Gregory

Whether extension for Spinoza can have life, I do not know. We have souls ("thinking") that he says does not come from extension (matter) however. Int...

Provide counter arguments and I will read them

I said I wasn't going to debate this further since I've been asked not too. My opinions are out there though, so I will just tell you briefly that a f...

All answers to the question of if God is conscious for Spinoza is correct. He thought we had to think of him as conscious intellect, but also that we ...

Reproduction is part of earthly life. I was talking about male and female in the abstract, in the sense of essential form. I understand if people got ...

There is a divine spark in all of us and I call that God. But it emerges from matter. Anything can become actual from potentiality

Why do you expect consciousness to come come only from another consciousness. In theism God creates consciousness from nothing, not from his nature. I...

If A to B is seen as infinite fractions (half, quarter, eighth, ect) and as one travels it the mover changes color every fraction, he is not a definit...

Oh you watched it, good. He said it "melts the brain" to think of an infinite series going to a destination without a final term. Math, I think you're...

The Numberphile video on Zeno's paradox expresses concern about what is at the end of an infinite series with no final term. The mathematician said he...

Ok. I won't post on this thread anymore. My ideas of male-ness and femininity are obviously more within certain bounds than for others. Thanks

You would tell people with gender disphoria that gender is an illusion and to "feel" whatever they like. They should feel whatever they like, but unde...

Everyone knows man have breasts in the sense you mean. Are you saying they have breasts in the same sense that females do?

Males "have" breasts you say, so breasts are a thing. I'm saying that "female breasts" are an ontological thing too

As I've shown, its demonstratable that space is infinitely packed. Our eyes can even see it in matter. Whether waves will be revealed to be made of pa...

I mentioned trans individuals because people often say we can choose our gender but then turn around and say gender is not a thing. People get very co...

We have some understanding of human male and female-ness. That breasts are female and not male is obvious, except you are saying that what breasts are...

I think we all have some idea of male and female. A female has breasts by form for example. But if you are saying its all just a blur because we can't...

It's your fallacy that not knowing everything means not knowing anything. Might as well own that

No, you are able to talk about infinities although you don't understand infinity. We can something about sexuality perhaps but if these questions just...

There seems there are too many qualities to the ideas of male and female to define them

I was referring to Platonic forms. Many think these are real only for numbers. I think they exist somehow in how they relate to sexuality

I think gender is made from identity but the body embodies it in two forms, make and female. The female is reversible in that it can have a vagina or ...

If I say "male form is like this" or whatever, is their a standard of what a home sapien is?

A female form is whole and represents simplicity of soul. The male form does not. We need to settle that there forms in these matters

Males are those who have genitalia that is not necessarily male. Females have genitalia that is theirs, but without contradiction they could have eith...

It seems to me that people switch the idea of the body and soul unknowingly. Soul is identity and maybe we can never know our own for sure but as Paul...

There isn't much room to speculate with pure pantheism. Hegel explicates this point at the end Philosophy of Mind

I don't think any strictly abstract philosopher can maintain a position of pantheism for long. The philosophical explication of it is really panenthei...

The error of composition and the idea of emergence says that the unity of parts creates something different from what was in the parts alone

Spinoza says God has intellect. The intellect we know is our own and he says perfect free will is an illusion but also that there are passions of the ...

Spinoza's God is the perfect image of the Jewish Shekinah. We usually read the old Testament and latter Jewish works in light of Greek exoterisism. Bu...

Space has always been seen as the hierogamy of infinite and finite powers within some esoteric traditions. Someday I would like to do a study just on ...

I think you are wrong in assuming a computer can't, in its way of knowing, understand infinity

I believe in the philosophy of Kant, Fitche, Schelling, and Hegel. I interpret them all in terms of materialism (the soul arises from matter) and a co...

Great post! I like working on questions relating to traditional ontology and modern psychology. Kant fits into the picture nicely as well I've found. ...

Is a tomatoe a field? Why not? You're throwing ideas out there that are philosophical and calling them science. This is a philosophy forum. We think c...

This is why I called you an idealist.

How QM works is a question for quantum physicists. WHY it works is a philosophy question. We can't see with the eye at that level so all the former ca...

Aristotle's "solution" was that the whole exists prior to parts. To which I ask: 1) do the parts of the whole exist 2) how many are there of these par...

Yes. Spinoza had two attributes we know of. Thought and matter. Both come from God and work parallel to each other. If you want to believe, as he did,...

I am going to talk on the phone tomorrow with my cousin, who is a high profile computer programmer in LA. I will tell him about your claim that infini...

The greatest error of modernity is saying that the world is information and is not as it appears to us. The world we see transcends any interpretation...

Spinoza got his idea of the soul from Descartes. Someone CAN be an epistemic Spinozian while remaining a materialist. I think Hegel was exactly that. ...

People who insist on a consciousness basis for understanding will never find an answer to the "hard" problem. For me its not a hard question at all. A...

Your ontology is weak. You say a table is one, yet it has 4 legs and a top piece. What number of parts do these have? This process is infinite and it ...

When time is suspended in indeterminacy space is fluid and discrete. When space is seen as knowingly infinite is its parts it is suspended against the...

What about the halting problem?

. In the transitions of time, motion covers space as if it is fixed ( "discrete") and as if it is undifferentiated continuity. It's two sides of a coi...

There was a great thread here a couple weeks ago. Lots of great links cited in the question of "emergence" . It's a fascinating subject