Zain's Guide to Overthinking Everything

The Hard Problem of Consciousness: A Question for Atheists           Consciousness proves that causes or things within the universe cannot be explained purely from a materialistic paradigm. The hard problem of consciousness tries to explain why or how materialism can produce consciousness. Under materialism, there is an unbridgeable gap between physical things and the emergence of consciousness within human beings. Materialism refers to the idea that all that exists is just matter and motion. Atoms and molecules are all that exist while the existence of God and angels are impossible as they are not physical objects. If you are reading this blog post then you have consciousness but what is consciousness? It is the first-person experience of the world; it is the ability to be aware of the fact that we are aware. A computer is not aware of its own existence nor of its experiences. The second part of consciousness can be described through the example of ...

Dialectical Materialism        Marx proposes dialectical materialism. He loved Hegel’s dialectic and his progression but Marx, a materialist, he does not believe in the existence of a soul or the non-material world. He sees a materialistic evolutionary progression from simple to complex and the same in human beings. Humans in a more primitive state would be more tooth and claw but as we grow as a species we are to be more communal and collectively minded or communist. History is the story of human struggle, specifically class struggle. The thesis, an emperor, and the antithesis, the slave, and the synthesis being a king, i.e. a feudal system. Then the king being the new thesis, the antithesis is the serf, the synthesis would be the bourgeoisie and the merchant system. The bourgeoisie would be the new thesis, the antithesis is the proletariat, and the synthesis is the communist system. However, it could be argued that the final synthesis would be capitalism inste...