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'Free will' sounds like a good thing to have, yet references to it without definition are meaningless. One, trivial, but common definition is that the...
July 20, 2019 at 17:55
Guys, many of us know that believing in something doesn't necessarily make it true and that still acting as if it were true is not very honest. Althou...
July 20, 2019 at 03:46
It appears to read that the states in the list are automatic happenings and thus unavoidable.
July 20, 2019 at 03:05
The fixed will is that of the instant, 'voting' as it has become up to then; however, the fixed will is dynamic—it can change to a new and different f...
July 20, 2019 at 02:21
Here is a probably meaningless dimensional analysis equation if 'c' is a ratio: (externally, 4D block) as dddd / ('c' light speed) as d/t = (internall...
July 19, 2019 at 02:56
No, a process is a good idea. I got it from my maybe garbled notes and perhaps 'processism' shouldn't be there or should have been something else. I s...
July 19, 2019 at 02:06
Not substantivalism, but relationalism, because there's no empty space; 'space' doesn't exist in addition to something else. Space-time literally is E...
July 18, 2019 at 21:34
Time is mostly constituted by us; take music, for example, from my own Rubaiyat: Memory’s traces recall the last heard tone; Sensation savors what is ...
July 18, 2019 at 18:42
This demolishes claims of infinite divisibility, and so Zeno's hare beats the tortiose. Analog falls, digital rises; there is no continuum. As for mor...
July 18, 2019 at 18:06
Time's speed changes when we go higher or lower, faster or slower. Heck if I know, but maybe dark energy was always around but was dominated by gravit...
July 18, 2019 at 17:36
Rovelli has it that space-time is Einstein's gravitational field. Rovelli is trying to model the spacetime quanta with 'loops' and 'spin-foams'. All t...
July 18, 2019 at 17:30
This is Relationalism, which I like. All seems to have to be relative/relational, since there is no outside or before Totality, thus no absolute ruler...
July 17, 2019 at 21:12
Um, how about that timeless spaceless photons made everything at once, in no time, and so we must now be experiencing in a time-dilated broadcast of o...
July 17, 2019 at 18:05
I lean toward this lately, because existence, having no opposite/alternative would have to all be there, as everything, not just some of it; however, ...
July 17, 2019 at 18:00
We don't do anything; the Cosmos does us.
July 17, 2019 at 02:13
What always comes back to haunt me about the seemingly impossible Void is that most everywhere in physics a zero-sum balance of opposites seems to be ...
July 16, 2019 at 22:46
Something like that, but the timeless 'IS' already has everything (possible) all at once, with no initial state. I wasn't really pushing many worlds. ...
July 16, 2019 at 18:44
Helpful effort, or love, defines what’s good; Goodness, taken to extreme, is called ‘God’; Evil, or harm excess, names the ‘Devil’; Laziness, as neith...
July 16, 2019 at 14:43
Since all the paths are superposed, there is no particular state, as all the states are there all at once. Most of the paths lead to not much, such as...
July 16, 2019 at 14:35
Seems we skeptics already know and expect that the firmer believers won't give up, as their belief-wires have already solidly wired together from firi...
July 16, 2019 at 00:29
Support for only the Natural being so: Everywhere we look, we see but the natural. Nothing appears out of the ordinary after the repeat occurrences, s...
July 16, 2019 at 00:14
It should read more like, "welcome to the realness of an 'out there'."
July 15, 2019 at 23:45
Yes, as I've mentioned recently, although overall we remain mired in the temporal. or, if we are really traversing the eternal's pseudo-temporal we ca...
July 15, 2019 at 23:35
It appears that for anything to be, it first has to be possible (to have potential), although the timeless has no 'first', about which I don't know wh...
July 15, 2019 at 23:15
We make things, like computers, from stuff out there and they work out there, for one, and two, we have senses also as to be able to take things in fr...
July 15, 2019 at 18:32
This 'God' cannot be approved of and thus cannot be accepted and followed, for then what integrity would we have? Not much, for He is a bad role model...
July 15, 2019 at 18:27
Since presentism has some problems, we are leaning toward eternalism herein. If we take Parmenides’ view, as Einstein did, time is completely left out...
July 15, 2019 at 18:18
Or we spatialize some great distance when there really isn't any. Should we continue about the Great 'IS'? If so, I'm going to replace my use of 'tran...
July 15, 2019 at 00:07
It probably shows that relations are more primary than distance. Space, then, is not something in itself, but only the span of the relations/connectio...
July 14, 2019 at 20:41
When one derives a truth, the proof (the "work") isn't needed, although it would be nice. I've always been for presentism, and like Lee Smolin's take,...
July 14, 2019 at 19:49
Yes, it needs be necessarily permanent/eternal, due to that there is something here and to that existence has no alternative. It cannot be still, else...
July 14, 2019 at 18:38
So, then, there had to be a causeless eternal basis, as there can be no opposite to being. An 'IS'. Case closed. What can be inferred about that which...
July 14, 2019 at 17:20
Could it be that the qualia-type product surely indicates that the brain at some point in its progression through higher and higher modules has to gen...
July 14, 2019 at 16:13
He claims to have shown to several sigma. It seems to make some sense that cause and effect can't go on forever.
July 14, 2019 at 16:01
Causes ever behind effects leads to an infinite regress; so, let 'random' be where the buck stops, all thereafter being deterministic. Or, let the bas...
July 14, 2019 at 15:57
"Randomness is the bedrock of reality." —Anton Zeilinger
July 14, 2019 at 14:57
Possible 'God' derivation history—an assortment to ponder, from my draft extensions to the Rubaiyat in the religious area: The Christian concept of re...
July 14, 2019 at 02:47
Neither time nor distance is infinitely divisible; the Plank time and the Plank size are shortest and the smallest. The turtle loses.
July 14, 2019 at 00:46
While we don't see a brain or anything as it really is, this doesn't undermine investigation, for we can be sure that the mind paints a useful face on...
July 14, 2019 at 00:31
I recall something from somewhere: Since all fetuses begin as female, the intended-for-male instructions for masculinizing the brain and the body can ...
July 14, 2019 at 00:23
Hello Dfpolis. Good Op with some good reasoning. The golden template of being having our lessor being coming from a greater Being is not what we obser...
July 13, 2019 at 22:48
Hello to all philosophers, Although one only ever experiences a model of reality in one's mind, this serves well enough for operational purposes. In g...
July 12, 2019 at 23:08