You have always been welcome to do so dear Sir. :smile: I absolutely agree, and that is precisely why in these cases language must take on a new activ...
It would appear that way, but certain concepts are too big for words, apparently. When something is too vast, pointing at it becomes ambiguous. Some c...
We have a difference in the significance of "God" with a capital 'G' and "god" with a lowercase 'g'. For me, the capital 'G' indicates the primordial ...
Words are imperfect tools for communication. True understanding comes from grasping the underlying concepts, not just the words used to describe them....
Well, what would you say is the difference between a God and a god? (Uppercase 'G' vs. lowercase 'g') In Greek mythology, all the gods emerged from th...
God and gods are not the same thing. Native American tribes have a concept of the "Great Spirit", while Christians have the concept of the "Spirit of ...
An interesting question to think about that might help in regards to different sizes of infinity: What is the length of the circumference of a circle ...
Absolutely, i agree. And thank you for the encouragement. :smile: I've done this, and it was supremely insightful regarding the binary computational n...
Yes, i understand completely that they are two different things, but i think of them in the same way we consider quantum mechanics and relativity two ...
Gdanian - The Inner Sun (feat. Ruptured World) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcwwO0BuvM https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/1...
Can anyone truly claim to know exactly what Lao Tzu meant? Was Lao Tzu the only person in the history of the universe capable of understanding the Tao...
I don't have a better way of explaining this here right now. I'll come back to it after i get some rest. It's a bit late here, and i'm i bit tired. pr...
The first sentence suggests that, as a mental or cognitive device, we can consider the Tao as the value zero, representing the silent void that is the...
I think you and i agree more than we know. Sometimes words just get in the way as the old ones noted and wrote "The Tao that can be named is not the e...
I'm glad i can talk to intelligent people as yourself about these heavy ideas. I don't have many people in my life i can talk to about these things. S...
A Taoist perspective is, in my opinion, a suitable and excellent worldview to alleviate existential anxiety as you say, but it could be much more. I p...
I definitely do not believe in the all-at-once block universe, except to say that each time step happens throughout the entire spatial universe all at...
Sounds good to me. Change is the only constant. It is only the Tao that changes without changing. The constancy of change is what remains unchanging a...
I'm just saying that some things can't be measured, and yet are true, because they must be in order to observe other higher-level phenomena that are d...
Energy is the source of causality, which you characterized as metaphysical, but it doesn't matter. If it doesn't make sense to you then do not accept ...
Apologies.. Ah, interesting. I've not heard of R.G. Collingwood, and i'm not sure if i understand what not having a truth value means in this context....
Information is interesting in this regard because it needs "physicality" in order to instantiate itself, yet it can be transferred from one physical s...
How does one measure a single 0-dimensional point inside a non-zero dimensional space? It cannot be measured because measurement requires a beginning ...
This reminds me of the verse in the Bible: Hebrews 4:12 - "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the...
Also, i make a strong connection between what the Greeks called the Logos to the Tao. I believe they were trying to explain the same thing, but in dif...
I guess one can put it in those terms. The world that comes into existence by naming is the world in our own minds, the world of culture or in the wor...
If the Tao is supposed to be the origin of all things, then how is the quantum vacuum not at least in some way the Tao? What is it about the quantum v...
"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, sinc...
Here is my perspective, and my attempt at explaining it in commentary form: "Something mysteriously formed, Born before heaven and Earth." This is the...
What do you think about neutral monism? I believe neutral monism is a better interpretation of monism than materialistic or idealistic monism. In my v...
How is it then that in the dream state, things appear as real physical stuff, even though it is all dream stuff or mind stuff? Is it possible that the...
That's a beautiful way to look at it. So within the context of your analogy; what would you say is vibrating to produce the sound of music? I agree, w...
Okay, but we can know some things, and we do. What do you think the implications are of the "phantom identity" i described? You seem to agree with the...
Well, because there are regions in the brain that model your body, there exists a neural simulation of yourself within your brain. When someone loses ...
Why do amputees experience phantom limb? Why does a limb they don't have anymore seem to hurt, and get muscle cramps where there are no muscles to cra...
Quite coincidentally, this video interview just came out a few hours ago that kind of addresses or relates to the subject of this thread, particularly...
Here is an excellent interview "hot off the press" with Michael Levin, a developmental and synthetic biologist. He shares many of the same views as i ...
You are not wrong i agree, but i don't think its entirely correct. Only one answer can be true at a time, at least for it to make intuitive sense to u...
But, also "No, but falsely." For it to be true it must be false, and for it to be false it must be true. It's a something that's a nothing, its some k...
I would say that i am a body that has a mind, not a mind that has a body. But the i am that i am is not the body that is. I am an activity, a continuo...
But seriously... It looks like the answer can have two states simultaneously like in quantum superposition. So is the state of the answer a kind of "c...
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