Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, March 31, 2013, 05:29 (4256 days ago) @ dhw

I'll respond to the rest of your post later..->DHW: I've never opposed the concept of a first cause. What seems unreasonable, and therefore unimaginable to me, is the concept of first-cause energy being a single, super-colossal, eternally and fully self-aware, undesigned mind inexplicably possessing all the information there could possibly be, whereas our puny minds require a designer. That seems as unlikely to me as mindless first-cause energy hitting on a magic formula to create a functioning solar system and the mechanisms of life and evolution. If you can believe in either of those hypotheses, you might just as well believe in my 'panpsychist' proposal. Is it any more unreasonable than yours?-A few points here:-1: One mind possessing all information is not a stretch when you think that 'in the beginning' there was so much less information to possess! -2: Your mind is based on biochemistry with the addition of energy. Because of the physical components and required support system it is greatly more complex and yet more inefficient than a mind made of pure energy. That would be why your mind requires a designer, but the mind made of pure energy would not. -The idea of cells having some level of intelligence or awareness is not something that I really disagree with. But trying to extrapolate that idea backwards to the creation of everything is just too much of a stretch because of what goes back that far is at once so mind boggling in its complexity and so elegant at the same time. I see the design of a single creative genius, because anything else would have created discrepancies that would unravel it all. If it were left to random chance or willy nilly individuals choosing to perhaps cooperate and perhaps not, none of use would be having this discussion. There is a near impossibly strong underlying theme to this orchestra. Just because I can not see the composer does not mean I can not read the score and recognize that it has been written by a single hand.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.