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Quote from the link to : The Neural Binding Problem : " In Science, something is called “a problem” when there is no plausible model for its substrate...
December 19, 2024 at 18:05
So, Schopenhauer is agreeing with Kant, that we can "not" know the true reality (ding an sich), and must make-do (improvise) with an imitation simulat...
December 18, 2024 at 23:29
Since I have no formal training in philosophical language and methods, some of Schopenhauer's argument against Materialism is lost on me. For example,...
December 18, 2024 at 17:37
I suppose that "nothing" is a mathematical concept encapsulated in the word : "Zero". But "nothingness" is a philosophical Qualia, a human experience ...
December 17, 2024 at 17:29
By "not specific", I assume you are not making any religious claims of an ideal omnipotent Creator as the First Cause of the Real World. Just leaving ...
December 16, 2024 at 21:41
"Something from Nothing?" is a valid, ever-recurring philosophical/metaphysical question. But some posters will say that such a question is un-scienti...
December 15, 2024 at 22:39
I was kidding. But since you challenged the emptiness of matter, here's a couple of links. Does the notion that the "empty space" between and within a...
December 15, 2024 at 20:42
True. Quantum Uncertainty is not a practical problem, it's a philosophical problem. For all practical purposes, the physical world still works the sam...
December 15, 2024 at 17:19
Idealism or Deism would make no material difference in your life. But it might make a philosophical difference. What difference does your participatio...
December 15, 2024 at 17:04
As I understood it, the question was "how can anything non-local (no measurable position) be real?" I guess it comes down to how you define "real". So...
December 15, 2024 at 16:50
It seems to be a positive way to express the uncertainty of quantum physics. A particle can be either located in space (position), or measured for mov...
December 14, 2024 at 22:41
In 's post above, he quotes from a talk on Buddhism : "So in our understanding of the Universe we should recognize the existence of something other th...
December 14, 2024 at 22:15
I was not familiar with those terms. But based on the definitions below*1, I assume that and I would generally agree with such inclusive concepts. How...
December 14, 2024 at 18:15
I think you may mis-interpret 's arguments. He doesn't say that "physicalism is inconsistent" as a scientific approach. But that it is incomplete as a...
December 13, 2024 at 22:13
I Googled "exist vs subsist" and got this link*1 to a philosophical definition. According to that authority, both "exist" and "subsist" are "modes", o...
December 13, 2024 at 21:24
For the purposes of my philosophical thesis, I make a distinction between "physical" (the study of nature as a system) and "material" (the study of ma...
December 13, 2024 at 18:04
I too, prefer the label "Physicalism" (cause) to "Materialism" (effect) as the ultimate Reality. Matter is merely the clay that Energy shapes into the...
December 12, 2024 at 18:41
Speaking of BS. Your interpretation of my post was based on a Category Error. I was talking about Philosophy, not Science ; Meta-physics, not Physics....
December 12, 2024 at 01:03
Meaning in a brain emerges from systematic Holistic interactions, not linear Reductive operations. A more Holistic term for "arise" would be "emerge"*...
December 11, 2024 at 18:14
I agree. What may be missing from the picture you see is the Interpretation or Understanding of its meaning. Your dog may see the same symbols on the ...
December 11, 2024 at 17:55
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December 10, 2024 at 21:07
Some people --- writers, artists, designers --- will get more riled-up if someone steals their Intellectual Property*1 than some tangible physical pro...
December 10, 2024 at 21:00
What said is true, but what you interpreted is not what he meant. The "shapes" on a computer screen are indeed physical, but it's their meta-physical*...
December 10, 2024 at 18:00
After I wrote the post above, I read this statement in a National Geographic magazine article about Artificial Intelligence. Under the title : Do we h...
December 09, 2024 at 22:14
I guess what they are saying is that ideas are redundant in a material world. Only the senses of vision, hearing, touch & smell are important for Mate...
December 09, 2024 at 21:26
Since most of the posts on this thread have been dismissive of the philosophical arguments presented in Return of the God Hypothesis, for an eternal, ...
December 09, 2024 at 18:03
How do you justify a preference for parsimony? Does it allow you to summarily eliminate the entities you don't like? Qualitative Experience can't be d...
December 08, 2024 at 16:50
Actually, I had never heard of the term, Accidentalism, until I stumbled across it while researching the opposite of Creation & Causation & Determinis...
December 07, 2024 at 21:05
I don't know anything about Eliminativism, beyond the Wikipedia article that discusses both sides of the argument. But my first impression is that bot...
December 07, 2024 at 17:48
If the philosophical approach of the OP is "trivial, uncontroversial", then why has it evoked polarized controversial arguments for over a year? Appar...
December 06, 2024 at 18:17
Please pardon my intrusion. Yes, is not the type to make arrogant or aggressive attacks on debatable philosophical positions. He's usually more subtly...
December 05, 2024 at 18:32
Although I know very little about medieval philosophy, I get the impression that the debate between Realism and Nominalism would be pertinent to the t...
December 04, 2024 at 17:00
In 's Immanentism worldview, the probability of a Creator outside of space-time is minimal-to-impossible, because he doesn't allow any inference from ...
December 03, 2024 at 17:29
I don't remember you pointing that out. But I have voluntarily mentioned several "qualities of a designer" in this thread. In the example mentioned in...
December 02, 2024 at 22:05
Darwin called his culling factor in evolution "natural selection", but the model upon which it was based was the artificial selection of human breeder...
December 02, 2024 at 18:04
I suspect the ID depiction of God as an engineer is a counter-response to the atheist technical criticism of the religious notion of God as a cosmic m...
December 01, 2024 at 22:42
Teleology is not the kind of thing that exists in the material world. It's an interpretation from observation of trends in the world. Humans commonly ...
December 01, 2024 at 18:10
When something doesn't make physical sense to practical physicists, they may put on their philosopher hats and speculate into metaphysical conjectures...
November 30, 2024 at 17:54
Yes. And astronomers have traced the chain of causation back to an event sarcastically labeled the Big Bang, because an "uncaused first cause" didn't ...
November 29, 2024 at 23:02
Is that "belief" based on reasoning from evidence, or just accepted for no particular reason, other than to allow "brute fact" to arbitrarily take the...
November 29, 2024 at 18:26
Actually, those natural laws are Nature as interpreted by law-abiding humans. As Bohr noted, "What we observe is never nature itself, but nature expos...
November 28, 2024 at 23:03
Thanks for sharing your ideas, and for not responding to my ideas with political put-downs as some do, when faced with belief-challenging concepts of ...
November 28, 2024 at 18:29
Yes. Meyer's book discusses such alternative Something From Nothing theories in his chapter : The Cosmological Information Problem. He says Krauss' bo...
November 28, 2024 at 01:10
I agree. In my thesis, I begin with the "assumption" that the world is as defined by Physics : a dynamic cosmos*1 of Matter, Energy, and Laws. But Ein...
November 28, 2024 at 00:45
Yes. I have concluded that this material world had a mental origin. That inference is based primarily on the ubiquitous role of Information in the wor...
November 27, 2024 at 18:02
I agree. But only if you include in the statistical analysis a complementary principle (law?) to counteract the destructive effects associated with En...
November 26, 2024 at 22:32
The default religious answer is Omniscience. But I don't pontificate beyond the bare facts of an inexplicable beginning. Everything else is amateur sp...
November 26, 2024 at 22:17
The typical "omnibenevolent" designer proposal would be a Straw Man argument on this thread. The OP indicates that Stephen Meyer carefully avoids advo...
November 26, 2024 at 22:03
No. Just the opposite. I agree that such a notion is "metaphysically impossible". Lawrence Krauss wrote a book named A Universe from Nothing: Why Ther...
November 26, 2024 at 18:06
That is exactly why I don't claim to know anything about the hypothetical designer of the universe. As an agnostic, and Bible unbeliever, I have no di...
November 25, 2024 at 22:08