BrianW

Isn't metaphysics just another way of explaining our observations?

Science has always had a 'mystical' component to it. It doesn't mean it's wrong. Science has always had room for conceptual/theoretical stuff which in...

Not really. Neither a rock nor human is intelligent in themselves and by themselves. The point is that, it is intelligence which manifests the activit...

No, not less consciousness. Not even less intelligence in the ultimate sense. Just a lesser degree of expression of some attributes which seem to depe...

All our definitions are a 'work-in-progress' because our understanding is still far from absolute. Because human application of intelligence is vastly...

Non-living and even inorganic configurations can have consciousness in the sense that they have preset states of conditioning which primarily define t...

I think your perspective of consciousness is really good especially since it's primarily wrt to experience, which means there's bound to be an underly...

So, from your perspective, what is consciousness? Or, what does it entail?

Just a little perspective. Sometimes there's more to the word God than meets our minds.

Knowledge (or intelligence) cannot define or delineate existence because it is an expression of existence. Therefore, knowledge or intelligence can be...

The 'I' is not a presupposition. It is an affirmation of that which is, and cannot be denied. The meaning attached to the 'I' is what is usually presu...

Somebody consider the possibility that quantum mechanics applies to all phenomena since even complex configurations (e.g rocks) are an aggregation of ...

Firstly, what does it mean to be aware of thought? The reason I'm asking is because I seem to have a perspective from which the awareness and thoughts...

Then how did it become a part of Christian teachings? I mean, sure, I get reasons why people would want to justify sin and the inevitability of it. Bu...

Where/when/by whom was the concept of original sin first developed?

There's an idea that love could be seen as an emergent property of the processes of unity. Therefore, love would be the essence (intent, need, desire,...

If the meaning of indivisibility is identical, then banks and cornflakes are just synonymous names. Get it? Not unless I had a point to make. If mind ...

So has the word consciousness, brain, thoughts, etc, etc. Convention does not make it absolute. What is convention on one's side of town is not so on ...

Long story short, it seems you have your own meanings for whatever you choose to express, while others have theirs. Current education has its own defi...

Or you can have it this way: Consciousness is the state of indivisibility and indivisibility is the state of consciousness. Consciousness <=> Indivisi...

No. Your ability still exists and can be easily realised by steering a different but fully functional car. Hence, your ability is not diminished You c...

True. However, I think that philosophically, it will change because there is a growing realization that subjectivity does not negate objectivity. Ther...

Yes. What we, humans, like to refer to as a moment is not and cannot describe a moment in its absolute sense. Ours is a kind of aberration built upon ...

Actually, consciousness (awareness-response mechanism) is indivisible. Science has proof that even after death, molecules and atoms retain their capac...

What mental processes would you be referring to that are not affected by damage to the corresponding brain centres and thus perpetuating your notion t...

No. If the steering mechanism fails, then it, the car, looses the 'ability' to be steered.

If claiming that X is Y does not make it true despite the obvious connections, what makes your claim that mental processes occur in the mind have any ...

The mind is divisible by the fact that when you die it will disintegrate. Unless you also want to prove existence of mind and thoughts beyond that, to...

None of your arguments inform as to what the mind is. They just report that it's not the brain and that mental processes and thinking take place in it...

An argument that the mind (something not proven) is not the brain, is not evidence of what the mind is. You've said what the mind isn't, now inform us...

You have no proof that the mind is anything but a concept. Unless you can prove it beyond its existence as a concept.

No. Science refuted you.

Mental processes occur in brains. Again, no brain => no mental processes. Fact.

Thinking is a brain process. No brain => no thinking. Fact.

@"Bartricks" You claim that an actual infinity does not exist. Does an actual mind exist?

Then, I am unable to respond to your satisfaction.

Is that what you've got from all the explanations I've given?

I have. I've given you an event which encompasses our past, present and future. Unless you show me the deficiency in the answer, I don't know what els...

The record of events in your experience can only be as you allow for them. For me, while there are events which are characterized into pasts, presents...

No. I'm saying that an event just is. Allow me to answer your query with another sort of query: Is the current year (2020) past, present or future? My...

Like I've said, it's about perspective. If you choose to experience multiplicity and differences with respect to time relations, then that is what you...

I get your perspective.

Perhaps, instead of modern contemporary philosophy, try explaining it to the present modern you. If you can explain it to yourself, then it is philoso...

It is just a concept, a predominantly metaphysical one. But then knowledge of reality would have to be constructed predominantly on metaphysical (beyo...

Yes.

For an absolute being, everything exists and will always exist NOW. For those with limited perspectives, it will always take time for cause and effect...

Linear time => life activities are arrayed along a sequence of past, present and future. (Hint: 3D perspective) Circular Time => involves repetition o...

The idea that there can be a simulation that is separate from reality is the least thought out idea. A simulation has to be projected from somewhere. ...

From what I get outside of mathematics, the word infinite set or set of infinite 'anything' is an oxymoron. Because infinity or an infinity of anythin...

Your premise of infinity lacks one major factor. That is, continuity. Infinite also means non-stop (endless). Even before the addition and division wh...