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I agree. Many people assume that what you "see" is what's out there. But they forget that "what you perceive" sub-consciously (the Territory) is typic...
August 18, 2020 at 17:44
I'll just offer the opinion that multiple "gods" is a suitable explanation for Multiverses, but not for a Universe. :smile:
August 18, 2020 at 17:30
The "God questions" I was referring to were philosophical queries, not religious statements of Faith. Intuitive Faith is typically impervious to Logic...
August 18, 2020 at 17:24
That was not the point. Of course, mainstream Chaos theory asserts that there are orderly patterns within disorderly systems. It's what they call Dete...
August 18, 2020 at 03:17
If Reason is irrelevant to God questions, what would you suggest : Intuition? Or is it a waste of time to philosophize about such abstract concepts as...
August 17, 2020 at 17:14
That's why I try to limit my G*D postulates to abstract metaphors, like Logos, rather than mapping physical human attributes onto a metaphysical infer...
August 17, 2020 at 00:11
Actually, our partial-blindness to Reality may not be completely self-caused (deliberate self-obfuscation). Don Hoffman, in his book The Evolutionary ...
August 16, 2020 at 23:58
Apparently, Cantor was thinking in terms of number lines, which for practical applications we can imagine as a whole, or in parts. So, the mathematici...
August 16, 2020 at 23:45
That also may be the flaw in your flaw-finding. There are no other aspects (parts) of Infinity. By "definition" of the word, Infinity is immeasurable ...
August 16, 2020 at 18:25
The concept of Time is indeed more complicated since Einstein muddied the waters with his Relativity theories (General & Special). But it's still not ...
August 16, 2020 at 17:39
Yes. In my musings on the topic of FreeWill, I like to use an analogy with Evolution. Many scientists seem to think of the Evolutionary process as com...
August 16, 2020 at 03:04
I wasn't referring to any particular quotes from Davies on the topic of a Good/Evil deity. The comment was simply my take-away from reading several of...
August 15, 2020 at 17:19
Yes. I understand what Davies was talking about : that whatever G*D is, it must be responsible for both Good and Evil. Our real world of many parts is...
August 14, 2020 at 17:37
I can't speak for 3017Amen, but I have no need for a personal relationship with God or G*D. My thesis is not a religious tract, but a search for a mor...
August 14, 2020 at 16:56
Yes. My Enformationism thesis was intended to provide a reasonable foundation from which to deal with such real-world questions as you mentioned. Unfo...
August 14, 2020 at 00:23
Since I was not presenting a formal logical argument for academic review, I had more liberty than you in reaching my conclusion. So. I tried to infer ...
August 14, 2020 at 00:14
I suspect that our god models may have a lot in common. The main difference may lie in our starting points. My worldview and god-model are based on my...
August 12, 2020 at 03:38
Since modern philosophy is mostly analysis of metaphysical questions, I doubt that Bergson, as a practicing philosopher himself, intended to deny Kant...
August 11, 2020 at 00:13
No. But I have gone through my own reasoning process regarding the probable existence of a Creator God. It was in the form of a layman's non-academic ...
August 10, 2020 at 23:41
Cognitive Psychologist Don Hoffman is not an anti-realist, according to your definition. But he has written a book, The Case Against Reality, which us...
August 10, 2020 at 17:55
I have no formal training in analytical philosophy, so I'm not qualified to detect flaws, such as unwarranted assumptions, in your argument. So, I'll ...
August 10, 2020 at 17:39
As a layman philosophy hobbyist, with no formal training, I'm not familiar with the works of Carnap, Goodman, and Sellars, But I do know a bit about B...
August 10, 2020 at 17:12
The Mind, in the sense of Beliefs & Emotions, definitely has causal effects (psychosomatic) on human behavior. And in order to influence behavior, tho...
August 09, 2020 at 17:53
As a matter of fact, I don't know. But I have a hypothesis, based on the philosophical notion of evolutionary Emergence, and the scientific concept of...
August 07, 2020 at 21:49
Yes. It was their "implicit prejudice" against non-empirical Metaphysics, not Race, that I was implicitly referring to. For quantitative empirical sci...
August 07, 2020 at 18:06
So that's why my Body is so uptight. That's OK, as long as my Mind doesn't feel the fear. :joke: Seriously though, I'm in favor of the current move to...
August 07, 2020 at 17:47
No, I don't feel the fear of slaughtered animals, not because I'm immoral, but because I am not very Empathic. As an ethical philosophical position, l...
August 07, 2020 at 00:00
Yes. It's like Implicit Racism, subconscious biases are common among humans-in-general, not just scientists. That's the point of our various attempts ...
August 06, 2020 at 22:52
It's not a "double standard", but a broader hierarchical standard, in which we assign values to the different levels based on some communally-acceptab...
August 06, 2020 at 22:31
Science is practiced by Humans, so it is naturally Anthropocentric. And it is practiced by Subjects, so it is inherently subjective. But the Scientifi...
August 06, 2020 at 17:24
Yes. The typical criteria for belief, for most folks, is not objective or empirical or logical or falsifiable evidence, but whether "it works for me"....
August 05, 2020 at 16:51
I agree. :up: “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” “You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things th...
August 04, 2020 at 21:42
One example of that belief vs knowledge mental phenomenon is the "unconscious bias" of Implicit Racism. Implicit Racism : https://www.encyclopedia.com...
August 04, 2020 at 21:36
Idealistic proposals are fine, as long as they are followed by Pragmatic implementation. The Quakers are also a non-violent people. They were involved...
August 04, 2020 at 21:23
Idealistic proposals are fine, as long as they are followed by Pragmatic implementation. The Quakers are also a non-violent people. They were involved...
August 04, 2020 at 21:07
The New Age you refer to seems to be what we now call "Market Socialism". :smile: Market Socialism : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
August 04, 2020 at 17:54
Item was indeed a common belief prior to the European "enlightenment". and during the following centuries, until the advent of Darwinism. But, I suspe...
August 04, 2020 at 17:50
Ancient arguments in favor of slavery were mostly fatalistic : "that's just the way it is". But modern abolition movements were successful in changing...
August 04, 2020 at 17:20
It's an idealistic idea, but hard to implement in the real world. Jains have been known to sweep the road ahead of their feet to avoid crushing the so...
August 03, 2020 at 22:44
Most theories of Karma & Heaven envision some sort of cause & effect Justice in this or another world, but not necessarily in your current lifetime. S...
August 03, 2020 at 22:10
Yes. I'm currently reading Robert Wright's latest book, Why Buddhism Is True, in which he gives a secular psychological analysis of the Eastern versio...
August 03, 2020 at 21:08
True. But only God's universal laws would be completely Objective & unbiased. So "community standards", such as those of empirical Science, are as clo...
August 02, 2020 at 22:18
Yes. There are two "Oughts", the subjective conscience of each person, and the objective "Shoulds" of their community standards. Ancient divine Moral ...
August 02, 2020 at 21:56
Disclaimer : I have no formal training in Philosophy or Psychology. I'm mostly self-taught and non-academic. So, caveat emptor. Philosophy is a good h...
August 02, 2020 at 21:41
The term "Age of Enlightenment" is usually applied by historians to an era in 17th & 18th centuries, that was sparked by the re-discovery of Greek Rat...
August 02, 2020 at 17:47
The primary function (purpose) of your automobile is "transportation", which is a process, not an object. Can you put "transportation" or "consciousne...
August 01, 2020 at 18:02
Holism is the concept that a single functional system (a whole thing) is "more than the sum of its parts". The "more" is an emergent property of the w...
July 31, 2020 at 17:31
Socrates taught that all basic knowledge (principles) was innate, and we merely combine them into new forms to suit different contexts. That's equival...
July 30, 2020 at 22:06
That is the point of Buddhist meditation. Not necessarily to achieve absolute Objectivity, but to "approximate" (Pantagruel) an Other's perception (ju...
July 30, 2020 at 21:51
I hadn't thought of it in this way before, but I suppose I am a theoretical Moral Objectivist, but a practical Moral Pragmatist. I assume there is uni...
July 30, 2020 at 21:33