Josh Alfred

Reality emerges from reality. In the same way that atoms move the body, and the body moves the atoms. To ask, what does reality emerge from other than...

I just thought I had some input on this. How is it that religious people are so separate and defensive in their ideological bent identities that they ...

I am confused, how can something that exists in nature (mental reference of survival/existence) not be natural and understandable? If it were possible...

God-of-the-gaps theory comes to mind. Accordingly, you can place a creator into an explanation, as a gap filler for any phenomena. An external cause o...

There are three origins of insight namely: memory, sensation, and the rational faculty Archimedes discovery into the fact that his sensations were tel...

The rules of this universe and the laws of all universes are not all the same. There is the all possible world's interpretation which runs parallel to...

The model I use to conceptualize time is cyclical. The two types of singularity in the Cosmos are interconnected, and movement from one to another cre...

Yeah, but that's a start. I think I will widen my search. You guys have been helpful. Thanks.

I regard the values and thoughts of the technocratic thinker Jacque Fresco as what should be taught. I am also a transhumanist, and think that technol...

This is very agreeable to me, concurring with some of my own thought on this matter. You can't get much better than that. :D

I think its a legitimate issue that philosophy deserves an educational revival. I for one have noticed that in the public schools logic is NOT an elem...

I have written on the nature of universal "cause and effect/teleology" in my book, "On Being and Consciousness." I hadn't read much of Leibniz before,...

I think biology should replace religious morality. Understanding ourselves, and sensing wrong and right, should be an extrapolation of biological real...

If you weigh the evidence, the fors and the againsts, you will probably arrive at a probability, and thence confer with your conscience objectively ab...

See: LIGHT BODY

I think this is a purely mathematical question with a mathematical resolve. I, for one, do not have the motivation to resolve the issue mathematically...

I think there are other variables that unite man. I haven't had an inclination to the conclusion that hope is what unites man. I have been in and out ...

Most of us have a sacred sense of life, where we conclude that almost any condition of life is worth living. Look at the highly disabled, immobilized ...

Ends can exist in finite minds. I don't see why he has said they don't, nor do I follow to the same conclusion of there being an "infinite mind" from ...

He was showing a lack of inhibition of many intense emotions. Instinctual fears and angers became intense impulses. There is more too it. I only have ...

If you look into brain anatomy of animals, you will realize that most birds, all dogs, and felines, have a frontal cortex. They can think with some de...

I think "shared meaning" might be the result of knowledge modalities as well as similar experience and similar reference. I refer to a spider across t...

Jeez, there all invalid. The second one is poorly worded, badly formulated.

I make the understanding clear in my book (On Being and Consciousness) that "belief" should be substituted for "assent and dissent" (as the Stoics agr...

When is the self not an image? People appear to be what is seen of them. Aristotle wrote, "You are what you do repeatedly." Myself, I say "You are you...

If moderation is an ideology, which it seemingly is, so too is mass consumption. I'd like to see an economy experiment with limitation on the amount o...

Positive correspondence takes place. AHA!

I have felt an immensity of emotions myself, probably due to the complexity at which I "sum" the world, as you have shared here. I have felt deep emot...

There are plenty of ways civilization as we know it could collapse. These threats are no less or more probable everyday, at all times. In truth, no on...

It seems to me that there is more business in writing music than in writing poetry these days. Music seems more alive than poetry does. I could never ...

As for other supposedly special traits of humans, de Waal says they have fallen one by one: chimps and other species have been observed showing empath...

Ants are just intelligent enough to survive, meaning they have just enough cognition to do the things they do. When you compare us to the intelligence...

Thanks for sharing that it helps me understand what I couldn't put to words.

If there is causal closure what is its opposite? And how does that add on to an understanding of causation itself?

Hmm. Hume used the word conjunction. I could read up on it more. Events sounds right too. A good search might be something like "causation and physica...

One example that came to mind quite quickly was Kant's Categorical Imperative, which I am sure your familiar with. Its a procedural philosophy. His ca...

Yes, the two do seem to intertwine. In physics we learn about INITIAL CONDITIONS, or Velocity at time 0, and than go from there to the effects. Causat...

I think this jives well with Rands egoism. "Care" as noted here, means to fulfill self-interests, needs and wants -- intentions. Remarkably, many phil...

I guess one has to step down from the fog into the kitchen and see what's cooking to get into the realities of cause and effect. The fog still roams a...

There wouldn't be much to philosophy if it weren't for the philosophy. Some one's philosophy may amount to a way of living. Quite certainly this can b...

I think you are right. The Stoics used the phrase, "Death means nothing to us." Why? Something you can look into... There are many things that are dea...

Well, thanks for your elaboration of your understanding of cause and effect. I do think adding those factors in, most of them, kind of even complicate...

:up: Great discussion guys, learning more about Buddhism here. Great analyzing from nearly everyone. One problem I face with Buddhist philosophy/conce...

Just to add, as long as you can intend in the future tense a state or reaction of emotion, it is ostensibly under your control. Say for example, I am ...

I think empathy is a good starting point for understanding of the other. If it is expressed, in its emotional appearance it helps both parties feel be...

There are openings all across the nation to get in with out running into the wall. The border of California with the ocean, the Canadian border, etc. ...

As a writer (Poet, Essayist), I do aspire to and admire Midgley's wise words. Art and literalism are always creating something new with something old....

This is basically what I was going to posit, after coming up with the answer to this question with some off-line thought. When reality sets in human n...

When has that ever worked out? XD

Yes, but the number of possibilities for a single things spatial relation reaches infinity; it very functionality is potentially infinite (my theory c...