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Michael McMahon

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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...
October 15, 2020 at 12:23
“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...
October 14, 2020 at 23:51
“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...
October 14, 2020 at 19:10
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...
October 09, 2020 at 17:01
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...
September 25, 2020 at 12:18
“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...
August 18, 2020 at 00:56
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 ...
August 12, 2020 at 12:59
“Tactile experiments show that both pressure and temperature can influence the content of a dream. In a study conducted by Nielsen (1993), participant...
August 10, 2020 at 13:01
“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 ...
August 07, 2020 at 15:14
“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...
August 07, 2020 at 04:44
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...
February 23, 2020 at 19:24
In: Pantheism  — view comment
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 ...
February 10, 2020 at 21:02
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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...
February 10, 2020 at 17:43
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...
February 01, 2020 at 12:51
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...
September 03, 2019 at 23:54
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...
August 30, 2019 at 20:47
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...
August 30, 2019 at 12:42
"Determining the motion and position of every particle within the universe would allow you to predict the future of the Universe and everything inside...
August 27, 2019 at 11:46
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...
August 27, 2019 at 09:34
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...
August 19, 2019 at 18:11
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 ...
August 17, 2019 at 10:38
"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...
June 10, 2019 at 21:47
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 ...
June 10, 2019 at 19:05
"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...
June 10, 2019 at 18:49
I understand there can be different versions of antirealism such as epistemic (knowledge) and semantic ("meaning of statements"). I was referring to m...
June 10, 2019 at 18:33
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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...
June 02, 2019 at 16:06
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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...
June 02, 2019 at 15:53
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Omnipresence is "the presence of God everywhere at the same time". An impersonal God would have this attribute as everyone and everything (including n...
June 02, 2019 at 15:30
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Some of these concepts (such as panentheism, collective unconsciousness, etc.) might be interrelated through the idea of an impersonal god. An imperso...
June 02, 2019 at 14:50
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Panpsychism is "the doctrine or belief that everything material, however small, has an element of individual consciousness". This might be a relevant ...
June 02, 2019 at 14:06
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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...
May 28, 2019 at 15:48
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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...
May 27, 2019 at 12:56
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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...
May 26, 2019 at 17:09
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Collective unconscious: "the part of the unconscious mind which is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind, as dis...
May 26, 2019 at 13:11
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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...
May 26, 2019 at 12:20
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(sorry neutral not neutal)
May 26, 2019 at 06:56
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I agree that reincarnation is neutal and isn't necessarily theistic. But under pantheism what happens after one stream of consciousness is reincarnate...
May 26, 2019 at 06:52
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Indeed.
May 25, 2019 at 23:26
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IIt might be a good thing if pantheistic solipsism can inspire a person to be kind and ethical to others.
May 25, 2019 at 23:21
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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...
May 25, 2019 at 21:59
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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...
May 25, 2019 at 21:43
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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 ...
May 25, 2019 at 21:35
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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...
May 25, 2019 at 21:17
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Thank you for the reply. I would say we have truly nothing to lose by believing in pantheism if the alternative is meaningless existence and despair.
May 25, 2019 at 21:04