Wayfarer

‘Facts are like ships in bottles, carefully constructed to seem as though no-one was there to build them’ - Jemena Carmeles, historian of science.

I’ll have to take your word for that. And isn’t the op about self reference paradoxes in particular?

I’ll take a stab at it. My intuitive take on it is that the subject who states the proposition can’t be negated. So propositions generally refer to so...

Australian climate change politics has been a national and international disgrace and embarrassment since about 2010, largely due to the malign influe...

I get by.

:up: I'll add it to the list! //hey that's a terrific paper, right up my street. (I've seen Henry Stapp speak, that passage from him is spot on, in my...

That is not the definition of ‘information’, That is your definition. ‘The many live each in their own private world, whilst those who are awake have ...

the Platonic expression 'aporia' immediately springs to mind reading that New Scientist article you've linked to (and hey, I'm a subscriber, although ...

No, as I have explained repeatedly, ‘information’ is too poorly defined to be meaningful in the context. Incidentally that quote is not something I sa...

I submit that Darwinism as generally understood, doesn't have any bearing on metaphysics as such. It's one of the characteristics of current culture t...

if you fix your gaze on the realm of flux then that's where your rewards will lie, such as they are. //hey I'm just perusing a 1967 book by Theodosius...

The problem I see with that is that the sole criteria for success in evolutionary theory is just to survive and to procreate. That's why 'evolutionary...

:up: Interesting channel.

Hey I got it before. :wink:

Ehipassiko.

The first article on the 'eightfold path' is samma ditthi, generally translated as 'right view'. I think the proper translation of ‘orthodoxa’ is ‘rig...

One of the salient characteristics of h. sapiens is to discover ideas that are able to be realised physically - to invent devices, such as these ones ...

According to an article in The Atlantic, the ACLU has come out in favour of COVID Vaccine Mandates: :clap:

there's a fair amount of uniformity in the Pali literature. The history of its composition is that after the Buddha's final Nirv??a, there was an asse...

There's a lot of commentary on that. Basically I think Buddhism is quite open to scientific method, but not compatible with scientific materialism. Th...

Well if science got us into it, it's only science than can get us out of it. Plus a major change in attitude.

somehow, I think that’s more the responsibility of the capitalist economic model than science per se.

Ever heard of the Antikythera machine? It’s surely one of the most astounding discoveries in the history of archeology. Nothing remotely comparable wa...

Anyway - as I barged into this discussion rather late, after very many interesting posts. Thanks to @"Tzeentch" for the Pierre Grimes video. I have a ...

seems a speciality of yours.

By what measure could there be a ‘maximum achievement’? Would could the ‘maximum achievement’ of science be? (I have an idea what the answer to that q...

Interested in both topics but utterly failing to see the connection between them.

Should point out that most of the Socratic dialogues around the death of Socrates, are concerned with the state of Socrates’ soul in the after-life. T...

‘Science’ is not an ideology nor a belief system. It’s a method of exploration, testing and validation of ideas and also a framework within which disc...

I have a kind of ‘religious anthropology’ model which might be relevant to this discussion. In this model, religious or spiritual insight (‘enlightenm...

Furthermore, a piano and a pianist will fall at the same rate if dropped from a height. That’s the sense in which ‘physical laws’ are applicable, in t...

I will also add - although this is a can of worms - that I think you’re confusing semantic representation with what can be explained through neurobiol...

Dualism has always recognised that. 'Partly physical' is a long way from physicalism per se. Do you believe in God, or is that a Software Glitch? I th...

The relationship between symbolic meaning and form is one of the issues. That was discussed in the other thread 'what is information'. Remember the No...

Again, reincarnation was an ubiquitious belief of the ancient Indo-European cultures. Pythagoreans certainly accepted it, and it was arguably accepted...

Very similar style but if you say I'm wrong, then I won't argue. But I have never used that username 'jeeprs' which you referred to, on this forum, an...

Well, same could be said for you. Your intelligent but juvenile cynicism is just the same now as when you were posting as Sapientia. Although, that sa...

sure thing, S.

Scientific naturalism excludes - or brackets out - metaphysics as a matter of principle. See the quoted passage above. 'String theory' is regarded as ...

I think that is true, unfortunately.

I detest don't read Nietszche. The thread title is specifically about metaphysics, so it introduces that terminology. I think this definition given ea...

I encountered that expression in this article, although I had previously read about Gilson here and tracked down the book it refers to, The Unity of P...

Oh, please. You can't un-say what you obviously said, and often say. Significant, and deliberate. Evolutionary theory has become the de facto rational...

Gilson was a major dude.

‘Philosophy buries its undertakers’ ~ Etienne Gilson.

Well, that is just impossible to square with: And now, challenged by me, you're trying to say that you agree that science is not, in fact, a metaphysi...

It’s related to the point I was trying to make about differentiating methodological naturalism with metaphysical naturalism. Methodological naturalism...

:up: Thanks! Really got to stop f***ing around now and get it done. Just one more germane quote from an essay I’ve been reading:

Philosophical rationalism is not scientific, and scientific rationalism is not philosophical.