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Agreed. As I said, the potential is there. Inference in physics is known as ‘interpretation’. I admit, I’m not all that familiar with the academic phi...
January 20, 2020 at 03:30
I’m only saying that we shouldn’t dismiss the capacity of the scientific method (minus the classical assumptions) to reach an understanding of the abs...
January 18, 2020 at 02:32
Passing moral judgement doesn’t make it justified. The Ten Commandments are not moral judgements - they are precepts to avoid moral judgement, which c...
January 18, 2020 at 00:53
I think we all have a general tendency to want to exclude what we consider to be ‘evil’ from our world - or at least from our conception of it. Plato ...
January 18, 2020 at 00:13
Wow - if you really think I’m glorifying racism by what I’m suggesting, then either you haven’t been paying attention, or you’re misunderstanding me. ...
January 17, 2020 at 07:02
I don’t find this consistent with what you were saying here: and here: I’m a little confused by your use of ‘potential’ and ‘possible’, and how they r...
January 17, 2020 at 04:23
This is more where I’m at - and I would interpret the ‘fitness function’ of the algorithm simply as maximal awareness, connection and collaboration. B...
January 17, 2020 at 00:55
I accept your definition of ‘supernatural’, but I think the classical axioms upon which the term is based undermine its usefulness in a discussion suc...
January 16, 2020 at 23:57
Morality does not judge thinking, but is concerned with the actions that follow thinking; with what is good or bad behaviour. I have yet to come acros...
January 16, 2020 at 15:40
Pure relation is not necessarily pure love - I’ll agree to that. Anyone who says their love is ‘pure’ is attempting to express a pure relation, but ta...
January 16, 2020 at 14:37
No. By granular, I mean NOT infinitely divisible. Quanta represents a particle of the smallest actual measurement (Planck scale), but quanta are only ...
January 16, 2020 at 06:26
Not everyone can understand the effect of humility at this level of awareness, so I think it does certainly help for people to experience it in order ...
January 16, 2020 at 06:07
I agree, this is a problem. Why do we have to wait to be shown the value of humility in pop culture before we can see the value for ourselves? It’s a ...
January 16, 2020 at 05:29
This makes some sense to me - although your list of alternative terms suggests prior knowledge of an endpoint, which I dispute. The way I see it, this...
January 16, 2020 at 04:41
If you’re referring to actual objects, then I dispute this. The material universe is both finite and granular (according to quantum mechanics) and it ...
January 16, 2020 at 04:15
Love is always possible, but not always logical. Using language to describe love is fraught with error because the process is necessarily reductive: s...
January 16, 2020 at 03:07
Not sure I follow you here. Objects are not infinite.
January 16, 2020 at 00:24
We don’t like the implication that we’re being ‘racist’ - as I said, it sounds like the concept of ‘racism’ as we collectively understand it was not b...
January 16, 2020 at 00:13
This ‘permission to be offended’ situation is damaging to unleash onto a work environment. It sounds like they were trying to do too many things at on...
January 15, 2020 at 16:03
Perhaps, let’s see... Value (verb): to consider something to be important or beneficial. Value (noun): 1. The importance, worth or usefulness of somet...
January 15, 2020 at 09:01
I tend to think the focus here to ‘combat’ or even ‘end’ racism is misguided. The theoretical aim of the workshop is to increase ‘awareness’ of minori...
January 15, 2020 at 08:28
I certainly wouldn’t refer to myself as ‘Spinozian’ - I’m not all that familiar with his theories - but from a cursory understanding, I do think he wa...
January 15, 2020 at 03:36
You are describing love at the level of potentiality - ‘what they can become’ is an awareness of potentiality, but not of possibility. It’s quite comm...
January 15, 2020 at 02:08
To call this a ‘value system’ is a reduction of what it means to relate to possibility. Their current behaviour is included in everything they can pos...
January 15, 2020 at 00:15
Actuality is, by definition, temporal existence. There is nothing actual outside of time. Everything that we think of as existing outside of time - th...
January 14, 2020 at 23:34
A human being, unlike quanta, is an integrated system of interrelated potentiality. So yes, there is a big difference. Predicting the tendencies of in...
January 14, 2020 at 07:45
Ignorance is bliss? Our developing awareness of the relationship we have with the unfolding universe, our growing capacity to understand and relate to...
January 14, 2020 at 03:40
The nature of the relationship between ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ and all of reality is precisely what I’m looking at. This ‘metaphysical information’ you’re...
January 14, 2020 at 02:59
In a high school dance, where everyone went solo, not in couples, back 50 years ago, every boy first asked the prettiest girl to dance. Or dreamed of ...
January 13, 2020 at 14:43
The most difficult part of experiencing a paradigm shift is trying to explain it to everyone else. You need to meet readers where they’re at first, an...
January 13, 2020 at 12:08
The indeterminacy of both quanta and people relate to the potentiality of their objective or ‘measurable’ states of being. The human capacity to predi...
January 13, 2020 at 11:44
And on ‘eternalism’: Interestingly, the concept of ‘eternalism’ or the ‘block universe’ interests me mainly because I believe it relates to how we str...
January 13, 2020 at 10:02
The way I see it, ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are subjective evaluations that we assume to be universal. So I’m not trying to argue or prove that ‘good’ is more...
January 13, 2020 at 08:20
I follow you here, but it’s the stated claim that ‘God is merely the most actual of all’ which I’m disputing here. It’s a common false claim derived f...
January 13, 2020 at 04:56
The ‘deformity power’ of ‘evil’ is a limitation of the observable actuality or the perceived potentiality of ‘God’, but not of the possibility of rela...
January 13, 2020 at 03:15
As mentioned, I’m not a materialist as such, but I think I understand where you’re coming from here. The rejection of the supernatural by materialists...
January 13, 2020 at 03:03
I agree that information is a manifest distinction at every level of interaction: the ‘difference that makes a difference’. What I’m most interested i...
January 13, 2020 at 02:13
The confusion is that, for Aquinas, ‘God’ exists in actuality outside time, which is impossible. ‘God’ IS eternally, which is not the same as a dog or...
January 13, 2020 at 00:01
I agree that every concept can be evaluated according a logical structure - but not all information. The process of ‘boiling down’ information to rati...
January 11, 2020 at 05:10
I think we’re basically on the same page here, just a confusion with terms. I can recognise (now) that material is also physical, but physical is not ...
January 11, 2020 at 03:12
Three spatial dimensions, plus time (4D), plus value (5D). Potential is another way of describing value/significance - one that has more relevance fro...
January 11, 2020 at 01:52
But ‘structure’ - this second definition - is not necessarily ‘logical’. This is the point i’m trying to make. Potential and value doesn’t just refer ...
January 11, 2020 at 01:35
By recognising that it isn’t individual gratification that we’re seeking, but the energy/information required to develop and achieve, and that increas...
January 11, 2020 at 01:12
Art is a manifestation of relationship between the subjective experience of an artist and their medium, intended to then be experienced by an audience...
January 10, 2020 at 15:49
I think it’s possible to experience both joy and loss without attachment. If you recognise joy as an experience of the fleeting present, then you don’...
January 10, 2020 at 10:43
Not my thread, so it’s possible that it’s me hijacking the thread, not you. It’s more that you focus on the commonalities as if there are no differenc...
January 10, 2020 at 09:01
My use of ‘escape it’ was in response to your use of it here: Yes, we are seeking what we refer to as ‘happiness’, but this self-serving interest comp...
January 10, 2020 at 05:05
Well I have read a fair amount of your website, and I maintain that while you make good use of science when it suits, the connection you make between ...
January 09, 2020 at 03:08
A couple of points, if I may. ‘Escape it’ were your words, not mine. I don’t see love as a battle to escape or even overcome selfishness, and I’ve spe...
January 08, 2020 at 17:55
I mean no disrespect - I’m not trying to refute your theories, but to build on them. If it seems like I’m focusing only on where our theories diverge,...
January 08, 2020 at 08:52