of me to ask you guys what you think it is. Okay, neither of you can discern any such message. I suppose we need to accept that and move on. No, you were saying that the central...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:54 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33714
Re: What is hell?
Yep, it's sure hard to convey to certain mindsets that the Gospel is not supposed to be reducible to a formula, an economy, an exchange, an arrangement, or a "deal with God" of any kind .... as ridiculous as such a concept is, in the first place, if one gives it but a moment's thought. And yet Chri...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 3:07 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33714
Re: What is hell?
For me, that's more like the exact difficult question at the center of the tradition, the one that Xians need to wrestle with .... it's problematical rather than offering a pat solution.... https://www.pcnbritain.org.uk/blog/post/the_god_who_dies That's why I think the 'message' is meant to engage ...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:49 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33714
Re: What is hell?
Nope, there have been annihilationists and universalists in Xianity at least as far back as the early church fathers. Alng these lines, the idea you guys so constantly invoke that that there is this simplified, monolithic thing called "Christianity" (where everybody thinks the same) and that every ...
- Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:49 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: What is hell?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33714
Re: What is hell?
Nope, there have been annihilationists and universalists in Xianity at least as far back as the early church fathers. Alng these lines, the idea you guys so constantly invoke that that there is this simplified, monolithic thing called "Christianity" (where everybody thinks the same) and that every ...