Reddit reviews The Sam Harris Delusion (The God Series Book 22)

You're not even aware that all of your "thoughts" have already been disproven. You're at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to understanding what reality is, and due to the Dunning-Kruger effect you really have no idea just how wrong you are. The universe is made of mathematics (numbers, i.e. sinusoidal waves within dimensionless - mental - Leibnizian monads). Ontological mathematics and the PSR is reality 'in itself'.

How shall we describe you? Which do you think fits best? Ortega mediocrity, extreme-sensory autist, Dunning-Kruger type, functionary, Mandarin, nihilist (in the worst possible sense, not in the life-affirming or Nietzschian sense), charlatan, arrogant Ignoramus, Sophist, anti-knowledge, anti-intellectual, anti-Truth, irrational (rejects the PSR and objective reason), empiricist (believes in what he "sees", just like any simple-minded animal), when the senses evolved for survival, not truth - and reality 'in itself' is not sensory, it is intelligible - conceptual - dimensionless (mental) - rational - mathematical - a priori - objective for everyone in the universe.

>assume there's a divine creator for a second, why is there one

There isn't. Invalid argument.

>the set A of axioms

You can't even get past your autistic fixation with non-existent sets when discussing "God", how sad.

>bunch of things that exist for no reason

Nothing exists for no reason. Leibniz, Godel and Hegel understood reality. You've failed at the first step.

>take the creator out of the discussion and everything functions the same

Take ontological mathematics (the PSR) out of the discussion and reality falls apart and can't function at all. Alternatively, reject reason in your delusional head and reality still functions the same, because reality couldn't care less about your moronic, already disproven, subjective opinions. The Truth is not a democracy.

Kudos to you for trying to answer, but all of the answers you've provided have already been disproven.

>There is no one system ... considering that we can't actually prove the universe exists at all under Cartesian skepticism

There must be 'one system', one Theory of Everything with which to understand reality. The universe is one system, completely interconnected and holographic. Pretending that "the universe may or may not exist" is defeatist, anti-rational and fails at the first hurdle. The universe exists. Non-existence rationally cannot exist.

>"Mind" as far as language goes, appears to be an idea separate of the brain that encompasses the actions that go on in the head by normal physical laws.

My God, could you get any more autistic? It's not about semantic language, it's about what 'mind' is. Cartesian mind (unextended, 0-dimensional frequency domain) is the counterpart to Cartesian matter (extended, 6-dimensional spacetime domain) To dismiss mind as "nonexistent" because you can't "see" or sense it, is anti-rational.

>As per above, the head

You're objectively wrong, mind is nowhere with regards to spacetime, it is in the dimensionless mathematical Singularity, the infinite plenum of Leibnizian monads.

>Mind *is* matter

Objectively wrong. Read: How Science [Empiricism] Undermines Reason. Otherwise get lost, because it's moronic to attack a position without studying it, or knowing the first thing about it.

>Existence is just the state of being included in the set of "things that exist"

Stupid answer. I asked what existence is MADE FROM. WHAT IS THE ARCHE? You didn't even understand the fucking question, it's entirely beyond you. You state "existence is the set of things that exist" as if that fucking meant something, when it just begs the question. Existence is actually made from reason (mathematics).

>There is no free will, just the illusion of it. Sure I may act as if I have free will, as I am incentivised to do so, but none of these decisions were made by rules that defied normal material logic in the

What so, I'm being trolled right now by a collection of random atoms, by arrangements of food, by a pre-programmed robot? Who fucking knew. I CHOSE to respond to you. I had the choice: I could CHOOSE to ignore you (which is what you deserve) or respond (even though your IQ barely escapes single digits, so you won't understand anything I write). Empiricist, materialist, "illusory free will", braindead. Determinism applies to temporal objects within dimensional spacetime: monadic minds are uncaused causes outside of spacetime, in the dimensionless (non-sensory) Singularity, and therefore have total free will. Book you need to read

>They are just models of reality that are the most accurate that we have that we hope to discard into a single, more accurate model.

You're not interested in reality, just useful models. Just empirical accuracy (but never eternal Truth) - mathematics. The single, 100% accurate model is mental, ontological mathematics. Because you're a braindead empiricist, you'll never grasp that salient fact. Science advances one funeral at a time.

>No reason, just that we can only observe

You're so much like an animal, that "just observes". It's like a cockroach decided to incarnate into human form but still doesn't have a fucking clue what knowledge is, and he just "crawls around and observes". There's something rather than nothing, "for no reason". That's a non-answer, evasion and begs the question.

Given that you can't understand anything else I don't expect you to understand Godel either, you'll just misinterpret him with your empiricist/materialist/sensory/irrational bias. He was a rationalist in the Leibnizian vein, and you can't even understand his thoughts, my thoughts, or the thoughts of ontological mathematics. They're literally beyond you, since you're a "no reason, just observing" cockroach pretending to be human.

>Accepting that there can be no reason is perfectly valid

Then why are mathematical laws - Euler's Formula, any scientific formula you can think of (that hasn't been butchered by materialism) always correct? If there was "no reason" then this would be a 0% rational universe, which means it would be a permanent LSD trip of magic and miracles, not a rational universe governed by mathematical laws. Or you were going to say: "For no reason (grunts)", right? Get fucking lost.