Proof of ID: An essay (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, June 29, 2015, 17:48 (3435 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: What convolutions? Firstly, my particular panpsychist hypothesis relates to the evolution of individual forms of mentation within matter, which is totally different from a single eternal, sourceless, universal mind that deliberately creates and manipulates matter. Since mentation exists, it must have started somewhere! You believe that it started at the top, with your God, and I am suggesting it may have started at the bottom with certain materials.-Answered in the other thread. Mentation starts with life and nerve cells. Your theory has no beginning
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> dhw: Secondly, the three hypotheses (your God, chance, and the evolution of “mentation”) are ALTERNATIVES, which I neither accept nor reject. That is to say, I cannot decide which (if any) of them is true, and so I withhold judgement on all of them. After so many years, dear David, you still haven't understood what I mean by agnosticism!-I fully understand your brand of agnosticism. It admits to all sorts of possible theories with a shut mind against all.