Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religious Experience
- The Principle of Credulity
- Swinburne's Argument
- If it seems to a subject that 'x' is
present, then 'x' is probably present
- It is reasonable to believe that
the world is probably as we
percieve it to be
- This is a realist position
- Counter - Atheists experience the absence
of God, so the world is probably Godless
- Counter Counter - This assumes that if
God existed Atheists would experience
God, but this may not be the case
- Artificial Religious Experiences
- The brain can be stimulated to
produce religious experiences
- Temporal Lobes - stimulation here can
provoke religious experiences
- However...
- Does this mean that experiences
of God are false (just due to false
signals in the brain)?
- Or is provoking a response from the
temporal lobe a way of connecting to God?
- Conflicting Religous Experiences
- Different Religions have different Religious Experiences
- They cannot all be valid due to inconsistenties
- The Subjectivity of Experience