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@nagisa3
I don't see a good reason to doubt that I can think and rocks cant. Scepticism is an excellent principle but if you desire certainty at evry step.. You will not make many steps.
It seems silly to be skeptical of your own consciousness. The very act of thinking about yourself should show that positing yourself to be unaware is absurd.
May I ask why you are an atheist?I'm an antitheist. Change my mind.
If conciousness is more than an illusion then human behavior is the verifiable observable evidence. If you concede that conciousness is real (which I accept provisionally only) then that is the evidence.Of course I believe consciousness isn't an illusion. But if you're trying to convince me that there's observable evidence (independently verifiable and perceivable) of consciousness, then you'll need to show it to me.
Are you trying to make the distinction between agnostic and gnostic atheists? Ones position gnostically concerns knowledge (or at least the claim of knowledge) not belief.As an atheist, you either (1) believe there are no God(s) or (2) neither believe nor disbelieve there are any God(s).
God either exists or does not.
. I believe that other people are conscious because they mirror my own behavior and I myself am conscious
Any of the proposed god's existing will either be true or not true. It is not a false dichtomomy.
Consciousness and meanings are things you accept to be true
Any god(s) that you posit to exist either will or won't.