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Actually, many do claim to know God (or Jesus) personally. But not in an objective sense. They "know" (experience) their spiritual Lord subjectively a...
March 28, 2022 at 21:58
Yes. Empirical evidence for the inner being of an electron may never be available. That's primarily because electrons are currently assumed to have no...
March 28, 2022 at 18:05
That is a prescient observation. Both "Consciousness" and "Charge" seem to be intrinsic to matter. But to this day nobody knows what "Charge" is. The ...
March 27, 2022 at 23:10
The ancient polytheistic notion of gods as super-humans, living on clouds or mountains, would certainly be verifiable/falsifiable by modern scientific...
March 27, 2022 at 18:07
I haven't read the previous posts in your dialog, but the "similarity vs difference" and "absolute undifferentiated being" rang a bell. In my personal...
March 26, 2022 at 18:29
That's a new idea to me. But, in view of our discussion of the "logic of reality", I would imagine that Mathematical Logic (bonding relationships ; va...
March 24, 2022 at 17:46
Yes. I'm not a mathematician, but I think of Math as the Logic of the universe. It's the non-physical "structure" of the physical world. That invisibl...
March 23, 2022 at 17:37
Your comment on "entities" may be a digression only in the sense of supplementary information. As I superficially understand the position of Nominalis...
March 23, 2022 at 01:20
Yes. That's exactly what my coinage of Enformy proposes. Without some countervailing "force" to thwart destructive dis-organizing Entropy, randomness ...
March 22, 2022 at 23:55
Note : Shermer is the founder of Skeptic magazine, not SI. Coincidentally, I just read a Skeptical Inquirer article this morning, that mentioned the P...
March 22, 2022 at 18:12
What-is-gained is, as you say, a notion that is "more intuitive than mathematical". I am not a mathematician. So, as an amateur philosopher, with no f...
March 22, 2022 at 16:57
Since "infodynamics" is based on Shannon's definition of "information" in terms of Entropy & Thermodynamics, I tend to avoid that approach, in favor o...
March 22, 2022 at 01:28
This is another example of the philosophical problem with our materialistic (matter-based) language. Aristotle defined "substance" from two different ...
March 22, 2022 at 00:40
Yes. But, from the perspective of Information theory, I place Hyle in the modern category of matter (physical substance), and "morphe" or "form" in th...
March 22, 2022 at 00:06
I have subscribed to Skeptical Inquirer and Skeptic magazine for over 50 years. So, I'm well-informed about Pseudoscience & Paranormal pros & cons. SI...
March 21, 2022 at 23:27
On a philosophical forum, I expect rational criticism. That's the whole point of presenting controversial (or idiosyncratic) topics for discussion. Fo...
March 21, 2022 at 18:10
I'm not sure what the "it" refers to in the quote above, which speaks of "universal Mind" & "PanEnDeism". Neither of which are my "own invention". May...
March 20, 2022 at 23:15
Yes. In my hypothetical worldview the "ground of reality" is a singular timeless spaceless whole, which encompasses all possibilities in the form of P...
March 20, 2022 at 17:48
Again, your perception is accurate, but your interpretation is off-target. My personal worldview is similar to Deism, but more specifically PanEnDeism...
March 19, 2022 at 23:30
I can't claim to be an Aristotle scholar, but I got my definition from a philosophical dictionary. In the definition below, I don't concern myself wit...
March 19, 2022 at 22:52
I assume you got that idea from Kastrup's Materialism is Baloney, which I haven't read. But, I have read The Idea of the World. His worldview seems to...
March 19, 2022 at 22:07
Your perception is accurate, even though your aim is off. This forum does have two strategic factions : mental emphasis vs physical emphasis. The pro-...
March 19, 2022 at 17:56
Good questions! But difficult to answer, due to the material bias of language. So, we resort to debatable analogies between metaphysical Concepts & ph...
March 19, 2022 at 01:41
I was not referring to Kastrup's article in the excerpt above. It was a top of the head remark. Does Kastrup think E & M are not correlated mathematic...
March 19, 2022 at 00:18
Yes. I know that all too well. Human languages are derived from commonsense (sensory) experience. That's why we talk about private-subjective-Mental-c...
March 18, 2022 at 18:41
Yes. That's why I said "physicalism" was not an issue for them. They seemed to assume that Reality was both Material & Spiritual. But they didn't worr...
March 18, 2022 at 00:13
No. I'm not talking about conventional grammatical syntax or physical structure. My "point" was referring to "mathematical structure" & "mental meanin...
March 17, 2022 at 17:23
No. I mean scientific reasoning, as used effectively for the dissection of material objects. But when reductive methods are used on Holistic systems i...
March 17, 2022 at 17:03
For pragmatic l purposes -- such as walking on solid ground -- I take matter for granted. But for philosophical speculations, I have followed the find...
March 17, 2022 at 16:50
Oh yes. There's nothing new about the antagonistic split between reductive Reason & holistic Faith. It goes back, at least, to the Protestant Reformat...
March 17, 2022 at 00:39
Yes. I accept Aristotle's logic, which concludes that a First Cause is necessary to explain the contingent existence of our world. That's even more ob...
March 16, 2022 at 01:08
Good point! The brain creates a model (analogy or counterpart) of the real world. Unfortunately, some posters seem to confuse the model with the terra...
March 16, 2022 at 00:30
I was not criticizing you, but the "claim" that you were noting. Sorry, if that was not obvious. :yikes:
March 16, 2022 at 00:18
For the purposes of objective scientists, that claim may be acceptable. But philosophers are more interested in the subjective meaningful aspect of Id...
March 16, 2022 at 00:07
Agreed. :smile:
March 15, 2022 at 17:53
I am by nature a passive person. But as I get older, I get ornerier. I used to let the opposition push me around. But now I am more likely to fight ba...
March 15, 2022 at 17:50
Google "aristotle metaphysics topics". Then ask yourself if "Categories"; "Being Qua Being"; Principles"; or "Substance & Essence" are physical things...
March 15, 2022 at 01:08
I understand that my BothAnd-ism worldview doesn't fit neatly into a traditional Scientism Either/Or pigeonhole, or even the traditional philosophical...
March 15, 2022 at 00:23
The article is a scientific analysis of just one among many paradoxes that arose from Einstein's revolutionary classical-paradigm-challenging worldvie...
March 14, 2022 at 17:47
You are not the only one critical of my methods. (see reply to TClark above). I seem to have inadvertently stumbled into a hornet's nest, getting stun...
March 14, 2022 at 17:34
I understand your confusion. My Enformationism worldview is indeed idiosyncratic. It doesn't fit neatly into traditional philosophical niches of Physi...
March 14, 2022 at 17:29
My idiosyncratic definition of "metaphysics" was established by Aristotle. But the Antis "conventional" definition was established by Catholic Theolog...
March 14, 2022 at 00:24
Nobody said Metaphysics is easy. What Anti-Metaphysicians object to is not rational Philosophy, but irrational Faith. Unfortunately, they don't see th...
March 14, 2022 at 00:15
Yes. That's why I refer to that anti-heretical attitude as Scientism. It's an absolute Either/Or, Win/Lose, Self/Other, My-way-or-the-highway worldvie...
March 14, 2022 at 00:08
Hi 3, I don't know you, and you don't know anything about me. Yet, since I use taboo terms, like "metaphysics" & "holism", apparently you have jumped ...
March 13, 2022 at 17:58
Ha! My questions above are not intended to mock the trolls, but to open a two-way dialog on, what I take to be the purpose of Philosophy : to study Hu...
March 13, 2022 at 17:43
Physicalism was probably not a major intellectual issue for the Greeks & Romans & Jews. Because, except for a few unorthodox philosophers, they typica...
March 13, 2022 at 01:14
That may be true in an abstract cognitive sense. But, if we didn't make the "connection" or "assumption" that a cliff edge (absence of solid ground) i...
March 12, 2022 at 23:24
Einstein defined the universe as "finite, but unbounded". Ironically, "unbounded" is one definition of "infinite". Yet, Einstein's mathematical univer...
March 12, 2022 at 19:00
Yes. The eye is not the only component in vision. The brain interprets the visual stimuli in order to understand what is being seen. And even the brai...
March 12, 2022 at 18:11