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Sounds like we may be kindred spirits. After high school I evolved away from my theistic upbringing, but I found no plausible reason-for-being in Mate...
June 02, 2022 at 00:04
That is exactly what I have tried to do with my Enformationism worldview. It's based on the sciences of Quantum physics and Information theory, but it...
May 31, 2022 at 02:02
Since the "Enlightenment" era (Age of Reason, circa 1700) --- rejection of revered speculations by ancient religious & philosophical authorities, alon...
May 30, 2022 at 18:04
Apropos of nothing : an old country music song by a family group of mostly girls -- one about 12 years old -- sang "heaven's just a sin away, wo wo". ...
May 29, 2022 at 16:43
I call myself an Agnostic in the literal sense (ignorance of the facts), not in the "weak Atheist" sense (presumptive knowledge of absence). Based on ...
May 27, 2022 at 23:22
Perhaps the lack of response is due to lack of expertise (or talent) in Statistics & Probability. Objective science is based on factual observations. ...
May 27, 2022 at 16:28
I'm guessing that Wigner's use of "unreasonable" was ironic or tongue-in-cheek. In view of the randomness & uncertainty of its Quantum foundation, it ...
May 27, 2022 at 16:00
Not so fast. The Law of Non-Contradiction is a good rule of thumb for most contexts. But there is one common circumstance where LNC does not apply : H...
May 25, 2022 at 16:30
Standing alone, the phrase "what is it like" is indeed vague, in that it can apply to many different contexts. I just Googled "what is it like" and go...
May 24, 2022 at 17:10
Yes. That is the implication of my personal BothAnd Philosophy. Some apparent "paradoxes" result from viewing only one side of the same coin. :smile: ...
May 23, 2022 at 17:05
Perhaps, I should have prefaced that personal opinion with "it seems to me, that . . .". Before Agent mentioned it, I had never heard of "paraconsiste...
May 23, 2022 at 16:45
Classical binary Logic is best used for problems that can be precisely defined with integer numerical values. But human contradictions are seldom conc...
May 22, 2022 at 17:51
Sure you do. You said it yourself : the gray middle range of anything & any topic is "foggy", hence unclear. So, ancient philosophers, and enlightenme...
May 22, 2022 at 17:14
Yes/No. Some philosophers & scientists from both East & West, both ancient & modern, have described the progression of the World System (evolution) in...
May 21, 2022 at 17:11
Spasibo! Contradiction is indeed a "feature" of EnFormAction (Energy), and of Information-in-general. The conflict derives from the wide range of Poss...
May 20, 2022 at 22:22
In philosophy, the concept of a historical dialectic, as an interpretive method, is typically associated with Hegel, even though he didn't originate t...
May 19, 2022 at 17:06
I'm sure the BothAnd principle sounds paradoxical to many people. But that's only because Black-or-White , Good-vs-Evil , Either/Or thinking is so com...
May 19, 2022 at 16:59
If humans continue to evolve into cyborgs or robots, the vegetarian question may become moot. Instead we'll be debating the morality of consuming Nucl...
May 18, 2022 at 21:51
Again, you are looking at the negative side of Information : Ignorance. But Shannon's mathematical definition covered the whole range, from Ignorance ...
May 18, 2022 at 17:01
Thanks. But your illustration sounds rather bleak. My understanding of Information, on the other hand, is enlightening. It allows us to see (rationall...
May 17, 2022 at 16:39
For the record, I use the term "Information" in a much broader & general sense than Claude Shannon. From that universal perspective, Information is fu...
May 17, 2022 at 16:35
Statistical Information. We call it "Probability". Which is equivalent to "Potential". :smile:
May 16, 2022 at 17:32
Yes. Generic Information is meaningless, because it is general & abstract & timeless & potential, like Plato's "Form". It contains the statistical pos...
May 16, 2022 at 17:29
I agree. But, you are using "information" in a specific sense, as is usual in most scientific & technical discussions. In that case, you are correct. ...
May 16, 2022 at 00:01
Yes. But what did Ari mean by "form"? Obviously, something in addition to Matter (hyle). We can assume that Ari never heard of "Information Theory". A...
May 15, 2022 at 23:21
It's my interpretation. Aristotle's "form" is what we now call "information" (a pattern that identifies a thing). Platonic "Form" is Potential, while ...
May 15, 2022 at 17:42
True. The wavefunction contains no knowable information. Instead, it statistically describes all possible paths a particle may "explore". But there is...
May 15, 2022 at 17:34
That's exactly what I'm trying to do in the Enformationism thesis. It's a blend of old (Spiritualism) and modern (Materialism) and novel (Informationi...
May 15, 2022 at 16:29
The concept of shape-shifting Information that I am proposing is complicated, not least, in that it applies to both Analog/Macro/Classical reality (kn...
May 15, 2022 at 15:53
Sorry, "Generic Information" (Platonic Form) is my alternative term for "EnFormAction" (Energy & Causation) to suit different contexts. I borrowed the...
May 15, 2022 at 00:29
Von may have been teasing about using an abstruse technical term from physics to describe a mathematical function in computer code, but in retrospect ...
May 14, 2022 at 16:51
That is the conclusion of the Enformationism thesis. The "stuff" or "substance" in this case is what Aristotle defined as the "form" or "essence" of a...
May 13, 2022 at 23:03
Information has both the meaning of the Sender, and of the Receiver, and of the Context. So, like all things in this world, it is relative to the inte...
May 13, 2022 at 22:38
You won't really understand my "system" until you read the thesis. The website shows how the general idea originated from quantum & information theori...
May 13, 2022 at 22:18
Yes. Collective behavior of randomized particles is statistically predictable. It's only when we try to keep track of individual dots that things get ...
May 13, 2022 at 18:29
I follow the pragmatic suggestion of Richard Feynman : "shut-up and calculate"! That's not ideal, it's a real-world compromise. Non-contradiction is n...
May 13, 2022 at 18:04
Arguments in favor of Vegetarianism (a belief system), as compellingly expressed by Peter Singer, are undeniable for a perfect world, such as the one ...
May 13, 2022 at 17:21
Yes. In his book on quantum physics, Phillip Ball addressed the paradoxes inherent in the Copenhagen Interpretation. Scientists now accept QM as the f...
May 13, 2022 at 16:49
Some people trust Reason over Intuition, partly because they want to be as rigorous as possible in their conclusions. When exposed to public scrutiny,...
May 13, 2022 at 16:09
Perhaps it was bittersweet, like reality itself. :wink: Bittersweet : 1 : being at once bitter and sweet especially : pleasant but including or marked...
May 13, 2022 at 15:49
Yes! Animals have no choice, but to grimly gulp the lemons, while making a lemon-face. But humans can add a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go ...
May 12, 2022 at 16:14
Humans are flexible in their beliefs : If it "works", it doesn't matter if it's real. For example, the number "Zero" refers to that which does not exi...
May 12, 2022 at 00:26
FWIW, I think of Evolution as bottom-up design, by contrast with the Genesis story of top-down design. From that pragmatic perspective, the world is d...
May 11, 2022 at 17:02
That may be why humans have always imagined that there must be something better, something more, than this "vale of tears". Our advanced animal brains...
May 11, 2022 at 16:28
I wasn't denigrating quantum scientists. They're doing the best they can with the counter-intuitive feedback they get from sub-atomic experiments. Sin...
May 11, 2022 at 16:20
Actually, there is an "essence" underlying perceived reality : I call it "Information". Unfortunately, materialist scientists have ruthlessly dissecte...
May 10, 2022 at 21:56
What-you-believe doesn't create Reality, but Ideality. Yet, for subjective personal purposes, what-you-believe (your world model) is your Reality. The...
May 10, 2022 at 16:17
Ha! 180 proof calling you a "troll" is like invader Vlad Putin calling defender Volo Zelensky a NAZI. :joke: Panner - Urban Dictionary Someone who is ...
May 09, 2022 at 17:06
I doubt that anything like the reason & science-based Enformationism worldview will ever become a popular religion. For one thing, it's too broad & ge...
May 09, 2022 at 16:56
Paradoxically, G*D (Programmer ; Cause ; Source) is both "wholly-other" and "all-encompassing". In the sense of being unbounded by space & time, G*D i...
May 08, 2022 at 18:02