DanielP

Perhaps everything is absolute freedom, absolute potentiality and fulfillment of that potential. Take freedom to the max, no limits, no holds.

I view freedom as being an absolute characteristic of the world. Everything is absolute free, just as I am absolutely free. I don't struggle to be fre...

The freedom of a paralyzed person is real. I have wanted to sit in a chair or bed for 24 hours a day and watch news, just to get paralyzed with fear a...

THere are some things I would like to learn - like backflipping and front flipping without landing on my head and paralyzing myself - but beyond that,...

If freedom were merely binary, then it would cancel itself out, yes. But what if freedom had no limits, was far more than binary? Would it still cance...

Arguably the only absolute rule being, there are no absolute rules. Laws of nature - or observations? What laws of nature have stood up across all tim...

Maybe what I'm going for is: All is an infinite, complete whole; All acts as an infinite complete, whole, thus acting as one. So it is in our nature, ...

If you have a finite set of say cars, and then an infinite set of all cars, the infinite set is more full, complete, rich than the finite set of cars....

I see your name is Possibility. Does that reflect on your philosophical worldview?

I agree that it isn't possible to prove that everything/universe/cosmos is absolutely whole. It really is a matter of "faith." In the back of my mind,...

Thanks for the reply, Possibility. I think you are right, connecting with this whole in this manner where everything is explicitly laid out - is impos...

The seething quantum membrane from a which a Big Bang might have spontaneously emerged. Feel pretty good about it, thanks for the post. Thanks for you...

What does that mean?

That's the enjoyment of philosophy, to take some basic assumptions, and then test them out. See where they play out, even if not conventional. Philoso...

Their perspective of the infinite seems to be clearer than simple modern infinite spacetime. It's interesting that Einstein himself thought spacetime ...

Guys what a fantastic discussion. I got to read more philosophy when my 3 and 4 year old kids get older. You guys are motivating me to do that. This i...

What do you mean that an infinite extent cannot be extant? Thanks for the response. I don't fully understand the physics of the Big Bang, but you seem...

I agree with you. If the world is unbounded, then why do you think humans focus on boundaries? I wonder if there is a fear of the infinite. For instan...

That seems like a true assessment. Why do you find it unattractive that there might be somebody far away that is just like you?

I like your definition of a system, Metaphysician Undercover. And maybe what I was going for was once a systems loses stability or balance, it might l...

Help me understand entropy better. If it is a movement from order to disorder, then how does a seemingly disorderly event like the Big Bang turn into ...

Unstable systems exist. But are much less likely to last than stable systems.

I think that many times, the movement is from instability to stability, such as the Big Bang explosion, where little to none of our current laws of ph...

Similar to string theory. That the building blocks of the universe are strings. Do you think the universe, just like us, is always moving towards and ...

Thanks for the comments. Perhaps we can talk about a definition of balance. What about balance containing stability, moderation, and diversity? In tha...

Love the analogy about the battery. Yes, it shows a starting point of imbalance, and a movement towards balance. I think, and can't prove it, but with...

Caldwell, it seems that uncertainty would be imbalanced. But is it possible that an uncertain world is more balanced than a certain world? A certain w...

Thank you for the reply, very informative answer. That makes two of us non-astrophysicists talking about astrophysics. Perhaps a better way to think a...

Thank you for correcting me on the law of thermodynamics. I'm clearly not a physicist, but I enjoy trying to learn about that subject. Some physicists...

Mark, I agree that the implications of balance in Western philosophy might lead to greater balance between us and other life on earth. If ever we need...

Thank you for the explanation. I know of Kant but haven't read a lot of his work. When you say our sense of wonder is a priori, innate, and unrelated ...

I agree, I view the world as an infinite version of Yin/Yang, with infinite faces all bound together by balancing with each other. How did you come up...

What are the major tenets of Daoism/Taoism and how does balance fit in there?

What is synthetic a priori?

Very nice. Do you think one reason that consciousness appears to be irrational is that the universe cannot be defined solely by logic, and requires or...

Did you reach any conclusion or conclusions from your post on balance and opposites?

Interesting question on consciousness and subconsciousness, I haven't thought much about them. What's your perspective on them? On the good vs bad bac...

Also, homeostasis in medicine is a great example of balance. Another one: our guts have around 7 trillion bacteria living in it. And massive variety o...