PeterJones

Okay Sam. I'll leave you to it.

It's not news (as far as I understand it) that the consistent histories interpretation of QM allows for backwards causation, and the Wheeler-Feynman a...

I like Heidegger's ideas and feel he talks a lot of sense, although do not feel he cracked the case. Much of his work is too difficult for me but I li...

My apologies. I understand this and have given the reasons why I believe it will always be an ineffective argument, It certainly affects the balance o...

Okay. Let's agree to differ. You're ploughing a very lonely furrow and I wonder if you realise this. You're suggesting that you know better that almos...

I feel you're missing something. Metaphysics, by which I mean the logical analysis of fundamental questions, proves that space-time is not fundamental...

What do you feel is wrong with the the definition of 'meta' as 'transcending' or 'beyond'? It seems spot on to me.

I don't find metaphysics hard to define but would agree with you about most of the terms it employs. It's rather like algebra, where one has to work o...

I think Sam is right about this. Better on another thread. I'd just add that it will always cause havoc in philosophy when opinions are stated as fact...

Do you not know that this an open debate? If you could prove this you'd be forever famous as the person who falsified the Perennial philosophy and its...

I see what is being said here but it is muddled. I believe that materialism is nonsense but that every phenomenon is natural, which is not allowable u...

Aha. We have had a misunderstanding. An 'extreme' or 'positive' metaphysical position is a technical idea, not an opinion. Metaphysical questions alwa...

I find some of this discussion odd for a philosophy forum. Is it not easy to work out that materialism is nonsense? I've never come across a materiali...

Hi Sam As you say. the amount of testimony to be found at all times and places over the last three thousand years is astonishing. A minimum condition ...

if you;re speaking of Middle Way Buddhism then nothing would really exist or ever really happen. That is to say, everything is reducible to mind and t...

Metaphysics, which includes ontology, proceeds by analysis and a process of 'abduction',whereby we identify logically absurd theories and reject them....

You have not considered the traditional view by which is that there is no such thing as 'something'.or 'nothing'. For Middle Way Buddhism, advaita etc...

I see no need to contrast materialism with panpsychism. Both do not work. Both assume that matter somehow becomes conscious, or 'has' consciousness. M...

I'd say the physical sciences are what we need to look beyond, since they fall short of telling us anything much about the nature of reality. The real...

I think Wayfarer's point was that proponents of scientism don't accept that science is in a box. They don't recognise its boundaries. Odd really, beca...

Ha. I'd say it's likely to go down big time and soon leaving few survivors, and all due to science engineering.

I'd say you massively underestimate the population effect - but it's a complex issue.

For me it comes down to the fact that Israel holds all the cards yet makes no effort to deal fairly with the Palestinians. They seem intent on keeping...

My thoughts also. It seems to me the whole point of the physical sciences is to increase the human population. However, it appears that this virus was...

You will have no luck finding a coherent definition of 'God'.This is for two reasons. First, metaphysical analysis (Kant et al) reveals that a coheren...

Descartes is often misread. It is even debatable whether he endorsed mind-body dualism. Here's some thoughts from an essay by Robert Pepperell - (I ca...

Yes, the article was about eighth grade,and brief, and this is why I recommended it. Yet it seem to have gone over your head. Of course the cessation ...

I gave you a link to an explanation and you ignored it. I do not have the impression that you're interested in truth. If you were, you would have inve...

As I said earlier, I don;t know what your agenda is but I don't want to play. I cannot be helpful so I might as well bow out. If you were intereeted i...

I give up. I can only wonder where you pick up your ideas. See you around.

That F=MA is just a belief for most people. But no Buddhist settles for beliefs. If we're going to settle for beliefs we're going to have to avoid Bud...

Do you not see that the idea is to transcend satisfaction/dissatisfaction? This is basic. If not, then it might be better if I didn't argue but refer ...

The four NTs are central. I'm not sure I'm seeing the objection. The world of pleasure and pain, satisfaction and dissatisfaction is the world of suff...

To end of suffering is to end dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction is suffering. . . There would be three kinds of suffering. The third kind is conditione...

No problem. I take it for granted that there will be at least five misunderstindings for every ten posts. I don't understand how you arrive at this vi...

I don't understand your last message so suspect we're in the middle of a misunderstanding. Let's rewind. I responded to OP because I felt he (let us a...

Apparently being blunt is sometimes interpreted as being condescending, as we see here. .

I don't know what your agenda is but it doesn't interest me. If you want to show me I'm missing the point then show me where the OP has made a complai...

I don't know it well enough to say much, but what I see in it is the Christian version of the Perennial view. The simplest phenomenon possible is a Un...

What then, would be your creation ex nihilo theory? I find ex nihilo creation to be a blatantly absurd idea. Creation becomes a rather different idea ...

Sorry about that. I tend to be blunt.

i was trying to point out that I see no rejection of Buddhism. All I see is a rejection o some Buddhists. The OP does not indicate that he understands...

I give up. Maybe synthesis will have more luck. .

I think it is outrageous that you say these daft things and don't bother to check your facts. It's the very opposite of doing philosophy. I'm sorry ma...

Exactly. Knowledge is going there, I don't know what you mean by 'grandiose view'. If you mean what I you mean it would be idiotic. .

Fascinating how wildly views can vary. I think we're too far apart to communicate across the gulf, and I wouldn't want to make the topics so complicat...

Ha. I wish I had the good sense to keep a low profile. .

I have explained that Buddhism does not require that we take anything for granted,. The Buddha spends half his time telling us not to do this. There i...

Yes..Subject-predicate language cannot capture the truth. It remains the case the mystics endorse a nondual description or reality. This states that t...

Yes! The underlying idea is that Reality is a Unity as described by the Doctrine of Divine Simplicity. Kant got most of the way there but we have to g...