A Sense of Free Will: the consciousness quagmire (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 16, 2015, 15:36 (3077 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: Again you are debating with me by pointing to religious precepts. I arrived at my concept of a universal consciousness as the only viable solution to the issue of SOURCE, recognizing that religions had established an anthropomorphic, human friendly God in the West and a divine level of Reality in the East, which I do not accept. Is God friendly? Adler said 50/50, yet he eventually converted to Catholicism.
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> dhw: There is a misunderstanding here. Your approach to the subject of free will entails dualism, which I have avoided because of its inevitable religious ramifications (such as predestination).-Here again you are looking at your concept of religion. I've never considered predestination in any way as valid to any of my thinking. This is the first time I've been forced to comment on it. It is a void for me.->dhw: I pointed out that the problem was the SOURCE of (immaterial) thought and consciousness, and the moment you claim that the source is immaterial, you enter the realms of religion.-In the sense that I accept a supernatural first-source mind, yes I am in the arena of religion.-> dhw: I don't think there is any debate here, is there?-There is. I don't follow religion's teachings about an anthropomorphic God which seems to me to be implied in your comments about religion and God.