Jere Krischel
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

Not sure if I would be so bold as to assert we are the only lifeform with an immaterial nature. Cats might not have souls, but I can’t imagine dogs don’t :)

The only other point of contention I might have is your disagreement with the concept of “multiple realities”. Not sure if you’ve read the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, but he has a few books (Jingo, for example) where the narrative goes back and forth between parallel realities. In the book it’s of course all “one” reality since they can cross over, but if you indeed have completely separate realities, that cannot interact, then the only reality that really counts for us (i.e., “is real”), is the particular one we’re in.

tl;dr — the fact that we can imagine something doesn’t make it real for us, even though it could be real for someone else.

Oh, and one last thing — it’s quite possible that there is no consistent worldview that is 100% true to reality. Godel’s incompleteness theorem once again comes to mind. That being said, there certainly may be worldviews that are closer to reality than others, and while I might not be the ultimate arbiter of good and evil, I believe good and evil exist in an absolute sense, and that some worldviews may be better at arbitrating it than others.

Thanks again for continuing the series!

    Jere Krischel

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    Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, born again carnivore, musician, firearms instructor and skeptical civil rights activist.

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