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Everything is real but information is a construct of the mind to convey and share with another mind. There is nothing informative about quantum with t...
October 12, 2017 at 00:56
The difference is that Bergson was direct. He didn't need to invent stuff out of thin air. A philosophy that depends upon Vagueness as its center is a...
October 11, 2017 at 22:10
A Vagueness Imperative, is not making a case. It is a manufactured phrase designed to replace the word God so as not to upset the sensibilities of "sc...
October 11, 2017 at 19:31
I don't understand why the long paragraphs. It's quite simple: 1) First there is the Vagueness (the Dao) 2) Then the Dao/Consciousness (Thermodynamics...
October 11, 2017 at 14:00
It is a good video, but makes the classic mistake in calling It a deterministic theory, which it isn't. It is causal, but the initial conditions (the ...
October 11, 2017 at 13:28
Continue with your little yarn about Thermodynamics Imperatives. Didn't mean to interrupt your storytelling hour. Definitely much more scientific than...
October 11, 2017 at 05:02
That's all you've been doing. Spinning a yarn about Thermodynamic Imperative, your God. No different than Whitehead's God. But you like pretending it ...
October 11, 2017 at 04:54
De Broglie-Bohmian QM does away with wave collapses, since the quantum-potential is real as is the wave perturbation which is observed as the electron...
October 11, 2017 at 04:51
God.
October 11, 2017 at 04:42
The least valuable being describing something one knows nothing about. Ever try learning golf by reading about it?
October 11, 2017 at 00:43
Oh course. You know nothing about it other than what you read. And you have no idea what you are reading. Daoism and all of philosophy for that matter...
October 11, 2017 at 00:29
Not at all. It is a precise description of universal change that had lots of practical implications. The problem it's that in Western culture, because...
October 10, 2017 at 23:50
It's not a minor or side issue. It, along with the collapse of the integrity of our financial institutions, are major social and political issues as m...
October 10, 2017 at 21:11
This would be more or less Whitehead's viewpoint, only because he acknowledged the creative impulse that was undeniable. Ultimately, it must be incorp...
October 10, 2017 at 20:52
Keep up the good fight - of denial.
October 10, 2017 at 19:14
There is a difference between developing an idea from pure imagination as troubadours do and understanding patterns in nature. It is the difference be...
October 10, 2017 at 18:50
Apparently this is what is happening. I am suggesting there is a difference between philosophy and fiction writing, not that humans don't get carried ...
October 10, 2017 at 18:26
Both. Sheldrake refers to it as morphic resonance. Whitehead describes his own version of categories. The underlying phenomenon is persistence of memo...
October 10, 2017 at 18:21
Because it does: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-china-world-quantum-network.html http://newatlas.com/quantum-entanglement-nuclei-university-chicago-arg...
October 10, 2017 at 18:10
Philosophers should observe and understand not be caught up in story telling. That is what makes Daoism so interesting and practical. It is about the ...
October 10, 2017 at 17:08
It's just a story. The story of how chemicals mysticaly began to think, imagine, feel, emote, and create, encouraged by Cosmic Goals and Thermodynamic...
October 10, 2017 at 17:02
What's going on is the quantum mechanics pretty much put the last nail in the coffin of materialism, physicalism, and determinism. Now is time to begi...
October 10, 2017 at 16:44
As it may be. I am describing what philosophy means to me. That we exist and continue to create is an observation of life. That there is purpose, nove...
October 10, 2017 at 16:40
Have you studied this issue? There is nothing to abandon. SR and GR are solutions to measurement problems. They have zero ontological standing. They d...
October 10, 2017 at 14:55
What distinguishes philosophy from mythology is the former should be peering into existence while the later exercises pure imagination. That is why ph...
October 10, 2017 at 13:40
Whitehead calls it God. Bergson the Elan Vital. Einstein "the God of Spinoza". Peirce the Mind. The ancients The Dao. It is the Creative Force that is...
October 10, 2017 at 04:52
You know nothing about Whitehead or what he perceived. You only know your tales about Cosmic Purpose that allow you to hide your spirituality under a ...
October 10, 2017 at 03:03
So did Einstein when he spoke of the God of Spinoza. It is called intellectual honesty. http://www.wayofspinoza.com/einstein-shares-his-belief-in-spin...
October 10, 2017 at 02:54
Because he is honest to himself. He doesn't run away from the obvious not does he concoct wild tales to cover up what is there.
October 10, 2017 at 02:51
One cannot speak of Whitehead's philosophy without referring to most primordial element if his philosophy. Without this primordial element, his metaph...
October 10, 2017 at 02:26
Everyone observes life differently. The more one practices observation the more skilled one becomes with it. There are no shortcuts.
October 09, 2017 at 21:10
You might want to try out mediation or Tai Chi. This is what I'm talking about. Philosophers need to spend more time observing and experiencing, and l...
October 09, 2017 at 20:40
The learned patterns that are associated with other learned patterns.
October 09, 2017 at 18:19
This is only understood after the fact. Information to Sherlock Holmes' mind is due to the skill developed to discern. It only becomes information onc...
October 09, 2017 at 17:31
Sand in the beach is not information, nor are rings of a tree. However, patterns noticed in the sand or in the rings may be information if the mind ca...
October 09, 2017 at 13:15
Each mind anticipates differently.
October 09, 2017 at 06:41
I expect that we will always be discovering new things. I discover new things every day in my life. As for God, I see no need to create something to r...
October 09, 2017 at 06:40
Anticipation provides the impetus to flow forward and evolve? It is our imagination creating something new.
October 09, 2017 at 06:12
We c are still discovering new types of life on this planet in areas we thought life couldn't exist. Have patience. The universe is quite large and th...
October 09, 2017 at 06:11
It is as you described. One note moving into the next continuously, all being perceived as music in the mind's memory.
October 09, 2017 at 05:24
Musical notes played by an orchestra is an excellent example. In fact, it is precisely the example used by Bergson in his classic Creative Evolution.
October 09, 2017 at 05:21
It's memory morphing into something new but as it is happening it is already in memory. Potential actions are already in memory. It is not absurd beca...
October 09, 2017 at 04:55
To be clear, Whitehead was intellectually honest to himself and concluded that there is a God that can be considered one with creative transformation....
October 09, 2017 at 04:10
Of course, it is all as we experience it. Exactly and precisely. No illusions. No supernatural forces of any kind. If one wishes to understand the nat...
October 09, 2017 at 03:14
Only as possible intent to action, but it is past as it happens.
October 09, 2017 at 02:58
Philosophy has an ancient tradition of observing life and nature as it is experienced and understanding it to build life navigational skills, not some...
October 09, 2017 at 02:57
It is what created that post you wrote. Or do you think a group of chemicals got together over tea and decided to write it? Incredible what academia c...
October 09, 2017 at 02:42
Your mind perceives possible actions, but that is all happening in memory flowing into the present. The present is always in the process of becoming b...
October 09, 2017 at 01:54
Agreed. They are learned and are in memory and will repeat unless overruled. Your description is a precise description that can be directly observed b...
October 09, 2017 at 01:46
With the proviso of actions out of learned habit.
October 09, 2017 at 01:37