>>17105923You have no idea if consciousness could have appeared in a different configuration of rules, and even if it couldn't then you are suffering from confirmation bias because of course you are gonna be there to experience the "one and only" permutation. The Anthropic Argument has been done for a hundred trillion times already now
>>17105928It doesn't matter to them, they love using the word "belief" in an insanely loaded way to make it seem like because of the problem of empiricism that atheism is also a "religion" even though words are more than just things that point to a single concept, the obvious difference being that one is verifiable using sense data that they themselves use on a regular basis but will throw it away and suspend all belief for some holy scripture that could have been contributed to by anybody (literally, go look at how many sects, cults, gospels, branches etc. there are out there in any religion).
The truth is that nobody knows and almost certainly nobody will ever know. However with all the inconsistencies and variation between and inside every religion claiming to be the true teachings, why would you ever think that it's one of the infinitely many possible ones
