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Again I would say that the absolute separation of "reality" into subjective and objective is the artificial "bifurcation of nature" to which Whitehead...

how about things in the past do they have "concrete" existence? Not to derail the discussion into one about time but it did start as a question about ...

If by triadic you mean the two actual occasions plus the relation between them but for Whitehead any "actual occasion" has multiple relations to multi...

Not that I am interested in trying to interpret Whitehead in terms of Pierce's semiosis, but there are writings that one can refer to, and for all the...

I would say the physcialist description of “quantum particles or events” is incomplete. With the notion of quantum entanglement one is forced into eit...

It seems clear that Whitehead's notion of experience is different than our notion of consciousness. For Whitehead most of the experience of the world ...

In general it would seem "human mind or consciousness" requires "human brain" and that the link between any particular individual consciousness and in...

If you have evidence that Whitehead believed consciousness caused quantum collapse you can present it but I believe that is a misstatement or misunder...

That there is a high degree of order and predictability to the universe seems beyond reasonable debate. The usual argument is whether there is any deg...

It seems to me that neither monogamy nor polygamy, not any other "gamy" is inherently good or bad as long as the participants engage of their own free...

I would say for Whitehead the fundamental elements of existence are the "actual occasions" or "droplets or moments of experience" and that his view of...

If everyone wants to live like Americans and Europeans (and given the choice or opportunity they apparently do) then that would put a terrible strain ...

I am fascinated with the notion of Platonic forms (or in Whitehead eternal objects) and Aristotle's final causes as possessing some explanatory (metap...

You are moving either towards "information" theory or Piercian signs and semiosis. Either that or you prefer dualism which I do not. I prefer various ...

I think one could consider whether evolution itself is part of the "design". The "purpose" being not the creation of any particular form or species bu...

So thoughts and the like cannot possibly be identified with brain processes. — Edward Fese And yet we never see human thoughts or consciousness separa...

Do you mean your personal experience? Do you mean human experience? Or are you willing to make experience a broader feature of reality in general?

There are many different conceptions of "God" and a variety of attributes assigned to those conceptions. It is hard to meaningfully talk about God and...

I would have thought it was the opposite. Change is what exists but time is just an abstraction from change and keeping time is just noticing the rela...

I am becoming concerned there is nothing resembling "due process" in the #metoo movement. I am also concerned there is no proportionality, where telli...

I am always fascinated when people report this. We have all read accounts of "muses" or of the work (art, writing, music) just poring out. I wonder if...

Your Platonism is showing.

Questions like that get asked all the time, not that there are any scientific or empirical answers. What exists beyond the universe? What existed befo...

Well actually there are lots of problems with the assumptions underlying that statement. One is the assumption that the precise state (location in spa...

http://ftp.iza.org/dp9656.pdf This recent study on the gender pay gap from Cornell University. Overt discrimination accounts for very little of the st...

Well maybe creation is really hard work and that is why God seems to rest and be absent a lot of the time. :-|

This kind of analysis at least begins to address the issue of how much of the gender pay gap is due to outright employer discrimination on the basis o...

I don't have anything elegant to add to this but if the world were capricious, mostly random and unpredictable, reason, logic and math would be of lit...

"Will No One Rid Me of This Meddlesome Priest?" Henry II

So now we have mind without brains and life without physical bodies, soon we will be back to "souls", animism and the "elan vitale" as if they suffice...

I do not think you can disconnect life from the biology, chemistry and physics which underlie it, in that way. From my point of view it is your elevat...

What percentage of crimes (punishable by jail) are committed by men? That's the problem with purely statistical or empirical approaches to these probl...

I will give you the last word, not because that post makes sense or explains any observation or fact but because further discussion on the subject see...

There is a gender pay gap as is clear from empirical data and statistics. The real discussion is how much of that pay gap is due to discrimination by ...

Not that facts, science or even empirical data seems to matter to you on this subject still the evidence is clear, and no alternative rational explana...

Yes, I find process metaphysics (Whitehead in particular) very appealing, provided one adjusts for the advances in scientific knowledge.

Clocks run based on physical principles. In the case of atomic clocks on the emissions of atoms. If the physical process on which the clocks keep time...

Time dilation is a real observable and measurable phenomena. Time dilation is seen in both special relativity (relative motion) and general relativity...

It is hard to put into words. In fact I think language is inadequate to describe many experiences or thoughts. In terms of religious philosophy, I am ...

Some conceptions of God make sense to me, others do not. In general I have a religious inclination which I cannot seem to shake, it is one that reject...

In the current economy if you do not have a job, you do not have money (except by welfare). If you do not have money, you cannot buy food, pay rent or...

I don't see how one can say the "reign of terror" in the French Revolution was justified even if it did lead to the overthrow of a corrupt monarchial ...

That is what objects are, repeating patterns of events. In some ways that is what nature is. The present consists of elements of the past and possibil...

How about it is no longer there, when experienced? Given the time involved in perceptual processing or It is not as experienced? Given the limitations...

So many assumptions in these types of discussions. Is the universe infinite? Is the universe eternal? Our current best guess is our universe had a beg...

Well leaving aside the Piercian triad and semiosis for the moment. I want you to engage engage in speculation based on intuition which is colored by y...

Life has whatever purpose you decide to give it. In general people are meaning seeking creatures, some find meaning in relationships, some in work, ot...

Quantum Mechanics does injury to the concept of determinism. Quantum entanglement does injury to locality and/or causality, even space and time. Eithe...

The "soul" is an imaginary concept much like a "unicorn". It is born of human hubris and hope for immortality much like religion. One cannot be absolu...

But you seem to implying these companies want to limit choice, as opposed to supplying willing consumers with their product. A global economy and inte...