Can you refer me to the "pagan philosophy" that argued for a transcendent rational soul on "impeccable rational grounds"? Or will you give me your own...
No. The Enformationism worldview does not imply predestination or essentialism. Instead, it views evolution as Ententional*1 in the sense of modern Ev...
Are you saying that Reason is a divine "endowment" and not an evolutionary development? The "nonsense" statement said that "animals are capable of rea...
Yes. The ancient Greek philosophers observed that humans were superior in some way to animals, but obviously not in physical attributes. Since all aut...
Insightful observation! Scientific Facts are supposed to be value neutral, whereas the application of those "facts" as "oughts" is a value judgment ba...
For animals there is no need for an absolute BEING to explain our contingent existence. But humans are not content to live in the here & now. We explo...
Yes. Conservative personalities are not all the same, but they generally tend to be uncomfortable with change & complexity, preferring predictability ...
What the "bo" will tell you is that, for the practical purposes of reproduction, the gender rainbow is reduced down to three colors : 1. male, 2. fema...
Thanks for the warning. I do intend to stay out of gender politics, and any other bi-polar forms of human interaction. At the moment I'm just trying t...
That may be true. But as I said, "After a brief review, I get the impression that today the notion of fixed categories in nature is held primarily by ...
Just for the record, I was putting words in the mouths of non-theists, who treat Nature as the ultimate moral authority --- as in the Naturalistic Fal...
Bula! Good point. I suspect that Essentialists believe the simplest categorization is the truest : Male/Female (two values) versus the confusing loose...
Yes. "Innate is better" is a nutshell version of the Naturalistic Fallacy. But that seems to be a very common assumption ("pervasive and persistent"; ...
I can understand why the Bronze Age Bible condemned homosexuality. First, they had no knowledge of genetics, and judged gender only by obvious charact...
I agree with your intuition that Information is essential to Life (Enformy), and the cessation of information processing is what we call Death (Entrop...
Yes. That's the point of the BothAnd philosophy. Materialist Science and Spiritualist Religion serve well in their own Magisteria : physical vs emotio...
I agree that ID uses materialistic arguments to counter materialism. From empirical evidence, they reach the same conclusion as materialists : "it's t...
In my personal Enformationism thesis, I hold to a synthesis of both views (BothAnd). Most materialist scientists & philosophers, assume that randomnes...
What do you mean by "radical charity", in the context of Truth and Knowledge? I'm not familiar with Donald Davidson, but a quick Google search found t...
Cognitive researcher Donald Hoffman, in his recent book, The Case Against Reality, offers an interesting metaphor that may shed some light on your que...
Me too! Although I suppose that question has been debated to death on some forums, if not this one. But the OP raised a different question for me : Is...
If quantum particles are "real" objects, why are they labeled with the unreal term "virtual"? I suspect that your understanding of quantum "virtual" i...
You point to my discernment failures, but you fail to support your personal definitions with applicable examples that might help me to see where you a...
Lem's association of Ergodicity with History was probably based on a philosophical, rather than mathematical, definition. Mathematical theories of dyn...
So, you believe that "virtual" and "potential" existence are equivalent to "real" and "actual or physical" existence? Hence, nothing in the world is "...
If you don't like the Google definition of "Virtual", which alternative definition would better suit your personal preference, and preconceptions? Tha...
Ha! I suspect that Hitler was more of a Strong Attractor than a Flitting Butterfly. His "Make Germany Great Again" (MGGA) campaigns were obviously att...
In my brief online review of Ergodic theories, I noticed that they are mostly applied to abstract mathematical concepts, such as Riemann Manifolds and...
Yes. A symbol points to something else. But it is not the actual something else. And the something else is not necessarily concrete or real. It may be...
I'm beginning to see a part of our communication glitch. You seem to think that a "virtual electron" --- as represented by illuminated pixels on a com...
So, what's the problem?. As far as I can tell, no one here is denying that humans have two ways of thinking about existence : sensory reality and ment...
Yes. The intrinsic Either/Or aspect of our apparently dual "Reality" is what Einstein was talking about in his Theory of Relativity. What's real depen...
You seem to be confusing subjective concepts with physical objects. In the typical bar magnet illustration of a magnetic fleld, you never sense the fi...
In what sense can Qualia be physical? Is "redness" a force or a material object? That question is the crux of the mind-body debate. Physicalists try t...
I'm only superficially familiar with Ergodic Theories, and what little I know comes from the Information Philosopher instead of sci-fi authors. As far...
That's exactly why Evolution, according to Hoffman, has hid the "chaos" of ultimate reality from the eyes of humans with limited intelligence. That pa...
I had my own reasons for coining the neologism "Ideality". Partly to serve as a contrast to the noun "Reality". And partly to make a distinction betwe...
I agree. That's why my thesis proposes a Programmer / Enformer / Creator outside of space-time. Panpsychism explains the intelligible order in the uni...
Yes. In my thesis, I refer to the "force" or "intention" behind progressive evolution as EnFormAction, which is similar in effect to the various notio...
I suspect that the confusion comes from using the word "consciousness" as-if it's an object or substance. Instead, Consciousness is a process of trans...
That's why I make a pragmatic distinction between Reality (sensory) and Ideality (mental). Unfortunately for the Realists, what we take for real objec...
Unfortunately, defining "experience" and "existence" has been a subject of debate in philosophy for millennia. Scientists typically try to limit exper...
This sounds similar to my own worldview, except for some of the outdated terminology. "Experience" and "Consciousness" and "Panpsychism" are terms tha...
The answer to that question depends on whether the "goal" of evolution is Quantitative (reproduction) or Qualitative (teleology). Atheists assume that...
That's why I limited my example to vertebrates. For sheer reproductive power, single cells that divide every few minutes don't need much intelligence ...
I'm sure that was his intention. And he doesn't have much to say about Platonism. In his chapter "Illusory" though, he says, "In Plato's allegory of t...
That may well be, but a lot of smart people, including pragmatic scientists, not noted for fanciful thinking, argue that Materialism might also be a f...
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