Gnomon

I don't know if "this" is the case, but rational thinkers can provisionally, or temporarily, accept stated premises, without committing to a conclusio...

Is the analogy accurate? If so, how would Ockham answer the question? 180boo challenges the logical possibility of a First Cause (pre-existent marksma...

Your grasp of Enformationism is still incomplete : it's not about God, but about Nature*1. However, as far as we know, Nature is not eternal or self-e...

I think I see what you are suggesting. But Enformationism is neither Mathematical (intellectual) nor Musical (emotional), it is instead a general phil...

Good point! That's the problem with presenting a philosophical god-model that "fits with reality". Most people don't like Reality -- it hurts -- so th...

What are you calling "de-legitimizing" the opposition? I do make it a policy to avoid debating those who are dug-in. Dialoguing (win-win) is two-way s...

This thread should have a warning sign : "twisty Metaphors ahead, not to be taken literally". Metaphors can't be refuted with empirical evidence, you ...

No, you still miss the complementary perspective of BothAnd. It doesn't accept all opinions as equally true, but within any whole system, there is ove...

I try to practice what I preach, but it's hard to get Either/Or thinkers to view anything from a perspective other than their own ingrained point of v...

I like the metaphor of a god-mold, filled with locally-available god-stuff. Which historically, has been mostly based on personal experience with phys...

There's no honor in pretending to be intellectually superior. Even Trump can barely pull it off. Besides, isn't it hard to make a supercilious smirk-f...

Hey! Don't blame Feynman. It was the obscure First Cause that laid the foundation for Quantum obscurum. Feynman was a genius, but not smart enough to ...

Thanks for that sincere confession of faith in Scientism : Reductionism & Materialism. Ironically, the "woo-crew" typically quotes the informed opinio...

I'm not aware of any practical empirical way to verify the usefulness of emptiness, except to put stuff in it. Then it's simply a rational conclusion ...

OK. Fair enough. Though dismissive of word-pounding Philosophers. But, when philosophical searchers go looking for truth, is there any good reason to ...

Finally, at least that's a philosophical question, not a physical "how" question. So, it's appropriate for The Philosophical Forum. It's so important ...

Yes, a common rhetorical tactic is to point the finger of stupidity at the "other" deluded "mind". In my experience though, those who "state that matt...

The "Butterfly Effect" is an example of order emerging from chaos. — Gnomon Well, that too. :smile: In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensi...

Descartes proposed Substance Dualism as an alternative to the monism of Materialism, which denied that Mind was immaterial (spiritual). But e pluribus...

The Kalam argument says that "whatever begins to exist has a cause of its existence, (ii) The universe began to exist, and (iii) Therefore, the univer...

Yes. Krauss had to admit that "something" (space, time, matter, energy, laws) must exist (presumably eternally) prior to the ex nihilo emergence of ou...

Not true! My BothAnd principle can "go" to both Wave and Particle, and to both sides of a coin. Just not at the same time. It's like Superman & Clark ...

If you have the time, I have the text. My website & blog attempt to make "crystal clear" why I have concluded that an intentional First Cause is neces...

Your knee-jerk reaction indicates that you have pigeonholed me & my "musings" along with those who you disagree with. Ironically, most of those fellow...

I was kidding with Agent Smith, and he knows what I was talking about . . . . and it wasn't you. No offense intended. :smile:

Yes. Non-materialists are aware that such mundane non-sense as Love & other abstractions are physically nothing. But unlike cold-hearted materialists,...

Again, you have put your finger on the reason why you don't understand the BothAnd concept. Schrodinger's thought experiment was not intended to be ta...

I have no formal philosophical training, and I read mostly the works of philosophical scientists, instead of professional philosophers. So I had to lo...

That inference would only be "valid", if you have good reasons to assume that our universe is just one of many, or a single instance in an eternal cyc...

I haven't watched the video, and I don't know exactly how "mass-energy is converted into space-time". Yet, the notion of "conversion" of energy into d...

I wouldn't be quite so bold. But, if you imagine the Superposition postulate as an integrated Holistic state, instead of an undecided lonely particle,...

If you feel gracious, you could label Many Worlds and Multiverse theories" as what-if "thought experiments". But, a lot of science fiction probably st...

No. It was a conditional (if) statement. A confident Reductionist (see below) would say that, given complete information, we can compute the future. B...

Yes. But those abstract ratios have little meaning for the average person. It's the metaphorical interpretation that makes the difference. In that cas...

I'm not sure which "fine tuning argument" you are referring to, but the Anthropic Cosmological argument makes a completely different assertion : “math...

For the 'ontology of information' My last post on the Quantum Mechanics . . . etc thread*1 is relevant to the OP of this thread on Fine Tuning. It off...

Exactly! Shannon was not an experimenting knowledge-seeking scientist, he was a pragmatic solution-seeking engineer. So his concern was about as far f...

Quantification & mathematical modeling are necessary for acceptance of theories of physical (material) science. But, Enformationism is primarily a the...

Yes. The Big Bang Singularity has a simple mathematical definition : to paraphrase, it's where finite math goes off the charts, to infinity and beyond...

Since you sincerely asked the question, I'll answer it, from the Shannon perspective, with a quote from Quanta magazine : "If someone tells you a fact...

Just as some people can't accept that Life ends with Death, others can't believe that continuous Time began with a Bang. One alternative rationale is ...

Apparently, you are trying to make the holistic Enformationism thesis fit neatly into Shannon's particular Information theory. Shannon was a Reductive...

The current scientific model of reality is indeed grudgingly Monistic, but most scientists are more interested in the Pluralistic parts. When the Big ...

I did answer your question, not with scientific quantitative data, but with philosophical qualitative "absence". Unfortunately, even Qualia would have...

Yes. The realization that "everything is information" was the insight that led me to the Enformationism thesis. Others have come to a similar conclusi...

True. And yet, on a blue speck of dust, in a remote arm of a minor galaxy, in the midst of millions of apparently lifeless galaxies, against impossibl...

In your computer, even opening & closing a file changes at least one bit in a register. So, the memory reported that change in terms of its minimum va...

What I said was, that you seem to have a problem with Holism, the ability to see both Forest and Trees. The exclusive Either/Or Reductionism of modern...

I wouldn't worry about how many dimensions there are -- as long as you are not walking near a cliff. All dimensions are inferred, hence imaginary. Wha...

For me, lucid dreaming was more pragmatic than philosophical. Years ago, I had been reading about human attempts to fly like a bird, and also about th...