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In fact, we can from appearances. After all, the model makes predictions that are in constrast with observations in some contexts. As I said here, act...

Other possible analogies: let's say that there is a house totally made of wood. The house itself is 'natura naturata'. Doors, rooms, walls etc are mod...

Well, yes, I fully agree with this. Probably, I wasn't clear enough. "The Sun and the stars move from east to west" is a good descriptions of apparean...

OK, I see. Maybe we disagree about 'natura naturata', then. IMO 'natura naturata' is the totality of modes, but this totality is not reducible to the ...

I think that the argument goes like: if God weren't simple, i.e. it God was composed of parts (which themsleves are entities) then it could not be ete...

I am not sure if you say this is true according to Spinoza. IMO Spinoza was a parallelist, he would never say that 'mind' emerges from 'matter' (exten...

Not sure if you are disagreeing with me or not. If by 'taken literally' one means that it correctly describes the appearances then, yes, I agree that ...

Also, it's possible to consider the issue in another way. The statement 'the Sun and the stars revolve around Earth and they move from east to west' i...

I would not say that this kind of certainty is the same as the one found in math and logic, but yes I would say that in order to be 'true knowledge' (...

Good analogies. But this 'separateness' leads to deism or theism IMO. Agreed! Well, Spinoza's Natura Naturata would be cover both the 'vacuum' and the...

@"Count Timothy von Icarus" To expand on this... I believe that 'the sun rises and sets' might be called a 'provisional truth'. It is valid in some co...

Ok, Berkeley was an ontological idealist, so yeah, I agree with this. After all, ontological idealism is actually more similar to realism than some fo...

No, CFD (counterfactual definiteness) simply implies that physical quantities have definite values at all times. de Broglie Bohm's interpertation is a...

Of course I would pick the 'better' choice. But none of them seems 'desirable'. Also, why do you think that death is impossible? Neither did I want to...

Thanks for the reference. Anyway, for the sake of completeness, some scholars disagree with the 'necessitarian' interpretation of Spinoza. However, IM...

To be fair, I do not, in principle have a problem with this understanding. Problem is, however, that the 'collapse' of the wavefunction is observer-de...

I wanted to elaborate on this point, again. Let's assume, for the sake of the argument, that God exists and created the world and humans as finite rat...

I think that you are raising here a very good objection, but it is not 'decisive' IMO. I believe that a 'mistake' or an 'illusion' can be interpreted ...

Ok, I see. The wave-function is interpreted as an 'useful' fiction but at the same time the theory also adopts Counterfactual definiteness. How is non...

In other words, are you saying that God/Whole determines all the possibilities but the actualities are determined or co-determined by the rational age...

Yeah, I sort of agree, but maybe with a qualification. If one interprets the wave-function epistemically, i.e. as a quantitative measurement of knowle...

Nelsonian stochastic mechanics seems a valid interpretation that is both realistic and non-deterministic, as far as I know. Not sure why ChatGpT seems...

I actually see this as irrelevant regarding the 'independent reality' of cups and other physical objects. Even if an observer is a generic 'physical o...

But if there is nothing that guarantees that I may not fall from such a state of 'relative peace' (assuming that it is a positive state), then such a ...

Sorry I think I misinterpreted your questions. But I won't edit my previous post because I am actually curious to see your answers to my questions tha...

Ok! Ok, what worried Einstein, however, is that such an illusion seems so 'persistent' that it strongly suggest that change is real and not only persp...

Ok, I see. Well, normally we do not call, say, school as a 'game'. But, if you want to use that word, ok. Let me rephrase your question, then: why God...

An unending challenge is not IMO a state that we should hope, but I'm going to leave at that. Well, in any case, your conception of 'relative peace' c...

Ah, sorry. Thanks for the clarification. I think I am ok with that!

Yes, I agree. There is at least a structural analogy between his 'interface theory of perception' (ITP) and QBism. But, on the other hand, the main pr...

I meant that you described a type of consciousness. For instance, if I can be just 'be aware' without having thoughts, I would be conscious without an...

Ok. But if this peace is 'relative', as you say, what guarantee we have that we do not lose it? Also, is this scenario desirable because suffering is ...

Well, that's not Spinozism anymore IMO, lol. But of course, you still have a right to call your philosophy a modification of Spinoza's (there are afte...

I don't understand why you continue to use the 'game' analogy. It is more like a training or a learning process in my opinion. The reason why I brough...

I think this is somewhat too specific. IMO, I would more or less equate 'being conscious' as 'having a subjective/private experience', without necessa...

I found a good website where are presented the definitions and the axioms of Spinoza's Ethics, which I think you'll like to read. For instance:

Ok, I see. But I would not say that 'consciousness' is a capacity, but an activity. You can IMO say that 'sentient being' are those beings that can be...

What about 'consciousness is the activity of having an experiece' or 'consciousness is the activity of having experiences'?

Ok, I see. But if suffering is literally endless, how can such an endless effort be something desirable to us? For instance, IIRC, Kant's view was tha...

Ok, I think that your view shares some similarities with Spinoza's but isn't compatible with it. After all, there is no 'real' cosmic evolution in Spi...

I think that this view would, in a way, solve many philosophical conundrums of the traditional picture of God. For instance, if God is not omniscent a...

, @"BC", I am not sure how this response relates to Christian Universalism. Please, do not get me wrong, it was a very interesting. The first part was...

Thanks for the response. I'll answer you tomorrow. I don't think that it is necessary that a 'boundless' state of perfection contains suffering. But I...

Do you think that this 'evolution' has an 'end'? Or is endless? Yes, suffering can teach many things but I would hope that life is not an inseparable ...

What if, something like Christian universalism is true? Do you think that in this case suffering is still unacceptable if God exists?

'Sub specie aeternitatis' is a technical phrase coined by Spinoza and it can be translated as "under the perspective of eternity". According to him, t...

To be fair, I think that more than 10 years passed since I last read his 'Ethics' (but he did have a strong influence in my life) and right now I don'...

I don't think so. But he would not say that a 'sage' is like someone 'driven by innate animal urges', for obvious reasons. Is this Whole eternal and n...

? I would say that Spinoza is far more closer to classical theism than this kind of view. Yes, but note that for Spinoza and for many of the 'holists'...

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