Gnomon

My Enformationism thesis has nothing to do with mystical occult esoteric Hermetic traditions. I prefer scientific exoteric empirical knowledge. Unfort...

What do you mean? I copied the quote from your post. The "passive-aggressive" crack sounded more like Praxis, but I was replying to your put-down. Did...

That's OK. I'm used to rudeness on anonymous internet forums. You can continue to "cooperate" by challenging my ideas, and giving me a chance to respo...

Yes. I often link to his site for technical details that are way above my knowledge level. His worldview seems to be similar to mine, in that "Immater...

Yes. Physics does both empirical perceiving and theoretical conceiving. But the latter is more like philosophical mind-work, than empirical sense-work...

I am trying to be defend my thesis without being offensive. Is that what you call "passive-aggressive"? You and Praxis have been attacking my thesis f...

Well, the assertion plus negation is confusing to the mortal mind. But then, my personal philosophy is called BothAnd. So, I'll have to give you the b...

Yes. It's different from your traditional definition, which you have never stated explicitly. And you've never explained exactly what is "wrong" with ...

Did Wheeler use terms like "other dimensions" in his musings on " matter, energy, and information"? Did he associate Information with physical Electro...

"Sixth dimension metaphysics, from what I could briefly glean, holds that awareness, connection, and collaboration is inherent to everything, in an ap...

Since you seem to be offended by my eccentric approach to Metaphysics, how would you describe, in your own words, the Theory of Information that is th...

I recently read Mind & Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel. He rejects the meaningless worldview of reductionist Materialism, and tentatively leans toward the anc...

So, you're stooping to calling me names again? Are you saying I'm Stoopid? :sad: I could try to answer your question, but I'm a Neanderthal, and I don...

You seem to be focusing on our differences, but communication requires an emphasis on our commonalities. However, communication of novel concepts in S...

I don't know what philosophers you've been reading, but the most famous thinkers also seem to be the hardest to understand. That's because they are br...

Again you missed the point of my unconventional worldview. I think "what most understand metaphysics to be" is either Super-Natural, or an impractical...

I have given some thought to that question. And my answer is "maybe". When your body turns to dust, the information associated with that matter is dis...

Because the term "Fifth Dimension", is associated in my mind primarily with the New Age of Aquarius notion of a transcendent level of consciousness. S...

A philosophical forum is full of "misunderstandings". That's the point of ongoing dialog : to learn how other people interpret our words, and to eithe...

That correlation wasn't my idea. Aristotle's Metaphysics has been associated with Religion and Spiritualism for thousands of years. For the purposes o...

Thag's Cult : Numbers, Pythagoras believed, were the elements behind the entire universe. He taught his followers that the world was controlled by mat...

Unfortunately, the link has been taken down. But as an Architect, I'm familiar with the "practical trick", as Frank called it. For those interested in...

Sorry, that was a generic "you" in the quote. I wasn't saying that Possibility was using spiritual terminology. Actually, my problem here is that you ...

You do it your way, and I'll do it mine. Critiquing and de-constructing out-of-date terminology is my way of "broadening awareness" and eliminating "i...

That is the point of the BothAnd philosophy. The BothAnd Philosophy : Philosophy is the study of ideas & beliefs. Not which are right or wrong – that ...

My intent is not to "legitimize" those -isms as isolated traditions, but to integrate "woo" & "mysteries" into a whole system with empirical Science. ...

Do you have some kind of image or diagram to illustrate the multilayered structure of space? The diagram below is a simplified interpretation of 3 dim...

If you're going to butt-in, at least become familiar with the discussion. I have repeatedly contrasted Spiritualism with Materialism as antagonistic w...

Thanks! The whole point of Enformationism is "paradigm busting", not merely saying the same old thing in strange words. Unfortunately, I grew-up in th...

I am enjoying this dialog, in part, because I sense that you and I have similar aspirations. For example, I am trying, in my own idiosyncratic way, to...

Please reference some venerable or historical definitions of the Fifth Dimension. Do they match your meaning of the term? Are they different from the ...

Yes. Time is not a physical thing that can be measured with a yard/meter stick. But it is a dimension only by analogy to spatial dimensions. Time meas...

The usual setup is to compare Objective Facts (science) to Subjective Faith (religion). But religious believers don't accept that their Faith is mere ...

Yes. Humans evolved to thrive in small tribes where everybody knew each other. But now we know our Facebook "friends" as images on a cell phone. Faceb...

I'm sorry you don't like my gnarly neologisms. You seem to view them as prideful dogmatic assertions of ownership of the ideas embodied in them. You m...

You seem to romanticize primitive tribalism. Modern cultures are not "unnatural", but merely different. They are evolutionary developments of human na...

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The "Combination Problem" of Consciousness raises the question of how invisible metaphysical mind-stuff could add-up to visible physical matter-stuff....

In your own theory, you can call it anything you want. But as I pointed-out before, the notion of extra dimensions has been used to describe a variety...

Good question! It's the same old problem that philosophers and scientists have been wrestling with for millennia. David Chalmers gave the Mind/Body pr...

Is it OK to say something about how things might be? For example, in the spooky realms of physics like Dark Matter, "where no materials are to be had"...

If the OP was on a Physics forum, it would indeed be "bad physics". But it was posted on a Philosophical forum where speculation & conjecture beyond k...

Yes. Quantum physics is mostly non-empirical, and mostly mathematical. But the interpretations of their equations are philosophical metaphors and anal...

Good! I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same thing. Some intuitives feel that their non-rational approach to problems is superior t...

Let's try to see where we agree or disagree on the Intuition vs Reason debate. Which of the following definitions would characterize your understandin...

Such antagonism arises primarily when objective scientific facts clash with subjective religious beliefs. For example, the Theory of Evolution seemed ...

I doubt that the average person dismisses mundane Intuition as irrelevant. But they may not be aware that most of what they think of as Reasoning is a...

This quote sounds like it might be relevant to human consciousness. But the terminology is more appropriate for quantum theorists or neuroscientists. ...

I'm sorry if my thick skull frustrates you, but I still have no idea what you are talking about. Can you translate the quote above into words a non-sp...

If so, then Philosophy is nothing. :cool: Metaphysics : Arguably, metaphysics is the foundation of philosophy: Aristotle calls it "first philosophy" (...