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Ok, I now read your link. I think I am understanding better also your position. The assumption here is that there is a sort of law/principle that trea...

Regarding Bohm's views, IMO you might find this interesting: https://paricenter.com/library-new/david-bohm/active-information-meaning-and-form/ (it is...

Thanks! I'll read the link before answering.

Fine, but those 'modern interpreters' have no ground to assume that Spinoza had a world-view like theirs. It is a mere arbitrary assumption. It makes ...

Well, I put it badly. I meant that the 'appearance' of 'proto-intentionality' must have been a possibility and the possibility of such an appearance m...

I wasn't denying that. I was just asking how does this 'proto-intentionality' appear in the first place. I am not sure if its appearance is enough to ...

Ok!

I agree here! I think that 'eternalism'* means any kind of view that posits the existence of an eternal substantial self (so a view that posits that t...

Ok, I see thanks!

The modes are not parts of the substance! If they were, the Substance would not be an absolute. As @"180 Proof" correctly said 'our physical universe'...

Thanks for the reference! Will read! Ok, I see. That's more or less what was I getting at. I can understand that some or even most biological activity...

Very nice video, indeed! Anyway, while I see the 'machinery' of it. I also see that all those 'mechanical operations' are done in virtue of a 'larger ...

I sort of agree about panpsychism but I do not see as a necessary implication. I see. As the complexity of an organism rises, the more that organism c...

No, I never heard of Jan Smuts and I am not familar with his work. But I am familiar with the concept of holism, though. Not sure if Spinoza's philoso...

:up: Personally, I think that this kind of 'search for the eternal' is probably what differentiates a 'spiritual' than a 'secular' search. Of course, ...

Wow, thank you very much for the response, again. I am sorry if I do not answer in a comprehensive way which is also because admidettly I don't know e...

I sort of agree but I would put it in a different way. The 'box' refers to the condition of everyone that is not saved/liberated from death, pain, ill...

As I interpret Spinoza, there are two ways of 'seeing' the 'world'. First, there is the usual perspective, 'sub specie temporis' which does not contem...

I want to stress that what I am saying is more like a skeptical position. I am suspending my belief on what the ground, if any, of logic (and mathemat...

Many thanks for the informative and very interesting response. To be fair, I am not really familar with biosemiosis and Peirce's philosophy. So, I am ...

Since you mentioned these concepts, in Indian/Far eastern philosophy, many religious traditions developed a version of a 'two truths doctrine', the 'c...

As an aside, now that I think about it, I realize that reading your posts (I think in the old forum?) convinced me that Spinoza was a kind of acosmist...

I think I understand what you mean, but IMO logic is prior than understanding that. In fact, some kind of intuition of logical principles might be inn...

Yeah, I might have worded it badly... For example, Spinoza himself distingueshed two ways of contemplating reality: sub specie temporis and sub specie...

Just wanted to expand on this point. We instinctively want to be in a positive state and be from pain/suffering/unease. Also, we have a natural instin...

Because, e.g. in order to establish if something is useful you need to have criteria to establish that it is useful, i.e. coherent with the concept of...

Thanks!

Well, I admit that I have some difficulties to answer to your question. First of all, I wasn't assuming that change is necessarily due to causality. S...

I was merely trying to point out that the concept on an 'unknown knower' doesn't necessarily entail a form of ontological idealism but it is, in my op...

What do you thank that is the 'ground' of modal logic? IMO: logic has no ground at all. Let's concede that is indeed the case. It seems to me that, ac...

Yeah, after all an 'experience' is something mental. So, in a sense, I can agree what is said. But let's consider the structure of our experience. Exp...

I disagree. It depends on how you interpret the 'subject of experience'. It might just be a formal property of experience. The subject never appears a...

While I largely agree with you here, I think that we can still make correct judgement about the 'unfairness' of the world that actually help us to bet...

I disagree. By 'contingent' I mean something that might to cease to exist/be valid. If physical laws are something contingent and they at some point c...

I am sorry but I really don't understand what are you getting at. To me logic is a discipline that aims at understanding the criteria according to whi...

No, as I said I don't understand why it is relevant to the debate about physics and logic, i.e. I see the two issues as separate, but I might be wrong...

Well, I don't know. I think that, say, some discoveries in physics could not be made by a computer (say e.g. Newton's discovery of gravitation) But I ...

I cannot conceive doing physics without employing logic. Not even experimental physics: after all, experimental protocols seem to be based in a proced...

You can study/employ/use logic without physics. But the viceversa is not true. You can't do physics without logic. That's why I said that logic is tra...

Ok I see :lol:

I think that it is a good way to put it :up: That's would be an 'epistemic' claim, consistent with epistemic interpretations. So, I don't think that i...

Ok, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

Actually QBism is a form of 'consciousness causes collapse' interpretation as I understand it. But given that in such an interpretation the wave-funct...

I do not doubt their credentials. I am merely saying that an ontological reading of certain ideas can be misleading. Of course it also depends on how ...

Well, maybe 'symmetries' are the only intrinsic properties that can be discovered by physics. But even quantum spin after all is a quantity that descr...

It depends on the interpretation of this type of things. In epistemic interpretations like, say, QBism or some form of Copenaghen-ish interpretations,...

My point was simply that I think 'Physics' as a discipline has still a 'raison d'etre' if 'a theory of everything' is impossible to achieve. I myself ...

Hi Banno, apokrisis, Correct. But this only says that physical laws are the same in all reference frames. Invariant properties in all reference frames...

I disagree. Science can exist even if such a theory is impossible. It isn't essential to science IMO, so it cannot be its 'ultimate' goal. No. In fact...

I agree with that. In fact, I believe that relativity has similar interpretative difficulties. On one hand, a 'literal' interpretation of relativity l...