What do we need a deity for? (Introduction)

by whateverist , Saturday, August 06, 2011, 03:00 (4859 days ago) @ dhw

I think we agree on much more than we don't. The biggest difference I find is that you, I sense, feel that whatever is necessary for explaining our subjective world of experience must or may have to also be called on to explain the natural world. I'm not sure why allowing something like mythology when it comes to understanding our unconscious should lead to a similar approach to understanding the natural world. -Admittedly, our inner world of experience arises, so far as any one knows, only in minds which are to be found only in brains which only occur in physical bodies. So in a sense, the processes of the mind do fairly belong in a fuller accounting of the natural world. -I'm just not sure there is or ever will be a way to objectively observe some phenomena like dreams or inspiration, even though there has been progress in objectively observing emotions. Of course the problem isn't even exclusively an inter-personal one. There is difficulty enough in observing these phenomena accurately even within ourselves which will lead some to conclude it is all just random noise within the system or something of the kind.