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CC212: How Consciousness is a Window into Ultimate Reality (w/ Dr. Josh Rasmussen)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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The Limitivist Materialist Theory of Reality

One theory would be that the reason this is not thinking is because there are no thoughts, anywhere in reality. This is a kind of a limitivist materialist view of reality. There's a surprising number of philosophers who've entertained that option. I think we have a power, a special power, to witness our own thoughts and our own mind. You can discover these attributes only by looking inwardly out of thought. Thoughts also have logical relations to other thoughts. And there's a truth value, thoughts can be true or false. But that's something that you find out through introspective analysis underneath science.

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