Search for Truth: Atheism

[Willamena]

If you have a basket of eggs, and 98 of them are painted red and 2 of them are painted blue, can the basket be said to be blue?

Not logically.

Does the basket have any characteristics? Does the bushel? Does the universe?

These are three distinct things. The basket is a container for holdings things. The bushel is a precise measurement, 4 pecks or 35.24 US litres. This is the thing: is the universe a container, or an imprecise measurement?

 

[jarofthoughts]

This is the thing: is the universe a container, or an imprecise measurement?

Neither.

And from a certain point of view, both.

 

[doppelganger]

Neither.

Are you sure?


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[jarofthoughts]

Are you sure?


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Huh?
I'm not sure what you mean here... :sarcastic

Also, see my addition above.

 

[Orias]

Gravity, matter, energy, the laws of physics and so on and so forth, including the consequences thereof.

So consciousness seems to escape the laws of physics then?

Which seems to make all theories, including the Null Hypothesis obsolete.

Not really, because Science does accept one assumption as the basis for all other conclusions; namely that observed reality is, in fact, real.

Solipisism is not the basis of assumption, rather the basis of ignorance and the knowledge that nothing is true except for the self.

 

[jarofthoughts]

So consciousness seems to escape the laws of physics then?

Nope. Never even implied that, let alone said it.

Solipisism is not the basis of assumption, rather the basis of ignorance and the knowledge that nothing is true except for the self.

Sure. My point still stands though.

 

[Orias]

Nope. Never even implied that, let alone said it.

As it stands we can now empirically show that it does in fact have several properties, consciousness not being one of them.

It sounds like you did.

Sure. My point still stands though.

On what basis?

 

[jarofthoughts]

It sounds like you did.

Glad we got that clarified then.

On what basis?

The scientific one.
It's blue.