Why then, did cosmologists feel the need to invoke a "supernatural agency" to explain the logically "prior" cause of the Big Bang? Scientists are now ...
I don't know about most people, but for me, Philosophy is simply Rational Inquiry (Science), as contrasted with the automatic un-examined learning of ...
The notion that physical entanglement implies a metaphysical holistic state appeals to me. But the technical details of how that might work are beyond...
I have no problem with informed speculation. But some concrete or metaphorical examples, as requested in my previous post, would help me to understand...
I'm not well-informed on higher levels of abstract mathematics. Is this Fifth Dimension a conventional mathematical concept, or something you came up ...
I'll have to take your word for the first phrase, but the second part about phase transitions being a construction of consciousness is what I'm referr...
I have read your article on the Evolution of Perception, and it seems to be heading in the same general direction as my own musings on the Emergence o...
Perhaps Kant was saying that the existence of a metaphysical God is not something that can be predicated (asserted) in the usual empirical manner of p...
Yes. Qualia are relational aspects of reality, but not in an abstract geometric sense. Feelings are relational to a unique being, who experiences ener...
Again, to use "experience" for spatio-temporal relationships seems to be referring to an unqualified event, with numerical instead of meaningful value...
Thanks, I've downloaded a copy of the Medium.com article, and will check it out. Siti and I seem to have drifted off-topic, as we often do. We've just...
Do you think Possibility (G*D) directly intervenes in Reality (Actuality) in such a way that scientists can observe and test those cause & effect chan...
Yes. That is why Enformationism attempts to explain why Matter (noun) has the ability to Live (verb) and to Mind (adverb), not in the technical detail...
Actually, the notions of G*D and Multiverse are both infinitely redundant. But if you accept the physicists' Multiverse theory, you still have no expl...
Since I don't have any experience with infinity (no beginning, no end), I can only guess what the possibilities are, but by definition they would be u...
I may be an Optimistic Idealist, because I have found a way to reconcile Aristotle's Metaphysics with modern Quantum Physics, which is inherently absu...
Maybe what you have in mind is Intuition versus Reasoning. Philosophy has always been a logical rational approach to the world. But, it cannot abandon...
Currently, those percepts are "explained" by labeling them as "Consciousness", which explains nothing, or as "Neural Correlates", which also explains ...
I agree. Science is equivalent to the topics discussed in Aristotle's Physics, which was limited to various elements of the natural world. But then, h...
Yes. Logical Positivism was an attempt to bring metaphysical Philosophy closer to physical Science. But it missed the point of Metaphysics : to unders...
In my worldview, Enfernity (eternity-infinity) is completely neutral, because it's all possibilities at once --- positive and negative cancel out. Not...
Of course, illogical concepts are possible in the dualistic state of Reality, but not in the unitary state of Ideality. Eternal LOGOS includes all log...
Plato may have believed in Reincarnation, but probably not in Karma. However, there is a more modern assessment of the human condition, that includes ...
That's because, originally, Philosophy included aspects of Physical Science, Metaphysical Philosophy, and Sociological Religion/Politics. Christianity...
As far as I know, Hoffman didn't speculate much on the precise steps by which Consciousness gradually emerged from quantum level exchanges of energy (...
Public protests are failed philosophical-political debates taken to the streets. They are continuation of rational debate by irrational means. Most ph...
That's exactly why I developed the Enformationism Thesis. It's intended to be a 21st century update to ancient theories of Atomism, Materialism, and S...
I refer to Evolution as Ententional, because it has a direction of progression toward some unknown future state. I can only guess what that "Omega Poi...
I'm not sure how you arrive at that multi-dimensional hierarchy of Information. But, in my thesis, the next higher level above immanent EnFormAction i...
I assume you are referring to the programmers of mundane Evolutionary Programming, But, did I say anything about “no idea at all”? In my analogy betwe...
Presentism is the view that only actual & physical & temporal things exist. A more general term would be Realism. But human discourse has always inclu...
Yes. That's why I don't claim to have any direct knowledge about Enfernity. For my worldview, It's merely a baseline for everything else. It's the emp...
In literary analysis, structural inter-relationships are usually broken-down to Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. So, if you are interested in a corp...
Some people interpret Block Time and Eternalism as-if our experience of sequential space & time is an illusion due to our warped view from Relativity....
This may be off-topic, but Gevin Georbran, wrote a book presenting a novel approach to understanding the space-time universe in a larger context. At f...
It's the essential problem of Ontology (understanding of Being). Ideal non-things are un-real, because they are immaterial, and don't matter. But, if ...
Since he wanted to be taken seriously as a scientific researcher, Hoffman alluded to some Ideal or Transcendent Reality without being very specific. H...
Reality is a space-time world. But Archetypes and Forms are "things" (ideas) that are assumed to have always existed. Yet we only have access to them ...
Never heard of Autonomism, and don't know how it has been applied to morality. But in general, art has been held to be beyond Good & Evil, because it ...
In his most recent book, The Case Against Reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, discusses the distinction between our relative perspective of R...
Descartes introduced a "pragmatic" dualism in order to avoid a violent conflict between Science and Religion in his day. Monolithic Catholicism was fr...
In my thesis, Information is the basis of Logic and Math : a relationship between two values. The key word there is "value". Relationships and Ratios ...
Sounds like you are talking about the notion of Eternalism, which is a modern version of Fatalism. Its scientific justification is based on the concep...
I don't think that parable had any bearing on such an ontological question. It was just a demonstration of the Socratic method of indirect teaching, n...
The exercise only proved that the human brain works with an inherent logic : a mathematical logic, including basic arithmetic. If Socrates had asked f...
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