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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...
November 04, 2025 at 22:56
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...
November 04, 2025 at 22:49
Yes. I found your "speculative element" to be compatible with my own hypothesizing. Your "cosmic rationale" of incipient drive for Life, and 's biosem...
November 03, 2025 at 18:21
's "incipient drive" (nascent power) sounds like another way to describe my own notion of EnFormAction (the power to transform : Energy + Form + Causa...
November 02, 2025 at 22:59
"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...
November 01, 2025 at 16:54
I assume that you are passionately defending the worldview of Spinoza's philosophical PanTheism from the ancient "New Age" notion of PanPsychism. But ...
October 31, 2025 at 17:38
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...
October 30, 2025 at 17:35
Good point! Pneuma (air ; fire) was an ancient materialistic theory that equated invisible Breath (oxygen) with Life, Spirit, Soul & Mind. Today, we k...
October 29, 2025 at 17:27
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 ...
October 27, 2025 at 17:14
Thanks for making a rational philosophical suggestion, instead of emotional political derision. :razz: Which do you think is "likely" : A> the pre-rec...
October 26, 2025 at 22:23
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...
October 26, 2025 at 17:21
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...
October 25, 2025 at 21:13
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 ...
October 25, 2025 at 17:14
I don't know. What do you think? Regarding "inversion" see my reply to TClark.
October 25, 2025 at 16:34
This question is off-topic, because the thread is about a fictional pseudo-scientific worldview, not (or not yet) a mainstream scientific hypothesis. ...
October 25, 2025 at 16:27
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...
October 24, 2025 at 21:45
"this work proposes that the distinction between natural and synthetic minds may be ontologically meaningless: all cognition, whether organic or digit...
October 24, 2025 at 21:15
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...
October 17, 2025 at 17:12
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 ...
October 16, 2025 at 17:07
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...
October 16, 2025 at 16:42
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...
October 15, 2025 at 23:59
Actually, the fundamentalist religion of my childhood was about as non-mystical as possible. It was an extreme form of Protestantism, which eliminated...
October 15, 2025 at 17:27
Empirical Science and Emotional Religion are indeed "incompatible", in the sense that information drawn from one domain (public vs private knowledge) ...
October 14, 2025 at 21:07
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....
October 14, 2025 at 17:14
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...
October 13, 2025 at 16:33
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...
October 12, 2025 at 21:26
Good post! Whitehead's living, evolving, organic worldview resonates better with me, than the static "geometric" Block Time model*1. It better explain...
October 12, 2025 at 17:16
Precisely! That's why non-philosophers typically think in terms of real-world experiences --- Father in heaven --- instead of groundless abstractions ...
October 11, 2025 at 16:51
Thanks for the summary. My philosophical vocabulary is narrow & limited, and obtained mostly since I retired. Before retirement I was more interested ...
October 10, 2025 at 17:08
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...
October 09, 2025 at 16:49
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...
October 09, 2025 at 00:19
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...
October 08, 2025 at 17:00
Again, I apologize for my ignorance of modern technical philosophical arguments. I'm just not familiar with the arcane jargon. My philosophical vocabu...
October 07, 2025 at 21:07
Again, you are talking about practical (useful) Science, instead of theoretical (reasonable) Philosophy. Except that the notion of "constants" is a ge...
October 07, 2025 at 17:14
Of course, physics & metaphysics should be harmonious, if possible. But as the Quantum action-at-a-distance paradox indicates, sometimes we are forced...
October 06, 2025 at 21:14
Again, for scientific purposes, the weak notion of this-to-that causation is usually sufficient. Except perhaps, in Quantum physics, where Non-localit...
October 06, 2025 at 16:49
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...
October 05, 2025 at 17:07
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...
October 04, 2025 at 16:49
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...
October 03, 2025 at 21:38
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...
October 03, 2025 at 16:45
I'm currently reading a memoir, based on a series of Harvard University lectures, by philosopher/mathematician A. N. Whitehead : Science and Philosoph...
October 02, 2025 at 17:37
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...
October 01, 2025 at 16:17
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...
October 01, 2025 at 15:37
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...
September 30, 2025 at 22:03
Gnomon is not a professional Logician, or Mathematician, or Systems theorist. Just an amateur philosophical scrivener. So the general (non-technical) ...
September 30, 2025 at 17:08
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 ...
September 29, 2025 at 22:08
Collingwood's abstruse concept is over my untrained head. I simply construe the term to mean that the conclusions follow logically from the premises. ...
September 29, 2025 at 21:34
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...
September 29, 2025 at 21:21
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...
September 29, 2025 at 16:44
I choose to believe that, for the calculations of Physics, intention may be irrelevant. But for the purposes of Philosophy, intention is essential. Fo...
September 29, 2025 at 16:31