I believe dreams are probably the most direct way of exploring the nature of life (and death). Dreams do not have the same sense of temporal duration ...
The body has 10x more bacteria and viruses in it than human cells. People may host the same gems and viruses, yet done will become unhealthy while oth...
Bergson's metaphysics develops a model that avoids the clumsiness of the above stated view, as does the Bohm Interpretation. Conscious (Mind) and Matt...
To the best of my understanding, the is no particle. Just a symbolic representation (am mindful image) of a particle when it is convenient for purpose...
Then I would say there is still a problem, if the mind at all was involved with the movement of the physical body. If it isn't, then what is providing...
As I understand it, the issue that traditional dualists (not Bergson) must grapple with is how does an insubstantial mind (or spirit) grasp the distin...
I would agree that physicalists have the same problem, in that somehow the insubstantial mind must emerge out of the substantial brain. In terms of th...
The problem is that they are distinct then what is the bridge? Bergson's approach is to to have mind and matter share temporal time matter being resid...
Setting aside the scientific method, which admittedly is flawed, as a philosopher, is the diversity of spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical expe...
A different view of dualism that overcomes the historical difficulties of dualism. It requires a totally different v way of looking at Matter and Memo...
De Broglie surely would have taken issue with this point of view. In fact he did. As did Bohm and a plethora of others. What is philosophy without an ...
If quanta is a wave, then one cannot speak of its position at a point of time. Heisenberg's principle implies this, not as a limitation but as a real ...
The issue here is, and I'm sure you realize it, that one can claim that whatever the ultimate outcome, it is the will of God. This those on both sides...
We agree that there is something there there. By beyond that the subject gets far more complicated, always has been, and in all probability will alway...
I think, upon inspection, the precise description of atoms, molecules, quarks, boffins, hadrons, bosons, quanta, photons, dark matter, spin, etc. are ...
The discussion seems to be around what are beliefs, can beliefs be used as "evidence" of any truths, what types of beliefs are held by different popul...
The issue with Husserl's stance as I perceive it, is that he as with many other philosophers before and after him, are still seeking access our defini...
I wouldn't say that fallacies are a necessary survival tool. I've pretty much lived my whole life without resorting to Aristotelian logic, syllogisms,...
Everything has uses. They exist and if they exist they can be used for learning. But this doesn't mean that we have to learn from everything. We pick ...
Setting aside the notion of God for the time being (I believe the world is exactly as it seems, and that is We are creating and observing everything t...
The problem is not how one reads books on logic. The problem is that the use of logic in the fall world is fallacious. Logic is only useful in the aca...
If fallacious reasoning is a product of millions of years of evolution, then we should cherish it. The errors with all syllogisms is always the propos...
One only need to think of duality as two sides of the same coin. One can analogue this to wave-particle duality or energy-matter dualty in that one tr...
Symbols do exist as memory and are as real as anything else, they are less substantial. Symbolic representations, whether in memory or written on pape...
I would say that science is a manifestation of the creative mind that is embedded within the holographic image as the mind seeks to view itself. The m...
The nature of a holographic wave pattern is that the referenced wave images appear everywhere since waves have no limits. It is the defining character...
i would submit that space-time as you describe as it relates to the mind and/orbody is highly debately. Space-time is rather ambiguous concept arising...
One way to view the problem is not that the mind needs or doesn't need the universe but that the mind is embedded in a holographic universe, such as t...
Questions about the propositions: 1) What is the nature of mind in a spatio-temporal sense? 2) What is meant by a body is spatio-temporal? 3) What is ...
I would agree, but physicalism just makes something that is empty into something physical and then the deed is done. Emotions are nothing more than el...
Choice is a choice in action not in outcome. And choices are constrained and impacted by all of the forces in the Universe (fields of energy have no l...
A practicing Hindu onced explained to me that all religions and all philosophies are Hindu. Hindu welcomes all religions under its umbrella. And thus ...
The problem with this question is what exactly are the laws of physics? If you include all of the mysterious forces that are simply measured without u...
Yes, there is reality of matter and spirit but not dualistic. They are one and the same extending in different directions. This is very clear in his w...
I don't recall Bergson espousing dualism, by I can be setting. My understanding is that his building blocks for all phenomena at Memory, the Elan Vita...
The major element of my model is that everything is energetic patterns or what Bergson called Memory. The difference between what one may view as a pe...
Many spiritual cultures take the opposing view that the vital spiritual force chooses the parents prior to coming into existence. A more fair point of...
It is always a dead end and somewhat of a punt when a philosophical model resorts to illusion of some sort. I simply believe in this case the Buddhist...
The question is whether a non-deterministic universe necessarily chaotic. There are ways to account for a universe that is non-deterministic, has cons...
I believe this is a false dichotomy. There is plenty of room for a universe that is not chaotic, but rather habitual, and still creating/making choice...
Nothing is the annihilation of the positive/negative. It is when two waves of equal amplitude are out of phase by 180 degrees. What happened to the po...
This is a very specific line of inquiry which is more siritual in nature. That consciousness is not understood does not necessarily infer anything bey...
Yes, of course one can always make everything that is non-material into material, and everything that is purely subjective, personal, and unmeasurable...
Based upon my own studies, there is plenty of room in all theories for either determinism (i.e. yes, everything is determined we just don't how) or fr...
It may be that the majority of people that you meet may be materialists, but it does appear that most people are quite religious believing in a spirit...
I would say that holography is a science of its own which creates three dimensional photographs with the use of light waves. Using this model, one can...
I would say that weather prediction is very representative of most sciences. Physics is more precise, but still quite malleable and full of uncertaint...
There is always something to discuss, but everyone has their own belief system that is unlikely to change to any great degree. Discussion is more of a...
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