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To: C19fan

The idea of living in a computer simulation, with no body, seems like an update of the writing of Rene Descartes. He considered something like that, then rejected it.

Mainstream atheism presents the opposite, that we are body only - no mind, self, soul, etc. An out-of-body experience would be impossible as there is nothing to you but your body.

So that is the range we are dealing with. :)


9 posted on 10/04/2017 5:45:15 AM PDT by ChessExpert (NAFTA - Not A Free Trade Agreement)
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To: ChessExpert

The existence of a physical world of any sort begs for an explanation. To ignore it seems to me to a show a profound lack of curiosity or imagination, or just a profound stubbornness.


10 posted on 10/04/2017 5:59:59 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: ChessExpert

>>Mainstream atheism presents the opposite, that we are body only - no mind, self, soul, etc.

New Age/Gnostic theism (whether “a”, or not) recycles a world-view in which the thinker is their own god.

“Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law”

Meh, stupid Natural Law - that’s so last millennium!


26 posted on 10/04/2017 6:48:45 AM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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