Sensepath existence arguments
Sensepath existence arguments:
There are different kinds of sensepath existence arguments. The first is connecting a name to an actually existing phenomena. The sensepath is defined as the effect of the environment on the senses of a conscious body over a period of time, like the life time of this body. If the environment exists and it can effect conscious bodies which also must exist, then sensepaths can be created and can exist. Only one sensepath effects one person over his life time. There is the potential/actual distinction between sensepaths. There are three major categories of actually existing sensepaths relating to time. They are the ones that are actually being produced now. The ones that have been produced in the past. And ones that will be produced in the future. A potential sensepath is one that can be produced for the first time or produced again but might never be. Sensepaths can be artificially and, or naturally produced. An artificially produced sensepath is one that is totally created directly or indirectly by conscious beings to make a reality of sense experiences different than the one that they live in or even ones that nature can not produce directly. A video game is creating a partial artificial reality for a person. But we can imagine a device so complex that it supplies all of the sensual input for a person over an extended period of time that creates a very different reality than nature is creating outside of this experience machine. What we believe to be natural randomly created reality might just be a artificial reality deliberately created for some purpose. What is directly controlling this artificial reality may or may not be itself conscious. It can be like an unconscious but controlling computer.
Argument for the existence of an enumerable amount of potential sensepaths. Scientific evidence shows that there are millions of neurons that receive information through the senses. The number of combinations of which neurons are being stimulated at one time is an enumerable large set. At each moment the set of neurons that are firing or other wise processing information can stay the same or change to another different set of stimulated or processing neurons. Thus there is an enumerable set of neurons firing and processing patterns that are changing in a possible unlimited unique sequence of patterns. Thus we have an even larger enumerable large set of unique sensepaths.
Argument for the existence of an enumerable amount of potential artificial sensepaths. The potential set of sensepaths is composed of the set of artificially produceable sensepaths and the set of naturally produceable sensepaths. A finitely divided enumerable set of sensepaths is still enumerably large. if both sets were the same size each set would be one have the total which is still enumerable large.
Argument for the existence of more of potential artificially produceable sensepaths than naturally produceable sensepaths. The assumption is that all naturally produceable sensepaths are artificially produceable as well. So the set of artificially produceable sensepaths includes the set of naturally produceable sensepaths thus making the set of artificially produceable larger.