Magic, Matter and Qualia (The God Series Book 20)

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Magic illusions are all about misdirection: making sure that the audience is looking away from what’s really going on. For humanity, both religious faith and scientific materialism misdirect us away from truth and reality. Magicians claim to pull rabbits out of empty hats. The God of Abraham pulls a whole universe out of nothing whatsoever, while scientific materialism performs the greatest magic trick of all by abolishing God and pulling the entirety of existence out of its opposite – non-existence – through nothing other than a random accident, with no conceivable explanation or sufficient reason. Scientific materialism puts all magicians to shame. It manages to magic life out of lifeless atoms, and mind out of mindless atoms. That’s some trick! Magic, Matter and Qualia Quotations Table of Contents Introduction The Magic of Qualia The Impossibility Quantia and Qualia The Mathematical Universe The Old Days Atheism The Unholy Trinity Jesus Christ Enlightenment The Direction of the Pyramid The End of Philosophy? Sin Tabula Rasa The Unconscious Mind Unnatural Unselection The Hare Krishnas Common Sense Perception (Misperception) TV and Cinema The Atomists’ Soul Esse is Percipi Berkeley’s Philosophy The Dream Key The False Prophets The Cosmic Hologram Hell? The Life Mystery Retardation Dimensional and Dimensionless Mathematics Immortality versus Reproduction The Oversoul The HyperSoul Noumenal Idealism Modern Jacobinism The New Science Schopenhauer and the Power of Music Abracadabra The Magus Mirror Talking Dreamers Amongst the Awaking The Discernment of Spirits Idealism and God The SS and Jihad The Singularity The Phantoms Conclusion