It's by no means a single event; it's an order, a pattern, that shows up in events, that in some sense 'governs' them. And 'self-organising', which is...
I think there is a kind of clear-eyed sobriety which would result from the rejection of multiverse speculation. It would leave a mystery but a real my...
They voted for the Johnson deal last week, remember? That was Johnson’s only win thus far: that he actually got the Brexit bill through, immediately f...
There were many ancient religions that believed exactly this. Zoroastianism was one. Many Gnostic sects believed similar things. For example Manicheis...
They’ve voted down the proposed election for Dec. I think the UK Parliament is just being bloody-minded now. The possibility of leaving without an agr...
The point is that there is far greater likelihood of the magnitude of billions to one - of order not arising; that the chance of order arising spontan...
I would think about it in terms of 'order' and 'reason' rather than 'consciousness'. If nothing governed the 'big bang', in other words, if it were a ...
There was a famous episode where Jung broke with Freud for once and for all. First few paragraphs of a review of a biography of Jung: https://www.nyti...
I think reading between the lines, your problem is that part of you wants to believe in God, but your rational intellect can’t figure out what it woul...
Reality itself is beyond the grasp of reason. You can reason about those things you can abstract and represent symbolically - which encompasses an eno...
Pragmatism and utilitarianism are founded on what is useful, what works - so ‘what is good’ in the sense of what is useful. It leads to an ethic of re...
Meanwhile, from the News Desk - https://nyti.ms/2Jj4hMk Bet the atmosphere inside Justice is positively collegial. Not. Oh, and let's not forget what ...
The difficulty is finding something which is truly good - like a 'true north' for the moral compass. That requires that there be a 'summum bonum'. Sou...
In Trump’s fevered imagination, this is what he saw: that he could prove that the entire 'Russia Witch Hunt' was actually a scam cooked up by Clinton ...
I think they're both poor examples of the faculty of reason. They’re both examples of interpreting sensory experience - seeing some phenomenon that yo...
That’s not strictly speaking true. Johnson is champing at the bit, and has repeatedly called for an election, but Corybn has voted an election down on...
MAGA thugs. When you can't defend the charges, attack the process. If Trump is not removed from office, then it's goodbye to the rule of law in Americ...
GOP Descends to new depths of thuggery https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/trump-impeachment-chances-gaetz-scif-edition.html https://compote.s...
Seems from my perspective that Johnson is winning. He did actually get a Brexit bill passed, albeit with caveats and strings attached, but he's in a v...
You might find the derivation of 'therapy' interesting - from an ancient Jewish sect, the Therapeutae, about which more here. On a related note, the B...
There's some equivocation associated with 'reason' here. First, the 'rationalism' you're referring to, is what I describe as scientific or Enlightenme...
Nonsense. If it contains only sugar, then it's not 'medicine', because the curative effects originate somewhere else altogether i.e. in the subject's ...
There is clear evidence of criminal acts committed by Trump whilst in office. Most of the chatter about Clinton seems to me scurrilous rumour-mongerin...
But, why believe anything at all? I think it's quite impossible not to believe anything, but I also think that Christian dogmatism has engendered a 'c...
Thank you for your perceptive comments. I have still much more study to do in this area and will make a determined effort to do so in the next little ...
Well, I thought the post makes an important point. Then you say ‘I will give you feedback if you can explain the point’. Which must mean I made the po...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/21/boris-johnson-in-final-push-to-ram-through-brexit-deal Yet another nail-biter/deadline/crucial vote/p...
They don't always work, but they lead to genuine cures, and they work sometimes. They plainly undermine the physicalist model, and they're routinely d...
Don't you think it's significant that placebos actually work? I have always thought of them as an argument against physicalism. Physicalism would expe...
Your assuming the Creators’ intentions are somehow comparable to that of a human executive - which I suppose i understandable, but, I think, mistaken ...
Earthquakes, floods and so on are natural calamities. Brutal dictatorships are perpetrated by humans. The former are unfortunate, the latter are inten...
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