When one composes music, one's subconscious gives one possibilities of what note to play next and the like. In the creative process, isn't the conscio...
Can’t say that your notion of idea matches with mine. What makes a mental image an idea but a mental sound (else an imagined smell, taste, or tactile ...
In trying to better grasp the notion you're presenting: Common sense has it that the truths we discern are discovered, but are not in any way givens w...
Can you address a quantity without making use of number? Given an example if you can. What I said is the mathematics is the language of quantity and i...
Yes, I get that. I was intending to present a viable possibility of creation in fact being such a form of non-deterministic process. Of course, in a f...
Mathematics is a formalized language of quantity. Sans quantity, no maths. The latter can be readily disproven by one example of a non-quantifiable ma...
Even when granting that infinite possibilities eternally exist (if I'm not misunderstanding your claim), there is yet a limited, and hence finite, set...
The issue of substance has already been addressed. As to “incorporeal body”, this will be a contradiction in terms only when “body” is itself interpre...
Hoping this hasn't been previously addressed in this long thread: We would say “It’s raining” when we do not believe it is raining whenever we would i...
Yes, but the same can be said, for example, of the Abrahamic notion of Grace (as in "God's chosen"). IMO, most any formalized system of ethics, theist...
That we might be genetically hardwired for X (e.g., perception of bent sticks when placed in water), that we have been habituated as kids into upholdi...
Of course, which in turn signifies that they might be wrong. Or not. Using the standards you've presented, why then all the debates about whether, for...
Your reply is in relation to things I do not disagree with - and I'm tempted to believe is instead a strawman. The pattern-recognition you reference h...
Really, we're innately biased (as machines, no less) to be causally deterministic? Then how is it that most people hold onto the bias of being endowed...
You do understand that these same empirical facts can be used to justify systems of causality that are not causally deterministic. For instance, to ju...
Trying to find out if I should reevaluate my opinion of Descartes. He states this clarification after the fact, but how does it apply to the very argu...
From the interpreted tonality, I get a feeling you might be expecting me to disagree? I don't. As a subtle reminder, I'm a die-hard fallibilist - whic...
Have to get going for now, but what meaningful import does the OP hold other than affirming something along the lines of, "I think, therefore I have t...
I think I get what you're saying, in which case, again, sure. But is this quote there might be implied something that does not ring true: my experienc...
For me, the validity of this affirmation rests one what one here understands by “my reality”. In one sense, we each inhabit individual and personal re...
Changing the tune a bit—but in line with the thread’s topic, and mainly oriented at @"Kenosha Kid" posts on this thread (haven't read all of them): Ho...
Your physicalist bias is showing. I didn’t ascribe any value to disorder and order, so why the fuss? As to the metaphysics I’ve previously mentioned i...
Yes, entropy is a model just as much as, say, our notions of biological evolution are a model. However, I yet hold that there is a terrain which is be...
I acknowledge that argument/observation. Thanks for the correction. So back to the LEM not being derived from the LNC. Having mulled it over some, sho...
Thanks for the account. As previously, some minor metaphysical differences between us - you say the end-state of the universe is a physicalist’s Heat ...
Wanted to read your thoughts on what I’ve traditionally viewed to be a contradictory semantics between IT notions of entropy and, for lack of better p...
Because I get the feeling this question might easily be misconstrued by many (here hoping I'm interpreting it properly enough): A Yogi informs his pup...
@"fishfry" nicely addressed the dichotomy between zero and one. As to "yes" and "no" there is "maybe". Example: "Will you be going to the event?"; her...
But maybe I'm deviating too much from the thread's content with the aforementioned. Sometimes aesthetic the way sunsets are sometimes aesthetic - and ...
Very nice quote. Yes, approaching this from my own experiences, I agree with what you address being an important aspect to the process of art creation...
Most of what you say here goes without saying, but it misses the point I was making: not its own experience on account of it not being sentient, or co...
Speaking for myself, you’re projecting metaphysical issues way too much into this. When and if a technological singularity will occur, whatever sentie...
Yes, there is a bit of discomfort that I feel in seeing noteworthy aesthetics originated by a non-sentient entity with a significant degree of regular...
There are many reasons to engage in art, poetry included. Two of these that I’ve so far found most central are a) a need to express something this is ...
I’m having a hard time following. IMV, and in disagreement with causal determinism, of course you could have been other than who you are, but you woul...
I do find the notion of soul to be somewhat arbitrary when comparing different cultures, but not altogether meaningless. I’m guessing there might be s...
Continuing with the terminology you've used: I placed this thread in General philosophy rather than Metaphysics due to an initial intention to not eng...
Thank you for the example. If meaning is use, and if the determinant can be stated via common language use to be a cause but can likewise be stated vi...
I agree that in both examples the processes are temporal. So, if I’m interpreting you correctly, you’re saying that (efficient) causation is necessari...
Right, good example. So when you determine the image via X, Y, and Z, how do you not cause the properties of the image via these same means? And when ...
To be clear, in your view causation doesn’t exist? Or are you alluding to probabilistic causation? If the former, why maintain this? If the latter, I’...
Nice OP. In such a hypothetical, wouldn't inference be sufficient? Here thinking of people with certain forms of amnesia, but taken to an extreme. As ...
That the Republican Party has the gall to call itself the Good Old Party - as contrasted to what? - and that others, including myself, have nowadays c...
While I neither wish to bum out nor insult anyone, on the darkly humored side of things, here’s an answer to the question, “What Keeps Mankind Alive?”...
In a way reminds me of the Golden Compass. Haven’t read the book but I liked the movie. It's why I mention it. How do you feel about the Latin concept...
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