Hanover, You write: Why is their disagreement cause for such alarm? You write: you can't then say that the theology that follows is not subject to cri...
You had originally written "Religions do not agree but their prophets do." I took that to mean that the sayings and/or writings of prophets agree with...
Why not do it for the benefit of others who will read your post? You can't do it because "prophets" disagree, about what happens after death and other...
Many people wonder what happens after death. If prophets agree about what happens after death, please enlighten us as to what they agree on. (You can'...
The idea is that there is a reality that deserves to be called "God" and the human civilizations have made several childish, erroneous attempts to des...
I've thought about them a great deal. Something I'm currently working on. https://adamford.com/NTheo/NewTheology.epub https://adamford.com/NTheo/NewTh...
One case doesn't prove anything. Christianity for centuries endorsed killing women for the "crime" of witchcraft and said slavery was A-OK. And then t...
To me, the ideas of papal infallibility and ex cathedra.demonstrate the nonsense that is often religion, the utter disregard of reality. Any rational ...
A different perspective is that I am consciousness, which is aware of sensations of various types: physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. My ego...
Isaac, OK, but doesn't neuroscience presume a physical explanation is possible? Before the Michelson-Morley experiment, it was presumed light traveled...
This is exactly what I disagree with. Look at the mouse trap thought experiment. The spring has 2 physical states which perfectly correspond to 2 ment...
Yea, I see how that could mislead. My bad. I am NOT saying that consciousness positively cannot be explained in terms of physical processes. (I don't ...
Isaac, I'm always eager to correct my beliefs so if consciousness has been explained, please post some links to relevant papers and/or tell me who has...
Final paragraph of the article is: Neither Pan’s nor Fan’s group has yet closed the loopholes in their experiments. Technically, therefore, the jury i...
I’m not sure idealism applies. I’d say our consciousness directly experiences its physical, emotional, and mental sensations, and so we can be certain...
Being blunt (or frank) is virtue. We get a lot more accomplished that way. And it helps me clarify my own thinking. You write “There are far more than...
In my view, it is not a private concept. It's a pre-existent idea which we encounter in the "mindscape," just as we encounter a pre-existent tree in t...
Good question What do you think of the following explanation for explaining interaction? Regard a human being as having four-parts: body, emotions, in...
In responding to "math is a language", I pointed out that language can refer to objective reality. The word "two" refers to the objectively real numbe...
English is a language. Yet it can refer to objective reality, to things which exists independently of us. (There's a tree in my yard.). An image of th...
I got an MA and did 2 years towards a math PhD (a PhD dropout, in other words). To me, math objects just seem to be there, much like a tree is there. ...
OK, I suppose that's one view of abstract objects. Another view is that they exist subsist outside spacetime. For instance, "two plus two equals four"...
My understanding is that Einstein's famous "spooky action at a distance" concern was about something going faster than the speed of light. Here a quot...
Good point. Some philosophers say that material objects exist but abstract objects subsist. So, let's change the third question. Does it make sense to...
Does it make sense to you that our deepest description of matter is the wavefunction? Does it make sense that the wavefunction is a mathematical funct...
Science has found truth about the physical universe. There is no Christian chemistry, Islamic chemistry, and Buddhist chemistry. There is just chemist...
It fails to converge on a coherent picture of the spiritual universe. The disagreements are multiple. A short list: Is faith alone sufficient for salv...
The comments so far discuss many issues peripheral to my original post. I’m partly responsible, as my central concern wasn’t Christianity and India (t...
It has failed to find objective reality, as the OP makes clear. It's quite successful at several things, a few of which are actually beneficial to hum...
The religious epistemological method is regarding writings (some having talking serpents) as a revelation from God. It includes several methods (out o...
Religion's epistemological method has failed to provide genuine knowledge as evidenced by the fact that different religions disagree about reality. Ev...
The periodic table provides a deeper understanding of chemistry. Schrodinger's equation and the Standard Model provide a deeper understanding of chemi...
I've listened to some Kastrup videos and I think you're right. It's also similar to non-dual Vedanta. Also, I'd say taking consciousness as foundation...
There's an observation (which I believe Aristotle made) that if all propositions are AT THIS MOMENT either true or false, then we lack free will The r...
I fail to see how a newborn could make sense of sensory input but the point is not critical to the original post. All experiences take place in consci...
Thanks for the comments. Reasonable point. But I think if there was any indication of danger, the ego would take over with the intention of survival. ...
Bylaw: “I think it is very hard to separate perceiving - subjective experience - from interpretation.” Agree. As optical illusions demonstrate, for in...
I can see how “pre-existent” is controversial but do you agree Macbeth is a sequence of thoughts and images? If not, then what is it? A sequence of se...
In a nutshell, this view says just as the physical world is given, the mental and emotional worlds are given. We choose to go to places in the physica...
I'd say our experience of a thought is transitory, as is our experience of a tree. But I think the view that the thought existed before it entered our...
Benj96, I used Macbeth as an example of a thought (or rather a collection of related thoughts). My question is really: does it make sense to regard th...
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