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Of course I reformulate what you've written because that's how I try to substantively engage your stated positions. If I were you and we were me, ther...
December 25, 2022 at 19:41
I'm here trying to get a better understanding of things. Although it's imprudent to discuss religion, I find trying to understand it is more interesti...
December 25, 2022 at 18:43
For the sake of clarification, let me add that with my examples to busycuttingcrap I was only trying to show what an atheist might choose to do as obs...
December 25, 2022 at 18:02
A secular protestant, lying on his deathbed, in defiance of his own emotional past as a boy raised Catholic, exhorts his parents, wife and children, t...
December 25, 2022 at 04:07
In my Apple Dictionary I see that theism derives from THEÓS or THEOI meaning "god" or "gods." Both theism and deism include God. Christian Theism beli...
December 25, 2022 at 03:59
Statistically significant means a set with a volume of members too large to be unimportant and not worth considering as a factor in collection of nume...
December 25, 2022 at 02:50
Note - I abbreviate consciousness as "cons." -- ucarr If human cons can only be verified up to the level of practical experience of the everyday world...
December 24, 2022 at 13:38
Some of the American Founding Fathers embraced an ideology that posits God the creator as the power that designed nature, there after withdrawing to h...
December 22, 2022 at 13:28
To Joshs, God_human, though co-created simultaneously, are Venn diagrams, thus overlapped only partially; much of the makeup of each does not overlap....
December 21, 2022 at 19:00
QM perceives the vagueness of the electron's position within an attached nucleus as a cloud of possible positions of the electron prior to establishme...
December 21, 2022 at 04:31
What do you make of the Venn Diagram problem? Do you find the unparsible nature of axioms interesting? Since nature has no approach to axioms save ack...
December 21, 2022 at 03:56
It is continuity of spacetime dimensional expansion within a hyper-cube.
December 20, 2022 at 13:31
I hope you'll agree thought-experiments are road maps to practice and experience. Google's qubit computer is not a thought-experiment. Is it?
December 20, 2022 at 13:30
I agree with you. Entanglement has all interested parties ruminating. Great!
December 20, 2022 at 13:26
More than one physicist living today has claimed QM the most experimentally and phenomenally verified scientific theory of all time. Please present yo...
December 20, 2022 at 02:39
If there's one thing that's not anthropomorphic, it's human consciousness. What does human consciousness look like? Does your sentience, considered as...
December 20, 2022 at 02:37
In the above statement I'm trying to say consciousness is an emergent property of elements and compounds. This claim presumes a physical foundation of...
December 20, 2022 at 02:08
You first suggested I deal in the currency of non-vital substance.
December 20, 2022 at 00:59
I have tried to show that God-Spirit is never alone, was co-created alongside of human. I have tried to say identity is socially negotiated by insight...
December 20, 2022 at 00:57
If life has no discrete physical boundaries, does not emerge from non-vital substance, then the universe is wholly alive and the animism of the ancien...
December 20, 2022 at 00:43
Premise – {a,b,c} ?? a,b,c Set abc leads to a,b,c as independent members of itself and independent members a,b,c independently and respectively lead t...
November 18, 2022 at 16:29
You and I live in a reality that has three spatial dimensions expanded + spacetime. Time and motion are a part of everything we do in our lives. I'm s...
November 17, 2022 at 13:09
You, like Joshs, acknowledge the person-world interaction (PWI) as the starting point for cognition. IOW (In other words), PWI is the ground of cognit...
November 17, 2022 at 12:47
Let's focus on the difference between historical priority and categorical priority. With the former, we have a linear sequence of ordinal positions. A...
November 17, 2022 at 00:56
Metaphysical concept Vs. Metaphysical worldview > Is the difference that concept is an abstract idea whereas worldview is an abstract idea in applicat...
November 16, 2022 at 19:19
In your first three statements quoted above, you acknowledge the physics_metaphysics relationship as being a kind of mobius strip of "indissociable in...
November 16, 2022 at 16:20
ma·trix | ?m?triks | noun (plural matrices | ?m?tr??s?z | or matrixes) 1 an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium ...
November 16, 2022 at 15:17
Your argument is predicated upon an inter-relationship between external stimuli/internal processing. If newborns could survive in sensory deprivation ...
November 16, 2022 at 00:59
If gets modified to You have a statement that correctly interprets my verbal claim, however A\leftrightarrow ? ?\leftrightarrow\sum_{i=mp}^{i=p} so yo...
November 16, 2022 at 00:45
Amen! I think the characterization of your latest post by 180 Proof is spot on. I strongly suspect process philosophy, as expressed in its claims, is ...
November 15, 2022 at 15:52
In counter-narrating the claims of Joshs, I assert the physicality of language (and therefore the physicality of metaphysics). As examples of the phys...
November 15, 2022 at 15:27
In section two above, Joshs claims And he also claims We see from the above that Joshs links metaphysics_physics as cofunctions, with the additional d...
November 15, 2022 at 15:14
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November 15, 2022 at 14:43
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November 15, 2022 at 02:01
Well said, and now, let me segue into saying, "The monolith is a MacGuffin." Tricky Kubrick knows how to stir the public imagination visually with tha...
November 14, 2022 at 23:58
jus·ti·fy | ?j?st??f? | verb (justifies, justifying, justified) 1 show or prove to be right or reasonable: the person appointed has fully justified ou...
November 14, 2022 at 19:44
This argument is irrelevant to the question I posed. "Do you think process philosophy shares some common ground with Platonism_Neo-Platonism?" You ack...
November 14, 2022 at 15:24
An example of a pertinent answer to my question "How does your experience of the conversation differ from mine?" would have you telling me what I'm th...
November 14, 2022 at 15:16
There's a classic puzzle questioning how humans move through the real world since any line is infinitely divisible into an endless sequence of points....
November 14, 2022 at 15:08
You misrepresent my position. I don't deny overlapping transitions between boundaries. I'm not at war with ambiguity. I've already asked you, I see no...
November 14, 2022 at 14:54
As I understand the above, you're claiming humans insert partitions that break up a continuum into (artificial) parts. In line with this configuration...
November 14, 2022 at 14:32
dif·fer·ent | ?dif(?)r?nt | adjective 1 not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality: you can play this game in different...
November 14, 2022 at 14:19
Does the measurement of a material object ever have an irrational number?
November 13, 2022 at 15:59
No. A movie is a movie; a still frame is a still frame. Two different states: strip of celluloid stationary; strip of celluloid in motion. Is one more...
November 13, 2022 at 15:42
My OP or the conversation?
November 12, 2022 at 11:37
My takeaway from your claims is, presently, that Process Philosophy is kinda like metaphysics of fluid dynamics -- without the practicality of the qua...
November 12, 2022 at 11:29
You said it yourself. No one really avoids metaphysics. "I'm generally the 'I don't know guy.'" This is your shield. You hold it up to protect yoursel...
November 12, 2022 at 10:42
You and Banno are telling me Kant, no less than Einstein, was a physicist. From this we understand language is an integral component of physics, and t...
November 12, 2022 at 09:57
If you're saying metaphysical physics is the necessary pre-condition for physical physics, then how do you explain away the physical brain observing t...
November 10, 2022 at 17:26
Are you unfamiliar with "subordinate" and "hierarchy"? I have the impression process philosophy assigns premium value to motion_dynamism_change. Regar...
November 10, 2022 at 17:13