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The title of the thread is "Definition of Naturalism." At the time I wrote my post, no one had provided a definition of what naturism means in common ...

The file I attached to my original post has Stefan Stenudd's full commentary, which discusses this in more detail. As you note, you and I disagree on ...

Sorry, I have the Tao Te Ching on the brain these days. This is from Derek Lin's translation of Verse 2. When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugline...

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As I noted, there are 0.5 billion Buddhists. There are 2.4 billion Christians.

There are 500,000,000 Buddhists in the world.

And then again, some of your responses come across as incredibly condescending.

Some of your responses come across as really condescending.

Then you could afford a house with higher ceilings.

Makes sense to me. Very clear and specific. One of the things that bothers me most on the forum is how discussions go off in 20 directions because ter...

Yes. Your criticism of my statement was accurate. Your turn.

Do you even know what the phrase "red herring" means?

The word "natural" is not the subject of this thread. The subject is "naturalism." I gave several definitions of the word as it is currently used from...

I have nothing against thought experiments, as I noted, my beef is with "pointless, unrealistic thought experiments." Also, Einstein was a physicist, ...

Then why not use one of those "common life problems" instead of something that has never happened and won't ever happen to anyone in the history and f...

Do you think the world didn't operate in accordance with scientific principles before there was science? Was there a different set of rules that opera...

Little known fact - The word "philosophy" comes from ancient Minoan combining "pilos," meaning "love of" and "physos," meaning "silly thought experime...

The definitions are pretty specific - the natural is what is allowable under natural laws established using the scientific method.

To clarify things, here are several definitions of "naturalism." The philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, a...

Again - I see Lao Tzu telling us a story, laying out a path. It doesn't seem like a random hodgepodge or marketing at all.

Verse 20 Ellen Marie Chen Eliminate (chüeh) learning so as to have no worries, Yes and no, how far apart are they? Good and evil, how far apart are th...

I have read that some think the TTC has more than one author or that some verses were added later. I don't know enough to argue, but it doesn't seem l...

I'll speak for the US. Different political parties have always insulted each other. It's bad rhetoric, although I guess it works sometimes. There has ...

We'll have to leave it there for now.

Agree.

This has nothing to do with "altruism." It has to do with fellow-feeling, community, common values. We're human. We more or less, most of the time lik...

Maybe a bit off-subject, but this brought to mind "The Lathe of Heaven" by LeGuin. In that book, one person has the power to change past and present r...

Worth discussing, but this is the wrong thread.

I think most of the goofiness I've seen around the subject of quantum mechanics comes from failure to accept it, not failure to understand it. I'm not...

I don't understand the how of quantum mechanics, but I completely understand the why. It's just because.

Forgot this in my last post. I don't believe there is anything hidden. It's all out there for us to experience. Alan Watts wrote that the only mysteri...

I think very highly of both Lao Tzu and metaphysics. You and I just have different ideas of what metaphysics is. Are you familiar with R.G. Collingwoo...

Taoism and physics are two different kinds of things. Apples and oranges. Electrons and summer squash. Galaxies and love. Taoism is metaphysics. It sa...

Yes. I am the sorcerer, you are the demon. Actually, I just wanted to say hi.

A lot of my understanding of how science, epistemology, and truth work I got from Gould. I learned that bottom up science is what works - put in your ...

But if I answer it, it isn't rhetorical anymore. Isn't that right?

I am a big fan of Stephen J. Gould, who was a strong critic of sociobiology, so I agree with you. Perhaps I was being overeager to push biological inf...

We seem to be missing each other. I specifically said that you can not derive the laws of biology, cognitive science, or psychology from physics. I gu...

One of the main characters is a police officer trying to solve the murders, so yes, there is some of that. But it is real science fiction. What I real...

And I said that this isn't true, but I guess it depends on your definition of "explain." Cells, viruses, organs, tissues, organisms can not behave in ...

It is my understanding that, in a hologram, each piece contains the whole. That certainly isn't true of the ocean.

So, a billion years ago, a volcano erupted and spread lava over a large area. The lava cooled and became igneous rock. The cooled lava had been covere...

There are a bunch of interpretations of quantum mechanics that are consistent with observed phenomena. It appears, although there is some disagreement...

From what I read about the implicate order, it sounds very much like Taoism. The difference to me is that the Tao is metaphysics while Bohm claims the...

Yeah, but that was Scarlett Johansen. What if it had been Gilbert Gottfried?

I haven't read Tegmark, although I have read some summaries. From that quick look, it appears that there is no way, even in theory, to test his unders...

I don't think this is correct. Here are some definitions of "physicalism." The philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensiv...

The standard answer to this question from those who don't hold with reductionism is that the laws of biology must conform to all the laws of physics a...

I think ignoring the role that biology plays is misleading, but I'm not sure what the causes are makes any difference with how we handle it.

This makes sense.