Possibility

Agreed. Perhaps I just continue to use ‘God’ because it keeps me connected to the overall journey - to my journey, in particular. I think that’s impor...

Fair enough. Good to have you join the discussion, and I appreciate the probing questions. When I strip that ‘baggage’ of association with any particu...

This demonstrates the way we anticipate any change as pleasant/unpleasant and requiring high/low effort. Change is part of life, so it isn’t that we h...

I agree that the two terms are not positions on the same thing, and that some agnostics are atheists, but not all. I also understand that many atheist...

Oh, we push. The thing is that when you see us push, you imagine us as fellow atheists. And when we argue against your commitment to rationalised doub...

Agreed.

Yes, and I would also challenge anyone who vocally expressed such affected beliefs. But I do think some people still believe something must be ‘wrong’...

I would say that agnostics can be just as combative towards and critical of claims to logical justification, objective truth or certainty one way or t...

Justifiable action is predicated on certainty. Affected belief is sufficient for action. Some of us just hold ourselves (and/or others) to a more rati...

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In my view, ‘God’ refers to a qualitative relation. I believe that the possibility of ‘God’ exists, and yet I won’t commit to a belief in the existenc...

I think the reduction of Darwin’s evolutionary theory to ‘survival value’ ignores an underlying ‘creative’ impetus of limited structural variability i...

I’m always fascinated by threads like this - there’s a point in our self-awareness where we ask ourselves: why am I doing this? And we find the answer...

I agree that you don’t love a person because you love their body - but I do think you can start to love a person after you start to love their body. P...

I think there is a fundamental flaw here - but forgive me if my explanation of this is not clear. I’ll try a different approach. If the universe has s...

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It wouldn’t - not automatically. I will concede that we have a tendency to consolidate towards dualism, but as a symmetry this is ignorant and ultimat...

My position is that dualism is asymmetrical when viewed from within. The apparent symmetry of any dualistic philosophy conceals a third relational asp...

Exactly - this is the problem with your thesis. Read the rest of what I wrote. I agree that we’re part of the symmetry, but any binary relation is asy...

There are two ways to relate to your axiom at 1: A. As a third party observer, external to the universe and its ‘symmetry’; B. As an aspect within the...

Rovelli’s use of the h-bar is not as a symbol of quantum level ‘communication’ - it acts as a qualitative limitation in any calculated prediction. And...

An informational ‘bit’ is a consolidated binary event - a resultant spatio-temporal state of a system, reduced to the smallest identifiable interactio...

I think the main focus of IIT is more in predicting consciousness with greater accuracy. I wasn’t aware that Rovelli had a new book - I’ll need to che...

I think maybe you are missing something important: quality. We tend to split quality into: - what we can isolate from affect (that is, what we can con...

These are interesting points. I agree that the faculty of judgement - our capacity both to suspend judgement and to render one - is a key aspect of co...

Do you really believe that by limiting knowledge, we increase certainty? All that does is ensure our choice appears to be a perfect decision - until w...

"When one finds oneself participating in an endeavor, entirely without merit - one withdraws!" - Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Gareth Thomas Mountbatte...

Pity originally comes from the idea of ‘piety’, which is a quality of relating to others in a way that accepts the social order: such as respecting yo...

There’s really not much point - you’ll just dismiss it as ‘gibberish’. Which only demonstrates complete and utter ignorance on your part. Blatant unwi...

I didn’t say ‘God’ was a language - I’m saying that you have a particular perspective of Reason as an experience of mind from eternity - one that infi...

I did pause at ‘brevity’ - I don’t think it’s a measure of wisdom in itself, but I do agree that along with ‘probative’ it’s a necessary quality of th...

This seems to me spot on. Wisdom is as much about not doing or saying, and what one does with a lack of knowledge/experience.

I do technically agree with most of this - even though you and I rarely agree. I will say, however, that this God you now believe in consists of a for...

Looking for a common denominator is a reductionist methodology - you can’t move from disagreement to common denominator without first reaching for an ...

I’m not sure we really overcome such biases entirely, though - at least, it’s difficult to articulate this level of objectivity. I think we can be awa...

I’d agree with this. Most people don’t really want changes they haven’t already accepted, and most of those who push for ‘change’ aren’t really aware ...

It’s an interesting question, and I haven’t read the rest of the thread yet, but I think there’s a misunderstanding here. Both your descriptions here ...

This comes from the difference between the meaning and definition of an idea. We define ‘woke’ not as an idea, but as a way of being - by how we perce...

The term ‘woke’ originally referred to the idea of broader awareness in thinking that is inclusive of alternative and minority perspectives. The term ...

I think it depends on the situation and the nature of their intelligence. I do think observing someone can often give a qualitative sense of intellige...

That a lump of clay can have different properties at different times - such as ‘being cuboid’ and then ‘being spherical’ - is a result of 3D restructu...

I’m going to preface my participation here by saying that I’m not here to debate, but to discuss... What this example demonstrates is that these conce...

This might have been an interesting philosophical discussion, if anyone except @"Fooloso4" and the OP were willing to stick to the topic. Unfortunatel...

Philosophy’s history may be rife with bias and limited thinking, but that doesn’t mean that this is what philosophy is. I see it as a work in progress...

First of all, I believe that philosophy is originally defined as the love of wisdom, which is not identical to knowledge. Wisdom is inclusive of recog...

I don’t doubt that’s how it would seem to you. I’m making an observation on how Platonists view the dialogues, as you’ve outlined here. I’m just not c...

But you can’t deny that the system exists, so it’s only the relational structure between happiness and value that is in question here. You can’t answe...

I’m inclined to agree with you. There seems to me to be a misunderstanding here with regard to Plato’s dialogues - taking Socrates’ speculations as th...

I think beauty is more about understanding than visual sense, but we approach it at least initially through the visual sense, through appearance. We s...

I can’t disagree with you here. I’m not talking about any commitment, though - just acknowledging a dimensionally structural difference between action...