Sure from an ethical standpoint ( how to live a purposeful happy life ) volitional existence would provide for some answers. Meaning the partially bla...
Great question! Short answer is yes (to a greater or lesser degree), because we are always changing. Case in point; ever ask yourself, when looking ba...
Well, I suppose one could interpret that as a form of Metaphysical Will in nature. Perhaps much like the swarming effect from emergent properties. The...
Maybe there is hope in making your theory inclusive, and not mutually exclusive, not sure. But it is important to at least draw distinctions. For inst...
If matter makes the clay that makes the bricks, what consiousness made the matter? (Or maybe the easier question is how did matter make consciousness?...
In fairness too, Homeostasis, in psychology, also has a static component to it. In the context of the human condition, if a person tries to change cer...
You are correct. it's not a contradiction, but rather, an unresolved paradox. Any self-referential statement represents the un-computable in nature. I...
Yep...you beat me to it. Since the OP is dealing with ethics, I tend to default to cognitive science/psychology most of the time anyway... . Otherwise...
I wish you would have wrote that in Bb minor, then maybe I would have understood it...LOL Welcome John! Looking forward to your thread on the abstract...
….thanks Mww, those were all good answers to my questions! Since I see you're a movie buff, I suppose one central issue is: Do you believe we were rel...
Hey Mww, that's an important question. We are hard-wired to care-by default-when doing philosophy. We know that the many philosophical inquiries invol...
Ha! Throw-in a little 'ineffable' cognitive science from Maslow: "What you are not, you cannot perceive to understand; it cannot communicate itself to...
Sure, I'm totally on-board with the mystery associated with conscious existence. Some of the takeaway's that I'm seeing, as you just suggested is, log...
Ha! I appreciate your sense of humor, dammit!! Well in your last paragraph I'm glad you mentioned that....I was going to bring that up later; that so-...
Ha! Well your point is very well taken! And accordingly, I would say it was more based upon inductive reasoning, not really deductive reasoning (infer...
Mmm, let's see in the context of this thread, I would say the natural swarming effect found in Emergence, might suggest that eventually, you will rece...
And intriguing question. And speaking of context, I haven't checked to see where that other thread was located. So without that information I would ha...
Hey Mww! Sure but I would just caution against splitting semantic hairs. Driving and not driving, or driving but not driving in our context means the ...
What if, as you say, someone asserts this proposition: 1. This statement is false. Using your words, our Reason enables us to assert such proposition....
I see the points that you're making in several succinct ways. The how's and why's of existence, as well as explaining and/or describing conscious exis...
But one does not know the difference. All the person knows is he or she is in another reality and that's why they crash and kill themselves. Hence the...
Excellent points on both fronts! Here's the irony! It goes back to the metaphysical sense of wonderment in our consciousness. It goes back to why you ...
Mww, precisely! As far as our consciousness is concerned, we are not driving, which is why we have the potential to crash and kill ourselves. Cognitiv...
Agreed. That is why the ontological argument for God's existence doesn't provide for adequate meaning. The God of experience is simply that, an experi...
Great questions. One thought is if metaphysical abstracts (mathematics) exist independently, and their existence is both physical and non-physical (co...
Sure. Likewise, one decides to design a roof truss, and using simple arithmetic, in order to determine rise over run (roof pitch), it is thus created....
I think the dichotomy rears its head when we try to reconcile a priori truth's with a posteriori truth's. Meaning the fact that a priori/mathematical ...
Yeah, not to drop book titles again, but Paul's 'The Mind of God' is a pretty awesome read! I refer to it often. You guys are inspiring me to pick-up ...
Sure. One could say it's Existential, in that, it just is. There is no explanation. Certainly, one could speculate and theorize that this innate sense...
Absolutely. That speaks to the existential piece relative to Schopenhauer's Metaphysical Will in nature. My takeaway there is that another concept of ...
What I meant was the swarming effect reminds us of observing quantum mechanics/randomness, and EM moving particles associated with the conscious energ...
As an extension of Aristotle's and Kant's ethics, the short answer would be yes. You mentioned Charles Manson. Consider politically and ethically a co...
I think it's worth taking a quick step back at Emergence/Panpsychism, and rather than accept all of their respective tenants, take pieces that have me...
Daniel, we have an a priori (innate/fixed) metaphysical sense of wonder that helps us discover stuff. It emanates from our consciousness; we can't con...
My thoughts exactly! I wanted a moderate John Kasich to get the nomination...I think most people will end-up doing a protest vote just to get the guy ...
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Indeed. Great discussion nonetheless! I think if the emergentist can somehow connect, say, Schopenhauer's metaphysical Will in Nature to the micro sys...
One minor point that I don't think was addressed relates to the practical application or analogy to cognitive science's view of our 'stream of conscio...
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