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Intelligent Design Mind Naturalism

Once again, New Scientist needs us to know that our sense of self is an illusion

This stuff never gets old because naturalists need to believe it and to believe it, they must market it as science. That said, as Michael Egnor points, out, there is one sense in which our consciousness IS an illusion: We are not aware of the processes that enable it.

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  • Silver Asiatic VL Who is arguing that everything is an illusion? Alex Rosenberg - the Atheist's Guide to Reality. The whole book... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
  • Silver Asiatic Viola And who says there is no truth? Again, we may differ both about what constitutes truth (is it truth... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
  • Silver Asiatic Jerry This argument has been made several times to answer such nonsense by Kf and others but during each thread... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
  • Viola Lee And who says there is no truth? Again, we may differ both about what constitutes truth (is it truth or... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
  • Viola Lee Who is arguing that everything is an illusion? KF says that is true about WJM's metaphysics, but WJM explains why... – L&FP 40: Thoughts on [neo-?] Reidian...
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