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...
The "God questions" I was referring to were philosophical queries, not religious statements of Faith. Intuitive Faith is typically impervious to Logic...
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...
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...
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...
Actually, our partial-blindness to Reality may not be completely self-caused (deliberate self-obfuscation). Don Hoffman, in his book The Evolutionary ...
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...
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 ...
The concept of Time is indeed more complicated since Einstein muddied the waters with his Relativity theories (General & Special). But it's still not ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yes. My Enformationism thesis was intended to provide a reasonable foundation from which to deal with such real-world questions as you mentioned. Unfo...
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 ...
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...
Since modern philosophy is mostly analysis of metaphysical questions, I doubt that Bergson, as a practicing philosopher himself, intended to deny Kant...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
The Mind, in the sense of Beliefs & Emotions, definitely has causal effects (psychosomatic) on human behavior. And in order to influence behavior, tho...
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...
Yes. It was their "implicit prejudice" against non-empirical Metaphysics, not Race, that I was implicitly referring to. For quantitative empirical sci...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Science is practiced by Humans, so it is naturally Anthropocentric. And it is practiced by Subjects, so it is inherently subjective. But the Scientifi...
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"....
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...
One example of that belief vs knowledge mental phenomenon is the "unconscious bias" of Implicit Racism. Implicit Racism : https://www.encyclopedia.com...
Idealistic proposals are fine, as long as they are followed by Pragmatic implementation. The Quakers are also a non-violent people. They were involved...
Idealistic proposals are fine, as long as they are followed by Pragmatic implementation. The Quakers are also a non-violent people. They were involved...
Item was indeed a common belief prior to the European "enlightenment". and during the following centuries, until the advent of Darwinism. But, I suspe...
Ancient arguments in favor of slavery were mostly fatalistic : "that's just the way it is". But modern abolition movements were successful in changing...
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...
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...
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...
True. But only God's universal laws would be completely Objective & unbiased. So "community standards", such as those of empirical Science, are as clo...
Yes. There are two "Oughts", the subjective conscience of each person, and the objective "Shoulds" of their community standards. Ancient divine Moral ...
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...
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...
The primary function (purpose) of your automobile is "transportation", which is a process, not an object. Can you put "transportation" or "consciousne...
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...
Socrates taught that all basic knowledge (principles) was innate, and we merely combine them into new forms to suit different contexts. That's equival...
That is the point of Buddhist meditation. Not necessarily to achieve absolute Objectivity, but to "approximate" (Pantagruel) an Other's perception (ju...
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...
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