https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yNntDhr2n4g - time 2:50 untill 5:45 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0 The objects illuminated by light get small...
“In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is...
“If he were to run alongside it at just that speed, Einstein reasoned, he ought to be able to look over and see a set of oscillating electric and magn...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTvcpdfGUtQ I’m not a mathematician but I might muse on the issue nonetheless! Can the lack of information inadvertently...
I will just bounce around a few ideas so please correct me if I’m wrong. I haven’t fully researched it. Can the rotation about a point of a large irre...
“The optics of the eye create a focused two-dimensional image of the visual world on the retina, which translates that image into electrical neural im...
Gnomon: “You may find that his "hidden realism" is similar to your own "mental" reality.” Thank you for the links. Yes there perhaps exist a spectrum ...
“Tactile experiments show that both pressure and temperature can influence the content of a dream. In a study conducted by Nielsen (1993), participant...
“Now we look at both lines, noticing that since they are both pependicular to the mirror, they must be parallel to each other. Thus the distance from ...
“The image will be inverted, reduced in size, and real. Quite conveniently, the cornea-lens system produces an image of an object on the retinal surfa...
There's a lot of debate about chaos theory and free will; that chaos is still deterministic even if it's unpredictable. But obviously over larger time...
I agree that there can be more to the concept of God than meets our minds; there's a lot of mystery about reality. Certain ideals that we must strive ...
I think Pantheism and Panentheism can be synergistic and complementary ideas. In a sense, Pantheism is a “subset” of Panentheism. This is because in b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_motion I've been thinking a bit about dualism. If the mind is fundamentally and ontologically separate from the...
If all of our thoughts and actions were preprogrammed and merely passive responses to external causes, wouldn't one expect far more uniformity among p...
I'm a compatibilist. I think free will might be a complex interplay of determinism, chaos and randomness. The mind may well have both deterministic an...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dont-delay/201106/free-wont-it-may-be-all-we-have-or-need Perhaps your idea of self-restraint and frugality as...
"Determining the motion and position of every particle within the universe would allow you to predict the future of the Universe and everything inside...
Is there a degree of spontaneity in our interactions with other people? Even if my thoughts occurred deterministically, I obviously don't know what is...
Free will perhaps exists on a spectrum as we stress over some decisions more than others. So doing something trivial like choosing between different o...
If consciousness has no causal role and is merely epiphenomenal, what is the point of the experience of pain? Why would our brains be "programmed" to ...
"When I look at the sky, the sky I see is inside my head. This means that my skull must be beyond the sky!" - Lehar Superdeterminism: "not only is our...
The mind is still mysterious. It gets deceived while dreaming but then dreams are also mysterious. The external world can only be inferred from one's ...
"Even if I happen to be a brain in a vat at this moment—all my memories are false; all my perceptions are of a world that does not exist—the fact that...
I understand there can be different versions of antirealism such as epistemic (knowledge) and semantic ("meaning of statements"). I was referring to m...
I think pantheists, deists, agnostics and so on should try more to integrate and find common ground. They could form a stronger middle position that i...
However, I don't think this entity would have any of the other characteristics associated with a personal god. I don't think pantheism is immutable as...
Omnipresence is "the presence of God everywhere at the same time". An impersonal God would have this attribute as everyone and everything (including n...
Some of these concepts (such as panentheism, collective unconsciousness, etc.) might be interrelated through the idea of an impersonal god. An imperso...
Panpsychism is "the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness". This might be a relevant ...
When I mentioned about whether god is always good; I mean if we must have the capacity to do evil in order be free entities then why doesn't this appl...
I found what you said about our connection to the unfolding universe very interesting. There may exist a spectrum of beliefs. This could range from ph...
I agree that the problem of evil can be puzzling. Thankfully I've never been the victim of a crime but I still might attempt to understand it. Some wo...
Collective unconscious: "the part of the unconscious mind which is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind, as dis...
I suppose there's a lot of mystery in the world. So I try to be open-minded to different beliefs and receptive to criticism. I just find my interpreta...
I agree that reincarnation is neutal and isn't necessarily theistic. But under pantheism what happens after one stream of consciousness is reincarnate...
Just to clarify; I'm commenting only on the consciousness side of the world. I'm making no claims on the physical side of things. I don't know how the...
Panentheism is "the belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and interpenetrates it". This may be closer to what you have...
I'm perhaps interpreting pantheism a bit differently. I suppose it depends on how you define God. This is possibly made more difficult by our lack of ...
I was referring to the idea of reincarnation. Even if you are reincarnated, your next life is fundamentally separate to this life by the total erasure...
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