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And that just seems to be a deliberate dodge of the question. The eternalist stance (as I understand it is the past, the present and the future all ha...

The classical description of God as eternal, changeless, immutable, perfect being does seem at odds with the notion of God as personal, loving and inv...

See the short dissertation by Shaviro (who is much more lucid than most writers on Whitehead and much better at explanation than me) On eternal object...

For the "eternalists" and "block universe" advocates on the thread. I want to know the status of "dinosaurs"? Are they truly extinct and vanished from...

I am not sure where you are getting this but the impermanence of worldly things or emptiness in Buddhism and the flux, flow and change of process have...

I freely admit, I do not have the time or the expertise to fully evaluate the arguments for and against presentism and its various forms. It is just I...

We all have our metaphysical preferences when it comes to time (eternalism, presentism, possibilism). What we should not be doing is claiming that our...

I am not sure I would classify as an anti-realist but I am interested what you mean by the term, what things you stress and your working scenario for ...

Well this a speculative philosophy discussion about ontology (being) and so you will not get definitive truth or proof. It is about developing concept...

I think using our usual conceptions of locality and causality it is difficult to explain phenomena like "quantum entanglement". I think using our usua...

I have not read much Chalmers but a brief scan indicates there are some similarities. I am more familiar with Strawson arguments about physicalism and...

One could level that accusation but I am not saying rocks are conscious, if that is what you mean? I am saying that events have relationships and inte...

Even if there were no clocks, the present still "exists" and change still happens and therefore time (a derivative concept of change) passes. If there...

Well as I stated earlier, I am a neutral monist of the process philosophy type. The fundamental units of nature are events in spacetime and such event...

Is there no room in the house of materialism to accommodate the world such as it is? — StreetlightX Of course if one defines "matter" broadly enough t...

Frankly we never attach as much value to potential as we do to actual and existent. So we value oak trees more than we value acorns. We value children...

From Wikipedia : Time Dilation According to the theory of relativity, time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers, eit...

Clocks around the world have 24 different times representing the different time zones. Before agreement clocks in different towns had different times,...

One problem with roe vs wade is it was decided in 1973 and there have been significant advances in medical technology (contraception, sex education, m...

That has been done many different times and many different ways and the result is the same, clocks run at different rates under the influence of gravi...

This is why we need to be more precise what we are talking about? Is an 8cell blastocyst a person? Does it have legal rights? Not under the law.

What does it mean to be a "rightest". I have some traditional conservative principles about smaller more efficient government, personal responsibility...

They teach the same subjects, often they use the same textbooks, they take the same GRE, LSAT and MCAT. Students are (and always will be) more importa...

It comes from the fact that "abortion" is not one issue, but a multiplicity of issues. As for murder, the state defines murder and at the current time...

Which act are we talking about? The prevention of pregnancy through birth control pills or contraceptive? The discarding of unused embryos in the fert...

Are there private truths (the pain in my toe) and public truths (I have a toe)?

Actually it was the OP I couldn't make any sense of. The fact that atoms are mostly space, and particles are really transitory events and the missing ...

As pointed out you don't really patent "ideas" you patent products, and there are a thousand "ideas" for every patentable product based on an "idea" a...

Well some works are difficult to reproduce (iPhone knockoffs are lesser quality), original Monet's (good copies but only one original) but books, vide...

If your research is supported by public funding, does it not seem the results should be available to the public?

Well you have to admit, he does make himself into an easy target.:wink:

Well, there are a couple of approaches. One is to think of the body, you have fingers, toes, ears, organs, they are all talked about separately, funct...

About the only form of time travel I think is possible, is the form rendered in the twin paradox from relativity (take a trip at close to the speed of...

The real problem with intellectual property (patents, copyrights and trademarks) is enforcing them in a global economy and in a digital world where al...

I can not make any sense of the concept being put forward here (help anyone).

The real problem is voter suppression and voter non participation not voter fraud. Voter fraud is virtually non existent. Efforts at indirect voter su...

Often it is just easier to look things up, google or wiki, than to request someone write them out. In any event the conception is similar (more develo...

Ever read about Indra's net? Schopenhauer liked some Eastern religious conceptions.

The dems need to show they are interested in border security (just not a wall). The wall is a fiction anyway, couldn't begin to get it done for that a...

That's true. Even if the money was allocated 5billion is just a fraction of the 20 billion or so estimated cost. Not to mention the majority of the bo...

There is a conception in classical philosophy of "independent objects" with "inherent properties". In truth no "object" exists independently of the wo...

Yes, I am afraid it is all PR, posturing, and politics. Very little thought about what is good for the country and the future, and both sides of the a...

Trump offers temporary DACA relief for funding for a permanent wall. I don't think that is a good deal. Permanent DACA and path to citizenship might b...

I do not think anyone gladly has an abortion. Generally abortion is undertaken for unwanted pregnancy and pregnancies may be unwanted for many reasons...

“W. T. Stace nicely summarizes the matter :Neutral monism appears to be inspired by two main motives. The first is to get rid of the psycho-physical d...

The issue is more contentious than that as perusing the physics stack exchange on the subject would show. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/...

I think quantum mechanics, taken seriously, is an argument against the continuous nature of reality period, including space-time. There are no dimensi...

It seems that in the more technological, more scientific, more educated societies, belief in supernatural theism is on a rapid and steep decline parti...

Well the framers didn't intend for women to vote, slaves to become citizens or even for any but male business and property owners to vote (those with ...

But all of human life and experience is not about science. Science addresses the measurable, the empirical, that which is repeatable and controllable ...