Possibility

It’s a description of the structure of quantum mechanics in terms of information. By ‘manifests itself’ I think he’s talking about reality from the PO...

From Carlo Rovelli’s ‘Reality Is Not What You Think’: “A physical system manifests itself only by interacting with another. The description of a physi...

I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve noticed that our understanding of potential energy, consciousness, information and relationships are able ...

Ok. So if we go back to the definition of WILL (from earlier in this thread) - the faculty by which one decides on and initiates action - then it seem...

But you do still have a choice to NOT get something to drink, even though you’re thirsty now. Your body may protest in a number of ways, and you may b...

As discussed earlier in this thread, the question is not so much ‘What is the degree of freedom in free will?’ - it’s more along the lines of ‘what is...

Yes - it does sound starry-eyed, I agree. That doesn’t make it wrong or even misguided. Who said reality isn’t allowed to be uplifting? If you were ca...

And yet people everyday are motivated to get uncomfortable, to risk their lives and continue a monotonous task - even all three at once - suggesting t...

Once again, an interesting discussion, Schopenhauer. I think values are fifth dimension structures that ultimately enable us to achieve what motivates...

Oh, you noticed that? Yes, the original definition that refers to ‘a person’ is copied straight from the dictionary. I figured it was a good place to ...

Not the way I see it. The human body is comprised of a complex system of systems: sensory, nervous, limbic, digestive, etc. Each of those systems is l...

This is not against your wishes - it just seems that way. You are automatically aware of some information, but not others. The way I see it, you only ...

This is an interesting view. Less intelligent animals do it, so that’s what we should be aiming for? Is this what evolution has led us to? I often won...

Interesting discussion. I’d always thought of philosophy as a kind of bridge between science and theology in many ways. I guess it depends on where yo...

Not so shocking - I’m aware of the research. It’s based on a decision to act in a predetermine way at a ‘chosen’ time. It makes sense that this type o...

Hampered - yes. Constrained - not unless you allow it to be. The thing about human awareness is that most of it operates at a subconscious level. We c...

Every animal, even a genetic clone (I imagine) would be subject to different circumstances, at various points in their existence, from others. Some of...

This is why I sought to look deeper into this idea of ‘will’ and get to the primary, initiating faculty behind all decisions and all acts - to see if ...

well then I’m in trouble - I do that all the time! :yikes:

Ha ha. I’m not sure, but I can speculate based on my understanding of what a bicycle is and what a computer is.

What has value is related to, but not the same as, what matters. Saying that an ant is insignificant is not necessarily the same as saying the ant doe...

Yes - and I think you have found that here with most respondents. They acknowledge your grief and that - despite their own value system which in some ...

There are others in this discussion who seem to think that ‘free will’ must be defined as a concept, but I disagree with this, and regret not making t...

I recognised something just the other day, while following the discussion on meaning: that when we talking about something being meaningful, it’s not ...

So how do you explain a photon? Is it a concept or a physical process? I’m just trying to get a sense of where you’re coming from, to see where I stil...

Not a physical weight. But our awareness of the existence of concepts and experiences (as relations between events and objects in time) nevertheless i...

I understand that. In the field of battle you are continually under threat, yet a threat from your CO feels different to a threat from bullets or bomb...

A mathematician may have been ignorant of constitutional law, but they continue to be ignorant only if they choose not to be aware once the informatio...

When we evaluate the morality of a soldier’s actions, we position them according to our own current perspective of value. However, when a soldier acts...

‘Regardless of its significance to me, it matters because of its significance to you’. I think we struggle to understand and therefore discover the wo...

So you would find it sufficient to explain concepts such as potential energy - a physical process, in your view - with an equation, as @"leo" has done...

So, when you say ‘SOMETHING’ here, do you mean it must always be a physical, tangible something applying or receiving forces, or could it be a concept...

First of all, potential cannot be something concrete - I’m confident of that much, at least. It’s a concept: a 5D experience that has no evidence or l...

I genuinely feel for your loss. The immense value that these unborn children had for you and your fiancé is real, regardless of any evidence of being ...

I think I get what you’re saying, but the way I see it, any state of being is finite in time. The doing refers to an event that loses its status as an...

I agree with you on the problem of causation, and I haven’t mentioned casuality at this stage for that reason. It certainly doesn’t help to say that e...

I had a feeling I would lose people here. As I said, I’m still finding ways to explain how everything is connected in my head. The idea of ‘love’ (aga...

I don’t subscribe to spiritualism, and I’m not sure where you read that here. Perhaps it was the G-word that prompted you to close your mind all of a ...

The thing about your perception of ‘deciphering’, though, is that it implies one ‘correct’ meaning, which is unlikely to be the case. If it were about...

I will clarify, first of all, that I’m talking about matter as energy, which is a manifestation of the interaction of potentiality. When we say ‘matte...

I understand potentiality to be ‘the capacity to develop, achieve and succeed that is not yet realised’. This is what we access whenever we interact w...

Of course you can, but you will have limited your understanding of the term in the process, and you cannot then ‘talk about meaning’ objectively, (in ...

In my view, we can talk about meaning in the same way that we can talk about algebra: as variables in relation to each other. But these variables are ...

They do mean something, but the ‘something’ isn’t fixed. That something is always going to be different for a different observer, and will also change...

This is what I’m trying to say - meaning is a dimensional aspect of how we interact with the universe. One far broader than space, time and value. We ...

I’ve been looking for some time now, to no avail. At best, I’ve been able to observe a convergence towards it - from Aristotle’s misguided dismissal o...

Empty space cannot be truly empty, just as nothing is not a complete lack of existence, if we’re talking about what IS if no ‘thing’ can be said to ex...

I find I can best describe it as the interaction of potentiality.

An interesting discussion. The way I see it, it’s not that paintings and other visual arts don’t mean anything - it’s that any meaning attributed to t...

I’ve been trying to point out from the start (rather poorly, it appears) that the way we tend to define free will as ‘the capacity to make a choice’ i...