Is there any differential in space and time separating the self and its thoughts? I ask this question for two reasons: a) a thought is about the judgm...
Are you saying: a) the logical first cause has no material physicality; b) the logical first cause that has no material physicality exists within our ...
Are you saying: a) unique First Cause is outside the chain of causation it affected? Are you saying unique First Cause is necessary to chain of causat...
Yes. Language and meaning are always distillations of content. For this reason, language and its circumambient meaning are well done when heavy laden ...
The center of my focus looks at a concept of the structure of thought as a complex of multiple parts. The essential parts are content, language and me...
If you're referencing Chomsky's preference of language for thought over language for communication, I agree with your assessment. If there's anything ...
Maybe you'll help me unpack the Barad definition: Classically measurable things are primatively real connections; they are connections without implica...
Is it correct to characterize your statement thus: abstract rules of organization have conceptual influence (the conferring of sense and intelligibili...
You don't see the philosophical relevance attaching to physical phenomena raising fundamental questions about the nature of reality? You see no connec...
My quote is unfortunately misleading without the addendum: Schrödinger developed the narrative of the dead & alive cat in order to mock the artless em...
The satellite is supposed to be a practical application of systemic overview, my characterization of metaphysics. I understand him to be making refere...
No. The long slog through the statistical bias towards equilibrium, i.e., entropy towards the far-from-equilibrium states required of life is illumina...
I think you stand on solid ground whenever you correctly ground your conjectures in science. You can do yourself a favor by keeping away from metaphys...
The through line of causal logic is crucial. Yes. You're invoking probability. I'll sound a note of doubt about this on the premise all odds on all th...
My general interpretation of your introduction of randomness as a state of things totally unpredictable had it positioned as the state preceding incep...
You've been saying a principal first cause, although it can incept as anything, cannot violate the physical laws of the thing it incepts as, right? If...
I mean Bryan Cranston as Walter White, the Grand Wizard of Speed in a speed-crazy global empire. In the end, he could but retire to the sterile silenc...
Note - "foundational order" is a pun with two senses: 1) the order inherent in thinking is foundational to the human identity; 2) the essence of think...
Is the following rephrasing acceptable: At least one cause and its causal chain are necessary. Is this interpretation correct: The definition of a fir...
On the contrary, I'm suggesting true randomness cannot be contemplated because it deranges the foundational order of thinking. Suppose I succeed in st...
You're saying the domain of this conversation is a logical examination of what follows within a causal chain in the wake of its first cause? I'm guess...
No. As you see from The Apple Dictionary, my use of realism adheres to Platonic realism. No. I've seen how "substance" in a philosophical context hold...
Okay, for the record, this isn't you intending to say something exists prior to the first cause? Can you restate your intended meaning; I don't know h...
You say if damage to the brain has consequences for consciousness, then this is evidence consciousness is highly emergent, with supervenience over neu...
With this claim how are you not deconstructing the central premise of your thesis? Are you saying knowledge of a first cause can only be empirical, no...
I get great value from my dialoguing with you. I look forward to its continuance. If this quote directly above is what you believe -- and not just you...
So, the universe is still growing? So, a first cause may not trigger a causal chain? Should it instead be called a birth? You imply it's logically pos...
Do you accept selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors -- SSRIs -- an established medication treatment for major depressive disorder -- as an example o...
Do you accept the following argument: Since by definition a first cause can't have any derivative first causes, each first cause is a discrete causali...
Do you accept that each discipline of study has a database governed by principles organized logically, and that that logical organization of principle...
Do you think your description of weak emergence the closest fit for: a) sentience; b) reason as mental emergences from the brain? If so, why? I ask th...
What is the metaphysics of materialism? Never mind my absential materialism label. Is the gist of your response to Deacon the assertion that mind DID ...
This is a useful assessment of both the phyics/metaphysics dialogue and Deacon's role within it. In my edition of Incomplete Nature Deacon's glossary ...
Why do you say above statement is not knowledge of the identity of the first cause? I ask this question because you identify first cause as what acts ...
You say, Establishment happens by first cause of the starting point of creation. You say, Inception of creation proceeds without limitation. How does ...
You're saying inception equals a supernatural deity? You're saying inception can incept a hydrogen atom not limited by its parts and the rules of itse...
Regarding no limitation, what about the selfhood of the first cause? If selfhood establishes a boundary between self and other, and the first cause is...
From this I conclude you're grounding the primacy of first cause within temporal sequence. So, the first cause is first in time before all other thing...
This is a common sense answer. Let's consider details. A proton is not an atom. Likewise, a neutron is not an atom and, etc. Also, we know that elemen...
An everyday example of an end-oriented constraint comes in the example of a woman who decides she'll eliminate dairy products from her meals. By const...
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