This is a common view derived from Aristotle/Aquinas. Are you sure of the direction of causality here? If we are aware that an object possesses potent...
Potentiality: latent or inherent capacity or ability for growth, fulfilment, etc. Potentiality is not something different in each object/event, but ha...
This seems like a ridiculous argument. A lack of uniformity doesn’t render either useless - anymore than the fact that there is no uniform time render...
Yes, I’m with you there. You can substitute ‘perspective’ with ‘point of reference’, and what I’ve written still makes sense to me. But you’re reducin...
The way I see it, there are two additional dimensions: one relates to value, and the other to meaning. We experience the world not just from a particu...
Agreed. And many of these instances of tectonic trouble or failure originate from within - someone working from the inside is fast positioned outside ...
I understand there is risk. It’s risky to engage in anything. It’s risky to value freedom of speech. If your aim is to avoid racism, then your intoler...
If you’ve ever tried to draw from life with little to no drawing experience, you may notice the discrepancy between what our eyes see and what our min...
Intolerance is precisely what opens the door to discrimination. Having the opportunity to know better and making use of that opportunity do not necess...
Ha ha - this is not as easy as it sounds, and it’s not because you have reproductive capacity, but because you are responsible for their actions as we...
As a parent, I think we are held responsible for establishing a life that is sufficiently aware/prepared to take responsibility for its own existence....
I think this discussion comes down to the meaning of ‘strength’. I agree with @"god must be atheist" that the role of ‘external’ support in fostering ...
If you want an ‘uncaused brute fact’, then in my view what you’re looking for is potential. You might name it ‘God’, the source, a ‘timeless thing’ or...
One is establishing a relationship between two events, and the other is being aware of the relationship established as an event/entity, in relation to...
No, it doesn’t. Your definition says ‘greater than 0% probability’. That means you only need ONE instance to place it above 0% probability. A probabil...
I see what you’re saying, and I recognise that I haven’t been very clear. Correlation can refer to the process of establishing a relationship between ...
Of course it sounds off - if you’re going to chop up the sentence like that. Try this: There is a tendency to reduce the process to the individual neu...
To say that an event is ‘natural’ because there are multiple instances of such events in the same ‘class’ has a certain meaning for you. But it has no...
I don’t follow this. Are you suggesting that unique events cannot occur naturally? That because I am unique, for instance, I cannot claim to be natura...
No. You cannot claim to have such a comprehensive understanding of nature for you to conclude beyond all doubt that the BB does not have a greater tha...
You’re assuming here that ‘natural’ is the current state of the universe as we understand it, when in fact ‘natural’ is the entire process of the unfo...
No, it doesn’t - it’s more complicated than that. There is a tendency to equate meaning with correlation and in doing so reduce the process by which w...
No, I don’t think I am. Chesterton refers to the ‘Common Man’ as the uneducated, but then says the ‘Uncommon Man’, the supposedly educated aristocracy...
How is it condescending? I’m certainly not saying that having to live off the money I make and raise kids (both of which I am currently doing) renders...
Chill. Personally, I don’t like to use the term ‘common man’. What I was referring to was how I interpret the term in relation to the attitude of thos...
I follow what you’re saying here, and I agree with what I think you’re trying to convey - but I think the quibbles about the meanings of words here ar...
I tend to interpret the ‘common man’ as simply a lack of self-reflection. It is who we are and what we do when we aren’t paying attention to who we ar...
In my understanding, information is the correlation itself. Knowledge is the capacity to make use of that information: to integrate it into an existin...
. But feminism is not aiming to represent the female view. Rather it is the advocacy for women's rights on the grounds of gender equality. Feminism ai...
The statement is an appeal to fear and hatred: side with those who support ‘the possibility of armed citizens’, OR be associated with Palestinian suic...
The OP question is what it means to have freedom. I’m not disputing the fact that we don’t have completely free will, and I did say as much. But withi...
Fair enough. I’m not sure where Lott got his statistics from, but I notice that only the first two years of data were available following the law chan...
This awareness of the universe as consisting of entities is a phase I believe we are in the process of evolving away from - and towards an awareness o...
Anger is a physiological response that prioritises the values of the ‘self’. But anger as an active response to anything is unhealthy because as human...
I get the feeling that we don’t want completely free will. Most of us cannot bear to take responsibility for the comparatively little freedom that we ...
This statistic is no surprise but, to me, it gives no valid argument against tightening gun laws. The method for tightening gun laws in Australia in 1...
While I agree that a specific creation can result from the creative process, I disagree that a creative process ‘surely’ results in a specific complet...
This is what I mean by examining the creative process from within the process - it exists for the creator long before it contributes to survival, and ...
By ‘education’, I just mean second or third-hand (abstract) experiences that point to information, rather than first-hand experiences in which we proc...
Freedom is stifled by our awareness of that potential for agency. You can try to convince someone that they have limitless potential or that they can ...
I’d like to try and clear up a few things, if I may. I agree that mixing things up is a factor in the creative process. I disagree that this ‘desire f...
As I understand it, you (and I would imagine, many others) see a ‘creative act’ as an act in which one creates - and so any creative act that does not...
I’m not suggesting that early man intended to invent fire. Early man intended to not be killed - this is a specific result. He had to already know tha...
It’s the need to classify it that complicates our understanding of it. It’s not like humans ‘creating fire’ can be mapped out or clearly defined as a ...
Consider an early human who must continually be aware of and then run from wild animals outside of his cave in order to find food and water to survive...
It can only be an anticipated result while the process is occurring. Because a process is still creative even if a result is not yet specified. For it...
I understand the confusion. The suffix ‘-ive’ turns a verb into a tendency, inclination, character or quality. This, for me, suggests that the potenti...
I agree - it does require a paradigm shift. We’ve learned to view traits as beneficial from either a survival perspective or a reproductive perspectiv...
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