Yes. Information requires some kind of Mind to contain & process specific Concepts. But in my thesis, Generic (creative) Information is the Universal ...
Yes. I have concluded that ancient people used the word "spirit" (literally invisible living "breath") as a metaphor for what we now call "Energy". It...
Sorry. I've changed my mind. I will waste a bit more of my Time dimension on this off-topic digression --- for my own edification. I'm currently readi...
Hoffman's theory is based on a specific understanding of how evolution has constructed the human body and mind. His concept of Model Dependent Realism...
Yes. It's Information. My unconventional personal worldview is a Theory of Everything. And it's based on the quantum equivalence of Energy and Matter ...
I agree. From our exchanges on this thread, I gather that your non-spatial dimensions are devoid of content. Hence nothing for a meaningful discussion...
Kant called that "illusion" Transcendental Idealism. In that case, ". . . what we think we see, is not absolute reality but our own ideas about realit...
Sounds like Jung's notion of Synchronicity. But mundane psychological theories, such as the Availability Heuristic and Confirmation Bias make more sen...
So, is this a kiss-off? Are you dumping me for another more intelligent, inquisitive, and humble forum poster? Have you found someone who actually und...
Since I am not an academic philosopher, I don't spend much time thinking about such questions. So I doubt that I would have anything significant to ad...
If I am so arrogant & ignorant, why do you care what my opinion of your Multidimensional Reality might be? From your early posts I began to entertain ...
So, what is the "general thrust" of this thread and your book : that there are general categories of philosophical questions? . . . that there are rel...
I was using the term "ideology" in its philosophical sense as a unique system of ideas, not in the pejorative sense of someone else's erroneous politi...
This is a start. A picture is worth a thousand esoteric words. But, I need some arrows or links between boxes to indicate functional interrelationship...
Sorry, I'm neither a string theorist, nor a mathematician, nor an academic philosopher --- nor an esoteric Theosophist. So deconstructing, or meta-ana...
That sounds similar to the way I conceive of Energy (EnFormAction), which is the potential for creating and destroying structure. For example, physici...
In short, NO. I'll defend my own ideas, but not those of a philosopher perfectly capable of defending himself. :smile: Panpsychism : In popular usage,...
The "prescriptive side" of my philosophy is left to each individual to work out in their own local context. All I do is describe the BothAnd principle...
The "telling" in your first post went right over my non-academic head, as usual. Even though I'm an Architect, those multidimensional structures are v...
Except for the interest in Economics & Political Science, this sounds very similar to my own path into philosophy. As a child, my family was only inte...
Apparently, you have mixed-up some of Plato's theory with Aristotle's theory of Forms. For Plato, the Forms "exist" abstractly in a non-physical timel...
A "perfect circle" is a metaphysical mathematical definition (an idea), not a physical thing. FWIW, I don't believe that a physically perfect teapot i...
The blog Glossary has a definition of "Ideality", that gives an overview of the concept. But it's really more extensive than that summary. Basically, ...
. . . . followed immediately by "I favor Realism". Obviously, a holistic BothAnd attitude toward the world does not compute for an Either/Or "philisti...
The "substance" I'm offering is universal Information/EnFormAction, which is the single substance of the world, and the "structure" of everything in i...
We seem to have similar Post-Materialism worldviews, but coming from different directions, and with different terminology. I'm still interested in see...
Obviously, you haven't read the thesis or the blog. The only thing I claim "ownership" of is the Enformationism concept : that Information is the "sin...
Why do you think that most ground-breaking philosophers are notable for being hard to understand? "Philosophy is supposed to be difficult." https://ww...
Having rejected the religion of my youth, I came to the Enformationism concept from the direction of Science, instead of Spirituality. However, as I l...
Yes. My Enformationism theory may be too technical & cutting-edge for the average reader --- limited by holding an outdated scientific paradigm (e.g C...
If you would do more than skim the thesis, you'd discover that I do "reference existing work" in sidebars, end notes, and bibliographies. The only "ne...
I just read an article in Skeptical Inquirer magazine*, that reminded me of your incredulous attitude toward my "weird" ideas. The title is The Nobel ...
I favor Idealism for the same reason Plato did : it makes sense of human Consciousness. I favor Realism, for the same reason Aristotle did : It makes ...
Obviously, you have missed the point of my thesis, which is to go beyond Shannon's limited theory of Information toward a general theory (e.g. Newton'...
The quoted definition of "Information" is based on my personal worldview of Enformationism, not on any conventional scientific paradigm. But here's an...
Panpsychism simply assumes that Mind is more fundamental to the real world than Matter. Since my own worldview is similar to ancient notions of Panpsy...
Because "X" is the same in both equations. Your logic is based on scientific Reductionism, while mine is based on philosophical Holism. Science studie...
No. All things and ideas about things are components of (or consist of) Information : the Single Substance of the physical (material) and metaphysical...
Yes. Information is both metaphysical mind-stuff, and physical material stuff. Information is the "Single Substance" of Spinoza's worldview. That's th...
"You keep asking the same question and expecting a different result". — praxis OK, here's the same answer in a different Form : A coin has two sides :...
Paul Davies is a physicist, whose focus has shifted from tiny particles to the universe as a whole system : the Cosmos. And he believes, not based on ...
As usual, this thread has strayed from the original topic. And I'm partly to blame, for defending some of my statements in terms of my own personal wo...
Apparently, you missed the point of Enformationism. For the purposes of my thesis, Information is equivalent to Spinoza's "Single Substance". Generic ...
No. We can distinguish between invisible Matter (quarks) & invisible MInd Stuff (ideas), because they come in meaningfully different Forms. And "spiri...
How much time do you have? The full answer is in the Enformationism Thesis, if you have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon. But for a short an...
Yes. His general worldview is similar to mine, except for the special integrating role for information. But I found his book, Process and Reality, dif...
What's uncanny about Enformationism is that it reconciles Idealism with Realism and Spiritualism with Materialism. It's based on the cutting-edge scie...
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