EnPassant

Imagine a transparent ball rolling along a table. People live in the ball and look out at the surface of the table (time) going by. But all of the tab...

Religions are only echoes of the original revelations given to mankind. Through the years they have accumulated all kinds of secondary and sometimes d...

So far anyhow, that's why we are in the fix we are in. Maybe the future will be better than this.

Hardly possible. All possible relationships between people are infinite. Maybe that's what life is, infinite creativity.

Not sure what you mean. What I'm saying is that science is about the nuts and bolts. But there's more to life and being than primitive truths. Of cour...

You are being a little selective in your portrayal of religion. I'm talking about religion properly understood, in particular mysticism. People need t...

Probably, yes. 'Geometry' means 'earth measuring' or words to that effect; geo = earth.

Because it is locked onto the body and is deprived of sensation. If the body dies the mind can escape the prison and return to its original state of n...

I don't mean primitive in a cultural sense I mean it in a physical, abstract sense. Science and mathematics are involved with the most basic primitive...

Probably came from algebra x2 + y2 = z2 32 + 42 = 52

The mind is aware by itself. The body, which is an imitation of a mind, has five senses to imitate the mind's consciousness in a physical context.

Knowledge needs to be combined with wisdom. That's where 'religion' comes in.

Someone said that if a fellow says three clever things, he is considered a genius. Scientists have become the high priests of the materialistic world ...

Generally speaking science is true or close to the truth. But truth about what? About primitive aspects of the physical world. Science and mathematics...

The analogy of a television illustrates the brain/mind duality. Suppose there's a tv and some guy starts experimenting on it and correlates various pa...

I tend to agree. The Butterfly Effect is observed in isolated abstract systems but in the real world there are a myriad of butterfly effects cancellin...

I don't think Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle undermines determinism. What humans can or can't measure don't say much. Likewise with radioactive de...

I don't imagine they are. I'm talking about free will in a mental/spiritual/moral sense.

This is a thread I started on this subject some time ago- https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/4458/determinism-and-mathematical-truth/p1

Because the alternative is slavery.

No, I'm saying you can call it a spacetime or a universe, it comes to the same thing concerning what I'm saying about the loss of information.

Perhaps free will means the ability to be a free causal agent.

When he talks about the woman with Alzheimer's she is not losing consciousness, she is losing her memory.

There is a writer (forget his name) made the assertion that civilization has added nothing to make our lot better. We were healthier and better off be...

Programming, chess, mathematics and other games do help you to think with precision. Anyone who wants to philosophize would do well to learn to think ...

I think it was Bohr that said it is meaningless to say where a particle is outside detection. Where was it before detection? Nowhere. If by 'where' we...

What if you see something new that you have no associations for? Even a kitten is fascinated by the world around it and it is all new. We have two kit...

Yes, I agree entirely. This is what the word 'inspiration' means. Making art works is about making metaphors, symbols and images of spiritual reality....

It depends on what 'universe' is referring to. If we are talking in terms of geometry there are two spacetimes, quantum and physical. As far as measur...

I'm just going by what the scientists tell us. If a quantum event is n-dimensional and the only way to physically measure it is in a 4-dimensional wor...

Mathematical physics seems to be one way into the quantum universe, which is why it is so successful. Suppose you are in a restaurant with another per...

A post of mine from the thread 'Existence of an external universe'- There are two spacetimes, quantum spacetime and physical spacetime. Quantum spacet...

One anything. One {0} and off you go... Numbers are made by iteration and partition. Start with- "/", iterate: "//" and so on: "///////////////..." Pa...

I'm talking about art in cultural terms. Generally speaking artists do not become seized with a desire to express something. It is more fundamental th...

That's another kettle of fish!

I'm here because I'm interested in 'stuff' (I hardly need to define 'stuff'). I also want to know how to think properly. How does one think correctly ...

I don't believe they are. I think paradoxes are superficial. They are limitations on language and defects in human thinking. In Russell's Paradox the ...

You can create the number line with the null set. Let {0} = the null set: {0} {0}{0} {0}{0}{0} {0}{0}{0}{0}...etc = 1, 2, 3, 4...:

Only demonstrable mathematical truths are domonstrably true. The jury is out on everything else (except 'I think therefore I am' and 'There is somethi...

1 can count the 0. 'One zero'.

Yes, you could say consciousness. But the primary motivation is not expression, it is simply to create. I suppose expression is inevitable on some lev...

I suppose the artist reveals a lot by sharing his/her thoughts but we do that anyhow.

I don't think 'everything' is information because that would mean that all that exists is abstraction and I don't see how abstraction can exist withou...

I don't think it is perverse to want to share something good. It is natural. Yes, there are all kinds of influences that determine 'fashion' in art: a...

Time is a geometric shape just like any object. Time, in human experience, depends on information reaching a certain point: where the human being happ...

But there must be substance if there is to be anything. Information by itself is abstract. There must be mind or substance to hold the information in ...

Time is 'in' eternity. Time is a 4-dimensional object, like any other physical object. It is the 'shape' of physical existence. This object exists in ...

Not sure if you are asking me or Pop. Anyhow, for me, art is about meaning. Truth = meaning = beauty. Beauty is truth. But a problem arises when peopl...

There is a difference between art and art work. Art is a process whereby the artist evolves and develops in terms of consciousness. Art is an inner jo...

SophistiCat put me on the right track...