The title of Hoffman's book was intentionally provocative. The term "illusion" can be interpreted negatively as "deception"*1 or neutrally as "concept...
Coincidentally, I just read an article in the Feb/Mar 2023 issue of Philosophy Now magazine. It is addressed to "fundamentalist Atheists" who argue ag...
Yes. Here's an excerpt from my thesis glossary : PanEnDeism : Panendeism is an ontological position that explores the interrelationship between God (T...
Hypothetically, that might be possible. But I'm not aware of any human enterprise that is "contradiction-free" or "all-encompassing". That would seem ...
That goes without saying. Philosophers & Cosmologists don't "prove" anything, they merely argue for for their own mental model. In the book I'm curren...
Apparently, Penrose is merely postulating that primitive neural nets were not conscious, but evolved toward the kind of awareness that humans experien...
I can understand & agree with that argument --- and the perceived need for it --- except for the "completely" specification. There have been several p...
Pre-science, primitive people were at the mercy of natural forces. They were confused by & fearful of the exigencies & vicissitudes of Nature, that di...
If Natural Evolution theory can be applied to Cultural Evolution, a postmodern plethora of optional forms should not matter in the long run. The compe...
Thanks for the suggestions and link. But, I'm no better informed about Wittgenstein than Kant. My GI Bill college education had no place for Philosoph...
I'm not sure what you think I'm after. The point of this thread is not the authority, or lack thereof, of Kant's scientific worldview. I simply used h...
Yes. I read the book almost 30 years ago, before the universal function of Information became a central focus of my personal philosophy. My current En...
Yes, the "Meta" label has debatable baggage. Aristotle didn't classify his Nature topics in terms of falsifiability-by-experimentation, but he did div...
As you implied, philosophical pluralism seems to be related to political pluralism. Pre-civilized groups tended to be egalitarian. But as urbanized so...
In the book I'm currently reading, Fire In The Mind (1995), by science writer George Johnson, I came across several passages that deal with the conten...
In the book I'm currently reading, Fire In The Mind (1995), by science writer George Johnson, I came across several passages that deal with the conten...
Kant's polarities probably seemed to be more fundamental from a classical (Newtonian) physics perspective. But quantum physics has knocked holes in so...
True. But, I doubt that Western science is seriously challenged by the notion of Eastern self-transcendence, since each person can define his own crit...
I am not a Kant scholar, and I had never heard of his list of Antinomies (logical contradictions) until I read the article quoted in the OP. So, Kant'...
The Designed Designer (or Caused Causer) challenge assumes that the postulated First Cause exists within the normal space-time system of sequential ca...
In my own musings on the development of Information Theory, I take seriously the conclusion of quantum theorists that abstract analog Information is e...
I'll defer to Hoffman to answer that question from a better-informed position. In the video linked above, he addresses the conundrum : "does the moon ...
The point of this thread is to ask the question : Is it a sin for a professional astronomer to speculate on a cosmological view from god's perspective...
Don't take the title of the book too literally. It was intended to be provocative. Hoffman said that he began as a "naive realist". But after years of...
Hoffman sheds new light on the old ding an sich question : evolution, via conditional survival, has taught us to treat "appearances" as-if they are th...
Hossenfelder is/was an empirical scientist, and she insists that "Physicists must stop doing metaphysics"*1. Ironically, the same warning could apply ...
Perhaps. But overestimating the proper scope of Physics might also have bad consequences. Blocking access to metaphysical ideas would turn Philosophy ...
I suppose the "antinomies" are merely polar opposite positions that we could take in philosophical arguments. As you implied, Kant was not concerned w...
Yes, the cosmic sausage-link image does neatly encapsulate the "Big Bounce" theory of cyclic universes pinched-off from previous 'verses. But such inf...
Yes, the Buddha seemed to be a practical empiricist instead of a theoretical metaphysicist, focused on the concrete here & now instead of imponderable...
I agree. Such speculations are metaphysical, not physical. Obviously, reasoning from experience with conditional causes to an unconditioned First Caus...
Yes. Magic, like Marketing, is in the business or creating desirable images in the mind of observers. The power of mis-direction does not force, but m...
Yes. A driverless car, approaching a fork in the road, would normally plow straight ahead. But with natural or artificial intelligence, it could choos...
I was using quibbleable "atomic" in the original Greek sense of irreducible. This thread was inspired by the Big Think article, which mentioned "Kant'...
So, was Kant saying that his own Transcendental Idealism is an illusion and an error? Or was he merely warning about how easy it is for reason to acce...
I apologize for the muddled message. It was not intended as a formal mathematical definition, but more like a poetic metaphor of mirrored universes : ...
Outline : https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ggoddu/modern/272h-k1.html # 1st Antinomy Thesis : The world is limited with regard to (a) time and (b) s...
KANT'S ANTINOMIES : *1. "The antinomies, from the Critique of Pure Reason, are contradictions which Immanuel Kant argued follow necessarily from our a...
I feel your pain. Having a cow can stretch your cant. :joke: "Clowns to the left of me ; Jokers to the right Stuck in the middle with you" Stealer's W...
I do have a theory of how "computation is instantiated in the world". But first, I must take issue with "computation" as a Definition rather than an A...
I almost agree. Since our Epistemology (knowledge) is entirely based on sensory perceptions, we can never know anything that is outside-of (or above) ...
The notion of "Logical Necessity", as a manifestation of God's omnipotence, reminded me of another aspect of Spinoza's "Deus sive Natura" that is simi...
I apologize for tripping your Anti-Theism Firewall*1 -- AGAIN! -- with trigger-words such as "Deus". But I was just curiously exploring ideas related ...
Thanks again for the uncharitable ad hominem critique. But based on our fraught history, I wasn't expecting your expert opinion or your support. Just ...
What little I know of Spinoza's worldview is second-hand, not directly from the source. Nevertheless, I often note the similarity of his Deus Sive Nat...
I'm not an expert on Spinoza. but due to some similarities between his Deus sive Natura god-model and my own information-centric First Cause model, I ...
Kastrup seems to be swimming in the same esoteric waters that my own thesis merely dabbles in. The main difference is that he claims to have personall...
Yes. That's the purpose of Bayesian Probability. In some scientific and philosophical investigations, the empirical evidence is frustratingly incomple...
Since "God" questions are very common on this forum, it's clear that the ultimate notion of "deity" is not yet dead among philosophical thinkers, even...
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