Definition “Religion”: identity-anchoring, axiom-based assumption-river, which usually disallows falsification.
Fundamentalist anti-theism is every bit as “religious” as any other religion, even though it orients around absence-of-deity instead of deity.
The Physicalist/Materialist assumption-river/religion which prohibits that mind is real, is every bit as identity-anchoring AND every bit as rejecting-of-falsification as any other religion.
Were Physicalism/Materialism true then mind would only be effect, never cause of the behavior-of-matter.
So, engineered airliners wouldn’t exist.
The fact that they do exist, and are produced by intentional-mentation being expressed by matter … is powerless to falsify Physicalism/Materialism simply because Physicalism/Materialism’ is axiom-based, & doesn’t allow falsification.
Therefore it’s a religion.
Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” was about ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems. The 2nd edition of it explained that it wasn’t only about formal-systems, in the new Preface, because nobody ( Western ) had gotten that implication.
All of those, ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems, … ignore evidence that isn’t obeying their view.
Empiricism, which is outside-centered, seems to be the only religion/method worth holding-to.
& that means that all spiritual-religions which are empiricism-rooted, also have some chance of being valid.
But without outside-centrism, the biblical Greek “eklegos”, then it’s an “already-lost war”: self-centrism isn’t capable of knowing universe, only its own assumptions/beliefs.
That is consistently demonstrated by humankind’s history.
Self-consistency-of-view vs completeness-in-knowing-Universe: 2 mutually-exclusive paradigms.
Definition “Religion”: identity-anchoring, axiom-based assumption-river, which usually disallows falsification.
Fundamentalist anti-theism is every bit as “religious” as any other religion, even though it orients around absence-of-deity instead of deity.
The Physicalist/Materialist assumption-river/religion which prohibits that mind is real, is every bit as identity-anchoring AND every bit as rejecting-of-falsification as any other religion.
Were Physicalism/Materialism true then mind would only be effect, never cause of the behavior-of-matter.
So, engineered airliners wouldn’t exist.
The fact that they do exist, and are produced by intentional-mentation being expressed by matter … is powerless to falsify Physicalism/Materialism simply because Physicalism/Materialism’ is axiom-based, & doesn’t allow falsification.
Therefore it’s a religion.
Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” was about ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems. The 2nd edition of it explained that it wasn’t only about formal-systems, in the new Preface, because nobody ( Western ) had gotten that implication.
All of those, ideologies, prejudices, religions, & formal-systems, … ignore evidence that isn’t obeying their view.
Empiricism, which is outside-centered, seems to be the only religion/method worth holding-to.
& that means that all spiritual-religions which are empiricism-rooted, also have some chance of being valid.
But without outside-centrism, the biblical Greek “eklegos”, then it’s an “already-lost war”: self-centrism isn’t capable of knowing universe, only its own assumptions/beliefs.
That is consistently demonstrated by humankind’s history.
Self-consistency-of-view vs completeness-in-knowing-Universe: 2 mutually-exclusive paradigms.
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