So do you think it is "irrational" to know that there is a god and not to believe in that god — 180 Proof
ust as a wife can know that her husband exists and does not believe in him — 180 Proof
If so, please explain. — 180 Proof
I think your conflation of knowing (i.e. a proposition) and believing — 180 Proof
No, I don't believe in gods, I consider myself an atheist — Tom Storm
Atheism goes to belief, agnosticism goes to knowledge. — Tom Storm
I do not believe there are gods. But I do not know that there are no gods. — Tom Storm
2) to have no rational justification to assert that God does not exist, and 3) to have no disposition to believe that God might exist. This differs from agnosticism vis-à-vis (3). — Leontiskos
but I belive that noone is ever 100% sure — mentos987
I also believe that most people that call themselves atheists are really agnostics. Atheism is just a more common term. — mentos987
When I say that I am "absolutely certain" about something what I really mean is that I believe it to be true with an error margin of about 0.01%. — mentos987
But I think a person can be 85% sure that god does not exist and still call themselves an atheist. — mentos987
To me it is about the level of certainty. — mentos987
What does it come from? If you say reasoning about reasoning about the world, that lands it in higher-order reasoning about the world. Now, I challenge you to name what a priori reasoning responds to in total separation from the world. — ucarr
Quantum computing has something contrary to say about the last part of your claim. — ucarr
If mind emerges from brain — ucarr
Functional mind that has impact upon existentiality, meaning and usefulness is never uncoupled from the physicality of the natural world. — ucarr
What a priori reason is practiced by brain in a vat never in contact with the world? — ucarr
Do you believe math is metaphysically prior to physics? — ucarr
What do math theoreticians say about the physical mind’s — ucarr
If so, what say you about the fact that math, like physics, possesses pre-analytical axioms? — ucarr
Also, what say you about math axioms being incomplete? — ucarr
what do you think the best arguments for it are? — frank
A non-simulated world is a set of objects in space. But if that's the case, then a simulated world is not a set of objects in space. — Philosophim
A world is a set of objects in a space. The decision of whether something is simulated versus non-simulated would rest on whether something emerges from information processing. — Hallucinogen
These really aren't separate issues though. — Philosophim
A mind is not itself a simulation right? Meaning that it is a non-simulated bit of reality that simulations can run in. — Philosophim
An accurate simulation of a non-simulated world can be applied to a non-simulated world without difficulty. — Philosophim
That doesn't mean the world is simulated, it just means that simulation of the actual world is accurate. — Philosophim
All that we can conclude from this is that our simulations of the world accurately reflect how our minds function. — Philosophim
The only way you can validly claim 4 is based on one is to state, "A simulated world is either..." Because that's what you stated in 1. — Philosophim
There has to be something non-simulated to simulate right? — Philosophim
Otherwise there isn't a non-simulated world — Philosophim
and thus the simulation cannot be accurate or inaccurate, it just is. — Philosophim
But if it is an accurate simulation, it is not indistinguishible — Philosophim
because it lacks the key property that you defined a non-simulated world as being: A set of objects in space — Philosophim
If a simulated world is a set of objects in space, then it is not a simulated world. — Philosophim
What I meant is that without defining what a non-simulated world is — Philosophim
its turned out like:
A. Its given that the world is simulated.
B. Therefore the world is simulated. — Philosophim
Then you're really only arguing Spinoza's position.. — Vaskane
If the universe is a manifestation within the mind of God that's more of a pantheistic view of God. — Vaskane
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, something still happens as a thing in itself. — Philosophim
The mental tries to define and create identity in the sea of existence, but the sea of existence is still there whether we are or not. — Philosophim
We can invent whatever definitions and concepts we want inside of our head. — Philosophim
there is nothing prior to the alpha existence's self, so that is why I do not say "prior reason". — Philosophim
Did you mean that the concept of infinity comes from a mind? — Philosophim
As the infinite is unprovable — Philosophim
Except this doesn't follow — Vaskane
without first contrasting what a simulation is vs what a non-simulated world is, its mostly circular. — Philosophim
4. Alpha logic: An alpha cannot have any prior reasoning that explains why it came into existence. An Alpha's reason for its existence can never be defined by the Z's that follow it. If an Alpha exists, its own justification for existence, is itself. We could say, "The reversal of Z's causality logically lead up to this Alpha," But we cannot say "Z is the cause of why Alpha could, or could not exist." Plainly put, the rules concluded within a universe of causality cannot explain why an Alpha exists. — Philosophim
If there exists an X which explains the reason why any infinite causality exists, then its not truly infinite causality — Philosophim
I don't follow the logic of your discussion, but that doesn't matter, since I don't see why this is true. — T Clark
The holographic principle is a reductio ad absurdum as proven by Nietzsche — Vaskane
Point out the exact statement I made that is "god of the gaps". — Hallucinogen
Your thread title!!!! and most of the statement made in your opening! — universeness
supposing simulation is true. Which you can't prove. — Vaskane
The burden of proof regarding posits you put forward, as supposed evidence for the existence of a god lies with you the proposer, not me the sceptic, the atheist. — universeness
inflating and projecting scientific findings into god of the gaps woo woo posits — universeness
The conclusions can be anything you like when the whole of the argument amounts to pure flights of fancy. — universeness
Why in God's mind rather than in say, Tod's laptop? — wonderer1
And you accuse me of making irrational jumps! — universeness
No human being knows what physical space IS, and the facts about physical space that we do know do not implicate a mind at source. — universeness
What do you think qualifies as the most compelling point you make in your OP as evidence that a god exists? — universeness
this one — Vera Mont
seems entirely superfluous, since it's either a tenet of unsupported faith or an infinite regression — Vera Mont
Our mind does not read bits. — L'éléphant
We use perception to view the world. In pictures -- which means a complete picture. — L'éléphant
Information processing is perception in humans — L'éléphant
Computers do not perceive. There is no vantage point with computers. — L'éléphant
No, I'm the one confused with the above comment. I pointed that the computer does not read the way our mind reads — L'éléphant
if computers use bits, our mind reads the world as pictures. — L'éléphant
You are arguing that the mind reads like how a computer does.
This is false. — L'éléphant
we humans can produce simulations/emulations to the extent that we even call them 'virtual' reality! — universeness
So according to any simulated universe theory, we are simulations that create simulations. — universeness
The problem is that we have not established 'a mind,' — universeness
In other words, no human has any compelling evidence whatsoever about the existence of god — universeness
You are simply using gaps in current scientific knowledge — universeness
Whose mind? — universeness
and how do you know whether or not that mind is simulated? — universeness
So, that's a simulation. What's the original template? — Vera Mont
if computers use bits, our mind reads the world as pictures — L'éléphant
"The holistic IIT approach is in principle applicable to any information-processing dynamical network regardless of its interpretation in the context of consciousness. In this paper we take the first steps towards a formulation of a general and consistent version of IIT for interacting networks of quantum systems." — Towards Quantum Integrated Information Theory
Recently, many studies have applied quantum mathematical formalism to the modeling of quantum-like phenomena in human decision-making — A quantum-like information processing model...
Quantum theory provides an alternative probabilistic framework for modelling decision
making compared with classical probability theory, and has been successfully used to address behaviour considered paradoxical or irrational from a classical point of view. — Quantum cognition and decision theories: A tutorial
In contrast, quantum cognition holds that a cognitive property maybe indeterminate, i.e., its properties do not have well established values prior to observation. We argue that indeterminacy is sufficient for incompatibility between cognitive properties. — Contextuality and context-sensitivity in probabilistic models of cognition
In this introduction, we focus on two quantum principles as examples to show why quantum cognition is an appealing new theoretical direction for psychology: complementarity, which suggests that some psychological measures have to be made sequentially and that the context generated by the first measure can influence responses to the next one, producing measurement order effects, and superposition, which suggests that some psychological states cannot be defined with respect to definite values but, instead, that all possible values within the superposition have some potential for being expressed. — What Is Quantum Cognition, and How Is It Applied to Psychology?
In the quantum-like framework the brain is a black box, such that its information processing can be described by the formalism of quantum theory. “Mental observables”, e.g., in the form of questions, are represented by Hermitian operators (and in more general framework by so-called positive operator valued measures, Asano et al., 2015). The mental state (or the belief state) of an agent is represented like a quantum state ... Therefore we can apply the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to characterize interrelation of uncertainties of two incompatible questions — Quantum like modeling of decision making: Quantifying uncertainty with the aid of Heisenberg–Robertson inequality