--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > Dogma -- even dogma that seems to "explain" subjective > experiences you've had -- doth NOT equal Truth. Never > has, never will. > > At best believing that it does is a pleasant mind-number, > something to keep you from pondering the great questions > of life because you've convinced yourself that you > already know "the answer" to them. At worst it's blind > adherence to dogma, made even worse by the fact that > those spouting dogma often don't even *know* that they > are spouting -- and clinging to -- dogma.
No "dogma" is *adequate* to "explain" subjective experience. For that matter, no *explanation* is adequate to explain subjective experience. One suspects that those who brush off subjective experience as "adherence to dogma" have never had much in the way of subjective experience (that is, have never had much in the way of experience of the nature of consciousness specifically; *all* experience, by definition, is subjective). The Truth of subjective experience of consciousness is self-evident--which, in this context, does not mean "obvious." It means no "explanation" is necessary or even possible; it's evident in terms of itself.
