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Choose a specific subject that you are interested in and just begin studying it. Don't study philosophers. Study questions that you have.

The Daoists pretty much disregarded Hindu illusionism thought, as did Buddha who limited his thoughts to how to live a life (The Four Noble Truths and...

Yes, they are real in the sense they are vibrating waves that are forming patterns probably similar to a holographic pattern. But that is all they are...

They are expressions of the creativity of Mind. However, the Mind it's not relegated to the brain. It permeates throughout all life as waves, within, ...

Are you speaking of something specific or is this just another placeholder for God. Can you enumerate the Laws of Physics for me? What are you referri...

I It is not an argument. It is an observation that is easily made by observing a human cadaver. There are forms, but there are no beginning or ending ...

There are no parts. It is one wholistic life form. If you look at the human it is one, there are no "parts", i.e. separation, anywhere. And if one wis...

What is the time (duration) that we experience? It is some change in our memory. Interestingly, these changes can feel longer or shorter depending upo...

When you use the word mean, that brings the mind into it, and that brings perspective. To you it means one thing. To someone else it means something e...

Bohm once wrote that creativity is about finding differences within similarities, similarities within differences, and resolving paradoxes that arise.

Absolutely, by studying the arts, (music, art, dancing, singing, mediation, etc.) and observe. Observation and creativity are the heart and soul of ph...

Reason would suggest that this exactly what one should recognize. It is definitely keeping accounts of what one is observing.

It is possible to derive this from observation. Creativity and individual expression are pretty much suppressed from the time one first enters into th...

One can take a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical position that Mind (consciousness) and Matter are the same just moving in different direction...

The psychology of denying one's own existence (specifically mind), is rather interesting. I have never been in that space so I don't know what it feel...

All premises are inductive, which pretty much invalidates all deductive logic. I actually agree. Everything is subject to change.

It is not a leap. It is brought about by habitual recognition. There are tons of patterns out there, most are of be practical use for practical purpos...

Ultimately, it will be very hard to get away from this. Even the deadest of matter, still had a "spark" or impulse within it that creates changed (e.g...

Zero. Refer to Heraclitus. Something is always different. However, similarities are sufficient for practical purposes in many (most?) circumstances fo...

No. Just a good observer like many if the ancients whose lives depended upon astute and practical observations. Hume, merely reiterated was is quite o...

Mathematical equations are meaningless symbolics until observations are substituted for variables. Symbolics are meaningless. I could write this if I ...

And you know this how? If this was so, we would all be roaches. Humans would have vanished long ago. Actually they would never have even come into bei...

It is impossible to find evidence for determinism in science, though some still hold out some hope. Very simply put, the universe is inherently probab...

The universe is inherently probabilistic.. What we observe or measure are approximations. Everything is continuously changing. Knowledge might be view...

A philosopher is a person who wonders about the nature of nature and of life and seeks to find patterns that will inform him/her with a deeper underst...

I agree. There is a creative, intelligent vibration that is imbued in the fabric of the universe. If one wishes too externalize it from himself/hersel...

The "just because" just so happens to act in exactly the same manner as a creative universal Mind or a God. It is a matter of taste. The major differe...

At the deepest level there is no solidity anywhere in nature. We feel "forces". That is all. The mind it's fundamentally all about feeling.

To be or not to be, that is the question. Call it what you will, the "intelligent, creative mind" is always there in some form. How you feel it is a m...

Putting aside God as irrelevant .... There is only creation, i.e. experiments with wave forms, that begin in humans when the baby first waves his/her ...

It is perceived and sensed as such. Under analysis, as we peer deeper, it gradually becomes more-and more non-physical, quantitized. There is no separ...

This I agree with. I also agree there is a "sun" add some sort of waveform, which we are interpreting as some inner image. I have no idea where the im...

We don't see time. We have memories that are constantly changing as the past pushes into the present, but in so doing the present immediately becomes ...

The issue here is that they is no objective, because the universe is in continuous flux. We use c approximations for practical applications. However, ...

Please. Give it a break already. I really find word games useless. I'm only interested in understanding the nature of nature. Mind is First. It evolve...

"Mind is First, Matter is Second, Evolution is Third." "It would suppose that in the beginning, — infinitely remote, — there was a chaos of unpersonal...

It it's the second quote that counts.

A very sensible direction for philosophy and science.

Peirce is pretty clear: https://archive.org/stream/C.S.Peirces5FamousTheMonistPapers/1.TheArchitectureOfTheories1891_djvu.txt "The materialistic doctr...

During my everyday experience, I find myself feeling that I want to move my hand in a particular manner and then feeling my hand move in that manner. ...

Nope. You left out Mind and jumped right too "effete mind" or matter, because this better dovetails with your biased interpretation. He clearly indica...

Of course not. The best explanation I ever heard by ba neuro-scientist was that "it was all very complicated". Which is a bit more than what you are s...

Actually he wrote Tychism and Mind are fundamental. That is why he titled his paper Law if the Mind.

No need for me to "interpret". I have my own views of Mind. Peirce has his views. "I argued further in favor of that way of thinking, which it will be...

Mind is a result of the growth of tychism. Matter is deadened mind. Very, very straightforward. The Law of the Mind.

There is no need to interpret. This is not ancient Greek. It is plain English and unusually succinct and pristine for philosophical writings which usu...

I think the whole of Life achieves Life. Carve up the body and you get a murder indictment. The living whole cannot exist without its parts. By extens...

Did you read Michael's carefully crafted messages. The Mind is the Body. They are identical. The Mind directs the body. How does that grab you? Let me...

oh, my guess is you a agree Mind directs the whole body? Right?

Exactly, the whole theory if materialism rests on a magical Miracle of the greatest sort. In a nutshell, "it all just happens". Meaningless philosophy...