Watchmaker

Well, it's a definition I had yesterday. It may not be suitable for a dictionary, but perhaps add it to a daily definition of consciousness app for ph...

I know that it's almost impossible to pin down a definition, but my current one I think is quite simple: The most fundamental unit of consciousness is...

I believe God wants me to probe as far as my intellect has the capacity for, as far as my imagination can imagine.

There is absolutely no disrespect in asking such questions. I believe that Jesus inhabited a human body, so yes, He experienced everything we experien...

I don't pretend that there are no logical problems. I understand the objections. The logical problems run quite deep. For instance, if God is a spirit...

The same law may not apply to Divinity.

Good question. Let me get back with you on that. I will say though that I have never heard an audible voice, or any voices in my head...no burning bus...

I wouldn't say that it's schizophrenic, but rather conflict within one's own self. We have all experienced this in our own minds. I've wrestled with m...

It could very well have something to do with this. I'm not one to bring stuff like this up to fellow believers, nor do I try to nail it down to certai...

Good morning UV! I'm not so sure that we could make any progress here. You and I have discussed this before at length, and my position really hasn't c...

I really don't know, and all I can do is self report what I feel. Intellectually, it's all over my head and when you go back that far, the history of ...

I know the story of Lilith from a Neil Gaiman comic book actually. Adam rejected her because he witnessed all her innards coming together and was gros...

The solution to the incel problem would be to settle for lesser attractive, often times plus size women. Incels don't just feel entitled to p%$$y, the...

"Yahweh is, of course, proposed to be the same god as the Christian Jehovah. What is your understanding of the proposed connections between Yahweh and...

Hello there UVness! I really have no background in any of this, although I realize there is much debate.

What we have now is a swipe left society. Women can simply swipe left anytime even the slightest bit of disagreements arise. Just keep swiping left, a...

As a Christian myself, I think the Trinity is something to be contemplated rather than rationally understood. Throughout the Bible, there are referenc...

Obviously, we will need consciousness to explain consciousness. We will need consciousness to transcend it's own consciousness and become 1st, 2nd and...

Your thought experiment read simply, but the instructions were not that clear to me. Is this color scheme, this shift from yellow to red on the comput...

Is it possible to explain it simply? How does change happen without time?

That makes sense. What about time though? How can things change without time? Is this all theoretical or are there examples of things that change with...

I've never studied math beyond basic trig. I've only touched on a little calc. I assume that this person's math proves that the image we're discussing...

That's simple enough to grasp. It definitely appears to be a duality of sorts. Does this relate in any way to dualism, the idea that the physical and ...

I can see the image change, but as it has been stated multiple times already, that perception requires time. However, from a meta perspective, if we c...

Willing participants.

"Local excitations of a field" sounds immaterial to me. Is it not? A field of what exactly?

If we assert the primacy of existence, then we are asserting that something exists, and that whatever that thing is, it's existence is non-contingent....

Maybe not reducible, but rather the same exact thing? It's just that we have two different words making us think that these are actually two different...

"The existence of a thing implies the existence of the concept of a thing. If the concept of a thing does not exist, we cannot refer to it in any way ...

It is possible that existence and consciousness are two sides of an infinitely thin plane.

Wouldn't a materialist proof for the existence of God would equate to panpsychism?

Do you think that this semiotic dimension that all living things possess emerged from nothing, or was it enfolded somehow into the fabric of the Unive...

At some point in the evolution of things, dualism must have emerged. At some point, there was a spark that produced an "inside" and an "outside", a pe...

What do you mean that it's a process? That it's a byproduct, or an emergent?

I thought it was also worth adding that the theists have the same problem as in, where did god come from. An infinity of earlier gods? Why should we a...

I can appreciate that. Again, much of this is way over my head. That is a lot to think about! I'll get back with you next week, Lord willing.

What/who combined the combiners?

Hmmm. What would be the great "combiner", then?

I read before that the mind is a mirror that mirror that mirrors man's mind. Does that tie into what you're saying here at all?

Your post sounds intriguing. I can't really make any sense of it though. Would you mind simplifying all that please? Try to make as simple as you poss...

So what about my comment that I posted near the top of Page 2, part of it pasted below: "I find it interesting that information is suggested as being ...

But consciousness is neither an object, a substance or a property, but a relational activity. I have always understood, that the naturalist view, is t...

It's the ingredients of consciousness that is said to be fundamental. Someone here offered another perspective, that information is fundamental. I thi...

What I think I mean, is that there is an objective truth that A=A, that things are what they are, and that would be true in any possible world that ca...

Let me think about that and get back with you. I appreciate your time.

A would still equal A in any possible world that could have arisen by random chance.

Could you rephrase that please?

If it were true random happenstance, then no, I don't see why there would need to be a mind either. It just happened. Rationality sprang from irration...

Quarks and electrons already contain the seeds of consciousness. They tend to like one another or hate one another. Already at that level there is the...

Thanks. So substance is a form of being, not stuff. Would it be conceivable that matter is ultimately composed of ousia?