Wayfarer

Well, I guess so, but you’re in a very remote location, yet you’ve still got a connection, how good is that? Regarding the ‘laws of the Universe ‘ - i...

Are you close friends with any anthropologists, by any chance? They might be able to help out.

That is a misrepresentation. The Buddha never used such a term, it is not part of the Buddhist lexicon. It comes from assuming that the Hindu term ?tm...

Nor is there any mention of the word 'soul'. I did an MA thesis on this topic, if you like I'll PM you a hyperlink. Your thinking is muddled.

But nowhere in the Buddha's teachings is the expression 'you are nothing'. It's another fake Buddhist quote, of which there are thousands.

For a contemporary account, A Guided Tour of Hell, by Sam Bercholz, founder of Shamabhala Books. As far as my remark about 'atheism' - I don't necessa...

Buddhism has an elaborate system of hells, and many forms of traditional Buddhism are more negative towards sexuality than Christianity ever was. It's...

Nice to meet you too!

you think that's unique to Catholicism? ;-)

The ‘mutually hostile gods’ can just as easily be seen as our warring passions, and Christ as their transcendence.

You can see it like that if you want.

I don’t mean I believe in the Greek gods. What I mean is, that imaginative realm is far richer than the picture in which human life is simply the outc...

It is not nearly so desolate and barren as atheism.

Something you could never condense down to a couple of forum paragraphs, that’s for sure. But a couple of things to contemplate: the ancients did not ...

The ‘Copenhagen interpretation’, an expression coined by Heisenberg in his Physics and Philosophy, seems sound to me, as far as I can understand it, w...

Well, that’s a valid point. A Christian might say that the Buddha never denied ‘the God of Abraham’ because the two traditions were culturally remote....

Besides that, I was commenting on @"praxis" question about the saying ‘chop wood, draw water’. As a bald statement, it means nothing much. Many of tho...

I like to say that Buddhism is not atheist - in the Western sense, anyway. It is obviously not based around ‘the God idea’, but in many later forms of...

Context counts for a lot.

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Interesting. I kept up a regular daily sitting practice for decades but haven’t been able to maintain it the last few years. I attended a Pureland Bud...

'The uncreated' is not necessarily any kind of particle or object. But as we're so used to construing everything in terms of particles and objects, we...

I went to the funeral of a family friend about 10 years ago. He was a prominent citizen and all around great man and also a devout Catholic all his ye...

Regarding what is 'made' - there's a fundamental idea in pre-modern philosophy, which seems to have been lost in the transition to modernity. That is ...

Typical of you: when caught out, resort to insult.

No such place, so, still not an answer. For all we know, on the cosmic scale, the universe has the attributes of a mind.

What drives religion is a sense of lack, a sense of groundlessness, the sense that life itself is an illusion. It’s the search for something that won’...

So - God is like The Manager, and if everyone doesn’t have a good outcome, then he’s responsible. Is that it?

Just discovered Michela Massimi https://www.michelamassimi.com/bio/

When you ask what something is 'made of' you presume it has constituents or elements - which surely must be in question with respect to space. The nat...

Incidentally I think there’s a strong sense in which the notion of natural law is derived from ‘God’s laws’. Newton and his contemporaries certainly u...

Undetermined, in some basic sense. There's always an element of serendipity, of chance, of what C.S. Pierce called 'tychism'. Within it there are also...

What 'you are saying' constantly changes, so it is impossible to address it. I agree.

That my memory of the route does not cause me to take it. That I only turn right ‘as a coincidence’. That nobody can ever do anything intentionally.

'So, at this intersection, I thought, I've been here before, I remember that KFC store. We turn right here.' I turned right. Apparently this is teleki...

‘Not here’ is not an answer. There are definitely people outside of jail, but where are the ‘innocent others’ who are ‘being protected’ from us living...

Another thing - all of these inventions that surround you, including the one that you’re using to read and respond to these arguments - they are the c...

To all intents and purposes, you seem to be arguing for materialism, but then you say that you're not arguing for materialism. So it's hard to counter...

Where and who are these ‘innocent others’? In the case of jail, they’re the people who are not in jail. In the case of earth, they must be people who ...

Never will. Have a look at the Schopenhauer quote on my profile. And goodnight.

I might decide your reply is not worth responding to. Then I won’t respond. The ‘mechanism’ is not really a mechanism, to call it that is itself reduc...

In determining meaning, which determines course of action. That involves more than physics although obviously physics is a factor.

If you drop it it will fall at the rate of any other material object, that’s for sure. But being able to hold it or see it or weigh it tells you nothi...

I dispute that. The brain is an embodied organ. I think that is rather condescending in respect to Penfield. He didn’t live in Elizabethan England. Bu...

One might agree that the mind is immaterial but not that it is ‘an object’. In what sense is the mind an object, and for whom? My own mind never appea...

I believe that Penfield, as a practicing neurosurgeon, would have an answer to that objection, but I’m not well enough acquainted with the details to ...

The non-reductionist claim is that mind is not reducible to physical principles. It doesn’t ‘break’ those laws but says that their scope is limited - ...

It’s a big topic. Suffice to say, if you’re asking for empirical evidence, then this work exists. I can’t do it justice in forum posts but I think it ...

What it implies is, yes, the surgeon can identify the areas associated with movement by stimulating it. In such cases the subject would always able to...