XPost: alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.philosophy   
   From: dale@dalekelly.org   
      
   On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 22:29:04 -0400, mur@. wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 03 Jun 2016 17:49:34 -0400, Dale  wrote:   
   >   
   >>falls under the category that materialism and empiricism might not be   
   >>able to have a "theory of everything" and that a "theory of anything"   
   >>and spiritual essence might be necessary to explain the experience of   
   >>sentience   
   >>   
   >>non-sentient life seems bound by inductive, or deductive, inference   
   >>   
   >>sentient life might have the addition of abstraction not bound by   
   >>inference, such as dreaming or imagining   
   >>   
   >>awareness seems like a unity, sentience seems like a regression of   
   >>awareness, aware of being aware of aware of being aware, etc.   
   >>   
   >>nothing new, seems to be well discussed in philosophical dualism of   
   >>the mind   
   >>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism   
   >>   
   >>as a recent agnostic I seem to be searching and revisting things more   
   >   
   >    As as a strong or weak agnostic? Can you appreciate the distinction   
   between   
   >them? If so, can you explain why/how you appreciate it? Can you appreciate the   
   >distinction between strong and weak atheism? If so, can you help anyone else   
   in   
   >these ngs learn to appreciate it?   
      
   moderate, I am skeptical of both sides, I don't think either side has   
   the science monopoly, neither side satisfies my everyday life without   
   pieces of both   
   --   
   Dale   
   http://www.dalekelly.org   
      
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