Argument from Mind

[KCfromNC]

To me it suggestes that there might be some fundamental connection, or even equality between the questions of consciousness and existence, i.e. because both seem equally unexplainable.

Lots of things are unexplainable but it doesn't mean that all unexplainable things have anything other than that in common. I know you're saying suggest rather than prove, but I don't even see that level of connection.

Sorry that I don't understand the relevance of.

I thought the question of physicality was along the lines of "why is there something rather than nothing". As I hinted at by bringing up the anthropic principle, it might be that nothing is way more likely and we're just living in one of the few lucky universes which happens to have something, or at least have something for more than a fraction of a second before that universe collapses back onto itself. There's currently no way to know, and that means simply "we don't know". Not much else to say.

But maybe you're talking about something even more fundamental. In that case, I'll retreat into even further into "who knows?" I'm not big on drawing conclusions from a complete lack of knowledge even if it is fun to speculate.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Lots of things are unexplainable but it doesn't mean that all unexplainable things have anything other than that in common. I know you're saying suggest rather than prove, but I don't even see that level of connection.

You are, of course right. Anyway something suggestive of something else is fairly subjective I suppose.

But maybe you're talking about something even more fundamental. In that case, I'll retreat into even further into "who knows?" I'm not big on drawing conclusions from a complete lack of knowledge even if it is fun to speculate.

Wee in the case of the universe we have the cosmos to go on, and as for cosnciousness we have the brain. They seem to be leads.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Sorry another "what if" moment...

Could aware human beings be fractals of God or a higher level consciousness? I have an image of candles floating around in an ocean of darkness, bigger ones encircled by smaller ones, which are encircled by still smaller ones and so on.