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This comment and intuition brings to mind the following passages from Steven Shaviro (after Whitehead) and his conception of "prehension" and "lure fo...

In theory that is true but in practice I am not convinced. The majority of Christians do not understand formal Christian theology very well in my expe...

People want to believe in some larger purpose and meaning and I think there are far worse things to believe in (QANON, conspiracy theories) than a rel...

This becomes about language. When you say something is evil it (for many anyway) imparts a sense of intention and agency on the part of the cause. We ...

I think the fundamental religious impulse is one about there being an overall purpose and direction for the universe or world as a whole (a teleology)...

I think experience and consciousness can only be found in the systems and processes where they occur. Sufficiently complex computer neural networks ma...

As one variety of panpsychist to another: Terminology and use of terminology are an area of both confusion and disagreement. In general I think overly...

Do you distinguish between experience, mind, awareness and consciousness? How do you define consciousness, because definitions become important and th...

Animals can be cold, hungry, in pain, jealous, etc. Perhaps it is not so much that animals do not suffer as that they suffer in silence. I agree that ...

it seems a high price to pay to preserve determinism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2931585/ Anatomic pathologies associated with vegetative state, minimally conscious state, and severe to ...

From Google Jains believe that life (which equals soul) is sacred regardless of faith, caste, race, or even species. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, en...

But look at the varying definitions by state and the varying degrees of punishment or criminality attached. It is not just about genetics (many states...

It does seem that ones sense of what is ethical or not is dictated by the society and culture in which you are raised and situated. Most societies fro...

I wonder what anyone thinks (or what your expectations are) of a complete, adequate and satisfactory scientific explanation of consciousness, mind and...

From google At a price of US$1,250 per troy ounce ($40 per gram), reached on 16 August 2017, one metric ton of gold has a value of approximately $64.3...

At the moment American politicians are looking rather inadequate compared to Chinese technocrats, so I would say the future of democracy is not assure...

Perhaps scientists should remember this as well as philosophers?

Acceleration and gravity are essentially equivalent and both affect time "dilation". GPS (satellites located in a lower gravity position relative to t...

I wonder what the economic and monetary system would look like without the fed? I wonder what would have happened during the 2008 fiscal crisis withou...

Attaching one world labels to systems of thought and speculative philosophies has always seemed fraught with some difficulty for me. So called Deconst...

Somehow I think intent and agency have to be central to any definition of evil. Evil and suffering are not synonyms. Nature inflicts plenty of sufferi...

I will ask again. Are you asserting that electrons are "conscious"? If so, are they conscious in the same way and to the same degree as humans? When w...

Do you find different uses for the terms consciousness, mind, mental,psychic and/or experience. Because I find terminology to be one of the difficulti...

There are several Eastern philosophical and Buddhist concepts which run in a vein similar to monist and process philosophy. One would be the concept o...

I don't think the five senses have evolved so much to help us "understand" the world as to allow us to survive and procreate in the world. In that res...

Italic Quotes Taken From Wikipedia Article on Panpsychism In philosophy of mind, panpsychism is the view that mind or a mindlike aspect is a fundament...

There are many different varieties or kinds of neutral monism. At its heart neutral monism seeks to reject pure physicalism (eliminative materialism),...

Actually the opposite is occurring. The population is moving towards metropolitan areas and away from rural areas. This has been going on for decades ...

But the point is that in neutral monism (process variety) , they are the same thing, or at least inseparable aspects of the same thing, inherent aspec...

https://www.processpsychology.com/new-articles/Whitehead.htm Try this for a more complete explanation of the idea.

Which brings up the question "What are Physical Objects"? and what are "Mental Properties"? In the process view objects are merely repeating patterns ...

From Betrand Russell The of Philosophy: http://www.paulgraham.com/valueofphilosophy.html#:~:text=Philosophy%2C%20like%20all%20other%20studies,convicti...

I do not believe the universe is a purposeless accidental event. I tend to think (if there is a divine) it acts through the processes of nature. The d...

I have become an advocate of the "process philosophy" view. That reality is a process, not an object, a becoming not a being. The fundamental units of...

In the 2020 election, Brookings found that the 2,497 counties across the country that voted for President Donald Trump generate 29% of the U.S. GDP. M...

"The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" It is memory that keeps us from repeating our mistakes.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing...

I think the traditional tenets or doctrine of Christianity are no longer believable in the "literal interpretation or meaning" to the educated and inf...

I do not believe in the "reality" or "realness" of "nothingness" whatever that could mean.

I think making God omnipotent, makes God responsible for the "evil" in the world. I think the "problem of evil" is a major cause of disbelief or rejec...

I have never really thought an eternal, immutable, changeless, and timeless God was of much use to anyone.That is the God of some stodgy theologians a...

Name one thing that on close examination is "static being"?

Abortion is a problem. It is a problem for young women of reproductive age and their conscience and their doctors. Not for old white men in legislativ...

The world is a continuous creative becoming. It is static being that is an illusion. Objects are merely repetitive patterns or events. Change (process...

I am never sure what one is supposed to "believe" to qualify as a "Christian". For me one who admires the example and teachings of Jesus would qualify...

There are no perfect people we are all flawed (don't mistake this for original sin). The same characteristic which might be an asset in one situation,...

Space time may be a lot of things but in modern physics it is not "nothing". Nor is space infinitely divisible and empty. It is clear there is somethi...

You should probably consult the field of epigenetics. Genes may or may be expressed depending on environmental and other influences. So genes are not ...

Time travel and time machines aside. Leaders like Hitler do not arise in a vacuum and are products of their time, taking advantage of historical trend...