Rich

Darn good post. I have to read it more closely and will be back if I have any comments.

Listen, it's your story. You just don't seem to know how to keep it straight. Don't look for me for help.

This is specifically your faith. One can equally say, I find it likely that God created the universe. There is no difference other than the belief of ...

Is this the new story that the mind pops out of the nervous system? It keeps changing. I thought it was the child of Cosmic Goals and Thermodynamic Pu...

It is my experience, it is not illusory. If someone says that it is illusory, then we need to inspect the differences in our experiences. Differences ...

No, but you do need to invoke some faith that "mind just happened", because that is all there is. Faith comes in many forms and when it is part of one...

Once an individual allows illusions to become explanations then magic becomes real. Anything and everything can be explained as an illusion. There are...

Here is an interesting essay written by an astrophysicist who directly addresses the issues at hand: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/03/26/52147...

This is why ignore GR and Einstein. Ontology becomes deeply derailed into an experienced of illusion. From this point, everything, including this thre...

No, he's simply pointing out the absurdity of evolution without intention. Evolution simply says one miracle is simply followed by an infinite number ...

In this case, the vast Infinite along with Thermodynamic Purpose and Cosmic Goals have been called upon as the new God. It's a reengineering of the ol...

It's fine to say "I don't have the foggiest idea", but that is not what is happening here. What is being suggested is that out of nothingness matter m...

If one is interested in understanding measurements, then scientific time is primary. Einstein was interested in the issue of simultaneity. If one is i...

The equations are not an ontology. If you want to use the equations as an ontology they only totally different views of time. In fact, time vanishes i...

Sure, there is Mind. It evolves as a product of growth (learning). And then it leaves behind dead matter. Bergson said the same. Good ole Mind. Right ...

Nope, you have a problem. For heaven sake's the title of the essay is "The Law of the Mind". He explicitly refers to mind (the word physicalists bite ...

That's Newton, which at the end may be closer to nature than Relativity.

Agree. There is all kinds of whipsawing going on. First we have something resembling Pierce's global mind as you describe and then we we have the deni...

Always better to go to the source: Peirce, Law of the Mind "I have begun by showing that tychism must give birth to an evolu- tionary cosmology, in wh...

In speaking of time, Smolin, describes a situation that echos my sentiments about immutable Laws of Nature: "Let's consider a system that's been studi...

I don't see how either twin knows this or how the clocks know this. Do they feel it? To the twin on Earth, it appears that he is accelerating away fro...

An interesting paper in the subject: Yet another time about time … Part I: An Essay on the Phenomenology of Physical Time Plamen L. Simeonov Quite a c...

That physical things are affected by acceleration (applied force) and gravitation is observable and can felt. But this is a far cry from giving equati...

What is at rest? Anyway: https://phys.org/news/2009-06-twin-paradox-older.html It is possible that the actual force of acceleration is affecting the b...

Who knows? As I said, as far as GR is concerned each can be considered accelerating relative to each other. The equations should be reciprocal. I don'...

There should be no difference since each can be considered accelerating relative to reach other as GR is considered. However, as we all know, accelera...

It is the what the relativity equations are all about, keeping in mind only General Relativity. Special has c no application since inertial frames don...

Scientific time is measurement of simultaneous events. It is not the duration of experience which is heterogeneous and continuous. It is there essence...

I prefer philosophers who directly scrutinize the nature of life and pay lots of attention to what they actually observe and then write about it. Not ...

To some, it may seem too simplistic to describe current scientific theories about the origins of the Universe and Life as "It just happened", but if o...

So to avoid longer and longer posts, I'm going to focus on this particular statement because I think it is the focal point of the discussion. For me, ...

We all experience life, and I'm all about describing experience as precisely as we can by direct observation. I can say on my behalf, that the duratio...

I remember you describing Bohm as a crackpot. Was not his poetry up to snuff?

This is fine. I understand the feeling of anticipation that one may have of a possible future. And I also understand the colloquial use of the term fu...

The problem is that SR is only applicable to inertial frames which doesn't exist (except as an approximation), so SR had no relevance to any discussio...

I do not know of how to conceive of a possible future without it being in memory. I'm trying it right now. It is in memory. And it changes as possibil...

Definitely saving this for the summation of this thread. Physicalism at its most poetic.

I must have missed something big! All I remember was the phrase Thermodynamic Purpose being invented out of thin air. Granted there were about 1000 wo...

When we perceive we create something. If we don't perceive, then there is nothing. When we are unconscious, there is nothing.

Debate will get you no where. What will give you new insights into the nature of nature is your own hard work in various disciplines.

One can create the process of experiencing if one wishes. But this is beside the point. Everyone experiences with a mind. Either one moves ahead and e...

I'm the same as you. I'm only interested in understanding the nature of life and the nature of nature. I experience and I observe and I read, and I go...

In a dream state, our entire sensation of experience changes, e.g. the views, the possibilities? Current theories about the brain have no explanation ...

Yes, we imagine possible actions, but this is done in memory, not in the future.All we have experienced is a changing past Yes, this is real time (dur...

Thanks for the link. The concept is widely used in art as a means of capturing nature as we observe it.

As I said, we experience the past moving into the present. Anyone experiencing the future is referred to b as a fortune teller.

Verbs like Cosmic Goals, thermodynamic purpose, and constraints. Whitehead called all this God in his process metaphysics. "Whitehead saw God as neces...

Of course you are right. Physicalism is a big bag of nothing (other than an unending stream of meaningless sentences) other than "It happens". After 2...

The existing model is not adequate for all of the objections being raised. It doesn't make sense c with the existing model without resorting to denial...

There is substantial research being performed on a holographic model of the universe irrespective of NDE. There are problems all over the place that c...