On Sep 6, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Could it be? Is your computer screen red?
No. I'll freely admit there is no emperical proof that God exists, just as
there is no emperical proof that free will, human rights, your
self-awareness exists as something independant.
That's interesting; I think it might be fair to say that for all practical purposes everything you just listed exists only in the mind of a given individual that believes any of it to exist.
That is, the idea of deity is that. Free will seems to exist, but is less provable/testable than is gravity (example). Human rights exist only insofar as we define them; they have no objective reality whatsoever. And self-awareness is something we all seem to think we have, but there are definitely times when I wonder about it in others. ;)
The point is that you've listed a stack of things that are testable to varying degrees (even the idea of a god -- after all, I haven't yet been struck by lightning...) but none of which are really provable or falsifiable.
As long as we're all in agreement that these things exist or not largely a matters of points of view, well, hey, we've solved all the world's problems!
:D
-- WthmO
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