Wayfarer

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Mathematics, in general, is primarily concerned with real abstractions. But let's not get into that here.

Everything we know - the act of knowing - has an ineradicably subjective pole which is never disclosed in experience, because the subject doesn’t see ...

It's a more a comment on Aristotelian 'form and substance'. However, the meaning of 'form', 'substance' and 'matter' has changed completely in the int...

Have a look at the quote I provided in this comment which touches on this. But I think we're digressing (something which I'm particularly prone to doi...

I don't know if I agree. Consider that the same sentence can be conveyed in any kind of media whatever. It doesn't matter with it's written, engraved ...

:up: That is the problem I see with this: Bearing in mind that Shannon was an electrical engineer, and that his work was specifically about transmissi...

Yes, I suppose I’m offering a meta-narrative, of the kind that postmodernism rejects.

Humanity needs to realise its role in the cosmos, which is not as an accidental fluke or the outcome of chance. That we're more than an 'evolved speci...

I think there's still some school of thought that h. sapiens might have evolved from earlier species in places other than Africa, specifically East As...

There isn't really a standard history, as it's being constantly updated. I think the only orthodoxy is that evolution occurs, but there's enormous ran...

I found a useful quote from Howard Pattee on The Information Philosopher's website: I don't see how this is not a form of dualism. How I would put it ...

There's a term in Indian philosophy, 'viveka' which means 'Sense of discrimination; wisdom; discrimination between the real and the unreal, between th...

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There are a couple of philosophical works on ‘the metaphysics of morals’. One is by Kant, it’s the central text of his deontological ethics. Another i...

'If you look at something mutable, you cannot grasp it either with the bodily senses or the consideration of the mind, unless it possesses some form…I...

I think so, but many here will not. :up: Amen to that.

I've read in the brief biographical sketch of Schopenhauer that after passing through a period of depression, in the last period of Schopenhauer's lif...

I'm working on a draft for a 'hard sci fi' novel. Hard sci fi is science fiction that has a plausible reality - nothing involving space travel or alie...

There's a reason that that kind of mentaility is called 'extremism', meaning it's not typical. Yet you use it to typify anything religious. If you hav...

:up: My thoughts exactly.

Not 'how' in any meaningful scientific sense. There's two different creation narratives in Genesis alone. There are thousands of such creation narrati...

That says a lot more about your prejudices than the subject at hand.

The point about 'God theories' is to encourage you to practice compassion and right living. Belief in God is not a scientific argument. Many scientist...

The issue I see, is that the problem of consciousness is not hard for objective reasons, but hard because it's not an objective issue. I am tempted to...

I am nonplussed when people are inclined to equate h. sapiens reasoning ability with other animals. Crows and monkeys can count insofar as if they see...

Every argument starts with axioms, and as we now accept, not all axioms can be proven. In Socrates' culture, belief in the soul was generally accepted...

Consider Buddhist Analogues of Sin and Grace. 'I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy' ~ Kenney Everett.

Don’t rush. It’s perplexed many of the greatest physicists of the century.

I don’t think you understand it. Have read of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

No, it crests a replica or copy of the world but with some differences. Not a change to the world we’re in, but an actually different world.

It is an inescapable consequence of self-awareness. In my view, that is one of the meanings of 'the myth of the fall'. That is why religions exist at ...

Inference magazine review of Sean Carroll's recent book. I notice from it that the first tenet of Carroll's belief system is that 'There is only one w...

Right. Which is why the solution to the problem is out-of-scope for naturalism.

'A physicist', said Neils Bohr, 'is just an atom's way of looking at itself'.

* 'Animal extroversion' is an expression associated with Bernard Lonergan, arising from the conviction that the real is 'already out there now', absen...

Well, I don't think you have succeeded in doing that. The conventional view was that Phaedo presents four arguments for the soul's immortality, and I ...

I think that it's the fact of death that is at issue. Immediately prior the first passage quoted is: Bolds added. It's a sentiment very like Pascal's ...

Although, as Apollodorus pointed out to me, 'the argument from harmony' is actually dismissed in the dialogue. It's a very subtle question. My interep...

I think it maybe only became recognised, or aware of itself, later in the century but intuitively I feel it harks back to WWI and the discoveries of r...

Actually, the apocalypse, the ‘end of days’, has quite a long historical pedigree. But the thing is, it has never seemed so likely, nor the means so p...

How could we tell? And I'm thinking, the period after post-modern is post-apocalypse. :yikes: Hope not.

I checked option 1. My belief is that post-modernism describes a real social condition and period in history, that the 'modern' period began with Newt...

:up: Agree. But as I tried to articulate in this post, this runs up against the prejudices of a secular culture. 'Scepticism' in Plato's culture, is n...

For you which you think that the text offers no real explanation? There is certainly nothing of what we would accept as empirical proof, but that says...

Let's not forget that there's room for a diversity of opinion. I've gotten a lot from this thread from reading and debating the dialogue.

This is a book on my must-get-around-to-reading list.

True. Some time ago, I visited a Theravada Buddhist monastery. The Abbott there gave a talk on his belief that the Indian wisdom schools originated in...

But he seems, in the end, to believe, himself, in the immortality of the soul, even if it cannot be proven. Cebes “I have nothing more to say against ...