I'm not sure what ticked off, but I suspect he doesn't appreciate my references to fundamental Information, and other sub-physical notions that might ...
That's true, but the OP asks if knowledge is merely belief. Apparently, it's implying that the difference between knowing and believing is empirical v...
Speaking of literal non-sense. How do you define Time, apart from metaphysical Measurement by a Mind? Time has no physical properties to measure. http...
Yes, but what is the source of organic Biogenesis (Negentropy ; Enformy) on all the other "rocks" in the system? Pure Energy alone is neither positive...
Unobserved Change is not Time. I think you missed the point of the "red rock" example. The dry river bed is evidence of physical Change in the environ...
Yes. Time is a concept formulated by sentient observers of Change, for whom Difference is the essence of Sentience*1. But presumably, Change continues...
I agree that, for insentient matter, there is no concept of Time, just meaningless Change. For a world without thinking & feeling persons, the univers...
I do have a philosophical hypothesis of abiognesis (life from non-life), but it's a complex argument, involving quantum Uncertainty, Information theor...
I think you are correct, because both terms are subject to varying definitions, depending on the context. Philosophically, knowledge is "justified tru...
After centuries of debates on the provenance of Consciousness, I doubt that you will find a slam-dunk argument either way. In most such discussions, t...
Good deal! That's another way of saying what I mean by : "Consciousness*1 is the function of brain activity". In math or physics, a Function*2 is a re...
That's a good point --- if you want to distinguish Physics from Philosophy. Academic (fundamental) physics is only concerned with mathematical correla...
That's why I started this spin-off from the depleted First Cause thread. But most respondents, so far, seem to have missed the point of this new threa...
In some circles, Panpsychism has recently become a popular philosophical worldview, due in part to suggestive but questionable interpretations of Quan...
In a later post, you replied to : "what do you expect from me?". As a survivor of many of his Either/Or broadside attacks, I will presume to guess wha...
I'm afraid that most respondents to "Mind" questions will divide themselves along the lines you mentioned. My personal worldview --- and mindview --- ...
I was intentionally a bit vague in my title and OP, in order to avoid putting my pre-conceptions into impressionable minds. But, I did give you a hint...
I assumed you would know that was a rhetorical question. :cool: I'll ignore that off-topic question. :wink: I didn't define the topical term because I...
Of course, in the absence of empirical evidence*1, it's scientifically impossible to specify the origin of ideas. But this is a philosophical forum, s...
If you want to continue the never-ending dialog about First Causes, please go back to the A first cause is logically necessary thread : https://thephi...
Infinity is not an empirical feature of reality. Like the concept of Zero, it is a sort of imaginary anti-reality. That's why scientists try to weed-o...
Yes. Aristotle, with no telescopes, had no reason to imagine a Big Bang beginning of the material world, so he assumed it was eternal. But then, his "...
The premise that "the chain of Cause & Effect is infinite" is also an ungrounded assumption. Where's the empirical evidence for Infinity? "Vanity of v...
Are you inferring that there is no beginning or end to causation . . . or just to argumentation? On what basis? Did you participate in the First Cause...
Who you callin a fool, fool? :joke: Mirror reversal. That's why the famous philosopher Michael Jackson advised us to "talk to the man in the mirror". ...
Not I, but the estimable David Hume*1, said that Cause & Effect is based on an unprovable assumption that there is a causal connection between Before ...
What empirical conclusion do you infer from the open-ended question of First Concept? Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to provide the empi...
No, "it" refers to the name of this thread. Don't overthink "it". Aristotle's summation of causation was not presented as the first attempt to make se...
Ho, ho, ho! Apparently, the answer to my rhetorical endless-dialog weary-query is "?". Some philosophical questions, once borne into being, just won't...
Plato's cave/shadow analogy distinguished between noumenal Ideality and phenomenal Reality, but some philosophers debate which is really real. Persona...
This is the old "Something-from-Nothing" argument. Raising the old "Why is there something instead of nothing?" head scratcher. 43 pages and counting....
Apparently, by snarky implication, you are trying to put words in my mouth. Below is my original reply to 's question. Do you have a better method for...
If you are a sensitive feeling person, I doubt that you will find comfort in Analytic Philosophy. And you are not likely to find the feeling of certai...
It's not a magic incantation. Bayes formula requires that you take the first step, with your best guess. Then you have to do the work of finding new e...
Probability, not Certainty : Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference in which Bayes' theorem is used to update the probability for a h...
Your description of Causation sounds similar to my own thesis of Enformationism. It takes the Power to Transform (EnFormAction : energy + form + actio...
The linked article in my post describes the procedure for calculating the statistical probability of a personal belief. Other than objective evidence ...
In the 18th century, Thomas Bayes developed a method for quantifying Certainty : it's called "Statistics". :smile: Bayesian probability : Broadly spea...
Hey, I'm just accepting David Hume's reasoning, about the universality of cause & effect. I'm not an expert in these matters, so you can argue with hi...
The phrase --- "Do you reject the belief causation resides within dynamical systems of self-organization phase-shifted across ascending levels of orga...
I would prefer that you quote the assertions you are responding to. I don't remember exactly how I worded the comments on Hume's causation. But I woul...
Yes, but not just ideas. The point of Hegel's (Plato's) dialectic is that logical & physical contradictions (competing ideas & forces) --- in isolatio...
According to the worldview of Materialism, "nothing" is non-sense. And, since the physical world does exist, it must have always existed in some form ...
Gravity (pulling action without material connection) was a mystery to Newton, and a mathematical/logical concept to Einstein. His immaterial notion of...
seems to be reasoning from the assumption that the physical universe --- space-time, matter, energy --- could possibly be self-existent, hence no need...
Exactly! What we call "Causation" is not a physical or mechanical Force, but a logical inference from observation of sequential physical changes. Your...
What kind of "proof" --- for a "metaphysical issue" --- would you expect to find, as a philosopher? Can we send a philosophical space-probe back in ti...
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