Gnomon

I just read an article in Philosophy Now magazine : Escaping The Academic Coal Mine. The author says, "I am currently crafting an article that tinkers...

I'm aware that philosophy is not an emotion-driven game, but hard rational work. Hence it will never be as popular as shoot-em-up video games. But, in...

Yes, Wayfarer seems to be trying to turn the focus from the Reductive methods of Shannon Information Theory to a more Holistic approach. It's not a "r...

The presentation of Enformationism is unapologetically idiosyncratic, and the website was inspired by the site of another far-out "peculiar" thinker, ...

You could say that Enformationism is a 21st century version of ancient Platonism (metaphysics) combined with Aristotelianism (physics). Enformationism...

I'm not familiar with John Collier (sci-fi writer??). Where can I find his erroneous spelling of Information with an "E". Google doesn't show any conn...

Ha! You just proved my point in the sentence following the quote : "Instead, they skim it and quickly get an impression that it's a weird idea, and do...

Ah so, grasshopper! you "looked" but did not see. :joke:

Perhaps what you are working on is a comprehensive philosophical WorldView. I created a website to present my thesis of the "big picture", which I cal...

Thanks. I agree with this phrase : "Causation can be understood as the transfer of information". That is what I call EnFormAction in my thesis.

I have been so impressed with the notion that Information is the "fundamental constituent" of the world that I created a website to present my emergin...

Your implication may be correct that this forum is not frequented primarily by academically-trained philosophers, but mostly by amateur & self-taught ...

It's true that the Multiverse, like God, is assumed to be self-caused or self-existent. But most Mverse theories describe the Big Bang (emergence of k...

Theists, which comprise the vast majority of humans, reason from their experience of how the world works on a local scale to how it might work on a un...

Unless you have a better idea, I'd be careful about labeling serious conjectures about Ultimate Origins as "stupid". Any speculations on the First Cau...

I don't know why a discussion of Ultimate Origins, for which no one is an expert, has become so contentious. Anything you say will be a personal opini...

Yes & no. It's true that anything non-physical cannot be perceived via our physical sensory organs. Yet Metaphysics (at least in my definition) is not...

Sounds like you're thinking of something like Jung's Racial Memory or Collective Unconscious, and Plato's Archetypes. These are interesting possibilit...

Your question may be related to the "Hard Problem" of Consciousness" : how do subjective sensations and feelings arise from objective interactions of ...

Maybe the Mind translates from Brain code into "Soul" meaning. I suspect that the unstated assumption here is that the conscious Mind communicates wit...

I can't give you the answer you are looking for. But I can speculate on how a digital process can produce analog outputs. Here's a quick sketch. First...

In theory, Congress is supposed to be the oversight committee for intelligence agencies. But, in practice, the dominant party may choose to look the o...

One way to describe an "excess of patience" is Apathy. Impatience is high motivation, low control. Patience is moderation of (control over) passion, a...

Yes. People do it all the time. But conventional computers can't do it. We know things like trees by defining their essence, not in words, but in feel...

Of course! Even feminists, like Simone de Beauvoir, accepted that male and female minds had inherently different "styles". This dichotomy --- as the F...

Yes. But post-20th-century scientists --- since the advent of Quantum Theory --- are losing that battle. We discuss some of the Teleological implicati...

Aristotle did make a distinction between a> empirical Induction and b> rational Deduction, which roughly parallel the methods of a> Science and b> Phi...

Joseph Campbell, in The Power of Myth, finds the commonalities in folk myths to be related to Archetypes in the human mind. For example, a bull may re...

I don't fully understand how this works technically. But, metaphorically, I assume that Einstein realized that everything in space-time must be moving...

Modern philosophers usually make a distinction between Mythos (emotional meaning) and Logos (rational meaning). But ancient philosophers, such as Plat...

Yes, I know. But it's the content, not the title that I refer to as "Meta-physics". For the purposes of my thesis I adopted the term, but added a hyph...

Perception and Conception are functions of the brain, not things in themselves. One does not cause the other. Perception is what we experience physica...

I like Donald Hoffman's analogy of perceived reality as the display screen for a computer, where the actual workings are concealed behind the screen. ...

It doesn't. :cool:

Meant by whom? Obviously, the Catholic council at Nicea thought the letters of Paul should be in the Bible they were putting together. There was littl...

Penrose has some good ideas, but as a mathematician, he seems to be swayed by the long-successful physical method of Reductionism, which divides thing...

I agree. That's why, for my personal worldview, I provided a definition that is specifically tailored to the primary subject of the thesis: Informatio...

Yes. Both have roots in ancient Jewish and Egyptian mysticism. The article below even asserts that "Although the Christian Church Fathers of the first...

Yes. The original followers of Jesus were Jews. And Jesus rebuked a gentile woman : “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matt....

So, you are playing long odds that aliens are real and relevant??? :joke:

I believe in the apocalyptic Jewish preacher, but not in the mythical Roman Christ. :cool:

Although it claims roots in ancient Jewish wisdom traditions, the Kabbalah is a post-Christian scripture. It implies that those ancient scriptures wer...

Modern Aliens are equivalent to ancient Angels. They are messengers from the great beyond, but they are very secretive, and only appear to a select fe...

I don't dislike the Kabblah more than any other ancient scriptures. But I am wary of how people get sucked-in to the vortex of magic & mysticism. Like...

Yes. I have concluded the the emergence of intelligent creatures was programmed into the Singularity that caused pure Energy to complexify over time i...

As a rule, philosophers such as Spinoza, don't make any attempt to read the mind of G*D. They merely assume the existence of an intentional creator of...

If you are already at "666" then there's no hope for you. The devil's gonna get you. But then, PI is an endless string of numbers, so maybe all you ha...

The universal mind imagined by AI enthusiasts is a creation of the universe, not the creator of it. They assume that the physical universe itself is e...

I coined the term "G*D" for a completely different reason from that of the Jews. They were afraid of offending their tyrannical God by using his perso...

What else can you equate it with? If you accept the scientific consensus of evolution over billions of years, from pure Energy to Matter to Mind, how ...