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This post of yours came after I responded to you? Is it a response to me. Am I a venomous religious snake in your opinion?

There are different ways metaphysics is defined, but to me it includes ontological assumptions. Like, there are natural laws, everything is physical. ...

'Knowing what consciousness is' could mean a number of things. I think one could say that experiencing is going on. How much information this adds I d...

I'd say it applies to even to moderates of both camps.

It's funny, really, that scientists don't realize that science has a metaphysics. In fact, several, not necessarily compatible ones.

Exactly. No need for any conspiracy. The merging of huge media companies, the reduction of money for positions and investigation, the entertainment-iz...

I appreciate that reaction since we tend to think differently about it. And I certainly don't claim to know. Those are my concerns.Of course. I realiz...

There are a lot of Buddhisms, they believe all sorts of things.

They would need to appeal via prayer to the enormous plumber, whom they could see through their tiny tiny telescopes, to put some soap on their drop u...

These two scientism utterances are hypocritical, since they are conclusions arrived at not via science. I think this is a common feature of scientism....

It is something to notice, sure. Absolutely. Yes, if that was the only factor, it would be a bad move to stay in the EU. It is however a complicated s...

Yes, I get that. But then science would also say what clouds are made of, how the water gets up there and all sorts of things that help us understand ...

That's sounds like a battle of appeals to authority. IOW philosophy has a critique of that kind of communication - we could call this critique or fall...

Could you expand on that, I didn't get it.

And there is growing evidence that they may be local and time bound - iow not really laws, but patterns.

I am sure that many people without a roof over their heads get frustrated by the futility. And sometimes surely wonder if there is any meaning to life...

Actually a number of religions are quite empirical. You'll find this in many branches of Hinduism. You have stages and steps in experience, for exampl...

I'm a benficiary of the EU, in that it let me move fast to a third country from the US. I have to say I have long term concerns about it. I don't feel...

I'm primarily a Yank (though also a Brit) so the above sounds to me like, well, politics. I mean, when is it not so. The difference is a huge decision...

I was saying that those on either side who argue that it is the end of things if what they want does not happen are not helping the debate or the disc...

OH, thank God, I can go to sleep now.

And yet could be a nihilist, having the kind of luxury to put their morality and sense of meaning on a shelf, having less or little struggle and less ...

Well, that's every situation I or anyone else will every encounter. So everything that I will ever experience or encounter or go through will matter, ...

WE don't matter to whom. The verb 'matter' in this sense, has to do with someone or some entity that is capable of caring about or being interested in...

A couple of common things I could put under the banner of scientism would be: treats the results of scientific research as proofs and treats scientifi...

Dats what I saying, man. Yes.

Why shouldn't an individual matter when there are so many people in the world? Then also, matter to whom? I think if you add in, which one must, whom ...

I agree, but think this becomes clearer once you put scientism inside a person in a specific life. That person will always need to assume things are t...

I've asked you for postives that don't show this property. You acknowledged that all of science does not show this property. And scientific conclusion...

So, then, like with positive assertions, we can argue in terms of probability. Or we are simply reduced in all things to trading assertions. So, your ...

That there is a God is not incompatible with science. It is just not supported. SAme with the afterlife. There are several interpretations of Jesus be...

Well, if we are dealing with probablities, then we can start doing this with negatives. and then we need to deal with which qualities of swans are par...

Which is a negative claim and thus unprovable. yet, you seemed to intend to prove it.

I already acknowledged that. And it's exactly the same as all swans are white, which you acknowledged. So what's with the negative. If you want to arg...

Well, let's find a positive we can't state as a negative to see if it makes sense to make it seem like some positive we can prove. I mean, I thought w...

for it to be a theism, yes. I wouldn't stop someone in argument or in any other way from saying they are Christian but consider God to be a metaphor f...

Well, you can prove analytical negatives, right off the bat. No bachelors are married. But again 1) all swans are white is the positive formulation of...

I try to avoid the word. Heck, I have even tried, elsewhere in here to get people to drop 'T' from JTB. I use true and truth in many contexts. But onc...

Sure, but there the core claims do not contradict science. The core claims that many hold, which do not go into the claims that, for example, fundamen...

People are floppy in their use of proof. Though perhaps that your point. But it ain't just negatives, then. And yes, lot's of the best stuff that woul...

Well, then it's not just negatives that can't be proved. For example, all of science is not proved in the sense of math proofs and symbolic logic proo...

Or another way to put this...why would causal chains suddenly need subjective experience. Billiard balls move when hit. yes, animals are more complica...

At the risk of taking a joke seriously - since you'd be conceding your position is not provable - it is possible to prove a negative. At least in the ...

Right, I meant that one would take the idea that there is a God literally, and that one can have a relationship with that God, and that the commandmen...

I am saying that things like the length of time the earth has been here and the universe has been here, iow areas of scripture where religion contradi...

Pretty much any pagan recognizes that there are patterns in nature since they all used patterns, tool use, and passed down and found knowledge of natu...

If you are a theist in one of these religions who took much of the scriptures as metaphorical attempts to describe spiritual values and processes, thi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation If reality has different times in relation to the distance from the gravitational source, th...

Physicists seem to think there are ways to confirm or at least add evidence there are parallel universes. Cosmologists in general don't see themselves...

Though what do we do with this. Does this idea of yours preclude getting more information/comign to a closer model of reality? If it does't then how d...