The origin of of Covid-19 remains unknown to the greater population of the world. Regardless, biological warfare has a long history and is a very real...
So which is it that you actually believe, what you first stated, that non-physical, abstract ideas have no causal relations with physical systems, or ...
It's a causal relation between the physical and the non-physical, contrary to what you were saying. Look: After telling me to read a physics textbook,...
Right, the second physical system you referred to ("being changed accordingly by another physical system") causes the ideas to be encoded. So there is...
I really think that "dynamic state" is oxymoronic. So any type of theory which talks about a state as anything other than static would seem incoherent...
So the ideas are changed by a physical system. How is this not a casual relation between ideas and a physical system? Do you see that blueprints are e...
I think that the first step in dispelling the materialist delusion is to understand that there is a causal relationship between abstract ideas and phy...
If a physical system can process abstract ideas, then there must be a causal relationship between the abstract ideas and the physical system which pro...
I think I've figured out what you're saying here. You're saying that ideas are abstract, non-physical, therefore they can't have any causal relation t...
What do you think "causal relation to facts" means? I can't figure it out. Did you ever take lessons on how to use the English language, 180? What are...
Huh? You didn't read my post? I gave you a whole slew of examples of non-physical things which cause changes in physical systems. Let me go back and s...
The point is that your logic is sorely deficient. Whether or not I can give you an answer of something non-physical which affects the physical (which ...
How does this statement make any sense to you? You have a classification of things predicated with "physical". Then you claim that anything which affe...
Vaccination mandates are not new. What's the problem with adding another disease to the list of mandated vaccines? Do you think it's OK that vaccinati...
As I said, answering flash cards and such things requires rapid response, which is specific to the particular situation, when the required response wa...
No, "traveled" does not imply points. A "point" is a non-dimensional precise location which has no real corresponding place in the world that we trave...
No, actually you asked "how is the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second not the distance between two points". Anyway, the answer to...
I don't think that conscious judgement requires deliberation between alternatives. Nor does it always require "significant time". Some judgements take...
A metre is the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second. It is not the distance between two points. You are making the classic category...
No that's not true, an hour does not need to start at 0 and end at 60, it could start any time. There is a specified duration, a length of time, but n...
I don't really know what you're asking. I'm not talking in terms of points. Only when we measure a specific duration, points are required. We can talk...
You are asking me to locate the present at a point. I already said that the present cannot be located at a point. The conscious part is future, the se...
I don't think that the present is a "point" in time. We went through this already with your use of "moment". What I think is that what we refer to as ...
As I explained, there is a medium between sense organs and conscious perception which needs to be accounted for. I called this the subconscious part o...
Yes, that's what I've done, sense perceptions are basically memories. I've argued that there is a medium between the sense organ and the conscious per...
Yes, I forgot to state the obvious. a memory is of an event which I recognize as being in the past, and I anticipate events I recognize as being futur...
Javra asked the same question, so I went through this already, I believe it's some type of intuition. There is I think, a noticeable difference though...
You said "Aristotle didn't believe in space or time", though Bk.4 of his "Physics" indicates that he believed in both "place" and "time". Though he re...
It's not "in the past of the other", it's "in the past", where "past" is defined as the things whose existence is demonstrate by memories. "Past" and ...
I said the mathematics supports the assumption of continuity. "That motion is continuous was simply an assumption of convenience. Then the required ma...
The more I think about it the more I realize that it's not possible to separate basic experience from conscious reasoning in this way, as the two are ...
Gaps do not necessarily stop motion. that would only be the case if motion is continuous. Doesn't quantum mechanics demonstrate that it is probably th...
We haven't determined the basis for saying that either one, the past or the future is before or after the other one. I would be inclined to say that t...
Finally, someone on tpf who speaks my language. I don't see how you derive this conclusion. I believe that this is the proper conclusion, and what it ...
I revealed the basis for my conception of time as the difference between memory and anticipation. Before and after are not essential to this conceptio...
You're missing the fundamental point though. I insist that we have no experience of time. Time is conceptual only, therefore any temporal notions are ...
Right, I did not use the precise terms of jargon which you used "ontologically independent", I explained in common terms how it is incorrect to say th...
As I explained, the glasses are not "ontologically independent". They are dependent on the creator for their existence. I guess misunderstanding is yo...
No, I do not agree with immediate "percepts". There is mediation between the sense organ and the image in the mind. That's why I argued that the thing...
Prescription lenses cannot be "independent" from us because they are dependent on us for their creation. Since independent means 'not depending on', t...
So it's finally been decided? Metaphysics is defined as "peddling woo". Then there's a special class of peddling woo, wooing that works, and this is c...
I've been arguing that we do not directly experience time at all. It's conceptual, an abstraction. You end the paragraph with "we nevertheless experie...
Yes, that's what I mean. Isn't this what falsifiable, and unfalsifiable mean? If empirical evidence can be used to prove the falsity of the propositio...
OK, I always understood "moment" to refer to a point in time, but we can define it that way, as a short duration, if you want. I just wish to ensure t...
When two things are clearly incompatible ("NFPW" and "FPW"), how can something else be compatible with both? As per your description, how can free wil...
That doesn't jibe with: Sure, there's nothing obviously false about compatibilism if you say determinism is unrelated. But then you've just misreprese...
You shouldn't take "woo" so negatively. Wooing is an art form which needs to be mastered. When mastered, the audience won't even notice the woo. But s...
Compatibilism is self-deception. It's usually composed of a false representation of "free will", which makes free will an illusion, but it can also be...
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