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Have you read any of his argument against reality? If you don't want to read the book, there are several videos on related topics. But you may not lik...
July 19, 2020 at 16:49
OK. But what is "that which underlies patterns"?
July 19, 2020 at 16:39
Perhaps you'd appreciate a more straightforward account of the God Concept. Robert Wright, science writer & philosopher, has written a book --- The Ev...
July 18, 2020 at 17:58
No. The underlying patterns of information are the same for everyone. It's the "icons", mental constructs, that differ among observers. That's why Sci...
July 18, 2020 at 17:06
Yes & no. It's not that simple. In order to understand my theory of Consciousness, you'd need to start with a fundamental "fact" discovered by Quantum...
July 18, 2020 at 16:55
Yes. The links I referred to are talking about scientifically observable signs of consciousness. Philosophical Consciousness is not observable via the...
July 18, 2020 at 16:32
As I said before, in physical Science, the "signs" of consciousness are limited to overt behavior, which must be interpreted by analogy to the activit...
July 17, 2020 at 22:14
Descartes expressed his opinion that only humans are conscious, while animals only appeared to be sentient. But modern science has discovered signs of...
July 17, 2020 at 18:06
Conscious Crystals : It's the dictionary definition of human consciousness that is metaphorically attributed to non-human and inanimate objects. We se...
July 16, 2020 at 23:14
That is exactly the point of my Enformationism thesis and the BothAnd philosophy. Panpsychism probably evolved from the ancient "superstition" of Anim...
July 16, 2020 at 23:00
That is what I call the "New Age" notion of Consciousness, which it seems to equate with Spiritualism and with magical powers (e.g healing). It's esse...
July 16, 2020 at 17:56
My worldview is also related to ancient Idealism and Panpsychism, but I try to express those valid concepts in more modern terminology. That's because...
July 15, 2020 at 22:02
I'd say that objective patterns (interrelationships) are all we see in the world. The personal meaning of those patterns is subjective. We perceive ab...
July 15, 2020 at 21:39
No. But Aristotle included a Theory of Music in his Metaphysics, based on the science of his day. Yet, I doubt that we will make much headway in expla...
July 14, 2020 at 22:18
This may not count as an actual explanation, but I have a hypothesis based on physics, but also including a role for metaphysics (non-physical Informa...
July 14, 2020 at 18:06
The "odd usage" is intentional, because it derives from an unconventional worldview. So it's true, that I am using the term "Metaphysical" in a sense ...
July 14, 2020 at 03:17
In this context "metaphysical" simply means "non-physical". A process or function is not a tangible object, but a mental image of change over time. If...
July 13, 2020 at 18:18
Yes, Mind is a fiction that we take to be true. The Mind that we imagine is not a physical Thing, but the name for a metaphysical process --- it's wha...
July 13, 2020 at 17:48
I think you may have misconstrued the point I was making : that your subjective "tangible" reality is different in essence from Objective or Ultimate ...
July 13, 2020 at 00:39
Fortunately, the scientific method of obtaining "objective" knowledge has dispelled some of the subjective uncertainty that led to mystical & magical ...
July 12, 2020 at 02:15
Yes. But reality may not be what you think it is. As TheMadFool said, "the very idea behind the cogito ergo sum argument is the possibility of reality...
July 11, 2020 at 21:54
Many modern scientists embrace pan-psychism — turkeyMan Yes, there are a few "hard" scientists out there who take the notion of Panpsychism seriously....
July 11, 2020 at 18:14
I agree that it's the appropriate response for a Physicalist. But for some of us the most important things in the world are non-physical. And Consciou...
July 11, 2020 at 02:38
Yes. I am open to Panpsychism. But you should expect that some on this forum will be prejudiced against the concept of universal consciousness, due to...
July 10, 2020 at 22:05
Yes. I'm quoting myself again. That's because the thread has veered-off into some nitty-gritty philosophical analysis, and has revealed a polarized at...
July 10, 2020 at 17:48
Many years ago, I visited the Seattle World's Fair, and came across a large display of a Galton Box or Quincunx, . The adjacent sign says : "when the ...
July 07, 2020 at 18:03
The problem there is, how do you know what is true for All? Of course, Science strives for Objectivity, by eliminating impossible or contradictory opi...
July 06, 2020 at 22:20
Aristotle called Metaphysics "first philosophy". And it was a legitimate field of inquiry in Philosophy, and most religions, especially the Catholic C...
July 06, 2020 at 22:05
Yes. The Calvinist Predestination interpretation of creation never made any sense to me. And Hell is obviously a scare-tactic invented by provoked pro...
July 06, 2020 at 00:20
My guess : You can't have a dynamic universe without organization. And that requires a single whole system with lots of sub-functions. What we call "L...
July 05, 2020 at 18:02
Wow! I never expected the plaintive OP to get such reaction. But it has veered off into some very technical and arcane discussions. Anyway, I'll add m...
July 03, 2020 at 17:55
My BothAnd Blog presents many applications of the BA Principle. Yet I doubt you want to read all 107 essays. Those posts cover most of the categories ...
July 03, 2020 at 17:32
In the process of developing my Enformationism worldview, I realized that it entailed a principle that many people would find absurd or incommensurabl...
July 02, 2020 at 22:20
Yes. I agree that we have freedom of choice, but only in a very limited range. Sometimes we have to choose the lesser of evils, not from a range of de...
July 02, 2020 at 21:16
Yes. The subject of definition definitely determines how it can best be defined. In philosophical discussions you are most often defining abstract con...
July 02, 2020 at 20:56
Ha! I suspect that some wives consider their clueless left-brain husbands to be mentally deficient when they give the wife a box of tampons for her bi...
July 01, 2020 at 23:57
Be careful how you use the term "indisputable" on a philosophy forum. :joke: I doubt that ancient people arbitrarily "decided" to believe in invisible...
July 01, 2020 at 23:53
I haven't heard it put that way before, but I agree. :smile:
July 01, 2020 at 22:58
Yes. That's the point of my BothAnd philosophy. I'm open to more holistic thinking, which is partly why I was looking into the PoMo movement, to see i...
July 01, 2020 at 22:51
No. I was merely wondering if the emphasis on ineffable Emotion over explicit Reason in PM reflects a "feminized brain" in male homosexuals, who becam...
July 01, 2020 at 17:16
Yes. I can understand that what eventually became the "Postmodern" movement was intended as a correction to unwarranted assumptions and reliance on co...
July 01, 2020 at 03:12
You are describing the "communication gap" that marriage counselors and self-help gurus have been talking about for years. It's the basis of the Mars/...
June 30, 2020 at 22:16
Actually, for most humans, Complexity does lend itself to simple classification. So our innate complex non-binary & non-linear personas tend to "confu...
June 30, 2020 at 21:51
Yes. We all adapt our "true selves" to our social situation by wearing suitable personas. Unfortunately, homosexuals, being persona non grata in most ...
June 30, 2020 at 21:16
That seems to be the original meaning of the term "to abstract"; probably an analogy with the act of removing the flesh from the bones of an animal. O...
June 30, 2020 at 18:03
Yes, in mathematics, it's called "Probability", or "Fuzzy Logic". In philosophy it's called "the Excluded Middle" of a continuum, and in ordinary parl...
June 30, 2020 at 02:18
The gist I got from Dennett is that the subjective experience of consciousness is real, but it's the result of physical processes, not an objective me...
June 30, 2020 at 02:01
Yes. That's what I meant by the observation that PoMo may have driven the Left and Right farther apart than usual. Trump seems to be the very self-int...
June 29, 2020 at 17:00
Does that mean the PoMo movement has resulted in driving the political Left and Right farther apart? I hadn't thought of the cynical "fake news" notio...
June 29, 2020 at 00:32
I assume you mean, that you start with a general concept and weed-out irrelevancies, in order to reach a meaning that is specific to the situation at ...
June 29, 2020 at 00:23