Iano writes:
I know there is a pc screen on front of me just as much as I know that God exists and just as much as I know what I thought 5 seconds ago. I don't add "non-conclusively" to pc screens or thoughts. Nor do I to God.
But even if all reality is an illusion the existence of the PC can still be independently verified
within the framework of that illusion. If everyone is experiencing the same illusion then that, for all intents an purposes is our default "external reality", since there is nothing else for anyone to work with.
If reality is an illusion then said illusion
is our reality!
The problem with your "knowledge" of God is twofold.
i) If reality is an illusion then how can your "knowledge" of God get a "free pass" and attain a higher level of certainty? God may well be just as imaginary as everything else.
ii) How can we verify your "knowledge" of God? Even in an entirely imaginary reality there is no way for two individuals to agree on what constitutes even an imaginary God! Two individuals can agree on the existence of an imaginary PC. The same cannot be said of God.
So we have:
PC: Imaginary/Verifiable.
God: Imaginary/Unverifiable.
Now, if we were to accept that reality is an illusion then we may as well cancel out the first two fields. The just leaves us back where we started:-
PC. Verifiable.
God. Unverifiable.
Even in an imaginary world, you have no empirically verifiable knowledge of God.