Much of moment-to-moment wakeful experience are variously the outcome of comparisons.
But how do you feel about that incomparable, including the willful constraining of active comparison in the social field.
transition said:
Much of moment-to-moment wakeful experience are variously the outcome of comparisons.But how do you feel about that incomparable, including the willful constraining of active comparison in the social field.
I’m okay with it.
transition said:
Much of moment-to-moment wakeful experience are variously the outcome of comparisons.But how do you feel about that incomparable, including the willful constraining of active comparison in the social field.
Ploise exploin?
I’ve only done it once.
alright, something extreme
minds have structure from, well, before birth really, courtesy our ancestors and way back through evolution. Then there’s the experience of the lifetime of an organism, like you went to school, played, read some, did stuff (learned).
all those neurons arranged, they do work. We build concepts of the world and its workings. Useful mostly.
much of moment to moment experience involves comparison, comparing things
given that comparing is essential to human mental activity, how generous might you be in attributing extent and significance of realities outside that comparing.
most of the universe does as it does without human comparison, like it’s (the universe) mostly what minds don’t do.
call it God.
> much of moment to moment experience involves comparison, comparing things
Yes. That’s how the human brain works. When it works properly.
> given that comparing is essential to human mental activity, how generous might you be in attributing extent and significance of realities outside that comparing.
If realities outside of comparing exist then that does not stop humans from comparing them to more conventional realities. So such realities cease to exist in the moment of their first observation.
Now let’s suppose that a reality exists that is intrinsically incapable of comparison. Then such a reality can either be indirectly inferred from realities that are capable of comparison – in which case it can be compared after all. Or the reality has no intersection with realities that can be compared – in which case it has no influence on anything observable – and is thus of no importance and therefore can be immediately rejected by Occam’s Razor.
> most of the universe does as it does without human comparison.
True.
> call it God.
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mollwollfumble said:
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Good point :)
and well made
is there absolutely anything at all philosophically useful about the God concept
transition said:
is there absolutely anything at all philosophically useful about the God concept
Remaining aware that whatever you might want to pretend the truth is always recorded somewhere, somehow?
Postpocelipse said:
transition said:
is there absolutely anything at all philosophically useful about the God concept
Remaining aware that whatever you might want to pretend the truth is always recorded somewhere, somehow?
I’ve had definitive proof today young people at the very least do not consider this significant.
>Remaining aware that whatever you might want to pretend the truth is always recorded somewhere, somehow?
parable isn’t it, metaphor etc
stories.
transition said:
>Remaining aware that whatever you might want to pretend the truth is always recorded somewhere, somehow?parable isn’t it, metaphor etc
stories.
Not so much. I had to depend on the truth being obvious in trial. The kid who thought he could get out of the money he borrowed yesterday by threatening to send a friend round doesn’t seem to realise every piece of evidence I need to send his friend back to his place to give him a flogging is in text form from him on my phone as well as proof for the police should anything serious come of it.
>….should anything serious come of it.
you’re upgrading your vicissitudes
transition said:
>….should anything serious come of it.you’re upgrading your vicissitudes
We’ll see. If it’s anything like a promotion I’ll have to consider the responsibilities incumbent.
transition said:
is there absolutely anything at all philosophically useful about the God concept
Yes God is “Dog” spelt correctly.
bob(from black rock) said:
transition said:
is there absolutely anything at all philosophically useful about the God concept
Yes God is “Dog” spelt correctly.
With the Big bang and the Universe having around 99.9 percent of observed reality, God has less than 0.1 percent probability
It has a place next to all the other possibilities, like multiple universes.
its helpful for comparisons