Dostoevsky seems to go back and forth about God. His tale of the suffering child in the Brothers Karamazov seems a powerful argument against a benevol...
AI "Telos" is a Greek word that generally means end, purpose, or goal. In philosophy, particularly in Aristotle's philosophy, it refers to the final c...
No expert on the general theory of relativity or QM here but I think you will find the mathematics in GR does assume space is a continuous entity and ...
You can try David Skrbina "Panpsychism in the West" for a survey or David Ray Griffin writings on Whitehead and panexperientialism. It is a pretty sig...
Ah, yes, but for whitehead every event (actual occasion) is a subject onto itself, there are no vacuous entities. He does not mean just humans' and .h...
I am responding to this type of polemic and statement of opinion as undeniable fact. I have seen the videos and pictures (almost a continuous loop on ...
I think another area of disagreement is our access to the "ding an sic}. You seem to think we are pretty much excluded from Knowledge about it. I don'...
No deaths', yet that I am aware of. Relatively few serious injuries or arrests. I am concerned about National Guard and active duty Marines with letha...
Yes, but how would any of us actually know? I sort of agree it's hard to trust the media these days, Fox news versus MSNBC would make you think these ...
I don't live in LA but I have been there. This does not compare to Watts or the Rodney King riots. By report confined to about 5 blocks as violence go...
I don't see the observer (human I presume) interaction or measurement as being any different than all the interactions that are occurring all the time...
I agree with that since we cannot even agree on the facts much less the solution. This is an unfortunate aspect and common feature of our modern socie...
Big debate in quantum theory, does the measurement discern the actual property (location, momentum) or does the measurement, observation, interaction ...
28 MINS AGO 6:22 PM PDT Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from activating National Guard troops in LA By Helen Jeong The Trump administrat...
Well, the quest for power is as old as time and a constant in historyl. The founding fathers were very concerned about the concentration of power in a...
I often think language is the thing that allows humans to engage in such abstract thought about the future and possibilities, to first imagine and the...
Well there are statements from the mayor and the police chief. So I wonder where you get your more factual view of the overall situation. I hope it is...
Perhaps, perhaps notl It is all rather remarkable though. The religiously inclined will see telos. They do include numerous educated, intelligent and ...
AI report on the extent of violence in LA. Remember media does not sure show peracefull demonstrators only the more violent aspects. AI report Recent ...
The question has become, who gets to decide what the law is? The president? The attorney general? Steven Miller? Traditionally courts interpret the la...
, He is back by the way but now being prosecuted for a criminal offense. At least he can get a lawyer and a day in court, that's all I ask. His remova...
In a nation of laws, court rulings or judges opinions would be respected and followed until overruled on appeal or by a higher court, not really what ...
Is being in the country illegally a criminal or civil offense? From AI This is a nuanced area of law in the United States, and it's easy to get confus...
The majority of Americans do not seem to approve of the methods being employed. I wish I thought the majority of voters did indeed pay close attention...
Just being provocation. Plato's forms I believe were supposed to be more real that the shadows we gaze at in the cave. Whiteheads eternal objects are ...
The vast majority of protestors are peaceful. The news shows only those looting, or throwing objects, or burning waymo cars. Entirely reasonable peopl...
Unfortunately it is often just talk. The history of immigration in the US is mixed. First it was the English Protestants against the Irish Catholics (...
Well reasonable people don't support riots. They do support free speech, peaceful protest and due legal process. Not being whisked away by masked agen...
Properly understood being in the country illegally is a civil not a criminal offense. There are many laws which are not uniformly enforced. I am not r...
It is somewhat alarming to watch a President with clear authoritarian impulses and who previously attempted to overturn the results of a democratic el...
The meaning of absolute space (independent of events) or of absolute time (independent of events) escapes me and many philosophers and physicists. New...
I understand that you might think a lot of religion is "magical thinking". I wondered if you felt the same about concepts like truth, justice, beauty,...
Which seems to raise the question what is "real". We seem to believe in a lot of things which are not empirically demonstrable (love, truth, beauty, g...
For many, the divine (deity seems a little anthropomorphic) reveals itself not by supernatural means but through the self organizing processes of natu...
Does anybody really support mind-independent reality? The question in the opening post? "does the moon still exist when not being observed?" part of t...
the rising number of the young who classify their sex and gender as neutral and sexual orientation as pan indicates their is some truth to your concer...
You are "free" to chose, it is just not your "conscious awareness" that is making most of the choices instead the subconscious (organism as a whole) s...
Perhaps neither time or space are ontologically primary. Space is just a relationship between events and time (and duration) are just the formation an...
Well, for Whitehead "actual occasions" (drops of experience) are the final actualities of which reality is composed. Apart from them there is vast not...
I am not sure supernatural intervention, divine revelation and the authority of sacred scripture is really a more sophisticated or philosophical conce...
It should be pretty clear that I do not subscribe to Russell's view of our role in nature. Since my particular view of the divine is one of striving t...
Although I would agree that cognitive experiences are as "real" and as much (maybe more) a part of the world as atoms and other measurable physical ph...
The assumptions about God generally involve concepts like omnipotence and omniscience, along with eternal changeless perfection. To many any conceptio...
I always have had trouble with philosophical skepticism (especially solipsism) and any form of absolute idealism, even to the point of refusing to ser...
This just sounds like Kant's noumena, phenomena dichotomy or the repetitive discussions of indirect versus direct realism.. Sure our worldview is stro...
So what form of idealism is being promoted? What does this form of idealism have to say about cosmology (14 billion year old universe, 5 billion year ...
Not really, we all duck when the baseball is speeding at our head. We all look both ways before we step out into the street. People profess various fo...
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