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Gnomon

['Member']Joined: July 22, 2019 at 17:02Last active: February 26, 2026 at 00:0020 discussions4346 comments

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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...
February 25, 2026 at 17:21
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...
February 24, 2026 at 17:55
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'...
February 23, 2026 at 22:53
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...
February 23, 2026 at 18:03
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...
February 22, 2026 at 21:43
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...
February 22, 2026 at 21:35
That the transformation from sensation to sentience occurs is not in question. But scientists & philosophers want to know how & why Mind happens. Henc...
February 22, 2026 at 21:19
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...
February 22, 2026 at 18:14
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...
February 21, 2026 at 17:46
Good question. An act of Awareness is a two-party event : knower & known ; subject & object, sender & receiver. But the point of transformation from p...
February 21, 2026 at 17:23
Since I haven't read anything written by Bitbol, I'll defer to :smile:
February 21, 2026 at 16:57
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...
February 21, 2026 at 16:53
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...
February 20, 2026 at 21:38
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...
February 20, 2026 at 17:45
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...
February 20, 2026 at 17:11
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 ...
February 20, 2026 at 16:54
Sounds like we are talking about the same hypothetical Programmer. If the outcome was predetermined, why run the program?*1 Natural Laws are fundament...
February 20, 2026 at 16:40
The brain's "internal language" is a set of abstractions (ideas ; qualia) filtered from objective sensory experience (400 - 480 terahertz physical vib...
February 19, 2026 at 23:14
For the purposes of this reply, I would reword that question as : What Platonic Form could Consciousness have, before it had Physical Configuration? B...
February 19, 2026 at 22:46
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...
February 19, 2026 at 01:18
The physicist becomes Creator God by converting Theory (equation ; ideality) into Actuality (matter ; reality). :halo:
February 18, 2026 at 18:08
It's not "helpful" to include Einstein's definition of Energy in a discussion of Causation??? He concluded that Energy & Matter are interchangeable vi...
February 18, 2026 at 18:02
References to Einstein are related to discussions of Energy because he re-defined the old philosophical concept of Causation in mathematical & quantit...
February 17, 2026 at 18:28
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...
February 16, 2026 at 22:35
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...
February 16, 2026 at 21:37
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...
February 16, 2026 at 18:19
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...
February 16, 2026 at 17:46
180poopoo applauded your comment that physical Energy is not fundamental. But he seems to have missed the implication that meta-physical non-stuff (la...
February 15, 2026 at 22:55
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...
February 15, 2026 at 22:00
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...
February 15, 2026 at 21:37
I apologize, if you were offended by my interpretation of your OP : that you are not comfortable (OK) with the postulated explanations --- supernatura...
February 15, 2026 at 18:09
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...
February 15, 2026 at 17:23
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...
February 15, 2026 at 17:15
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 ...
February 14, 2026 at 22:15
I get the impression that philosophers who hold a Materialist worldview, prefer the black & white Certainty of the ancient (6th century BC) notion of ...
February 14, 2026 at 22:03
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...
February 14, 2026 at 17:52
So you are not OK with metaphorical philosophical answers to the Intelligibility question on a philosophy forum? Do you think Math (logic), and other ...
February 14, 2026 at 17:27
I think you have answered your own question. The intelligibility of reality, and the "unreasonable effectiveness" of mathematics (Wigner), are not sci...
February 13, 2026 at 22:58
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...
February 13, 2026 at 22:17
The universe could do what, in an instant? Produce a world with living & thinking creatures? That sounds like Genesis creation by fiat. Apparently, yo...
February 12, 2026 at 18:05
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...
February 12, 2026 at 00:53
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...
February 11, 2026 at 18:09
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...
February 10, 2026 at 18:18
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...
February 09, 2026 at 22:31
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...
February 09, 2026 at 18:13
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...
February 08, 2026 at 18:05
I'm giving Energy a philosophical meaning (function) instead of the scientific definition (quantity). Do you think philosophers (mind)) have no busine...
February 08, 2026 at 17:34
The theory of Creation, from a supernatural source, is older than Genesis. But since the 17th century, most secular scientists have assumed, without e...
February 07, 2026 at 22:44
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...
February 07, 2026 at 17:36
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...
February 07, 2026 at 17:13