Yes, I've noticed that you tend to lean toward Materialism. But my worldview reverses your priority -- matter & energy are transient forms of eternal ...
I can relate. I too was indoctrinated into a theistic worldview by my back-to-the-bible fundamentalist religion. But, upon reaching the age of reason,...
You referred to a technical article about "broken symmetry", which may or may not apply to this thread. I didn't login to read the article, so please ...
Yes. But, I make a spelling distinction between the causal Energy form (Enformation) and the embodied form (Information). In its raw disembodied form ...
Yes. It's the mind of the artist that imagines the future interrelations that are currently only potential. The artwork is the final (actualized) prod...
Are you saying that concrete does not have emergent (structural) qualities that are not characteristic of the sand & cement separately? Since the new ...
I became a Non-Theist from reading the Bible with a skeptical eye. But I later became an Agnostic after my introduction to nuanced philosophical think...
That's a hard question to answer. A system is composed of interacting parts, not just to a particular number of elements. For example, a pile of sand ...
I'm hardly an expert on Logical Positivism (LP), but I think I see the connection you are making between their emphasis on pure mathematical Logic in ...
Generally, Emergent Properties are characteristic of a system-as-a-whole, rather than of individual components of the system. Those collective propert...
Libet's experiment was discussed in the FreeWill thread : https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/503684 Note : even Libet did not claim tha...
Ha! I suspected that someone might call me on that ironic assertion. But my intention was merely to indicate that Ideas & Minds are themselves sometim...
Materialism still seems to be the default view of most scientists, even after Quantum Physics raised doubts about the "materiality" of fundamental "ob...
I have my own personal solution to the "nebulous" nature of physical particles. And I have developed my own language to express the apparently dualist...
You may have answered your own question, about teaching History & Anthropology as different academic subjects : "History" (the story of humanity) stud...
The question of FreeWill came up in a thread on Religious Belief. One common modern "scientific" argument against Freewill in general (not specificall...
Yes. That's two different ways of looking at Causation and Determinism. Animals are differentiated from inanimate objects by their ability to cause th...
Spinoza's expressed position on freewill was based on his understanding of Cause & Effect Determinism, for which he saw no gaps. (But he may not have ...
Just for the record, I have revised the Thesis Abstract popup indicator so that it changes when you hover over it, to indicate that a click will cause...
I'm not qualified to attempt an answer to your question. But, I'm currently reading a book by Complexity theorist, James Glattfelder , Information - C...
Ooooh! That's quite a technical philosophical concept. But your summation is on target : “Art is an expression of human consciousness. Art work is inf...
It works in Firefox and Edge, so I don't know what the problem is. Unlike an internet link, this page link doesn't change the place marker to a finger...
FWIW, I have added a pop-up on the last page of the Introduction to Enformationism blog post. It is a revised version of the Abstract post previously....
That's a pretty good non-sectarian definition of Religion. So, in that case, Albert Einstein was a religious person. But I would distinguish between a...
Yes. I think a revival of the old Panpsychism worldview is a step in the right direction. But it is currently most popular in the form of mystical mag...
I'll take that under advisement. But now I'm thinking about adding another, even more controversial, conclusion or Coda. Something along the lines of ...
Yes. Most Cosmologists take it for granted that Energy and Natural Laws existed prior to the Big Bang. And they assume that Life and Mind are merely a...
Here's another attempt to present the Enformationism concept as a numbered or bulleted list. It's adapted from the website. Abstract of the Enformatio...
Yes. The biblical account of Jericho was a mythical history of something that happened many generations before it was written down. However, since som...
Yes, but our perceptions of objects in physical reality are immediately interpreted into subjective mental abstractions (concepts), representing the u...
I do provide some lists in the blog, on specific topics. But Enformationism is such a holistic wide-ranging inter-related concept, that it's hard for ...
That's true. But it also applies to Mathematics. And Energy is essentially an abstract relationship (800 degrees Celsius of the match, relative to 72 ...
I have now uploaded a new blog post entitled : Introduction to Enformationism. And I will soon try to adapt it for a forum article. But, I still have ...
The biblical "reason" for marching around in circles is Blind Obedience (just because God commanded it). But, in retrospect, after 3400 years, believe...
Well, if everything in the world is an emergent form of Generic Information (the power to enform), then of course Qualia is a form of Information. But...
Actually. that's the old website. Due to your prodding, I am currently working on an updated version of the Enformationism Introduction. It will be th...
Yes, I thought so. How about the thesis Introduction, which is only 5 pages? Unfortunately, it refers to cutting-edge scientific concepts that most po...
Apparently, Feser's Aristotelian definition of Matter (hylemorphism) differs from your understanding, based on modern physics (E=MC^2). But, Aristotle...
I'd like to do a short simple essay. But, since the concept of Enformationism is so comprehensive of everything in the world, it's hard to know where ...
No! I don't view the Real World as an "illusion", in the sense that the Buddha meant it. I do however, accept Donald Hoffman's Evolutionary Argument A...
Please do! I can't "validate" a radical new worldview in a forum post. No! You are getting ahead of your understanding of the Enformationism worldview...
In my worldview, there is only one thing : Information. Which takes on the form of Matter, Energy & Mind. But, to call Consciousness "nothingness" is ...
Yes. The topic of this thread is "On Physics". But, since it's a philosophical forum, the weirdness of Quantum Physics falls under the heading of Meta...
What's your point? That modern physics is non-sense? Admittedly, Quantum Physics seems pretty weird, from the common-sense perspective of the man-on-t...
What "flaw" are you referring to? Are you arguing against Einstein? Are you saying that we don't know anything about space & time? Physicists have var...
Because Einstein said so. :wink: In effect, Albert claimed that our subjective experience of gravity is an illusion, because it's not actually a pulli...
As a former Catholic, you might appreciate my blog review of philosopher Edward Feser's recent book : Aristotle's Revenge : The Metaphysical Foundatio...
Your doctrinal criticisms of Buddhism are going off-topic. The OP was not asking about the veracity of Buddhist doctrine, but only if any human mind c...
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