PoeticUniverse

In the courts, ‘coercion vs responsible’ is orthogonal to ‘determined vs undetermined’. “The universe made me do it,” says the accused, And the Judge ...

I have to reveal something shocking: no decisions/choices are made in/by consciousness! It is too late in the brain process. What gets into consciousn...

I'll have to take 'unconstrained' as indicating no coercion, since the will is constrained by its amount of information plus how good the information ...

'Infinite' refers to a sequence or an extent, 'Eternal' refers to time. Neither one can complete, and so neither one is an actual that can be accompli...

Yes, we were attending to definitions back there so we could know more about what the 'free' meant, and then attending to the compatibilists' non-coer...

So, someone made it up—your foundational page one. Then they could say, "no big deal" or "who cares!"

As said, we get informed.

What is is that evolutionary science informs us that humans were not made as is, immutable, instantly, in the form of modern humans; so, Genesis is fl...

Evolution obliterating the ABCs of Genesis is no small matter, and so now we know that the Bible can't be counted on in its areas of metaphysics. Ther...

The quantum foam is not quite our usual 'something' when it remains as virtual pairs coming and going without anything else more persistent amounting,...

Continuing pre Bang scenarios… Some matter had to have avoided being annihilated by anti-matter. There are a billion photons now for every proton, so ...

The quantum foam is believable, it being confirmed by QCD predictions and measurements, plus noted by Casmir's plates being drawn together. It is as a...

Yes, for if it happened once, then it can happen again and did happen before, too.

It's made of Rovelli's covariant quantum fields; simple, as we knew it had to be.

We have conscious surrounded—as a brain process, which ought to be enough to say that it is formed internally, it not needing to attach itself self—fr...

The universe is as a spring wound up that is now slowly unwinding, this giving it 'oomph'; so, something had to have piled up, due to the meeting with...

Kind of like this? https://vimeo.com/337928070 (In my own voice.) How the universe ends might tell us something about what the beginning ultimately me...

This one is troublesome for one who "knows, loves, and relates", for a system of mind and an emotional system would have parts (that would have to be ...

Well put; I'll third that notion. Beyond Local Reality Time, space, stuff, change, and form are real-ized from Fundamental Possibility, Becoming the p...

Now measure out some kg m2 s**?2, and there you have it.

It's made of Mass, Length squared, and Time negative squared.

It's still happening in them. NDE tunnels of light and such can be explained by neurology, and OBE’s by a condition called sleep paralysis. They can a...

What a battle! Consciousness/qualia is of the brain as a process therein because 1. It reflects what the brain has just come up with from its analysis...

Heck if I know! Stephen Hawking came up with the zero-sum example, although Pascual Jordan had it long ago, too. One time I confided some of my recent...

Nobody Nowhere Nowhat Nowhen did it. The negative potential energy of gravity exactly matches and cancels out the positive kinetic energy of stuff.

What a great hoax is being put over on us! We put a picture of some cheese in a mousetrap and catch a picture of a mouse. Our senses don't really take...

And yet it does. It's OK to accept a truth instead of a proof when the proof involves the first person realm, the only place where quailia are; tough ...

My pleasure to meet with a completely honest person, but the thought came from your brain and so there was perhaps some kind of inadvertent 'research'...

You never remain as 'you', even for an instant, nor does any other state ever remain the same, for all is in continuous transition, never remaining in...

We defined it, recently, here, for example, that the will makes choices, and, thus, so defined, we have free will. 'Defining' is the key to have the w...

Me, too. This is my brain's will 'speaking' here and always, for thoughts ever arise therein. The part of the brain that is called the 'will' comes up...

I suppose this sums up a bit proto-man to human development, 'awareness' having now become automatic, along with the other two items. Or maybe it was ...

My fun video on Energy: https://vimeo.com/338098562

Especially protons. it might decay with a half-life of about 10**32 years — Gooooooggle

'Stuff' would mostly be energy/interactions going 'round, although I lean toward calling 'stuff' to be happenings/events, with apparently stable 'stuf...

Well, something has come along and it exists, so, then, there has to be a way for it to be. Not that 'Nothing' can have an existence, but if there cou...

Yes, good video. Lincoln posts on the science and philosophy chat forum sometimes.

You are facing a paradox about the base Existence, like we all do; yet, we can be assured that there are no true paradoxes, since there is existence, ...

Thus leaving no independent 'space' that is additional beside the span of the relations.

Um, that was, unfortunately for good communication, referring to the physicist's nothing that isn't nothing; the zero-point field still has energy.

I don't see how an effect could ever surface.

You sure have a lot of not nothingness here.

I'll try to zero in on what 'free will' is free to do or what it is free of, since many don't define it, leaving it as some stand-alone phrase not anc...

You have Newton's absolute space, whose only quantity would seem to be volume. Einstein replaced this notion with the gravitational field, that is, sp...

'God's realm has shrunk to being constrained to do only the same as what would naturally happen.

This is the quantum foam, ever jittering, for some reason like that QM can never be definite, as mostly noise, items coming and going in a kind of sub...

Yes, this is a problem for many, as either atheists or theists. To say for sure that 'God' is or is not is misleading at best and dishonest at worst, ...

Perhaps you missed my post; from my view it is at the end of the previous page.

'm' is for mass, but it approximates matter. 'e' is a heck of a lot of energy. 'Energy' was originally about how much work could be done; we aren't ge...

OK, moving onto the OP, let us take the list as assertions, ignoring that it was said, that "Given that I cannot choose to consciously exist in this s...