Latanius: I was including the issue of subjective experience. As in “Why is there any subjective experience at all?” ie, why is there ANYTHING, including subjective experience. Your answer doesn’t leave me with a “okay, now the question has been answered” sense.
Actually, as near as I can tell, you’re trying to answer a different question, specifically, it looks like you’re trying to address the question of “how do I know my experiences in any way correlate with the Real World(tm)? Maybe I’m just hallucinating everything? Maybe there’s nothing but dreams?” etc etc etc...
The question at hand is more “why is there anything? At all. Including subjective experience. ie, how is it that there’s something at all other than, well, nothing?”
Maybe the question is deconstructable, but it doesn’t seem like it’s been deconstructed here yet.
Alternate form of the question, used by some physicists: “What breaths fire into the equations?” Great, there’re some equations that are good at describing reality. Are they so compelling that there actualy need be a reality/set of subjective experiences/whatever for them to describe?
It may be just some form of mental confusion on my part. But as of yet, it sure seems like a real question to me.
Latanius: I was including the issue of subjective experience. As in “Why is there any subjective experience at all?” ie, why is there ANYTHING, including subjective experience. Your answer doesn’t leave me with a “okay, now the question has been answered” sense.
Actually, as near as I can tell, you’re trying to answer a different question, specifically, it looks like you’re trying to address the question of “how do I know my experiences in any way correlate with the Real World(tm)? Maybe I’m just hallucinating everything? Maybe there’s nothing but dreams?” etc etc etc...
The question at hand is more “why is there anything? At all. Including subjective experience. ie, how is it that there’s something at all other than, well, nothing?”
Maybe the question is deconstructable, but it doesn’t seem like it’s been deconstructed here yet.
Alternate form of the question, used by some physicists: “What breaths fire into the equations?” Great, there’re some equations that are good at describing reality. Are they so compelling that there actualy need be a reality/set of subjective experiences/whatever for them to describe?
It may be just some form of mental confusion on my part. But as of yet, it sure seems like a real question to me.