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Physicists can construct new theories that bring about paradigm shifts but they have to do so under the bias of an already preconceived ontology which...

Technically that is just one metaphysical or philosophical interpretation that we could glean from special relativity. Ignoring whether time in that t...

Are you partial therefore to process philosophy or a modern rendition of Heraclitus perspective of the world as in constant flux.

Do mean extension or temporally? If temporally that's fine but to assume a finite scale to the universe either puts us in the direction of a curved 3-...

I agree science cannot deal with creatio ex nihilo but nor can philosophy/metaphysics as such a concept is to me rather illogical. The problem for you...

There is nothing to say that it's necessarily infinite or finite. These are epistemological questions concerning the nature of our universe. The singu...

There is no mechanized or unmechanized minds in your sense. Only what part of reality is from you and that which isn't.

Time as an abstraction you mean. Change is rather fundamental to reality as we know it, especially in quantum mechanics, and time (as in its ordering,...

Why? As does creatio ex nihilo or a beginning for a universe on my end. Both circular repetitive cycles of creation, infinite casual chains, or creati...

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It's not escaping to the multiverse it's a conclusion from known physics. Heck, you cannot get something from nothing therefore there was always somet...

Depends on how you define causality. Are you the person who given a Humean reductive analysis of the concept or are you the person that philosophical ...

William Lane Craig has problems with the existence of actual infinities but not necessarily potential infinities. I would preface this with the fact t...

There is a lot to unpack in that argument and it's not un-like many others to look upon its simple form thinking there wasn't much under the surface. ...

Further, while such a thing may not have a cause there would still need to be a sufficient reason or metaphysical grounding for said entity (if you su...

You have to now define what you mean by free will and creative power. As well as justify that this thing possesses said qualities (such as consciousne...

There is a difference between being atemporal or out of time and being eternal.

Infinite in. . . what? Is he omni-present and infinitely large or are their infinitely many capable actions he could undertake (omnipotence) or perhap...

What are those qualities and are they coherent? It may perhaps even be the case that actual infinities cannot exist in reality only merely potential i...

For some philosophers causation is as elaborated upon as you intuitively put it. Note that some causation models merely specify conditions and then co...

Causation has a long and popular philosophical tradition of being either overly complicated in terms of accompanying ontology or extremely reductive t...

First, as others have noted you need to define what you mean by cause. You also need to specify exactly what your own definition of begins to exist ev...

Define life first. As i'm pretty sure you will not include much info into what a living organism is made out of (as the iron in my blood is NOT ALIVE)...

If you could break what physicists or sociologists thought were laws of their respective domains of investigation then they wouldn't be universally ap...

Less physical in QM but not exactly the case in special relativity simpliciter. If anything special relativity alone is just as substantivalist as new...

Can an objective idealist say or claim all the same things that a metaphysical physicalist realist could? It seems to be the case that what's of issue...

Special relativity alone is not an argument for a substantival spacetime but taken with other philosophical considerations such as assuming the non-ex...

In your interpretation the spacetime points are coexistent, co-present, and coincide ontologically with the objects in question. I would preface that ...

Why? I mean both Berkeley and Kant held rather intriguing perspectives on the non-reality of spacetime which both were strongly influenced by their su...

You're definitely not faulted for thinking GR prefers a substantivalist interpretation as Einstein, I believe, once thought his theories of relativity...

Self-contradictory? I get that this philosophical viewpoint is not emprically well-founded and never could be (it would be consistent with any persona...

So your perspective is more psychological and related to our conscious experiences. Is this a Berkeley or Kantian strategy you are gleaning from in tr...

I mean no disrespect or assume that because its "distasteful" it's therefore wrong but only that most philosophical viewpoints that would hold onto th...

Yeah, solipsism really makes a philosopher run for the hills doesn't it. It was just the words being used by you such as 'me' that made me think you w...

Thank you for the comment noAxioms. I agree mostly with what you have said and partially with the idea that the immediate reality we're familiar with ...