Gnomon

I hadn't heard of TLM, so I Googled it. And found a variety of responses that might/might-not apply to your post : Temporal Light Modulation ; Transmi...

My BothAnd "melange" (mix of incongruous elements) may sound wishy-washy to a Good-vs-Evil Idealist, or an Us-vs-Them Realist*1. But I view it as a So...

This is a continuation of my previous post on this topic. Again I apologize for belaboring this side-track on the Primacy of Consciousness OP. I hadn'...

If I could read your mind, and you mine, I wouldn't have to "take an objective view" for forum discussions. I am experiencing the "subjective view" ri...

Paraphrase : "Let there be light: and there was Cosmos". "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be" is the iconic opening line from Carl Sagan...

I recently read a novel, Exodus Directive, where AI takes over almost all human functions in only a few decades. So, it quickly becomes better at thin...

That the transformation from sensation to sentience occurs is not in question. But scientists & philosophers want to know how & why Mind happens. Henc...

That sounds strange to me. I don't view Consciousness as an object, a thing, a substance ; but as a process, and an action. I suppose what gave you th...

Do you think humans are on the verge of becoming Gods, meddling with the fundamental laws & constants of the Cosmos : the Cosmic Code? The current sta...

Good question. An act of Awareness is a two-party event : knower & known ; subject & object, sender & receiver. But the point of transformation from p...

Since I haven't read anything written by Bitbol, I'll defer to :smile:

Again, I need to clarify that the "terms" you objected to are the words of Google AI Overview, not from my own "framework". I haven't read anything by...

From a previous post : Actually, my second post, that you are reacting to, is an attempt to paraphrase what you said about Bitbol. Since I had never h...

I'll reply to your either-or assertion. Are you aware that Energy is both a measurable (scalar) property of matter*1, and an immaterial agent of chang...

I cite the post as a whole. I haven't read any of Bitbol's work. :smile: Excerpts from Gnomon post : "PS___ Yes, I continue to harp-on my *1 Informati...

If the creator of Genesis intended for his creatures to have freewill, he wouldn't have banished the humans from the Garden of Ideality for gaining a ...

Sounds like we are talking about the same hypothetical Programmer. If the outcome was predetermined, why run the program?*1 Natural Laws are fundament...

The brain's "internal language" is a set of abstractions (ideas ; qualia) filtered from objective sensory experience (400 - 480 terahertz physical vib...

For the purposes of this reply, I would reword that question as : What Platonic Form could Consciousness have, before it had Physical Configuration? B...

The Bitbol discussion is way over my head. So, I'll limit my unsolicited contribution to questions related to the Primacy of Consciousness (OP). The c...

The physicist becomes Creator God by converting Theory (equation ; ideality) into Actuality (matter ; reality). :halo:

It's not "helpful" to include Einstein's definition of Energy in a discussion of Causation??? He concluded that Energy & Matter are interchangeable vi...

References to Einstein are related to discussions of Energy because he re-defined the old philosophical concept of Causation in mathematical & quantit...

That is the question that my thesis attempts to answer*1. Yet it goes on to describe how the power to enform can evolve the Mental aspects of the Mate...

I'm not the one saying that Information is fundamental. It's the scientists I quote that say it. You can read their books to get the details. For exam...

I think Einstein's philosophical openness to non-religious-God-concepts does have something to do with the OP. :smile: My use of ex nihilo means "noth...

That sounds like proving a negative. I suppose a theist is more likely to point to (demonstrate) the absence of physical evidence for mental phenomena...

180poopoo applauded your comment that physical Energy is not fundamental. But he seems to have missed the implication that meta-physical non-stuff (la...

I can't help you with Hart's reasoning*1, except to note that it is based on theology, and argues against Naturalism/Materialism. If you are committed...

If you are really interested in an amateur philosopher's opinion of the natural evolutionary emergence of Life & Mind, you could start with the origin...

I apologize, if you were offended by my interpretation of your OP : that you are not comfortable (OK) with the postulated explanations --- supernatura...

The Bible claims to have solved the mystery of existence in the myth of Genesis, along with direct revelations to humans over the subsequent centuries...

I am careful about quotes from any authority figure, because people will interpret the words in the context of their own beliefs. . . . and that inclu...

Yes. Energy must be conserved because the Big Bang provided the universe with a limited supply, that cannot be created or destroyed within the bubble ...

I get the impression that philosophers who hold a Materialist worldview, prefer the black & white Certainty of the ancient (6th century BC) notion of ...

Yes, the "quote" is an attribution, and probably a paraphrase of several opinions in Einstein's writings*1. If it doesn't agree with your personal wor...

So you are not OK with metaphorical philosophical answers to the Intelligibility question on a philosophy forum? Do you think Math (logic), and other ...

I think you have answered your own question. The intelligibility of reality, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics (Wigner), are not sci...

Most Philosophers are somewhat argumentative, and don't readily accept "easy" answers, such as "God did it". They may then ask, where did this magical...

The universe could do what, in an instant? Produce a world with living & thinking creatures? That sounds like Genesis creation by fiat. Apparently, yo...

Yes! But does that tight "constraint" and "coherence" look like a random accident? On a firing range, a tight grouping of shots is taken to indicate a...

I'm not asking for a creator. I'm inferring a programmer. That's because natural evolution seems to be processing*1 information, and proceeding step b...

In this case, I would interpret "not free" as non-random, hence logical. I assume that, by (physical) "constraints", you mean Natural Laws*1. Those so...

Intelligent Design*1 is a touchy subject on this forum, and is often denigrated as Pseudoscience. But I prefer to label the hypothesis of a pre-Bang C...

Wow! Do you have a doctorate in Quantum Physics? A lot of this is over my little pointy head, but I will timidly comment on a few of your Poetic/Scien...

In this thread, has questioned my idiosyncratic notion of Causation & Energy, as a transfer of Information from one entity to another. As a Poetic wor...

I'm giving Energy a philosophical meaning (function) instead of the scientific definition (quantity). Do you think philosophers (mind)) have no busine...

The theory of Creation, from a supernatural source, is older than Genesis. But since the 17th century, most secular scientists have assumed, without e...

Yes. That's why I said, for the purposes of this thread, I'm more interested in the meta-physical*1 interpretations of Philosophy : as in Metaphysical...

Makes sense to me. But do you think that's what Wayfarer meant by "many degrees of Reality"? In my terminology, I would call that "many degrees of Ide...