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Poor Neils Bohr, then. He was so convinced that the discovery of the wave/particle nature of matter was of paramount importance that he reproduced the...

They at least accomodate the empirical data of ‘children who recall their previous lives’ (although as previously acknowledged I’m well aware of the t...

Nevertheless if one or more states disqualifies Trump from the ballot, surely that would have to be considered by the other states, you would think. H...

You could say, ‘who was the mother of the king’ but I’m sure you wouldn’t refer to ‘the remains’ that way. You might ask ‘whose remains are those in t...

Update on same. 5 things to know about Trump’s 14th Amendment disqualification trial in Colorado. Some highlights: Like many, I sat through many sessi...

The term 'who' refers to living persons. What is in the tomb are designated 'remains'. According to Buddhist theory, there is not anything that 'carri...

I have no doubt Jung was gnostic. I've read a little of his dialectic of the different levels of being in the SEP entry. The underlying issue is that ...

It's more than that - the legacy of Descartes is writ large in our culture in ways that affect it without us being aware of it. It's a large part of t...

Nope. I think it is just what Talbott says: a legacy of Cartesian dualism, with mind 'in here' and the 'physical world' out there. It's also Whitehead...

I've been referring to an essay From Physical Causes to Organisms of Meaning. It points out that all organic life instantiate processes that are diffe...

Because it's evident? Because there are processes and principles apparent in living organisms that are absent in minerals? I have been struck by the t...

The processes of life will have ceased in that particular dog, certainly. But an individual is also an instance of a type although that doesn’t mean t...

The theme that comes to mind is that of process philosophy - of understanding a being as a dynamic process that maintains itself in existence, as dist...

As I understand it (which is probably not well) Origen never explicitly endorsed metempsychosis (to use the term popular in his milieu) but was anathe...

Solved equally well by the understanding that it never truly existed, but only appeared to exist because of identification with phenomena.

Here's a recent performance by young Sicilian guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso, playing the track 'Open Fields' from his recent album, The Journey. For ...

Overall I agree with your analysis. But I do wonder if the Netanyahu government in particular bears some culpability for this situation, in that the d...

That the crucial factor was the ability of nous (intellect) to see 'that which is truly so' (this is the origin of the appearance/reality divide in th...

thanks. I've downloaded the pdf of that book, which is much more meaningful to me now than when I tried to read it many years ago. The ideas have come...

I looked up the documentation on BBCode, it's pretty basic, but I think Plush only implements a minimal set of tags. No worries, I was just wondering ...

I put the question about the nature of the wave function to ChatGPT. I don't regard it as authoritative, but it's a useful summary of the issues. But ...

Would I be correct in saying that Plush only supports a sub-set of BBCode, i.e. not all the tags are implemented (e.g. tables)?

I'm of a very similar view, probably due to my youthful exposure to Advaita Vedanta and other schools of Asian philosophy. But over the many years sin...

The exclusion from consideration of anything that is associated with the domain of revealed truth is also a factor in current philosophical discourse....

Ontology is the broad categorisation of types of beings, derived from the Greek root, ?n, ‘being’. In traditional philosophy it was often paired with ...

:clap: The 'promethean' nature of science - 'stealing fire from the Gods' - is sometimes cited. One of the earlier discussion you referenced contains ...

I think I was the one who introduced 'children with past life memories' into the topic. Stevenson documented nearly 3,000 such cases over a 30-40 year...

The wave-particle duality does not falsify either the particle or wave hypothesis. Instead, it suggests that particles like electrons exhibit properti...

Wonderer1 asked I did exactly that, and also presented some arguments as to why I differed with them, apparently to no avail. (Although I do recognise...

I had the idea - please correct me if I'm wrong - that in the Aristotelian tradition, 'the soul' is seen as something more like an organising principl...

The site you provided - which is a very well-presented and well argued site - says 'nature is enough'. And as the site is devoted to naturalism, then ...

My thoughts too

An insight from today's NY Times (gift link provided) Hamas are holding their own population hostage in support of their military and public relations...

:100: I don't know what the significance of 'libertarian' free will is, and I recognise that the will is constrained. Kastrup says he's not for either...

Exactly! Although in practice, it most often turns out to be an appeal to scientific method as the arbiter of reality.

Well, I will defer to dfpolis judgement on the basis that he is qualified in physics and I'm not. I'm interested by his response above, that: The ques...

As far as I'm concerned, that is physicalism pure and simple. Sorry, but I don't rate Carroll as a philosopher.

however that analogy has weaknesses, because electrons really can appear as particles.

Thanks! That's interesting, although the polemical point I was attempting was to challenge the idea that material objects have mind-independent realit...

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So you mean ‘physicalism’. That’s a different thing to physics.

You may be right, I do. have trouble working out the meaning of determinism

Pardon me - what science am I dubious about? "Because....physics" is not much to go on.

Imbibing, as I read this, so can’t credibly disagree. ‘Reckless Brewing’, one of the hundreds of ‘craft breweries’ now operating in this part of the w...

I struggle to understand why it's a struggle to understand. Even elephants and monkeys were said to seek out and eat fermented fruit for its intoxicat...

The argument against free will always seems to undermine the point of philosophical dialogue. I mean, if one’s opinions are determined prior to discus...

I get that. I can’t make rational sense of the obverse, although I’d never seek to persuade you or anyone else. Not according to this article

It’s probably more that I fail to see the point of the question. But if you mean, is uncertainty a consequence of the lack of knowledge of the initial...