That reason for concern may be why I remain skeptical of the brain-as-receiver postulation. Schizophrenia was interpreted by the ancients as demon pos...
The question may be Idealistic, but not Mystical. I'm sorry you don't see the key distinction between practical Mysticism (submission) and rational Me...
Yes. I found your "speculative element" to be compatible with my own hypothesizing. Your "cosmic rationale" of incipient drive for Life, and 's biosem...
's "incipient drive" (nascent power) sounds like another way to describe my own notion of EnFormAction (the power to transform : Energy + Form + Causa...
"Disappointing"? Do you think I am emotionally invested in the "science of Noetics"*1? For me it's just an interesting philosophical approach to the H...
I assume that you are passionately defending the worldview of Spinoza's philosophical PanTheism from the ancient "New Age" notion of PanPsychism. But ...
I was hoping you might suggest a hypothetical answer to the topical question : "But how does such an ethereal notion relate to the title of this threa...
Good point! Pneuma (air ; fire) was an ancient materialistic theory that equated invisible Breath (oxygen) with Life, Spirit, Soul & Mind. Today, we k...
I didn't intend for this thread, on a philosophy forum, to be a scientific analysis of evidence for "signals from the cosmos". Other than as a Noetic ...
Thanks for making a rational philosophical suggestion, instead of emotional political derision. :razz: Which do you think is "likely" : A> the pre-rec...
You are just being contrarian & polemic & off-topic. I didn't say they are the same thing, but only that they are related, as a general Form and and a...
First, let me clarify that the title of this thread does not describe my own philosophy, but an attempt to encapsulate the worldview underlying Noetic...
I was not aware that W. James had speculated on brain as receiver or transmitter*1. accused me of promoting pseudoscience, where I'm merely exploring ...
This question is off-topic, because the thread is about a fictional pseudo-scientific worldview, not (or not yet) a mainstream scientific hypothesis. ...
Sarcasm noted. This novel is no more scientific than The DaVinci Code, and not cited as "evidence" for any particular aspect of objective reality. But...
"this work proposes that the distinction between natural and synthetic minds may be ontologically meaningless: all cognition, whether organic or digit...
Thanks for the link. I scanned the long, technical document, and found it was mostly over my amateur head. But the AI summary revealed that some of th...
I didn't say "not mystical but "As non mystical as possible" for a viable religion. My religious upbringing didn't emphasize the Pentecostal gifts of ...
I'm a retired professional architect, and an part-time amateur philosopher, working a retirement gig to make ends meet. So I have very limited time or...
The only philosophy course I took in college was Logic. And that was a math requirement. My interest in philosophy, post college, was mainly in lookin...
Actually, the fundamentalist religion of my childhood was about as non-mystical as possible. It was an extreme form of Protestantism, which eliminated...
Empirical Science and Emotional Religion are indeed "incompatible", in the sense that information drawn from one domain (public vs private knowledge) ...
I haven't viewed the video, but I get the impression that the OP is actually proposing the integration of metaphysical Mysticism (not Religion) --- i....
Your challenge to define the terms of this thread sparked an idea in my own head. The etymology of Religion is "to link back to the past", which I tak...
Now*1 is not an objective physical thing, but as you noted, a metaphysical subjective label for the ephemeral Planck time between instances of Cause a...
Good post! Whitehead's living, evolving, organic worldview resonates better with me, than the static "geometric" Block Time model*1. It better explain...
Precisely! That's why non-philosophers typically think in terms of real-world experiences --- Father in heaven --- instead of groundless abstractions ...
Thanks for the summary. My philosophical vocabulary is narrow & limited, and obtained mostly since I retired. Before retirement I was more interested ...
Again, I apologize for butting-in to your scholarly dialog with . The terminology alone is baffling to a late-blooming amateur philosopher with no for...
I'm not a physicist, so this stuff is over my head. I had to Google "symmetry breaking"*1 to see if it can happen spontaneously without any causal inp...
I'm more familiar with the ancient Taoist Yin-Yang version, as an illustration of the concept of Complementarity. But my understanding of those genera...
Again, I apologize for my ignorance of modern technical philosophical arguments. I'm just not familiar with the arcane jargon. My philosophical vocabu...
Again, you are talking about practical (useful) Science, instead of theoretical (reasonable) Philosophy. Except that the notion of "constants" is a ge...
Of course, physics & metaphysics should be harmonious, if possible. But as the Quantum action-at-a-distance paradox indicates, sometimes we are forced...
Again, for scientific purposes, the weak notion of this-to-that causation is usually sufficient. Except perhaps, in Quantum physics, where Non-localit...
That's OK with me. I don't have any "strong" scientific notion of First Cause. In fact, most practical scientists seem to avoid such metaphysical spec...
Ouch! That kind of complexified conjecturing makes my amateur philosopher head hurt. It's so far over my little pointy pate, that I probably shouldn't...
From OP : This quote is much more to the point than the rambling OP of opposition to some vague notion of imparted motion and being. Causation is a co...
Exactly! The world has changed radically in the 21st century. National or state borders are now much more fluid & porous than in the early 20th centur...
I'm currently reading a memoir, based on a series of Harvard University lectures, by philosopher/mathematician A. N. Whitehead : Science and Philosoph...
If I don't understand a word, I Google it. *1 is ambiguous & abstruse. *2 is the definition I mentioned. If "logical efficacy" does not refer to "conc...
I don't know. Why do you ask? What do you think has been reified*1 in this thread? If you are thinking of Holism or Enformationism, they are philosoph...
Since I'm an introvert and a loner, I have no interest in a structured religion, old or new*1. And not much need for the "peace & security" of belongi...
Gnomon is not a professional Logician, or Mathematician, or Systems theorist. Just an amateur philosophical scrivener. So the general (non-technical) ...
I probably missed the point of the OP. But the subsequent clarifications only muddied the water for me. Quantum Uncertainty does place limits on some ...
Collingwood's abstruse concept is over my untrained head. I simply construe the term to mean that the conclusions follow logically from the premises. ...
True. Billiard balls are causal, but not self-causal. So what is the initial cause of their motion? Does the cue ball initiate the aim & activity on t...
In that simplistic dichotomy, where is the "logical efficacy" of the OP? Is it in the "top-down constraints" or the "bottom-up degrees of freedom". Is...
I choose to believe that, for the calculations of Physics, intention may be irrelevant. But for the purposes of Philosophy, intention is essential. Fo...
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