BrianW

What is 'I'? If 'I' is the identity of a human, then it is not eternal. Humans are mortal => human lives end.

Thanks. This ITP is taking my mind places.

The point is that mathematics is used creatively as well as empirically. I'm not advocating for one against the other. Like Einstein, I've just realis...

I already see the beginnings of the circularity which infects most philosophical discussions and which is often a product of the different meanings we...

Albert Einstein is also quoted as having said,

If individual rights are not part of the greater good, then there's a degree of primitivity that the society needs to overcome.

This is just what I said. Whatever the process of human causation (initiating of actions), we (humans) reference it as willing. How is any of the abov...

Energy, cause and effect, will, etc are not identities (or existences). Rather, they are aspects (or perspectives) of existences/identities. All force...

I think we have the same idea but are expressing it differently. I claimed that the principle of cause and effect and the principle of energy (vibrati...

It is manifest in the way we perceive and/or understand it. Why would energy be potential? Because it is assigned a certain degree of probable capacit...

No, you seem to misunderstand me. I'm not saying that potential energy is not actual energy; it is. Potential energy is actual energy. However, its po...

Firstly, as you have already accepted, "potential *energy*" is energy. Secondly, it is only potential with respect to the work it is directed towards....

More inclusive... ? In what way? And, how are the principles of cause and effect, and vibration (energy) limited?

Truth is an expression of 'what is'. By 'what is', I don't mean facts. I mean reality in its absolute unchangeable perspective or identity. That's bec...

Real life can't be a hallucination if there isn't anything else more real to compare with. A hallucination implies it is less real than something else...

Earlier human species had bigger skulls than we do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbcbd3e4b0ba1f9aa0693a/1450992759979-7MJJD66B8RFJ2...

If you are interested in learning more about the soul (and spirit) though not necessarily according to christian teachings, read "The Spirits' Book" b...

Hinduism, on the whole, has many teachings concerning who we are, now as humans and ultimately as life. I think only those Christians who aren't acqua...

Is life sacred? In what way? I think it depends on the mode of appreciation (perspective). Does life have intrinsic value? Aren't all or any values it...

For me, ultimately, consciousness is a connection/relation to the greater life; a link between me and everything. But our thoughts are not ultimate an...

Nothing is random. Every activity is within the paradigm of "cause and effect". Random is just an idea that suggests "cause and... blah" or "blah... a...

I'm a big fan of spiritual philosophy but, unfortunately, I can't stick to any one school of thought so I tend to mix and mash the teachings as much a...

I also think they're quite similar in their approach to philosophy. In the Bhagavad Gita, which I think offers the first mention of the term "SAMKHYA"...

They are kinda synthesis between open and leading questions, the idea is not to have an exact answer but a thought process into possibilities and prob...

Ok. Then, the only real difference left that I can note would be that humans can reflect without the impetus of an external influence, kind of like me...

How about homo intellect (or whatever the latin for intellect is). There is an idea that intellect is the capacity to 'know that you know'. It's not j...

Both Einstein and Bohr were right. There is a definite configuration (of character/interactive form, activity, influence) which can be designated as a...

As far as I know, nothing has ever popped out of nothing. And even those who profess some quantum phenomena where particles wink in and out of existen...

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Again, logic isn't created, it is an expression of a relation between points of reality (truths). If something exists (in or as a reality), then logic...

Why is design equated (to some degree) with effect. Every mention of Intelligent Design is accompanied by the hint of an Intelligent Designer. It's li...

Logic isn't created. It is an expression of the connection/relation between two points in reality (truth).

Is this about the omnipotent being's abilities or our (human) abilities? There is no impossibility for an omnipotent being, not at any moment of such ...

I think it would be difficult to disprove evolution with ID arguments when the inherent premise is that evolution is an intelligent process (because i...

In a way, yes. And yet, all those words though having their own idiosyncratic meanings that prevent them from being completely identical, strive to ex...

The OP isn't strictly challenging the premise of intelligence, rather, also the conclusion that the universe was made for humans. And I totally agree ...

Here's an analogy to think about: In terms of cosmic matter a black hole is considered to have a singularity (at the core), however it doesn't alter t...

Here's some few comments I've made about what I think nature is:

Figuratively yes. I also think you just hinted that everything is conscious, not strictly in the metaphysical sense but in the representational analog...

Yes. I don't believe in randomness or the supernatural or miraculous because I believe everything is within the purview of nature. The weird stuff is ...

Pseudo-science is just a misstep between logic and empiricism. Our understanding can never be as definitive as logic is. Logic is just a connection be...

Aren't animations (cartoons) simulations of consciousness? I mean, life-like robots (and AI) would be better simulations but that's a matter of degree...

While particular designations such as "Yahweh", "Allah", "Shiva", "Tao", "Ishvara", etc, etc, might not have existed before the conception of religion...

I think he was right too. There's a saying which philosophers don't seem to pay heed to, It's like with technology, the idea of machines is not new an...

From my perspective, in this modern society where criticism is conflated by cynicism, I think holding up superhero/hero ideals is more genuine than mo...

What if being human is not about definite knowledge but about working our way up the spectrum towards more knowledge about stuff. Therefore the endles...

I'm wondering why it happens, why do we do it? Is it in our nature, something inherent in humanity?

The worship isn't instinct, it is a practice. Characterisation of reality/life aspects, events, circumstances, etc, which leads to the generation of i...

While our justice system is not perfect, it can also be argued that, in part, the murderers and thieves are under their own 'swords' because they dete...