For Whitehead, I think the divine aim is creativity, higher degrees of complexity, awareness and experience. Whitehead plainly states his view that "G...
from wikipedia Sex chromosome anomalies belong to a group of genetic conditions that are caused or affected by the loss, damage or addition of one or ...
Definitely, people can create their own meaning in their work, their relationships trying to make the world a better place or to contribute something ...
Except as abstract mathematical concepts it is hard to see "dimensionless points" or "duration less instants" as being "real" in any material or physi...
That is where I find myself. I have a strong background in science and biology. I know about cosmologic time frames, mass extinctions, global catastro...
the AI answer Gender refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviors, expressions, and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender-diverse p...
Very nice writing, I don't disagree really. I have no problem with the mystics or the philosopher's, just acknowledging that if there is a God, it can...
Most men want something greater than themselves to look up to and worship. But they must be able to touch the divine here on earth They have found not...
Whitehead's God is not omnipotent (other entities have their own inherent power and independence). Whitehead's God is not omniscient (the future is op...
Human perception is limited. Humans can perceive only a limited range of wavelengths as color, and vibration frequencies as sound, Dogs have a much be...
From the Pinocchio Theory Whitehead on Causality and Perception by Steven Shaviro Not too long maybe 15 pages, I find Shaviro to be an unusually clear...
It seems we are both monists of various persuasions and reject dualism. I think our conceptions and language for our positions may make it difficult t...
This seems all an argument trying to say I don't understand language. I was trying to avoid that. I noticed you did not respond to my questions which ...
Similar concepts, I think, employing different language. Whitehead who was quite familiar with the physics of his time ( a mathematician and logician ...
Perhaps I don't understand your point of view, but you seem to talk about a universal field of subjectivity sometimes and so Panpsychism does not seem...
I thought I saw you refer to the iron block or frozen universe, where the past the present and the future already exist and time is just an illusion. ...
Hume said we know nothing except what sense impressions tell us, a philosophy variously termed skepticism or strict empiricism and which leads easily ...
Which brings up the language problem of how one defines "consciousness" as opposed to terms like sub conscience and unconscious. Some would say that t...
Yes, you may in fact, in your mind, have very precise meanings that you attach to these terms. However, not everyone will accept or agree with your me...
These were a variety of terms about mental abilities, which are bandied about in the forum and even by professional philosophers of mind without much ...
Is that what he said? I thought the world was sheer will and our experience was just representation, hence the title "Will and Representation". Will i...
There is no ontology of time, simply because time as an independent entity simply does not exist. Time is a concept derived from the change, the flux,...
I am still not getting a sense of how you are using these words. I am not looking for an argument, just a clarification of your thinking, to see if th...
I think this will lead us into a disagreement about language, about the definition of consciousness? Do the terms mind, experience and consciousness a...
I will try but not tonight. Did you read all the previous posts because it is fairly extensively discussed. Do you not think other creatures than huma...
I am skeptical that there will ever be a satisfactory materialistic explanation of any form of experience. I think this may permanently be the realm o...
The latter quote is from Steven Shaviro but it reflects my point of view. I personally try to avoid the term "consciousness" except for the self aware...
you might want to look at the process philosophy a metaphysics for our time. More relevant to your statement and question then the "leap to faith" ver...
] I am going to give you some excerpts from Whiteheads “ The Concept of Nature Chapter 2: Theories of the bifurcation of Nature” which is eminently re...
You may be interested in this discussion of "feeling" written by Shaviro on Whitehead Whitehead on Feeling In fact "feeling", "lure", ,"satisfaction":...
I would not want to get too tied up trying to summarize something like process philosophy with as simple a summary or term as "neutral monism". Proces...
I am late to the discussion and as usual the topic has wandered far off track. The fundamental unit of reality in process is an "event" or "occasion" ...
It has not been a good couple of years for this Supreme Court. Public confidence in the court as an impartial arbitrator of the law as opposed to just...
One can erase, change, modify or even eliminate the social constructs around gender roles in society. Doing the same for the physical or biological as...
Almost all of perceptual processing takes place at a level below "conscious awareness". We as an organism are aware of much that we as a "conscious se...
it would be really helpful if people would state what definition of "direct realism" and "indirect realism" they are using when they are posting. /upl...
BTW the abstract from Penrose and Hameroff paper Conscious Events as Orchestrated Space Time Selections What is consciousness? Some philosophers have ...
Of course the various forms of panpsychism attempt to do percisely that. Experience does not emerge mysteriously from non experiential matter. Conscio...
As long as one understands the process of perception and its inherent limitations, I do not care if you call it direct or indirect, and the distinctio...
Of course we can both "see" and "touch" a tree using our sense and perception. It is the type of connection between the tree and our perceptual proces...
The post was not a response to you. Panpsychism in its various forms is pretty directly related to Penrose and his notions of proto consciousness, it ...
Myths are not literally true, but they have meaning non the less in imparting values and understanding. The story of the good Samaritan does not have ...
Whitehead is fundamentally a monist although the fundamental unit of nature is an "event" or "occasion" these events have aspects which are temporal, ...
A semantic difference in the use of the term experience. Many types of systems take in information about the environment and respond to it. You can ca...
Well, yes, what is important is understanding the process of perception not engaging in a semantic argument about the meaning of "direct" or "indirect...
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