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Spinoza said neither God nor humans have free will. But they both have will, which is the desires of the thinking subject. The difference between God ...
March 14, 2021 at 22:48
For Spinoza the soul creates consciousness in us. We are parallel to matter on one side and the Intellect (i.e.God). Matter is only conscious in that ...
March 14, 2021 at 22:41
You're the one asking about the "hard" problem in relationship to Spinoza. Gee good luck k with that
March 14, 2021 at 22:25
Sure. (Remember I'm coming at this as a philospher). Pi specifies a a certain precision between the numbers 3 and 4. When it comes to a segment, the p...
March 14, 2021 at 21:45
https://www.harinam.com/tao-te-ching-verse-2-being-and-non-being-create-each-other/ "Paul Cowen proved and then disproved that there is an infinite se...
March 14, 2021 at 20:45
The two biwords that define post modern thought are "consciousness" and " informstion". They actually lead to read ends and prevent us from reading ph...
March 14, 2021 at 18:27
Aristotle said infinity is "one". Modern mathematics say it's two (countable, uncountable) with perhaps subdivisions. A Philosophy Overdose audio on y...
March 14, 2021 at 18:24
SEP has an article on Spninozian modes and one on Spinoza attributes. God for Spinoza was a phenomenal Intellect that can't see it own back. Aquuinas'...
March 14, 2021 at 18:10
If we can rearrange volume and thusly double the volume And we can paint an infinite space with finite paint, Then it's clear humans struggle with the...
March 14, 2021 at 09:22
Pure pantheism would have material modes and the infinite deity united perfectly as one being. Spinoza has infinite "attributes" subsisting between th...
March 14, 2021 at 09:20
I think so. "this is an illusion to an idea found in latter cabalistic philosophy. These 'shard', also called 'shells', form the ten counterpoles to t...
March 14, 2021 at 08:57
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefirot
March 14, 2021 at 07:38
"The philosopher and theologian are conscious of infinity, but from the mathematician's view they do no use it so much as admire it. The mathematician...
March 14, 2021 at 07:35
Infinity creates a situation in this question about space that make the question of continua difficult (The reason being that discrete apace is an oxy...
March 14, 2021 at 02:23
The Zeno effect and the anti-Zeno effect refer to how observation changes eternal states. The ancient Arrow paradox is just used to illustrated the ef...
March 14, 2021 at 00:49
A particle is not the system. It passes through the system
March 14, 2021 at 00:41
Zeno's entire concern briefly demonstrated: To go from A to B you have to go half that distance, since the distance is distance as space. Half of AB i...
March 14, 2021 at 00:28
You are making a claim about reality (i.e. it's made of events of information). Aristotle slumped into this when he said parts are potential. What exi...
March 13, 2021 at 23:43
For Spinoza a rock is God but God is not a rock. God has intellect and consciousness (will) but no free will because Spinoza doesn't believe in free w...
March 13, 2021 at 23:18
There is no true middle ground between physicalism and idealism. You say the nature of reality is mental and matter is the power to inform. I can not ...
March 13, 2021 at 22:53
"testimonies of the soul are as simple as they are true, as obvious as they are simple, as common as they are obvious, as natural as they are common, ...
March 13, 2021 at 05:35
Hegel's mystical logic of motion "That which is not may be what it was". He said about logic: "The linear series that in its movement marks the retrog...
March 13, 2021 at 05:23
Ok I found the more relevant article: https://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~rarthur/articles/lsi-final.pdf?fbclid=IwAR34tqTaNU4OY-YBbMA-ZpsGIxLFev1ZV8QR...
March 13, 2021 at 05:20
I consider this thread to be about the "geometry of Godel" but nobody uses that phrase and it does spin out of control. Peop!e start talking about spa...
March 13, 2021 at 05:09
I've been meaning to ask you: "Descartes great merit here was to have applied geometry to algebra; he was not the first to have applied geometry to ge...
March 13, 2021 at 04:40
Whether 1+1 creates a new number (Kant) or a set (Frege I think) is a question for phenomenolog psychology, not math. And most of these questions are ...
March 13, 2021 at 04:15
A process that is active is mental use of the four functions. This can be applied to reality but not perfectly
March 13, 2021 at 04:10
It's FALSE that motion through a point is the same as resting in a fixed point. There is energy that pushes right through. Imagine an arrow being push...
March 13, 2021 at 03:49
It's the language of a culture
March 13, 2021 at 03:09
The pre-Socratic ontology said that water was pure simplicity and with fire can make perfect movement. It bowls over into the reality of cars, etc (ea...
March 13, 2021 at 03:08
You're approach is typology but you haven't said anything about the system works. (Topology says how you get results) An object is bounded by points a...
March 13, 2021 at 02:06
He said some wanted an ultimate theory that can understand the world in finite ways with finite equations. He said he changed his mind when he reflect...
March 13, 2021 at 02:00
Let's let the master speak on that: http://yclept.ucdavis.edu/course/215c.S17/TEX/GodelAndEndOfPhysics.pdf All Godel showed in meta-language is that t...
March 13, 2021 at 01:32
I don't see how QM indeterminacy can be fitted into mathematics at its foundation
March 13, 2021 at 00:45
This paradox is fun to think about. Remember though that thinking of perception (like the threshold of hearing a noise) differs for people. SO definin...
March 13, 2021 at 00:44
I've read a lot of your links but I'm not getting the information stuff. Information is "facts in the mind" by definition. A billiard table may be wav...
March 13, 2021 at 00:40
Why does a segment with a length of finite digits change into a length multiplied by pi (pi×2×r) when the segment is made into a circle? The circumfer...
March 12, 2021 at 17:36
I apologize for calling your statement stupid. I had just had a fight with someone and your comment annoyed me. It seems you are always debating fishf...
March 12, 2021 at 17:25
Eternal circular motion is fine. What is stupid is what you said about math not defining what addition means
March 12, 2021 at 03:59
Uhhh I thought you were Aristotilean. You must be aware that Aristotle rejected points (infinitesimals) and instants
March 12, 2021 at 03:36
Discrete curves?
March 12, 2021 at 03:32
. Continua is infinitely pointed. So it has instants all over it. If things move at the top level but fundamentally unmoved in subdivisions an object ...
March 12, 2021 at 03:16
Idn. I've been recently working on this question from the angle of non-Euclidean geometry. I'm trying to understand what space even is
March 12, 2021 at 03:07
That's just how math is
March 12, 2021 at 02:47
I don't think you solved Zeno's paradox because you're putting the infinite quantity into philosophically blurry box and focusing just on finite resul...
March 12, 2021 at 02:43
Continua based constructions are based on an uncountable infinite amount being manipulate to a finite result. That is new. That's exactly what Newton ...
March 12, 2021 at 02:40
If you have a two foot segment and make it into a circle, suddenly it's pi/r/squared instead of two feet. Hmm. It seems that we must "round to the fin...
March 12, 2021 at 01:42
Pi is a finite number because it's inbetween 3 and 4. But if the length of a circumference is multiplied by pi than you have a length with space corre...
March 12, 2021 at 01:13
It seems to me that a philosophy has to start with ideas, beliefs, and arguments before it can develop a further method with which to build a sculptur...
March 12, 2021 at 01:09
Theist say "God won't go to you because you don't go to him" yet this is an implicit admission their arguments aren't full proof. I'm not going to act...
March 12, 2021 at 01:00