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Let's just say it has no merit. It is just a brute fact. And that others like it equally has no merit (argumentum ad populum).

As with all efforts to find Truth, there will be a mixture of evidence and beliefs (faith being a very strongly held belief) and disagreements be betw...

I agree. God is exactly equivalent to the Laws of Nature: omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient. It is a matter of taste. From an economic point of view...

The difficulty is finding a "truth" that is independent of the subject. The moment it is uttered it becomes dependent on the utterer.

It depends upon what the belief is. A very straightforward belief is that Jesus existed as a human 2000 years ago. This belief rests upon what someone...

Everyone is different and learning in their own way in their own time. Discussions can be convincing or they can be about learning. It doesn't have to...

In this context, God (instead of illusions) is useful. Under such circumstances, combatibilism is not needed or useful. However, if you want to bring ...

It's there because it somehow magically emerges from quanta. There really isn't an agent. You just think you are thinking because of the illusion. How...

With fatalism there is actually a thinking and feeling agent. With determinism, it is all about illusion created by some quanta banging into each othe...

It's a mindset thing, and this is where ones philosophy can create a different way of looking at life. When someone tries to do something (choose to m...

Ok. It's 'many-worlds" or never-ending branches (multi-verses?) that are interacting with each other (manifestation in one world creates another) non-...

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-satellite-achieves-spooky-action-record-distance https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=quantum+n...

There is no failure. Everything is a experiment and learning experience. This allows us to become more skillful navigators in life.

Faith is nothing more than a strongly held belief. We all have beliefs and many are strongly held. Best for over not to get too wedded to any belief. ...

The Chinese proverb goes, "If you don't change direction, you'll end up where you are headed". We all can choose to change direction but often we don'...

Merit is subjective as is any idea put forth. To penetrate requires many skills that takes time to develop and these skills can come from many, many d...

Let's put it this way, the experiments that have been designed to test noon-locality gave confirmed non-locality, in the same manner any scientific ex...

Yes, but not-locality has been experimentally observed which is why Bell preferred Bohm's model. Plus it gets around the awkwardness of a never-ending...

It's not for anyone to justify other life.

I have found that interesting metaphysics is a combination of knowledge, personal observations, pattern recognition (finding similarities within diffe...

The problem lies in elevating mathematical equations to ontological status. They are not. They are merely symbolic representations that are useful as ...

In Bohm's conception of the universe as a holomovement process the Implicate/Explicate order, the field would be a manifestation of this movement. Thi...

Hiley put it quite eloquently when he says we have to think of the universe at both the micro and macro level as processes and not things. This viewpo...

My head spins when I consider the many world concepts that someone had to buy into with the Everett model (endless parallel universes) where everythin...

Here Basil Hiley, a close associate of Bohm, discusses the process nature of the Bohm model. He prefers to avoid wave/particle concepts. Pretty intere...

In his later writings, de Broglie dropped the notion of a particle and instead referred to it as a wave perturbation.

The Bohm model simplifies everything. There is a real particle (actually a wave perturbation) that goes through one of the slits. It is being guided b...

A life form has Will that allows it to choose an action in a particular direction. Results are always unpredictable though probabilistic in nature (th...

My interpretation is that the Dao (intelligence or vital force) permeates the universe. It would be a analogous to waves of quanta (the Dao symbol) bu...

Probably the best way to understand human behavior is to observe and study it.

I believe, based upon observations, that most people feel this way about responsibility, though there is a very wide variance among the population. Ev...

There are gradations in how one may feel responsibility. It's a feeling. Do I feel responsible for a sneeze? If it is from a cold, maybe I could have ...

I agree, it doesn't and never does. Quantum physics is an equation. You plug some numbers in and you get some results. Equations don't interpret thems...

I believe that beliefs is all we have and I'm satisfied with that. When lots of people believe strongly about the same thing (there is spectrum) they ...

This is the primary issue with your argument. You can't assume anything especially when there is ample disagreement. It may be convenient so that you ...

I agree with your proposition. The universe doesn't progress, it evolves and we, with memory, remember and learn as we evolve with it. One can make a ...

Time unfolds (real psychological time, not scientific time) as a manifestation of all that is happening including the choices being made. There is no ...

Based upon my so studies, physics only offers the equations, which are purely symbolic and have no meaning onto themselves. Any interpretations must n...

I don't see that physics is taking a position. Physics is offering the Schrodinger's equation as a way of probabilistically predicting the position of...

Understanding that spirituality is an individual exploration, for me, concretely, my spirituality is a recognition of the life force within me (variou...

I don't think so. I just believe that people tend to label as a truth what is merely an agreed consensus which it's constantly changing (and actually ...

Daoism does embrace creative evolution (the evolving intelligence that permeates the universe). In this c respect, it is similar to the philosophy of ...

A personally do not subscribe to the notion of gene transfer for any number of reasons most of all it merely squishes everything human into a lowly ge...

Mindfulness (I practice Tai Chi) is fundamentally a practice of increasing relaxed awareness. Increasng awareness, permits us to make more skillful ch...

For me, there are no Truths. I believe in things always subject to inevitable changes. It is a matter of how much leeway one allows in their own perso...

I think that it is an interesting observation and something to consider when attempting to create permanence. Allowing flow seems to create healthier ...

No assumptions anywhere. Just observations. Under inspection everything seems to be constantly changing and evolving, except in one particular situati...

You lose mobility of thought. Truth becomes the unchangeable anchor. Of course, the universe continues to evolve no matter what. Best not to get invol...

Whenever you lay down a truth, you always lose something, i.e. movement and evolution of that which is unique, and yes it does matter. Basically, ther...

Math is merely symbols that are carried by definition and convention. 1+1 had no meaning other than what we apply to it. In school we are taught that ...