[extropy-chat] Re: John Wright Finds God

[Dirk Bruere]

BillK wrote:

>Religious experiences are not a type of perceptual experience, i.e. a
>type of experience in which something external is perceived. Religious
>experiences are more akin to imaginings than they are to perception.
>The object of the experience is not something that exists objectively
>in the world but rather is something that exists subjectively in the
>mind of the person having the experience.
>
>Each person's God (if he considers a God at all) is in his brain, not
>an entity beyond this.
>
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Debateable.
Penrose has other ideas, of course, at least in respect to a 
mathematical Platonic realm 'out there'.
Or are you one of those people who think maths is a cultural artefact 
invented, but not discovered?
And if math is 'discovered' (even only partially) it is one of those 
'internal' processes that act as if it were pure perception.
Ditto God(s).

-- 
Dirk

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