Yes. Popper made the same kind of distinction that I am making to distinguish Meta-Physics (world 2 &3) from Physics (world 1). Even though they like ...
Yes, but physical Photons are not the Information (meaning ; difference) itself. They are, like the 1s & 0s of computers, merely empty carriers of car...
You are mistaken, my friend. As I noted in my previous post, I don't do woo. So your prejudice against Metaphysics causes you to mis-interpret the mea...
The topic of this "philosophical discussion" is "what IS metaphysics", not "what is the correct or conventional definition of an obsolete Aristotelian...
Although there is "some overlap" between my worldview and New Age spirituality, I don't consider myself a New Ager. For me "Spirituality" is an outdat...
That's OK with me. So why are you "saying" whereof you know nothing? Why are you posting on a Philosophy Forum instead of a Science Forum? Do you feel...
Exactly. But some un-named posters on The Philosophy Forum try to limit our discussions to "empirical investigation", which is Physics, not Metaphysic...
Since you seem to know or care nothing of "pure reason", you should take your own advice. :joke: PS__Pure Reason is Philosophy. Practical Reason is Sc...
That may be true. But I am discussing the meaning of "metaphysics" from the perspective of my personal worldview, not that of Aristotle. I refer to th...
"Metaphysics arises from the mismatch between what we can experience given the creatures that we are, and the craving that we have for knowledge which...
That's a good summary. If you don't mind, I may add it to my blog post on Meta-Physics. :smile: Post done : http://bothandblog7.enformationism.info/pa...
I started posting on this forum to discuss the big issues of Metaphysics, not the mundane details of Physics. But, in all too many threads, a stalled ...
I'm not smart enough to know anything with such absolute certainty. That's why I look to geniuses like Aristotle to categorize General Principles that...
How do we know YOU are not suffering from some psycho malady? I don't care. On this text-based forum, I'm interested in the reasonableness of your exp...
No. Someone else from another forum has borrowed that label. But Enformationism is the title of my worldview website. :smile: Enformationism : http://...
Please don't give up on your Grail Quest for a definitive definition of the "M" word. For some on this forum it's a four-letter word, rhyming with "cr...
Or with mental imagination. :joke: How the artist sees himself https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Portrait_of_Edward_James.jpg/200px...
Interesting! How would you describe that "strange" neither-here-nor-there "boundary" -- metaphorically, of course. That's the beauty of metaphors, the...
The internet itself is hypothetically neutral, in the sense of The Wisdom of Crowds. The Net merely provides more-or-less equal access to information....
The only difference is in the metaphorical interpretation of the mental image : i.e. what it means to you. Unfortunately, abstract mental images & met...
Yes. Ideal metaphors usually have some concrete counterpart in the real world that it refers to as a crude approximation of the abstraction in the min...
That's not what I said, or meant. I merely pointed-out that "cause", "effect", and "change" are inextricably (logically) linked in our experience. If ...
A lot of people feel that something is wrong with their face in photographs, because they are more accustomed to seeing a reversed image in a mirror. ...
Your example is quite a stretch, so it is not much of a distraction -- more like a paradox or riddle. :joke: Note -- see Koan below Since you want to ...
Apparently, you're having difficulty with my metaphorical language. The ability to imagine ideas as-if they are real is a faculty limited to animals w...
The notion of a "strange loop" is a metaphor, not a mechanical diagram. When you "see" another person, it's direct perception. When you see yourself i...
If so, it's not a causal relationship, but an inert (no change) relationship? For example, you might have a static geometric or positional relationshi...
That's true. A brain doesn't have internal sense organs to make a physical sense of itself (neuronal pattern). But it does have a mind, to create a se...
Yes. Without that fictional Self, we would not know where we fit into the story of Life. We are the stars of our own show, playing in the Cartesian Th...
In theory, that may be the case. But in reality, there may be multiple causes for a single effect. In my information-based personal paradigm, I call t...
Apparently, you think of "I" as something different from the psychological Ego, or Self-Consciousness. I agree that the Self-image is not simply the p...
Change is the effect of a Cause. And we detect Change in the same way know Meaning ; by measuring the Difference in form : Information. By comparing p...
FWIW, here's my take on the self-concept, from the perspective of Enformationism theory. The Self is not a Real thing, in the sense of a ghost, but it...
Those phd's do indeed treat their mathematical fields as-if they are real. But they are "physical" only in the sense that physicists use those statist...
I'm late to the party, and I may have replied a year or so ago. But FWIW, I'll add my two-cents worth to the Reification of Information question. My E...
Electro-Magnetism is just one of many ghostly field theories : e.g. Classical, Quantum, Statistical, Gravitational. So what qualifies photon or electr...
Please don't worry about expressing non-mainstream views on this forum. That's what it's here for. But you can expect some negative feedback, along wi...
Ancient philosophers warned against the pitfalls of Democracy ("popular rule" ; "mob rule"). Over the millennia since, people have experimented with v...
I too see a role for "a God" when I contemplate the logic of our physical world. Unfortunately, it's not the God-of-the-Bible that I learned about in ...
In the article noted in my previous post, McFadden says : "Consciousness is a product of evolution and, as such, it has a role to play in our survival...
I had read Johnjoe McFadden's book, Quantum Information, several years ago. So, I was vaguely aware of CEMI before I came across this thread. However,...
Sorry, I was distracted by the girl in the red dress. All that dancing energy. . . . :wink: I suppose the answer to the QG mystery may lie in-between ...
I'm just guessing. But perhaps the Quantum Gravity gap is simply a matter of scale. Quantum effects typically manifest only on the smallest scales. An...
For my own interests, I will expand on that inherent limitation of Quantum Physics : it explains why things fall apart (Entropy), but not why they ass...
Yes. The apostle Paul taught that -- in some cases and on some topics -- we should temper Faith with a touch of Skepticism : "Beloved, believe not eve...
Transhumanists are aware of the biological facts of life. But they have faith in human creativity and ingenuity. Since the essence of a baby human is ...
Yes. That equation works, if you define "nothing" as "no-real-thing but all-ideal-possibilities". Of course, empirical scientists don't believe in Ide...
We philosophers are free to speculate from ignorance, because we practice Nescience (why?) instead of Science (what). :joke: From behind the speculati...
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