Wayfarer

I'm not an experimental physicist, myself, but I trust the sources I've referenced. Besides, the fact of uncertainty is well-established - it's the im...

It's controversial but as conveyed in both those references I gave, it is non-deterministic - uncertainty is real. That is why for example you have th...

Confirmed, yes, but 'deterministic' is questionable. Quantum mechanics is not a deterministic theory in the classical sense. In classical physics, if ...

Being determined by what, exactly? Isn't the whole point of uncertainty that it's.....uncertain?

It would have to master semantics and syntax, among other things. How do you derive them from physics?

I have my reasons, and I started writing them out, but it's a bit personal. Suffice to say that I don't believe birth is an absolute beginning, or dea...

I'm familiar with the efforts to debunk Stevenson, but many of them clearly have their own agenda. The background to Stevenson's research was that a c...

That’s the issue - a medium by which memory and experience is transmitted. (Incidentally I also noted that the one book I read on it shows that most o...

Perhaps you ought to. As for being ‘a luxury’, it’s actually available for free, although there are also subscription models.

I’m a bit unclear as to why this question keeps being asked. The studies of children recalling past lives observe that children are born who apparentl...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I’ve noticed that there is a peculiar fact about the interference patterns observed in the double slit experiment. I aske...

Then don't make silly comments! If you took the time to read what I wrote and at the linked dialogue with ChatGPT, I don't see why you would say it is...

They apparently have enough time to make pointless comments on internet fora.

I agree with you, and would have said exactly the same, although I've recently come to understand it from a different perspective. In practical terms,...

It's the fact that I'm not persuaded by your pathological aversion to the extraordinarily wide range of things you tar with the brush of woo. But, do ...

It is common knowledge that there are contested readings of Spinoza. There are secularist, naturalistic interpretations on one side and mystical inter...

Remember where discussion of Spinoza started in this thread to which I responded, 'As I understand it, Spinoza said that the liberated soul had no rea...

I told you, I have studied Ethics, at university level, a long time ago, but I know full well how easy it is to transgress the anti-religious taboo th...

‘Natura naturans ‘ - the divine, infinite ‘substance’ that continuously brings about and sustains the existence of natura naturata. It is the underlyi...

Definitely not. Everything in nature, every natural phenomenon, is transitory and subject to decay. Nowadays nature as worshipped as a stand-in for 't...

Well, gosh, thanks Gnomon, very kind of you to say so.

The Project Gutenberg edition of On the Improvement of the Understanding starts with this paragraph So how that translates to 'accepting things as the...

To set the record straight, I did a semester on Spinoza's Ethics, and wrote a term paper on it, which was passed. I have forgotten a lot of it, but I ...

i think, when push comes to shove, which is likely to be 2024, when he is actually convicted and facing jail (pending all the appeals), that he might ...

Did you see that Stable Genius had a live revelation, on the podium, speaking to a convention audience? He realised that the world 'us' - as in, you a...

But then, why bother with philosophy? For what reason was Spinoza exiled from the Jewish community? Why undertake the laborious task of composing such...

Agree that it's very easy to fall into believing you're interacting with a human agent. I find in my interactions with ChatGPT, it is adept at respond...

The only actual smart devices I use are to control lights and heating. All the cooking, cleaning and gardening is mine alone.

You can’t see the resemblance between what you said, and what was in that quote?

What makes you think I’m busy?

I encourage people to use it. I signed up for ChatGPT the day it came out, used it every day since. It’s quite amazingly useful. i say the ‘A’ in AI s...

As I understand it, Spinoza said that the liberated soul had no reason to fear death and no fear of the afterlife, and I'm sure in that, he was in per...

The fact that a proportion of the populace accepts it doesn’t mean it’s not a taboo.

Well, I put the question to ChatGPT4. Here are the responses: You might also want to peruse this online article by Bernardo Kastrup on his negative re...

What would a 'public specification' comprise?

Don’t know what to make of this, really. Mine is more to approach the subject through philosophy - to expose the hidden assumptions behind the taken-f...

I think the reasons are as follows: 1. Christian Dominance: Western culture has been heavily influenced by Christianity, which emphasizes a linear pro...

By the way, I mentioned Aristotle’s metaphysics because one of its major points is how something maintains its identity whilst changing. Also because ...

The OP was a rather idiosyncratic but nevertheless sincere post about something like re-birth or reincarnation. I simply pointed to two cultural tradi...

It's a forum discussion about a topic of interest, not a peer-reviewed academic paper. I was going to add, Aristotle and others of that era are 'axial...

The stereotypical attitude of modern philosophy is that everything that happened in the past has been superseded by 'progress'. Even if one of its gur...

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Isn’t there a fundamental principle in Aristotelian metaphysics that it is the material that constitutes the particular? That the form is universal - ...

The blind spot of science is the neglect of lived experience.

As I’m not a materialist, what I’m seeking to articulate is the ontological distinction between living and non-living things (or between things and be...

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I wouldn't use the term 'offensive'. It's simply the emphasis on the sovereignty of self or ego, on the one hand, and the consensus view of philosophi...

I was listening to Zizek yesterday in a panel session. He said, 'you can't even control your own erections! How do you think you can control yourself?...

In order to say consciousness has evolved, you would have to define what it is for, what purpose it serves. And that is what can’t be done. That is wh...