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That is indeed the assumption of the Materialist worldview. Most people have difficulty imagining Eternity and Infinity, so they simply expand on thei...
October 11, 2019 at 18:13
Here's a slightly different perspective on what you're saying, from my novel frame-of-reference, and using other metaphors : Zero Point Energy (ZPE) i...
October 10, 2019 at 22:59
I don't have the formal philosophical background to follow all of your Against God arguments. Yet I generally agree with the assertion that "there is ...
October 10, 2019 at 01:06
In the United States, and in most of Europe, your moral quandary would be purely hypothetical, because those nations no longer have enforced conscript...
October 08, 2019 at 17:37
I was drafted during the Vietnam debacle, and faced a paradox of my own. My religious training involved the commandment "thou shalt not kill", but als...
October 07, 2019 at 18:55
Actually, your definition of Metaphysics is not that different from mine. The primary distinction is that your terminology seems to derive from your e...
October 07, 2019 at 18:06
Yes. That's why I prefer to make a different distinction from the usual Real/Ideal, Empirical/Theoretical Materialism/Spiritualism dichotomies. Materi...
October 06, 2019 at 18:34
Yes. The unity of two or more things requires a relationship of some kind. But they don't always have to "touch" physically. The may also have a meta-...
October 04, 2019 at 00:09
How do you define "happiness"? Stoics seemed to equate it with calm acceptance of whatever "happens" (Eudaimonia), not with "good luck" due to divine ...
October 02, 2019 at 23:28
Yes. The underlying "substance" is generic Information. Digital information is Quantitative (discontinuous), while Analog information is Qualitative (...
October 02, 2019 at 22:41
For clarity, I define Physical and Meta-Physical according to my personal interpretation of Aristotle (see Glossary). I also try to make a clear disti...
October 02, 2019 at 17:57
Yes. What's missing from current computers is Qualia. 1s and 0s can be processed mathematically, but don't add-up to the quality of consciousness. I s...
October 02, 2019 at 17:47
Yes. Scientists have looked for the correlates of consciousness in particular things. But, as you implied, the locus of Mind is in the relationships b...
October 01, 2019 at 18:19
As I said, we are in the early stages of robotics. And I am also skeptical of Sci-Fi stories of conscious robots . . . in the near future. But . . . d...
October 01, 2019 at 17:57
Yes. That question has perplexed scientists for years, since they don't accept the existence of a black-box Soul. Ironically, most of their mechanical...
October 01, 2019 at 17:22
We are now in the early stages of producing humanoid robots. I doubt that anyone would think the current models have souls, but people typically find ...
October 01, 2019 at 16:33
I see your point. But the notion of a Soul separate from the Body goes back at least to ancient Egypt. Descartes merely made the distinction formal in...
September 30, 2019 at 18:41
Yes. That's why I prefer to avoid the Real/Unreal dichotomy, and refer to Mathematical "structures" as Metaphysical, and material structures as Physic...
September 30, 2019 at 18:06
Yes. According to Idealism, ultimately, everything in reality is an idea in the mind of G*D. Enformationism is essentially an update of ancient Ideali...
September 30, 2019 at 17:56
Some would and some wouldn't. I was referring to the mathematical definition of a Field : "In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtrac...
September 30, 2019 at 00:10
The ancient Mind/Body conundrum is based on a false assumption : that the Mind/Soul is a thing apart from the Brain/Body. Like the "Hard Problem" of c...
September 29, 2019 at 17:55
My notion of G*D is indeed a speculation or conjecture, because I have no real-world experience with anything outside of space-time. But it is also an...
September 29, 2019 at 17:17
If you have a problem with my Enformationism terminology, you are welcome to consult the Glossary. How, then, do you know "what is" apart from experie...
September 28, 2019 at 18:14
As I said, "the imaginary realm we call Eternity". Reality is typically defined as that which is objective (you and I can both experience it). Idealit...
September 27, 2019 at 17:57
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September 26, 2019 at 23:47
That's OK. My terminology is derived mostly from Information Theory. Your "comprehensive system of philosophy" is similar to my Enformationism Worldvi...
September 26, 2019 at 23:22
Yes. Until astronomers calculated that the universe suddenly emerged into space-time from nowhere and nowhen, the philosophical concepts of a supernat...
September 26, 2019 at 17:59
If you feel that my notion of an intentional G*D is spooky, that's probably because you're thinking of the gods of Religion, instead of the god of Phi...
September 26, 2019 at 17:32
That's because I have moved beyond the Big Bang, into the realm of Eternity and Infinity. If you're going to postulate god-like functions, you need to...
September 26, 2019 at 00:18
I've read books by Laszlo and Bohm, Their ideas and speculations are similar to mine, but they focus more on the spooky fringes of Quantum Physics, wh...
September 26, 2019 at 00:12
In my Enformationism thesis, I use the term "Meta-Physics" in a similar manner to your suggestion. "Physics is the science of material Things & Forces...
September 26, 2019 at 00:00
A First Cause of the evolving world is indeed speculative, but it is also logically necessary (if the world has not existed eternally). Quantum Fields...
September 25, 2019 at 23:47
Then you would be in step with the majority of materialist scientists, who see evolution as a "random walk". But I see evolution as a "hockey stick" p...
September 25, 2019 at 17:58
The so-called "philosopher's god" was typically viewed as an abstraction with no physical features. But the gods of traditional religions typically re...
September 24, 2019 at 18:44
I began my philosophical journey as an Agnostic. But I couldn't avoid the intuition of intention behind evolution. Unless the Big Bang was an astronom...
September 24, 2019 at 17:18
Yes. Most world religions view the world as beginning in a high point as a Garden of Eden or a Golden Age, from which we are now degenerating into cor...
September 23, 2019 at 18:20
I am well aware that the majority of people will not be interested in an abstract "philosopher's god". Some will prefer a Father god, who brings rain ...
September 23, 2019 at 17:58
Certainly. But the human brain, with experience only of the physical world, has no intuitive grasp of unbounded concepts such as "Infinity" or "Eterni...
September 23, 2019 at 17:32
True. But most scientific thinking is looking through a microscope for prior proximate causes, such as the billiard ball that impacted the one you are...
September 23, 2019 at 17:10
True. But I tried the other kind of "reasoning", which results in the babel of world religions. True. But as I said, it's a scientific axiom for philo...
September 23, 2019 at 00:41
That's another way of saying "an artifact of human reasoning". Which was my intent, as opposed to nonlinear intuition or faith. This impersonal god-mo...
September 23, 2019 at 00:15
MU, S seems to be confident that empirical science has the answer to all relevant questions. But that depends on what you consider relevant. For philo...
September 22, 2019 at 18:25
Deacon's notion of "the power of absence" may never be testable via empirical methods, but it can be theoretically useful, just as many spooky effects...
September 22, 2019 at 17:51
I assume that Deacon believes that his "absence" theories will someday be testable. At the moment they are supported primarily by circumstantial evide...
September 21, 2019 at 17:10
Interesting concept. How does it work? Do you have a brief synopsis of this model?
September 21, 2019 at 16:24
"It has been claimed that Radical Existential Christians’ faith is based in their sensible and immediate and direct experience of God indwelling in hu...
September 20, 2019 at 19:01
I'll let you be the judge of that. But I suspect that Deacon is not familiar with my personal definition of Meta-Physics. He would probable equate Met...
September 20, 2019 at 17:42
I have read some books on Systems theory, but for philosophical purposes, the most useful source for me has been the Principia Cybernetica website. It...
September 19, 2019 at 23:19
Yes, I read that. It's why many people find justification for their traditional religious beliefs in Quantum Theory and other cutting-edge notions tha...
September 19, 2019 at 18:23
Yes. I was impressed with his non-reductionist approach to the question of how Life might have emerged from non-life. Although, as a scientist, he was...
September 19, 2019 at 17:59