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...
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...
Since I have no formal training in philosophical language and methods, some of Schopenhauer's argument against Materialism is lost on me. For example,...
I suppose that "nothing" is a mathematical concept encapsulated in the word : "Zero". But "nothingness" is a philosophical Qualia, a human experience ...
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 ...
"Something from Nothing?" is a valid, ever-recurring philosophical/metaphysical question. But some posters will say that such a question is un-scienti...
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...
True. Quantum Uncertainty is not a practical problem, it's a philosophical problem. For all practical purposes, the physical world still works the sam...
Idealism or Deism would make no material difference in your life. But it might make a philosophical difference. What difference does your participatio...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I too, prefer the label "Physicalism" (cause) to "Materialism" (effect) as the ultimate Reality. Matter is merely the clay that Energy shapes into the...
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....
Meaning in a brain emerges from systematic Holistic interactions, not linear Reductive operations. A more Holistic term for "arise" would be "emerge"*...
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 ...
Some people --- writers, artists, designers --- will get more riled-up if someone steals their Intellectual Property*1 than some tangible physical pro...
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*...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Actually, I had never heard of the term, Accidentalism, until I stumbled across it while researching the opposite of Creation & Causation & Determinis...
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...
If the philosophical approach of the OP is "trivial, uncontroversial", then why has it evoked polarized controversial arguments for over a year? Appar...
Please pardon my intrusion. Yes, is not the type to make arrogant or aggressive attacks on debatable philosophical positions. He's usually more subtly...
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...
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 ...
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...
Darwin called his culling factor in evolution "natural selection", but the model upon which it was based was the artificial selection of human breeder...
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...
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 ...
When something doesn't make physical sense to practical physicists, they may put on their philosopher hats and speculate into metaphysical conjectures...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Yes. Meyer's book discusses such alternative Something From Nothing theories in his chapter : The Cosmological Information Problem. He says Krauss' bo...
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...
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...
I agree. But only if you include in the statistical analysis a complementary principle (law?) to counteract the destructive effects associated with En...
The default religious answer is Omniscience. But I don't pontificate beyond the bare facts of an inexplicable beginning. Everything else is amateur sp...
The typical "omnibenevolent" designer proposal would be a Straw Man argument on this thread. The OP indicates that Stephen Meyer carefully avoids advo...
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...
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...
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