So your unnamed "physicist" is saying that the pioneers of quantum physics didn't understand the philosophical implications of statistical (versus det...
That assertion depends on how you define "real". If your interest is in statistical mathematical predictions, picturing the wave crests of a quantum f...
What exactly is Process Philosophy? This is a continuation of my previous post. In which I noted that Whitehead's book seemed to be arguing in favor o...
One way to understand an obscure philosophical opus is to learn what prompted it, or what it is arguing against. A few years ago, since I never fully ...
Yes. The architect of our cosmic habitation apparently was designing for non-divine inhabitants who are subject to the same natural laws as the house ...
The First Cause concept may seem like Dualism from your perspective, but it's Monism*1 from mine. I can't tell you "how" it happens. That's a job for ...
Thermodynamics is not a problem for "my god"*1, because it is not a physical system subject to natural laws, but the source of those laws. This Platon...
When bullied by a forum troll, the best thing to say is nothing. That's why I long ago stopped responding to my own philosophical gadfly, who doesn't ...
On a philosophy forum we expect to have disagreements. But we also have a right to expect the disputes to be articulated in calm rational counter-argu...
Perhaps, prior to the 20th century, a self-existent universe may have been plausible. But the astro-physical evidence of a singular point-of-origin fo...
Yes. Biology & Physics give us a look inside the skull of an observer. From those facts we can construct a mechanical model of how the brain produces ...
Yes. There's only one table, but there are two different ways of looking at, or thinking about, the table. One perspective is scientific (particles & ...
That comment is true, but the "something" is not necessarily Matter, and may even be a form of Mind. If the notion of mental matter sounds odd or woo-...
Did Berkeley in the 18th century have any empirical evidence upon which to base his foresight of "modern subatomic physics" view of Matter? Or was his...
I too, postulate a philosophical god-like First Cause*1 as an explanation for the something-from-nothing implication of Big Bang theory. The Multivers...
Whitehead's Process philosophy is over my head. But it seems to be describing a worldview that is similar to my own. For example, reductive physical S...
What is Process Philosophy? Years ago, I too, got lost in Whitehead's complex & convoluted abstract & abstruse explication of Process and Reality. So,...
Has that been your experience in this forum? I started this thread by announcing my ignorance of a new-to-me philosophy. And I suppose most of the pos...
Thanks. I didn't mean to characterize Gautama as a doctrinal Agnostic, but merely as one who didn't claim to have knowledge of gods or supernatural be...
I assume you are implying that I am "demonstrating" my own ignorance. But this thread is not attempting to "demonstrate" anything about Buddhism or Bu...
The Tao Te Ching does not specify a purpose to the natural world, but its metaphor of "flow" does bring to mind the course of a river that simply foll...
I suppose the ancient oriental philosophies & religions were originally Naturalist, in the sense that most aboriginal (uncivilized) societies lived li...
Since you didn't want to talk about Taoism, except in traditional authoritative doctrinal terms, I have refrained from adding the Axiarchism post to t...
Maybe we can shift our view of The Point (the context). I spell it with a hyphen --- meta-physics --- to indicate that I use the term to mean "non-phy...
Awesome ! :blush: I'm serious. Don't leave it a mystery. Publish it. And a sequel or two. After all, Dante journeyed for over thirty cantos. :smile: "...
So we do agree. For me, Philosophy is Meta-Physics (study of Mind) as opposed to Physics (study of Matter)*1. The Tao Te Ching is a philosophical poem...
Hmmm. Disagree with what? Apparently Lao Tse's Tao is very important to you. But not as "empirical science" or "philosophical poetry". Not even "Metap...
Not surprising. Would you care to elaborate? My knowledge of Tao Te Ching is superficial, but I found it generally compatible with my philosophical un...
Yes. In Lao Tse's time, there was no formal discipline of empirical Science. So philosophers and sages relied upon Intuition (look inward), Contemplat...
I'm not sure what "this" referred to, but I'm guessing that you think we humans are not following the Tao, hence are lost in the labyrinth. Yet one la...
"Tao" is usually translated into English as The Way or Path or Map. And the admonition to "follow the path of nature" could be expressed in a modern c...
I think you have touched on the problem with this stalemated thread. Apparently, most posters on TPF, including myself, are not familiar with the spec...
In my last post I promised to link to a blog essay that discusses the connection between meaningful Information and causal Energy, which in my thesis ...
My original god-concept came from my austere religious training : back-to-the-bible-protestant-Christianity. It typically dismissed many of the specif...
This thread is a continuation of the ancient philosophical debate between Realism and Idealism*1. Today, the debate is mainly between the here & now a...
Logic is not, in itself, a philosophical argument. But, like Mathematics, Logic is essential to reasonable thinking & discourse. In college, I took on...
Good point! A world "without friction" (entropy) might be eternal and infinite. But that's not how our actual "universe was made". Instead, it seems t...
180proof's disparaging assessment ("simplistic/lazy") of your self-effacing (non-expert) post is ironic. He typically dismisses transcendent (non-imma...
Great! The US Green Party in 2024 held 153 elected offices in 21 states. Unfortunately, that is just a fraction of the total. The presidential candida...
As von Clausewitz noted : “War is a continuation of politics by other means”. But its corollary might be : "Politics is war by other means". And war t...
Since I no longer correspond with 180proof, due to his acrimonious trolling replies to philosophical postulations, I'll provide some alternative state...
Homosexuality is "interesting" to me, mainly because it is so politically divisive in society. Most human cultures have considered same-sex relations ...
The 13th century Cosmological Argument, making a distinction between Necessity and Contingency, was scientifically supported by the Big Bang theory. O...
Rabbi Kushner wrote a book on that same subject : When Bad Things Happen to Good People*1. Generally, it advises us to look at the Big Picture --- whe...
I suppose you are contrasting an eternal transcendent Creator God with various versions of immanent or more-of-the-same-forever-and-ever-amen (linear-...
?Brendan Golledge We wanted to fix what was wrong with Deism, ... by determining why it failed. — Gnomon Afaik, deism is just 'the god of theism' on i...
Do you view yourself as the founder of a religious movement, as opposed to merely the author of a novel religious worldview/manifesto? Due in part to ...
's trite comparison of a metaphysical a priori concept, Original Cause, with our physical experience of the arbitrary designation of a navigational No...
I don't view Deism*1 as a religion, but simply a philosophical worldview that attempts to explain the contingent existence of our physical world, and ...
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