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Regarding the OP question, I think that Christianity is not dead. Problem is that our society, as it has been said also by others, is VERY different f...

Just to clarify what I said yesterday... I think that Buddhists have no problems, strictly speaking with this. I think that they do not find nothing "...

Thank you a lot for you answers! Very good answer. Thank you :up: I think that the "advantage" that Buddhist has, in this respect, is that one can als...

Agreed :wink: But what do you think, in particular, about the points raised by Agustino in this post and at the end of this one? I think I have partly...

@"Agustino", thanks for the insights! :up: :wink: (thanks for the link! anyway, as you might imagine I meant something like "absorption" as in panthei...

They cause suffering, pain, distress and so on. And I think that compassion also means to limit our suffering. If someone is suffering, we should try ...

I think that anatta can be interpreted in a nihilistic way, sadly. However, in Buddhism there is also the "compassion" side of things that should be e...

Hi all, Personally, I am a "seeker" of sorts and have an interest for both Christianity, Platonism and Buddhism and you actually pointed out my own re...

:up: thank you for the detailed and insightful response. If we will resume the discussion in the future, maybe I will be more learned in Aristotle's m...

Interestingly, both "idealist" and "materialist" philosophies tend to say that the "first cause" (or "first principle") is something that is "simple",...

Thank you for this explanation! Unfortunately I do not know much of Aristotle, and in fact I am discovering that what I thought to know about him was ...

To clarify what I meant with the problem of "free will": I think that the problem with compatibilism is that in fact we do not have a "libertarian" fr...

Another example of the qualitative difference is this: In relativity we can always find a rest reference frame for massive particles, but for massless...

Well I kind of agree with you. But you have to accept that Alice in her reference frame has "libertarian" free will, which is not strictly speaking al...

Yes the two had apparently a close relationship. In fact there is a lot of confusion about what "Bohmian mechanics" is. Most physicists use that term ...

I voted "yes" for both but with some "reservations" due the definition of "supernatural". I think that "reality" is much more complicated than how we ...

Well, IMO it is like learning a particular skill. It is not that babies do not have free will, but rather they cannot "use" it. Over time however they...

Mmm, interesting. Regarding Newtonian space it is interesting to note that "space" is not a "thing" in that model. In fact it is simply the "backstage...

No worries. Thank you for the explanation :wink: Yes! also this is true. Free agency is a real enigma (I think that Kant regarded it as an antinomy fo...

Hello, Thank you for your informative reply. Much appreciated :smile: Actually I am here to learn unconventional ideas and ways to looking at things. ...

Yes, that "free will" is certainly possible in determinism. Nobody denies the "phenomenon" of "willing" and that in principle it is possible to choose...

Agreed! Yes, in this model "objects" are not "active", but passive. It is space that "inverts" and causes the existence of objects. So, it is not that...

Yes, I can relate to your point. In fact to use the model of the five senses it only "explains" what we "see". In fact we are now saying that indeed t...

True. Well, in my understanding "classical determinism" says that we have the illusion of "free will". According to classical determinism and for "Pil...

Thank you for the reference :smile: If this is the case, we can also think that there is a qualitative change in behaviour between various scales. So,...

Hi Wayfarer, I think that it is more a "perspectivism" of sorts. I mean it says that there is an objective reality but there are multiple descriptions...

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Anyway, I suggest you to check Rovelli's ideas and similar. (for a start you might enjoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Hi, interesting. Have to think about it. This seems interesting: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-the-pbr-theorem-valid.924718/. https://www.p...

Hi, interesting. Could you please provide an example? I would be very interested in it. Thanks in advance! Agreed! If our POV is dimensionless then th...

Ok, with this I agree. In fact the problem arises with the interpretation of the Schroedinger equation. If you accept it as the "reality", then of cou...

I am in agreement with this. To be more clear: I agree that a part of both mathematics and ethics is "conventional" or a "creation" of humans. On the ...

Hi, sorry for the delay in answering (mainly due to the flu)... By the way, I think that I agree with the above. Unfortunately expressing these concep...

Here my attempt to answer :wink: Agree! Some time ago, I actually considered an idea similar to this. I was wondering how "big" is the present. And in...

Hi, I think in this latest answer you have written really good points. Be patient but right now I cannot make a well-made reply due to the flu. I hope...

Ah, ok :wink: When I said I was "defeated" I meant that I admitted that we cannot accept both relativity and "the immaterial perspective". Yeah, a sol...

, As I said, MWI-supporters take the correspondence between reality and mathematical formalism to an "extreme" level. Interestingly it is a MWI-suppor...

Ah ok! Yes, with this I would agree. In fact "illusionism" if we want to call it in this way, is a very peculiar form of "direct realism". But I was t...

Hi, Yeah, I noted the great ambiguity, here! I think that both "mind" and "self" can cause confusion, so I go with "soul" ;) I see your point, now! Si...

This position reminds me the Sankhya school of Hindu philosophy. http://www.iep.utm.edu/sankhya/ You can ignore to the sake of the discussion the foll...

My view actually is that while we can say that even dreams are real, we have to make some "distinctions" between "the levels of reality". For example ...

Apart from the consideration on Dark Matter, Big Bang etc I think that your objections are against how "scientists" present science itself. In my opin...

Personally I agree that there are different levels of reality, and this is the reason of much confusion. For example if we interpret Plato as saying t...

Hi, there are IMO two things that we should be aware. One is the fact that the "flow" of time means that there is change. Change actually undermines o...

Agreed. Of course we are conditioned by our education, environment etc. What I meant is that they knew that physics is based e.g. on quantitative pred...

Ok, but I do not think that Verlinde, Bohm etc arrived to such conclusions (as far as I know). Anyway such a "universal mind theory" IMO will never ha...

Yes, I agree that the two cases are different, of course. And like you I prefer Bohm's and Bell's view over MWI. Regarding your definition of "life" a...

I agree that even sensing is an act. And in fact in classical mechanics the idea is that the "interaction" due to the measurement is negligible, where...

They are perfectly compatible. At least they are compatible in the absence of time travels. But since time paradoxes are IMO nonsense (it is not possi...

Ok I see. In principle you are right. We cannot have a "direct experience" of what the instruments in the labs register, i.e. we have an additional in...

Thank you for sharing the sutra, very interesting and clear! So both the Mahayana and like the classical Theravada refute in a very expliciti way this...