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Forget religion and consider that the only thing you know for sure is that you exist, because your subjective experience is occurring right now. The tendency o
by kenning 9y ago
Forget religion and consider that the only thing you know for sure is that you exist, because your subjective experience is occurring right now.
The tendency of science is towards naturalism, to the point that anything else is considered nonsense, but who knows what's really happening?
- lafar6502 9y agoConsciousness connects the symbols with real world, it’s the awareness by understanding abstract concepts and maintaining some model of reality. Without that you wouldn’t be more conscious than a thermometer. So maybe it’s just some self-referring logical model that is totally independent of physical world but at the same time needs the physical world to provide some hosting hardware
- throwaway76025 9y agoYou’re describing solipsism.