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You're sparring in the ring. Your boxing instructor is teaching you how to watch for your opponent's weak side. In the current lesson, the understandi...

How do you assess the following: when the researchers picked subjects to be tested for allergic reactions to dairy products, they controlled for anti-...

Let’s not conflate “random” with “uncontrolled.” The sense of “random” that best serves your thesis (as I see it): that the universe evolves life with...

Until now, I had lost sight of by best counter-argument to your important premise (in bold): that there is a categorical distinction between autonomic...

Hello, Universeness, Just checking in briefly to let you know my work schedule might delay me a bit in getting back to you on your important, thought-...

You're right to point out the distinction. It's important. I don't think the uni-cellulars, after receiving a shock, plodded forward in the same direc...

I can see from the above that all rational creatures, seeking to find patterns within the landscape, wrestle with the question, "How does the world wo...

Your questions are wonderfully complex and thought-provoking. I think our universe has for one of its essential components a dimension of determinism....

I'm guessing internally directed action is activity inside the cell that is a response to its environment and, moreover, is beneficial to the cell. Do...

I think the collective of intentions and purposes, the animal kingdom, propagates a real environment of selection that dominates the empirical experie...

A mechanistic model of the universe has limitations and flaws that shouldn't be ignored. In my above quote, I populate the claim with attributes I thi...

Here we're grappling with the origin story of progress by design. Is the power of design extrinsic to material objects? I think any notion of sentienc...

One of my important ideas is that flesh and blood human and incorporeal spirit God are entangled. I label this entanglement God Consciousness. The the...

I think you exaggerate the difference between advanced intelligence and baseline intelligence. Instinct is not pure in the sense that humans, no less ...

"Creator," in my context, means perceived "close simulation of 'creator of the universe.'" As you may surmise, there's a lot of english-within-the-eng...

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There's a lot of substance coupled with sagacious thinking packed into your statement. I won't try to address all of it. The key word in my above quot...

Good job, Tom. You're getting right down to cases. I do subscribe to theism, although I'm in terrible standing with theists due to a variety of my pos...

Humans are my primary focus regarding internalized intentions & teleology. However, yes, I claim all living organisms exemplify internalized intention...

Clarification: in my context here, teleology mainly means self-advancing intentions coupled with designed behavior governed by goals. The core of my t...

That's right. But upright apes, like snails, are not thought to have populated the earth one billion years ago. If evolution, generally speaking, has ...

I think I understand you think my argument old school. On the other hand, you're pondering the possible comeback of metaphysics

Each premise is potentially falsifiable.

I contest the logic and reality of your above claim on the basis of its inclusion of "adaptive" and "selection." I acknowledge my contextual use of te...

I acknowledge the correctness of your distinctions of classification. My thinking herein follows from an assumption that, with respect to my premise s...

My claim is based on thinking living organisms all the way down to unicellular forms move, eat, excrete and reproduce. These behaviors, according to m...

Everywhere. The science elaborated in the quotation supplies the means for their state-of-the-art measurement. Readers incapacitated in the use of inf...

With your above statement you cast yourself in a role that parallels an early twentieth century commentator responding to Einstein's Theory of General...

When Carl Sagan claims the material universe has no origin, he takes us into an environment wherein the analytical-reasoning mind needs a foundation o...

Your ambiguous model looks like this: This argument claims the present is a limit towards which we forever approach towards and recede from, never act...

You want to put the present within time itself. When this is accomplished, past and future are essential parts of the conscious experience of being pr...

How I understand the above quote: One of the main objectives of your thesis is to establish the present within the flowing stream of time. How I under...

We stand on solid ground when we say God is a narrative. A select few witness miracles first-hand. For most of us, however, knowledge of God comes thr...

Well said.

If the arrow of time has only one direction (forward), as seems to be the case, does it make sense to say the past flows towards (not away from) the p...

You have a strong argument. A violent and wrathful God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Mt. Moriah. In our own time, we have diatribes ag...

From your above quotes I understand (tentatively) that the present streaming of time is a directory that gives a person overview of and access to the ...

Are you willing to examine the possibility that the above attributes of classical theism defining God entail gnarly problems of exegesis pertaining to...

If the present is a flowing stream of time that commingles with the past on one side & the future on the other side, most we conclude logically that p...

I understand your above quotes to be claims emanating from the core of your thesis. My preliminary takeaways (subject to revision or rejection): a) th...

Can you accept, as another representational example of your above claims, the lap dissolve, a scene transition mechanism essential to the continuity o...

In your first part I understand you to mean you think religious votaries should be confined to interactions with other religious votaries. I see this ...

Is this the core of your thesis? How do you counter-argue the claim "experiencing the passing of time," is measuring time?

I'm currently thinking you present us with two premises: a) Christianity is no less invalid as a factual worldview that all of the many other religiou...

Does agent-intellect have three essential functions? Are they: entanglement, causation, over-arching cognition?

What you say above -- re: attributes -- sounds correct to me. I know, therefore, I've omitted something essential from my statement. Consider a PC for...

This raises an interesting question. With your no-cart-before-the-horse proviso in mind, I don't seek an immediate answer: What degree of variation or...

Regarding intelligibility and order, do we have a knarly Venn Diagram as with the form/ substance puzzle? In other words, do we have distinct properti...

Do you think that when we drive over a bridge spanning a body of water, say, The Golden Gate Bridge, we're trusting an application of math language th...

This question invokes the realm of Aristotle's {Intelligibility \leftrightarrowAgent Intellect}. I've been dialoging with dfPolis in his conversation:...