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Believe it or not, there are other philosophers who are like me. But most are more likely to believe they can understand nature by manipulating differ...

It's been extremely successful. Don't watch someone dance. Dance! There is no substitution for direct experience, observation, and increased awareness...

That this discussion had become so convoluted and opaque is just further evidence of what a mess mathematics makes of nature. There are no numbers in ...

Well of course, material can affect mental and mental can effect material, as stress often does. It's a continuum. But Consciousness came first. Matte...

They work exactly as advertised. They stimulate. Lots of things can stimulate.

No claim was changed. I was simply answering your question. Matter can definitely kill physical life forms and physicians do it all the time with thei...

Example of discrete: 1 min., 2, min., 3, min .... into the impossible infinite. Example of continuous: duration (time) as it is actually experienced b...

you can say it is the theory of Bergson, Bohm, Daoism, Heraclitus, Paganism, or any philosophical thought that understands consciousness was at the be...

That is what happens when quantum energy turns into matter.

This is called infatuation with winning an argument vs. truly interested in understanding nature. Translation: The difference is small but big enough ...

Oh, yes. matter can definitely deaden or kill consciousness (physicians do this all the time when they prescribe opioids) , but it takes consciousness...

Because conscious is creative send intelligent and can create matter. Where does matter get the intelligence? From God?

It dissolves back into the universal fabric, possibly as memory.

It's nice, but it applies to everything. It is another way of saying that the universe is constantly evolving into the universe.

If you reverse your question, you have your answer: Conscious makes us. It is very obvious. All just have to reverse the materialist notion of life an...

This is what happens when one falls in love.

Thank you for articulating all the reasons that mathematics and science are useless in understanding the nature of nature. The desire "to predict" the...

To me it still looks like manipulation of discrete to approximate continuous. I don't see how mathematics can get around this. It is fundamental all a...

I do not see a way that mathematics, which relies totally on manipulation of discrete, can describe in any form, continuity. If course we must rely on...

There is simply no way around it. No matter how many individual notes one might string together it will never replicate it come close to describing th...

It would be a stretch to say that most people don't believe in life after death. It is probably more accurate to say most atheists and agnostics do no...

Agreed. Peirce, as does many others, attempts to apply mathematics (discrete symbolism) to a continuity and predictability arrives at a statement that...

But measurements are imprecise and cannot ever be precise which is exactly the point of this thread. It is impossible to stop anything (continuity and...

For the purpose of understanding the nature of nature, we need precision otherwise we miss the boat. It is alright to say that a book, for practical p...

A holographic universe is an idea, and one can see how entanglement might dovetail this idea. Bergson actually conceived of this image, via intuition,...

on One way to view the wave would be consciousness expanding over time (duration). The beginning and ending being consciousness itself.

I don't believe that the Aspect experiments (which have been duplicated many times since on a much larger scale) prove anything, however quantum entan...

We can use Bohm's own image of quantum potential and the Implicate Order. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IzUR87l8GbU/Ta8OEp_iq_I/AAAAAAAACLA/hb0VfFlRY2U/s1...

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In my model, which dovetails Bergson's, the impulse is the Elan Vital which is embedded, or at once literally the wave. The impulse can be considered ...

I disagree, but that is the nature of the world. You wanted evidence, I gave it to you. Do what you wish with it, including ignoring it. For those who...

It doesn't move it independently. It is embedded within the wave form and uses Will to attempt to move in a specific direction which would change the ...

It's a rich line of inquiry. Other key ideas are Bohm' quantum potential and how it might explain the delayed choice experiment.

Moving an object would be analog to one wave in an ocean moving another. Ocean and waves provide the basic analog of nature (it is a mirrored manifest...

Quantum entanglement.

I am saying that as far as empirical evidence exists at this time, there is no evidence of full and total separation. There seems to be more evidence ...

Is you saying this is your belief or are you saying there is empirical evidence? As far as I understand there is no evidence one way or the other, but...

My metaphysics is one of waves and continuity. Definitely affects my outlook on life and the meaning that I perceive in it. Everything I do, I see as ...

Explain any empirical evidence that anything is truly divisible, that is stands completely separate from all that surrounds it. It must be shown at th...

If one insists on a discontinuous space and time then Zeno will always be there along with Achilles not ever reaching the finish line and arrows that ...

But if you examine it closely, you are not cutting space. The mark simply dissolves into space as more precision is required. There is no materiality ...

The marks in space themselves are also symbolic since nor cannot truly divide space with a mark. Time, or Duree as Bergson called it to avoid confusio...

Bergson approached the problem in exactly the same way as Zeno did and for precisely the same reason. No doubt, Bergson was informed by Zeno.

Yes, Zeno certainly realized that where there are paradoxes there are flaws in the understanding. Most of my views and approach parallel those of Berg...

you can try your best to represent life experiences using symbols, but try as you might "1" does not in any way describe the experience of going from ...

The issue is attempting to find a half-way point when there isn't any. The problem begins with attempting to use a symbolic, 1/2, in a continuous flow...

But I didn't move half-way. I moved from here to there. In retrospect to may try to figure out what half-way might have been and you may be approximat...

Yes, this is the whole issue. We are layering symbolic notions of divisibility onto a continuous flow, leading us to paradoxical concepts. We must sto...

I agree. Implying that zero duration has ontological meaning creates irresolvable issues as does trying to split time and space into a series of homog...