tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post1298522504915548540..comments2023-08-22T07:01:08.590-07:00Comments on Agent Intellect: Why Hume's Argument against Miracles FailsJim S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15538540873375357030noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6672880129970799148.post-69670348260869035782018-11-21T18:22:54.492-08:002018-11-21T18:22:54.492-08:00I really liked how you laid out the arguments. Be...I really liked how you laid out the arguments. Been a while, but hello from Canada!<br /><br />I wonder, though, about the plausibility of a miracle being the 'rarest' of all events. I think the rarest recorded, yes. But, if we suppose miracles exist (as a proposition/thought expirment) for me I wonder "What sort of rules consititute the category of miracle? I often think the fact we are alive now, that life exists at all, a kind of miracle. And you could even call it a scientific one, since probabalistically the chance of it happening at all is so small.(At least in this solar system). It's hard to believe in determinism when you know a little science and the chances of anything at all working out in any way that isn't 100% a bleak reality.<br /><br />Second, and I don't know if I would call this a direct criticism, but the moral reasons for believing in a miracle are to me much more valuable (content and decision-wise) than believing in a conspiracy theory, for example. I feel like you and I live in a world that has perhaps too much skepticism, and not enough wonder/belief. And Hume himself, I think, got a bit of frostbite from his own skepticism as an intellectual. For the everyday person, the consequence of conspiracy theories has made itself known over the last couple years of media coverage in North America...and perhaps you could say, the miracle is rather the opposite moral quality of a miracle, since a conspiracy theory is something skeptical that is both wrong and dangerous (perhaps evil?), whereas a miracle, if it's a 'good,' does less harm or no harm in believing in it, if you believe good derives from good. (Which I tend to...)<br /><br />Also, to be fair to Hume, did he know about quantum mechanics? I am not sure. But I feel like now we are starting to have answers to some of those closed system questions posed in these kind of arguments. <br /><br /><br /><br />Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603877733091813729noreply@blogger.com