Gnomon

Yes. Symmetries are not observed, but deduced. Like constellations in the sky, the inferred patterns are mental, not material ; subjective, not object...

Sorry. I didn't mean to embarrass you with deep-felt praise. But, on this forum, you're my hero. :blush:

All-matter-all-the time-every-where. I just made-up a name to serve as an analogy with PanPsychism (all mind) or PanTheism (all god). My tongue-in-che...

can speak for himself. In my opinion, he is the wisest poster on this forum, and with the fewest blind-spots. I don't know where you found the notion ...

OK. I am duly chastened. I'm guilty of using physical concepts as philosophical metaphors . . . without doing the "calculations". :joke:

Did you notice that I qualified "instantaneous" with "almost". We're talking about Planck Time here. I suppose your definition of "instantaneous" is m...

OK, but I was using the term "coin-flipping" metaphorically, not literally. Einstein used the similar metaphor of God playing dice, to ridicule the qu...

Yes. I take his potent & creative nothingness argument as supportive of my own interpretation of BB theory : that Causal Energy and Limiting Laws nece...

That sounds like a reasonable philosophical approach to physical controversies. But some TPF posters challenge philosophical conjectures by insisting ...

I am familiar with the mathematical definition. But some Futurists have borrowed the term for other applications, such as a technological Singularity ...

I agree that our subjective "mode of understanding" is suspect, but in the expression "natural fact", I was referring to the scientific evidence that ...

No, I haven't read any of Spinoza's writings. Most of what I know comes from books and articles about his life & philosophy. And the general impressio...

OK. But I like your phrasing of the "problem of Consciousness" (psychology) in terms of the problem of Being (ontology) and Becoming (evolution). Firs...

You are noting the limitations of materialistic traditional conventional language, for expressing immaterial novel unconventional conjectures of philo...

Wow! That is a deep philosophical insight. But, like all philosophical intuitions, it may not convince those who require physical evidence. Could subj...

If not Pantheism, how would you describe Spinoza's concept of "deus sive natura"*1, which equates Nature with god-like creative powers? I agree that S...

I agree with your conclusion, but I'll stipulate that Energy is "measured" in terms of consumption, not substance. :nerd: The quantum pioneers conside...

That's true, but I was not asking about the practical application of those philosophical principles. My question was about how Aristotle would categor...

Yes, but Plato and Aristotle also taught "philosophical schools", and they included both physical and metaphysical topics, with the end in mind of tra...

I assume that the "older kind of philosophy" referred to those like Aristotle, who wrote the book on factual Physics. But even he wrote a book on spec...

Quantum leaps seem to be inherent in the foundations of the physical world, as revealed by 20th century sub-atomic physics. In the 17th century, Isaac...

That's a succinct way to describe the general slant (tendency) of this forum toward Physics (quanta), and away from Metaphysics (qualia). Originally, ...

The ancient Greek concept of a Quintessence, Fifth Element, or Aether to serve as space-filling medium for physical processes, such as light propagati...

Is that negation based on a distinction between Real Things and Ideal Beings? In a previous reply, you called Descartes' dual categories "non-sensical...

Descartes categorically "divided" Soul from Body ; which in more modern terms might translate to a conceptual distinction between Mind and Brain. So i...

That explanation of the relationship between the substantial (res extensa) Body and the insubstantial (res cogitans) Mind (processor of Information) i...

Yes. Abstractions only exist in the imaginary world of Minds. So, they are Ideal, not Real. And physical laws can only be used as metaphors for metaph...

I make the same distinction in my Enformationism thesis. Based on my personal understanding of Quantum Physics and Information Theory, I have conclude...

Here's a link to an article that touches on your distinction between Panpsychism and Deism. It includes quotes from another of Bateson's books. Deism ...

That's OK. No apology needed. It's just par for the course on TPF. I appreciate your honest & humble efforts. Some posters seem less than sincere in t...

Thanks for the info. I also questioned that attribution. But There are several types of Determinism : Hard ; Pre- ; Biological ; Logical ; Causal ; et...

Yes. That's why the article I linked above referred to his theory as a "reconception of the Great Chain of Being". In the link below, The Information ...

Unlike the reductive-physical-measurable MATTER of Science, Philosophy is dealing with holistic-metaphysical-unbounded IDEAS. Using a physical/materia...

You seem to interpret Vopson's "premise" as a scenario of "weird" massless Information somehow magically transforming into spooky "information mass". ...

I got that impression from reading Mind and Nature many years ago. He interpreted Evolution as a directional progression, generally from simplicity (e...

The image that comes to mind while reading your post is that of the Blind Men and the Elephant. A plethora of perspectives will not yield unity of kno...

I got side-tracked from your original question, by push-back from those who feel that sub-atomic Physics and Meta-Physics are inappropriate reference-...

Do you think Bateson was talking about what we now know as "Information", in a broader philosophical sense than Shannon's narrow engineering useage? E...

No worries mate. I wasn't talking about you being hostile. However,'s labeling of my position on Consciousness as a "New Age" religion, is typical of ...

OK. So what is your yammer-free definition of a "bit", in the context of this thread, questioning the relationship between Energy & Consciousness? :sm...

Have you noticed the uncharitable ridicule that has been directed toward and Gnomon, for daring to ask questions that question the material foundation...

I'm sorry that "you have no idea what I'm talking about". Maybe praying to Gelos will help. At least you might get a laugh out of it. :rofl: If prayer...

Yes! :up: But what is a "Bit" made of? Is the relationship between 1 & 0 a material object, or a mathematical ratio? John A. Wheeler's 1989 It from Bi...

Thanks for the Peircean position on "ideal minds". My personal approach is more like that of the Greek philosophers, who posited "unknowable" entities...

You missed the part where I never denied the contribution of a physical substrate to the production of consciousness. Mind is the function of Brain. M...

That notion seems to go beyond your notion of a local Mind-Created World, to an ideal Mind that is literally out-of-this-world. Does Peirce define his...

A not so trite answer to "consciousness without particles" would be : the same way we have Energy "without particles that have mass". For example, a p...

So does "gnomon". :joke: A gnomon (/?no??m?n, -m?n/; from Ancient Greek ?????? (gn?m?n) 'one that knows or examines')

Yes. but then I would just be parroting the ideas of others, rather than thinking for myself. :smile: The Socratic Method: How To Think For Yourself "...

Was that ironic sarcasm intended as a philosophical critique of some "grand" idea?*1 Or just a knee-jerk response to a personally repugnant idea? Is t...