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So space-time creates the nothing of the world in the zero energy theory?
March 23, 2020 at 02:21
I think he means numbers don't exist and all objects up to and including the universe are forever finite
March 23, 2020 at 01:55
Lawrence Krauss actually does think science can speak about nothing. A lot of physicist do. As I said, I don't agree with them. My approach is from He...
March 22, 2020 at 22:34
Most people don't know how to think about nothing properly because it's deeper, more mystically philosophical than they realize
March 22, 2020 at 22:32
As the name implies, it says all ENERGY in the cosmos is zero. So something can come from nothing says Hawking's in Hawking's Universe documentary. I ...
March 22, 2020 at 20:25
The zero-energy model says there is no energy in the world. I don't agree with it, but that is smart people saying nothingness CAN exist. https://www....
March 22, 2020 at 17:31
Ye, but the spiritual is not an object in any sense. God for theist even is an object. The world is real, but it is unreal in relation to and comparis...
March 22, 2020 at 16:19
Not a priori? Then what does this answer? It seems that in a crisis philosophers tend to believe the world is eternal and necessary. Just as we have t...
March 22, 2020 at 16:13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence
March 22, 2020 at 16:05
You're argument is that the world is necessary, and you get there because you don't understand nothingness. The world is contingent and things exist b...
March 22, 2020 at 15:52
A book has bookness. Therefore it is bookness. It exists though, instead of having existence in addition to something else. This is not a word game. E...
March 22, 2020 at 04:04
Zen Pivots is one I liked a lot
March 22, 2020 at 03:15
My ideas come from Buddhist books
March 22, 2020 at 03:14
Christian, I apologize for not selecting your name or quoting you. I'm on my tablet now and a "quote" bar doesn't show up and the bottom for you name ...
March 22, 2020 at 03:14
If it is necessary nothingness, than no. I think absolute time and space is this nothingness Our souls are not substances. Only material things are. S...
March 22, 2020 at 02:56
I feel like everyone on this thread is assuming the world could be necessary. Meta-reality is spiritual and so is not a thing, or even an accident lik...
March 21, 2020 at 23:32
Of a two year old So?
March 21, 2020 at 22:34
You've created an idol for yourself. Nothingness can never be an idol. It is both eminently comprehensible (we know what it means) and incomprehensibl...
March 21, 2020 at 22:26
This is just Einstein's philosophy. The source of the universe is and must be incomprehensible. Only nothingness therefore qualifies. There is no unfa...
March 21, 2020 at 22:17
Wouldn't the past then be the opposite of being? Which way does it go? Aren't we talking about source within a cyclic system? You don't know the first...
March 21, 2020 at 21:38
Potentiality is too like actuality to be its source. Sorry Plotinus. Buddha knew only being's opposite can be the source of being. Hegel and Schopenha...
March 21, 2020 at 21:10
There is no great mystery or secret about potentiality
March 21, 2020 at 21:06
The brain comes from nothing, consciousness comes from the brain, and your soul is the Forms
March 21, 2020 at 19:37
Order, patterns, and chaos have mostly to do with consciousness, instead of with the cosmos. Cosmology is expressed by the saying "that which was not ...
March 21, 2020 at 19:34
Logic thinks of something. The secret is to think of everything arising from nothing. Such is impossible materially, but possible beyond extension. He...
March 21, 2020 at 09:28
"Reason is the certainty of being all reality. This it's inherent nature, this reality, is still, however, through and through a universal, the pure a...
March 21, 2020 at 08:24
As we have two cranial hemispheres, so we have a materialist and a mystical side. You are computerness as you read this, and you are humanness when yo...
March 21, 2020 at 08:20
If being IS truth, then crude pantheism is true. A cup is just a cup until consciousness comes into play
March 21, 2020 at 07:40
I recommend people skip his Preface and Introduction in phenomenology of spirit. It gets right to the meat quickly in the first chapter
March 20, 2020 at 23:40
I imagine (in imaginary time, which I ruled by an imaginary number) Hegel looking as his snuff box thinking "I am snuffboxness".
March 20, 2020 at 23:38
Maybe giraffes should have short necks and once did. Reason is more of a stage than a faculty. Hegel wanted to see himself in objects and the objects ...
March 20, 2020 at 23:28
Hegel never said the world doesn't exist. He simply pointed out a paradox about thought and matter. Descartes didn't understand it, or wouldn't have
March 20, 2020 at 23:04
Good points on all sides. I say substance is being in a certain shape and so can only be about the world. Truth is a different question. To say Spirit...
March 20, 2020 at 23:02
This is convoluted. You deny the reality of irrational numbers, and thus don't believe in imaginary time as Hawking called it? "The spiritual" is noth...
March 20, 2020 at 22:36
"all truths are wholes and not irrational numbers" Who says? "Take a truth, any truth, and then ask yourself, what must first be true for it to be tru...
March 20, 2020 at 21:51
Maybe a little too Cartesian. Don't underestimate the "movement of philosophy" (Hegel). Here is a good start for ye guys: https://www.bing.com/videos/...
March 20, 2020 at 17:33
We know HOW is beauty (for it pleases us), but WHAT is beauty, and WHY is it? Those are valid concerns. No language games here
March 20, 2020 at 15:52
The Tractatus is consistent, although maybe not with the Investigations. That would be Wittgenstein changing his mind (maybe from the limits he had pu...
March 20, 2020 at 15:51
Whether objects just have existence, or also goodness and maybe truth in them, is a logical question. What is beauty? That which pleases? But that is ...
March 20, 2020 at 14:46
Hegel had a far richer intellectual life than poor Wittgenstein. That's what counts
March 20, 2020 at 14:43
Its not about logical atomistic consistency. Wittgenstein should not be in your list sime.
March 20, 2020 at 14:43
Hegel's whole philosophy was an expansion in Aquinas's themes that there is truth IN objects. That is.not an empirical question. Philosophy is not lan...
March 20, 2020 at 13:29
An empiricist has to answer what an object is. That is a philosophical question. Is a forest an object?
March 20, 2020 at 06:02
Void = lacking of Being = existence Truth = the reality Goodness = that which answers "Why" Beauty = ?
March 20, 2020 at 05:55
I read philosophy to classic rock
March 19, 2020 at 04:40
Suppose God says "i will give everyone a sickness, high chance you won't die. But if they want, they can keep the food". Why in heavens name would any...
March 19, 2020 at 02:19
Blame the media for not shutting their materialist faces
March 19, 2020 at 02:02
Last December my best friend had what was likely corona. He said he felt like he was talking underwater, and the doctor said it sounded like he was! J...
March 19, 2020 at 01:49
We won't run out of hospital beds. Beds only for the very old and weak! Everyone else deal with it at home. It's like being drunk. You feel sick then ...
March 19, 2020 at 01:42
Reason is naturally intuitive. It learns logic. Whether logic is logical is debated. With the insane logic eats itself like a snake eating its tail. T...
March 19, 2020 at 00:23