And you’ve died already to say that that is clearly shown? What hubris. How do you know that consciousness only occurs in brains? What is your justifi...
It is the case that physicalism has no answer and will never have an answer for consciousness. To so readily discard that which is a given to each of ...
Thank you. S thinks that analytical philosophy is superior to continental philosophy, and that the 17th and 18th century philosophers did nothing of n...
Would you argue that any form of representation has meaning (including art, photographs, etc.)? What about a door? When I see a door, I know I can pot...
Sorry, but I would have to just say that almost everyone I talk to says I’m full of shit. Mostly everyone in my experience says that there’s no such t...
I think you got it half right (in my experience at least). I have been told by 12 different psychiatrists and one counselor (and my wife who has a mas...
Physicalism cannot explain consciousness. S singles out my posts for some reason. He said I have a “God delusion.” I never argued for a particular god...
Warming and inhabitability are human and life-form problems, but you make a good point. It may be that the motion of air particles is speeding up, osc...
That is why a consciousness is required to observe an inflation of a fluctuation in the quantum foam. Without an observer, there would be no Big Bang....
Knowledge or perception of motion requires an observer. Without an observer, something there might just as well be nothing there. There’s nothing to d...
You’re correct that a frame of reference alone is spatio-temporal, but what the matter is like requires a conscious observer. Furthermore, in order fo...
By “spirit,” I am giving a name to the basic substance. You can call it “energy,” “force,” or “potentiality,” if you like. “Spirit” just sounds like a...
I think you are reading too much into what I said. I never said “spirits,” which brings up mental pictures of ghosts or something. By “spirit,” I am g...
My point was that I was an atheist for a long time. Googling me would show you that. I’m not selling that book anymore. I’ve unpublished it, so your a...
I have thought about this for years. What would matter even look like without it being perceived? It takes an observer to make the amorphous and undif...
Do you even know what you’re talking about? I was the biggest atheist there was for half of my life. I even wrote a book about it, and you are free to...
The observer has to be conscious. I said I call this consciousness “God.” I didn’t say anything about the nature of God. That is your anti-God bias. A...
It’s only fitting that my 1300th post should be in response to a (S)issy. I don’t think you’re a fool. I think you’re close-minded, hard-headed, unfee...
Whatever the fundamental element of matter is doesn’t matter. Pardon the pun. Quantum mechanics shows that subatomic particles cannot be pinned down t...
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