Some of these statements seem to be based on statistics, others seem to be arguing a personal opinion. A couple of comments from my perspective: Moral...
There was a time when induction showed that the universe behaved like a machine - everything could be said to simply be action - and we struggled to r...
Sure - ‘qualia’ as a term consolidates aspects of experience in potentiality, and can be useful in self-reflection, as a guide to structuring the pote...
The way I see it, when we use the English verb ‘to see’, it can mean ‘to look at’, ‘to perceive’, or ‘to understand’. The distinction between these ‘w...
I think you’re missing the bookends of what is not so much a continuum as a symmetry. Beyond alertness to chemical surroundings is a more vague awaren...
I’m certainly not saying it’s all in the head. There’s a tendency to assume non-duality must be idealistic monism (or else materialism), but I think t...
You say this, but how would you know? Sun and snow would exist, sure, but without consciousness there would be no distinction between them as hot and ...
So, what you’re saying is that there exists another state, between +y and -y, that you call 0, and that this ‘in-between state’ is the balance/equilib...
A human being. An ant. An apple. A cheesecake. Need I go on? Read ‘Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions’ by Edwin A. Abbott, for starters. Only beca...
Not a rule of life, in my opinion. Brains you can certainly use or not use. Beauty is something you can take advantage of, but there can be a discrepa...
I do think that it’s at least possible to direct our qualitative attention narrowly or broadly and in consolidated or interrelational structures in ea...
But we’re not talking about the abstract probability of an event occurring or not occurring within 24 hours here. The event is relatively improbable, ...
Yet you clearly expect something in return for this compliment, which you’re not getting. You’re also presuming that her response of ‘I know’ is used ...
The likelihood of him walking past doesn’t change just because you’re talking about him. The fact that you’re thinking about him increases the chance ...
I think meaningful coincidence often has more to do with attention than intention. We prefer to attribute power internally, especially when the altern...
Hang - you’re saying yourself that beauty as a quality probably has no substance, and yet you’re annoyed that telling a woman she has this insubstanti...
QM and QFT often describe potential energy in terms of the classical view on energy, which is why certain aspects come across as incongruous, spooky, ...
Wittgenstein refers to what lies outside language, and to speaking nonsense, as ‘practice’. This is the outer. It’s not pointless to embody that ‘of w...
Not a concept - an idea. I’m with you on embracing the indeterminacy, but if we use language to describe anything at this level, we’re not referring t...
So Kierkegaard is excluding this possibility of complete rationality as other than God and beyond our relation to God - even though he says: In descri...
I love this word! I have been using ‘accurate’, but found it far too scientific to describe this dynamic quality of balance and sufficiency in one’s p...
The main difference I see (apart from equating ‘concept’ and ‘idea’) is that by ‘experience’ you’re referring to an affected quality of consciousness,...
Sure, but the point is that not all of experience can be conceptualised - ie. reduced to concepts. Concepts refer to patterns of experience with a hig...
By a broader understanding of energy and quality, I’m referring not to theory but to practice. The Tao Te Ching, for example, talks about wu-wei: the ...
Sure - philosophy, if it can be grounded, is grounded in the notion of aporia - the question - which is what motivates science. Science is not the ans...
Meta- means ‘about the thing itself’. Metaethics and metavalue together examine the nature of ethics, judgement and aesthetics from a perspective beyo...
I think when we talk about logical rules, we refer only to what we can structure within language, recognising that there’s more to logic than that - t...
Agreed. By promise I’m referring to Sparky caring about an anticipated event, and trusting in its relation to the sounds we make. You break this trust...
I don’t believe it is necessarily taking centre stage - there are always the three ideas in play, among which we assume an embodied position. If we fo...
Are they all that different though? Science informs philosophy and philosophy informs science. I’m not talking about Einstein’s time (and neither is R...
Dogs seem to have a more qualitative sense of the world. Our verbal expressions are like promises and threats: they have qualitative value, potential ...
In the end, philosophy is supposed to be practical. We forget that in our academic pursuit of a theory of everything, a philosophical description of r...
Well, I don’t assume a singular progression of time as Hegel does, so for me the paradox isn’t between logic and actuality, but between the possibilit...
Hi Jem, and welcome to the forum. I will reiterate what T Clark has written - I think your writing ability and willingness to learn, discuss and devel...
Not worth questioning, I suppose. I don’t think you can separate politics from religion, especially when it comes to Catholicism, which has a clear hi...
The ideal catholic community is one in which there is an acceptance that pretty much ‘everyone does this’. So you wouldn’t even consider not wanting t...
Analytical is kind of the opposite to my approach. But I think I get where you’re coming from. And I didn’t mean absolute interconnectedness IN the lo...
The difference is in the term ‘Abba’. But this implication of entitled authority is brought into question from the get-go. Joseph is technically Jesus...
Scholars will argue that it wasn’t disciples of Jesus who wrote down his teachings, but later generations of followers - and that the four selected Go...
There’s an argument to be made that any claim of divine descendency attributed to Jesus’ role in the Bible is a misinterpretation. It would never have...
This is an interpretation that equivocates ‘Jesus’ with ‘God’, and the Bible with ‘His word’. The ambiguity of ‘pursuing Him’, ‘obeying’ the Bible and...
Not all Buddhist schools emphasise ‘loving’ in an interactive way. That’s the ‘out’ for Buddhism - that general inaction, ignorance, intellectualising...
Logos (Greek): variously meaning ground, plea, opinion, expectation, word, speech, account, reason, proportion, and discourse. The Greek ‘logos’ as pr...
What do you think was the significance of the question ‘who is my neighbour?’ prompting the parable of the good Samaritan? Do you really think there’s...
And my answer is no - not least because I disagree that ‘salvation through faith in Christ’ is the major drawcard of Christianity. But as Shawn mentio...
And yet you’re only interested in the religious aspect of Christianity and not the philosophical part. That hardly seems a fair comparison. No, they’r...
I thought the central question was about wisdom, but okay. I disagree that the central focus of Christian teaching is salvation, although I acknowledg...
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