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'Trust' would be good for what has been seen before, such as that night will fall, whereas 'faith' finds good use for what has never been seen.
October 31, 2025 at 01:41
B> live event, because Eternalism requires infinite precision, but, everything leaks… Our personal ideas come from the history of the Cosmos. No copyr...
October 27, 2025 at 00:01
It is only likely in a block universe of pre-determined events of experience, while in presentism the brain produces the experiential from one's natur...
October 26, 2025 at 18:55
The ordered phase of a deeper quantum system: It seemed that its future could never be, That its unfamed name was but written On the water and the win...
October 14, 2025 at 04:53
AI says: The idea that entanglement entropy could give rise to spacetime is a frontier concept in theoretical physics, drawing connections between qua...
October 13, 2025 at 23:23
I'm still listening to your great posts; I'll have to come up with some award or reward.
October 12, 2025 at 20:36
The Demise of Eternalism: Einstein’s Special Relativity Universe is timeless because in his theory ‘time’ is shown to be a variable, and thus time is ...
October 12, 2025 at 17:30
@"Gnomon". @"apokrisis" The demise of presentism: There are big problems with Presentism as a sequence of nows with the past not kept and the future n...
October 12, 2025 at 17:22
…and only then enters consciousness, the so-called 'now' being like a tape delay of half a second ago. Good point.
October 12, 2025 at 16:54
See my post above.
October 11, 2025 at 21:25
AI Whitehead to the Rescue: This goes straight to the heart of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. While Whitehead never explicitly uses the ...
October 11, 2025 at 21:17
Yet, we can't tell the difference among the three modes; how can we find out? … How was the music of the 'double-halving' vid?
October 11, 2025 at 05:44
Solving the Eternal Equation… The great silence of the Unanswerable Induces a clamor in us, relieved but by Embracing the audacity of being: To live, ...
October 11, 2025 at 01:38
What is Eternal is ever, and so there's no point at which any design could be put into it in the first place that never was; thus it must be Everythin...
October 10, 2025 at 20:36
Another vid for your lecture tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTWWXcso-4E
October 10, 2025 at 03:10
Another great post!
October 08, 2025 at 22:46
The Britney-dvg fun version (rap slightly slowed down): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHy4G24_nBM note: Since this was the first service, it was don...
October 08, 2025 at 18:39
Here is the serious version (next time, the fun version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZrtt4o5LNU
October 08, 2025 at 17:29
OK, we'll have Britney make an appearance.
October 08, 2025 at 04:45
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October 08, 2025 at 03:39
I think it can do anything if it's a known music genre. Is this psych rock?: /uploads/files/2l/syaj31oectdc8lvc.mp3
October 08, 2025 at 01:26
I'm making a musical, which is what I mostly do lately, of your great post. Sjinn is creating the video visuals now, which will take quite a while, an...
October 08, 2025 at 00:27
It ended up and kind of an extra in the June writing challenge: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15983/tpf-essaypart-1-part-2
October 07, 2025 at 23:16
iambic pentameter — Moliere Beneath, Below, and Further (With da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM rhythm.) Beneath, below, and further down we find ?Th...
October 07, 2025 at 22:42
Great post and writing style! Oh, how such a polar opposite is the simplex to the ultra-complex wished for by the religious…
October 07, 2025 at 22:36
Good! The perfect instability. 'Nothing' is not an alternative to the Something of Existence', for Existence has no opposite, so, the base Existence i...
October 06, 2025 at 03:53
Great! 'Everything' is a necessity since there is no design point for anything specific.
October 04, 2025 at 19:15
The actual 'you' is the Awareness that observes the happenings in the play that is going on; you are not your thoughts. Alan Watts explains: https://w...
September 24, 2025 at 05:37
For convenience, perhaps, we impose boundaries on causes for effects; however, causes go all the way back…
September 22, 2025 at 07:01
Wow! You're on the ball; it only came out about a week ago. Has much about consciousness coming in from the outside.
September 17, 2025 at 19:24
(See Dan Brown’s new book, ‘The Secret of Secrets’ For a similar investigation) The Occasions of Experience via Whitehead’s Great Poet/Programmer Like...
September 17, 2025 at 05:42
There are no 'if's' but for planning scenarios; your 'if' is a fantasy world; actuality always trumps 'if', that is, you do exist.
September 15, 2025 at 05:48
So, the consciousness implements our reality and its experiencing, through qualia-appearances; it is the messenger - whose message seems to be existen...
September 07, 2025 at 18:02
Qualia are the brain's own invented language?
September 06, 2025 at 19:41
What’s Fundamental has to be partless, Permanent, and e’er remain as itself; Thus, it can only form temporaries Onward as rearrangements of itself. ht...
September 05, 2025 at 00:16
Quantum Field Theory is by far the most successful truth in the history of science, its scientific model very well showing what goes on. The quantum '...
September 04, 2025 at 04:37
Religious faith is no more than hopes and wishes for there to be a supernatural realm, which doesn't grant it, leaving one but with the wishes and hop...
September 04, 2025 at 04:23
I don't think it can be, for the brain 'paints a face' on the cup as the noumena becomes phenomena. One time I saw a fire burning at the base of a far...
September 04, 2025 at 04:09
It does; the nose has receptors that can receive some molecule shapes that turn into smells; a dog has many more receptors. Michael returned, feeling ...
September 02, 2025 at 04:19
What if the basis of All is the permanent quantum vacuum and you are a temporary arrangement of it? What if you disperse back unto it?
September 02, 2025 at 04:08
The brain not only uses clues coming from without but also uses clues from within, such as memory and experience in expectation of what is a cup.
September 02, 2025 at 04:05
"18. Therefore, a first cause of change is a changeless being. 19. A part of a whole is something which contributes to the whole but is not identical ...
August 21, 2025 at 00:37
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Yes, 'God', as proposed to be some greater mind as the basis of all, cannot be, for it is a system of thinking, planning, designing, and implementing,...
August 18, 2025 at 17:06
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To put all of this in a perspective: 'Faith' is no more than a wish and a hope that doesn't grant its object; thus all talk of its truth is not only m...
August 17, 2025 at 21:19
The Eternal Return Behind the Veil, being that which e’er thrives, The Eternal IS has ever been alive, For that which hath no onset cannot die, Nor a ...
July 22, 2025 at 04:03
Great! The Nature of Consciousness (Some gleaned from Gsin) Within the Brain’s vast Palace, deep and strange, Consciousness flows, yet cannot free-ran...
July 19, 2025 at 22:45
The Final Epilog There could not have been any specific time, One that was privileged over any other chime, Nor any special place, nor any certain for...
July 15, 2025 at 04:34
It was much simpler once, in those days of old When we thought that universes didn’t go cold, But that they expanded and then collapsed, Still destroy...
July 12, 2025 at 22:16
Our spurt of life followed by an infinite stretch Of dark equilibrium was but the briefest sketch— A warm and fuzzy stage, so interestingly active, Wh...
July 08, 2025 at 01:06
The Waves of the Ancient Swells Of Time’s Eroding Swells Swept Ever On… As Time, now hoary with age, Yet hurled forth its ashen change, The charge eve...
July 06, 2025 at 23:52