M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
- May 26, 2011
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You can take GT response s basically my answer.
OH, and by the way. The issue of sentience in terms of the 7 things is really about point 3. It is being assumed that God is sentient by the statement, and I suggested not implying but leave it OPEN by using a definition.
i.e. the question is not whether or not God is sentient, the question is why imply God is sentient when it has not been properly argued for?
It doesn't have to be argued. Philosophically, sentience is the foundation of self-awareness. The entirety of consciousness necessarily follows. You keep trying to beg the question, from top to bottom, and I'm telling you that it can't be logically done without presupposing God's existence. From the foundation of self-awareness to the infinite degree of greatness regarding the idea of God: none of these things can be logically ruled out! That and only that idea of God is objectively unassailable. Any notion less than the objectively highest conceivable standard of divine attribution begs the question.
But by all means keep presupposing God's existence with those Freudian solips of yours when you, as one with absolute authority, as if from on . . . higher, share your intimate knowledge about God's attributes and powers of cognition that cannot be logically ruled out by the rest of us mere mortals. Welcome to The Seven Things Club. Confession is good for the soul.
See that most revealing Post #3811. Some people just aren't thinking things through as they unwittingly reveal that they are aware that the objective facts of human cognition universally hold regarding the problems of existence and origin.
You have the foundation of self-awareness in your mind: sentience!
Even the solipsist has a subjective, sentient impression/sensation of a universe that presents itself as something existing beyond the confines of his mind. Whether he believes it has any concrete reality as such is irrelevant to the fact of that sentient sensation.
With these subject-object, sentient sensations indisputably comes self-awareness and the awareness that you are a finite mind that cannot account for your own origin sans an eternally existing, inanimate materiality or a self-aware immateriality akin to your own, albeit, one that would have to be infinity greater than your consciousness, and the reductio ad absurdum of the irreducible mind and of the infinite regression of origin tell you that this idea of a divine Creator cannot be logically ruled out.
You think you’re the first solipsist I’ve run into/this is the first time I’ve heard the solipsist objection.
No one escapes The Seven Things.