Jackson

The German is Aufhebung. This means affirmation/negation.

This is exactly wrong and trivializes Hegel's work. Dialectic is that one idea is in conflict with itself. Not that two ideas are in conflict. This re...

Quantum mechanics is more in line with how I think. The deterministic model never made sense to me.

I do not know what you are referring to. It helps to use the quote function if you are referring to something someone said.

I am not a good audience for your stand up routine.

Einstein did not like the quantum model. He still understood physics under the old deterministic model.

Which would be more what Hegel means. Dialectic is the systematic process of affirmation and negation.

What Hegel means by dialectic is that one idea is in conflict with itself.

No, it is based on internal conflict in capitalism.

"Although it cannot move objects from place to place, it can move information by taking advantage of a quantum property called “entanglement”: A chang...

No, it is not. It is just theology.

On terminology: I never used the phrase "universal conscience." Physicality and intelligence are coexistent, neither came before the other.

I nev Both, yes? I would not need allergy medicine if I had no allergies.

“There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide” (Camus, Myth of Sisyphus). Like Hamlet, to be or not to be. If life is ...

Using Aristotle here. By definition the final cause is not movement. For example, I walk to the drugstore to buy allergy medicine. Walking is the effi...

No. Final cause does not act.

Always been true.

I don't find the distinction useful. My version of panpsychism is not that all physicality has consciousness, but that all things exhibit intelligence...

Efficient Cause NOUN philosophy that which produces an effect by a causal process https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/efficient-ca...

None.

Greeks had an idea of nous, which just meant intelligence. So Aristotle's God is nous, or "thought thinking thought." The fact that Christians built t...

The last group of people I would trust with our democracy are the gun nuts.

Efficient cause means how something is caused or changed, especially by an agent.

Aristotle's god is a principle, not personality. So, no, I never believed in God in any Christian sense.

Efficient cause.

If you say God caused the physical universe, that would be an efficient cause. Then you would look at God as needing to be caused as well. I think Ari...

What swear words should we be using?

Most panpsychists criticize physicalism.

Properties of temperature.

Which is why Hegel's dialectic is different from Plato's.

Not that rocks have consciousness like humans. But that they act in intelligent systems like our own.

Or a rock. Or a tree. I am a panpsychist.

Exactly. "Are we talking about the same thing?"

As Reagan said, government is the enemy.

Perhaps.

Yes, my sentiment about that person as well.

Yes. I find it humorous the way some folk post videos as if looking at pictures tells a self evident story.

In the US there is a belief that art and appreciating beauty is a feminine quality. Like being sensitive. Added: Which may explain why aesthetics is t...

A painting is a perception; an image. Any work of art is a perception. Not perception of something, but a physical form of perception. So the artist p...

I think I understand this, but have trouble with "feminine attributes." For example, a beautiful sunset. How are its properties feminine?

This, right?: "that which draws one in, this conceptually and emotively, into a realm of truths/realities that intrigue but are not yet fully understo...

Will you explain each term, beauty and aesthetic?

Thanks, have not seen that before. The more I look at it the more I like it.

I look at a painting in terms of what it tells me. First, I love the colors and the shapes.

I thought I was responding to your comment that meaning and beauty are the same.

Good. I would classify that as a bit grotesque, but not ugly. I mean, the painting is not ugly.

I have never seen an ugly painting. I barely even understand the concept.

Thanks, that helps. I did not get the second part about the feedback loop and connection to individualism and Nietzsche.

Afraid I did not understand that. Could you expand a little?

What is that expansion?