Possibility

Only the last of these three options can be acted upon. You cannot act on entirely suspended judgement. Provisional hypotheses enable you to run contr...

First of all, I think that clinging to a thwarted 400 year old ideal is unproductive. Let it go. You won’t achieve peace by citing past injuries. Or p...

I think this highlights the main problem here - and bear with me, because this is an initial observation and will not be well articulated. A ‘scientif...

There is no point in human experience at which information exists unaffected, except as meaningless noise. How do you think we distinguish between nee...

...cautiously, mindful of the qualitative and affective limitations we set in pursuit of illusions of certainty.

That’s not my takeaway, but then I’m not putting reason aside in my interpretation. I don’t believe that ‘God commands’ anything - we are only ever in...

Yes, I’d agree to that - and actively involved in the cultural structures of both science and religion, unfortunately.

Personally, I think faith in our own abilities to rationally understand everything is as misplaced as faith in the bible, but that’s another discussio...

About an author’s perspective on belief and faith, read in the context of a culture that equates worship with living sacrifice - understanding ‘God’ i...

I do think that it’s against human sacrifice, but I don’t think the warning is only against this practice, but warns more generally against blind fait...

The story of Abraham sacrificing his son was an illustration of faith in an early (mis)understanding of God. It’s not about sacrifice (that’s just the...

My teenage daughter recently reached that point of nihilism in her philosophical journey, and it surprised me how suddenly and visibly she was shaken ...

Interesting response. I can relate to what you say about self-reflection. I get the sense that it’s about each of us working towards a balance between...

This is an observation of A and B in isolation. Even if the mind is causally connected to the brain, it need not be fully contained within the skull. ...

Faith is action in the absence of certainty, and is a key aspect of the scientific method. Without it, no experiments would ever be conducted. There i...

I don’t see how information does not ‘have’ energy in the same sense that fields ‘have’ energy (as stated in the OP). It seems to me that information ...

:lol: It’s not quite the same thing, though - the process is not one of awareness and assimilation, but of awareness, connection and collaboration wit...

I’m not claiming that there is ‘good science’ and ‘bad science’ - only that the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ of science is where aspects of the scientific method (...

I don’t think we live either in parallel or in series. It’s a far more complex relational structure than this. But I do see the attraction of this sim...

I can relate to this experience throughout my two pregnancies: the notion of a part of your bodily system ‘expressing its individuality’ by responding...

What you see is a visible uncoupling only. Although this action is medically (or culturally) determined following birth, the uncoupling of the birth i...

I can’t say I agree with such a blanket approval of what is known as ‘science’, but I do agree that the process of checking explanations is a good thi...

I have been reading along with great interest (and, yes, rolling my eyes on occasion) and would like to make a few observations. I can’t say that I fa...

No, I’m not a physicist. Feel free to disagree with me. This is just how I understand it. Mathematically, of course you can separate out ‘time’ as a l...

Separating out ‘one-dimensional’ time from three dimensional space is a misunderstanding of dimensional structure. How do you think parallel processin...

Harmonious delight in the possibility of existence. It’s not a goal because it isn’t quantifiable or measurable, but it gives me a sense of direction,...

Well, by my account we are five-dimensional: we recognise that the passage of time is experienced differently according to perceived value/significanc...

I don’t think breath is required for spirit’s existence - but awareness does give us confidence in this existence. ‘Spirit’ is commonly reserved for a...

Then perhaps they need to invest more in the recycling of old devices. This always reminds me of the animated film ‘Robots’. Innovation needs to be he...

I can only imagine you keep bringing up this example from personal experience. If someone else is wanting me to ‘be patient’, to slow down on achievin...

Spirit is chi - our awareness, knowledge or understanding of the flow of energy through a structured system. Simply or naively put (in common English)...

Whichever way you look at it, it seems to me like you’re trying to justify a value system because it’s a value system. I’m not sure that’s very effect...

Symmetry is not exclusively spatial - although, again, this is a common misconception. It’s a structural quality of invariance that can also be tempor...

It is a common misunderstanding of aesthetics that it’s all about the judgement of beauty or ugliness. But I can see how aesthetics understood this wa...

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I am still reading, and I think I follow what you’re saying - under your qualification of ‘human understanding’. I’m not suggesting that the non-norma...

This is an interesting philosophy. I haven’t read all of it yet, but at this point I’d agree with Pantagruel, in that un-normalised seems to me a more...

Not really. Affect is probabilistically located at best - it refers to a core ingredient of all mental states that is “at once, tied to a person’s int...

These efforts to locate ‘emotion’ in a more ‘primitive’ part of the brain may be outdated - recent research in neuroscience and psychology shows ‘emot...

Only you can answer that. Are you choosing to work 40 hours a week because you can, or because you’re unwilling to wait? Personally, I don’t think any...

Yes, there is something - this is what I mean about the difference between talking about consciousness with (faculty) and consciousness of (capacity o...

Interesting that you ‘recognise’ experience as a movie playing in your head. You do realise that this is a construction and not a recognition as such....

Patience is always relative. Yes, it requires patience to make $400 working for $10 per hour - whether you achieve the goal in one week or two. If som...

I agree with @"Banno" in that entering a discussion with no background understanding of the topic in a wider context than your own opinion makes it al...

The content of your own experience, too, is constructed from inference, as is the ‘you’ who experiences. What we can be certain of is the faculty of c...

I think perhaps the notion of knowing or being aware with rather than of is being overlooked here. Being aware of refers to using consciousness, but b...

Perhaps. But his first step was to doubt everything, and then arbitrarily select the possibility that he exists in time as his zero point energy, so t...

But I have to admit that I ascertain this existence only in relation to what is not me. Hence my existence is relative. In a sense, yes - we are all S...

You didn’t just notice it, you felt the need to mention it, and seem bothered that I’m not acknowledging the affect you believe is inherent in these t...

We can establish that you and I exist relative to each other, but that doesn’t make it an absolute fact that either of us exist. In a galaxy far far a...