Ontology 7 - No agents
Channel: rozeboosje
Date: 2008-02-20

Why it is not necessary to involve an agent. There isn't a lot of new material in this but I just present a conclusion from what I've brought up so far.



You are presenting two alternative possibilities, as if they are the only two games in town. Either there is an objective reality, or there is subjective reality which you then claim is dependent on an underlying objective reality. But, you present another false dichotomy here. I can see at least ONE other alternative, and that is the one I already outlined before. That reality is constrained by the need to remain internally consistent and that that then provides the, as you called it, "deterministic programming", but WITHOUT a need for an external cause.

In fact this makes more sense than your two alternatives, because the argument in itself rejects the multiplicity that you, yourself, are as keen to reject later on with your statement "multiplicity denotes inter-dependence". In other words, if you present a picture of reality that is based on a dichotomy, and yes, even "physical" and "metaphysical" is such a dichotomy, you have introduced an unnecessary complication that distorts reality from what it really is: unique.

I therefore reject the need for an agent to be involved.

But even if I were to accept THAT, I feel you very quickly skim over the rest of your video, but you leave a large number of questions open. Why, for example, the need for this to be "Theistic"?