The brain is a secondary organ in service to the body, the body produced the brain, the brain did not produce the body. That said, the physical enviro...
Ucarr, First, the conclusion, Darwin's theory of evolution is neither upwardly or downwardly evolving design. Evolution is plastic, in the sense that,...
You are correct about the avoidance of gods. Particularly, one involving an anthropomorphic identity. I otherwise would like to think, successful or n...
I do understand your point, however, the use of the term design is unfortunate here. There is no reason to assume intellectual intent, things may beha...
I do tend to believe in panpsychism, but as far as priori cognitive design, no, it sounds like your looking for a god within the great mystery. I beli...
Value is communion with, mutualism, the more complete the better, by complete I mean communion without categories, all-inclusive. Personally, I don't ...
Spirituality is simply the process of introspection, introspection about one's self, one's self as being and being in the world. Organized religions I...
I am not familiar with QM"s perspective, but it goes against my instincts, to think that there is not something before the manifestation of matter, If...
That may well be but in the process, you are engaging others in mutual caring, of which is vital in forming a community. No identification, no compass...
Michael, Defined purpose or intention, but this intention is evoked, the lock presumes its key. One must be moved within before one can move without, ...
When does a condition become a thing? Is there not a complexity of conditions prior to say the formation of a cloud. Is there not a chaos of complexit...
Morality is a biological response to context, a person in isolation would have no need of morality. As a social construct, it is best seen as the self...
Let's face it reality is the shits, that is why many people choose a fantasy life, read a religious life. Suffering is a good moral measure however if...
Example: If you give money to someone to help them out of a problem, and they just use the money foolishly, you are likely to reconsider the wisdom of...
Yes, Dimosthenis, it's called forethought, pain, pleasure, desire, desire to stay out of pain. Let's face it reality is the shits, that's why so many ...
Organisms come into this world with a constitution that is weak or strong, with great variations between the two. Upon coming into the world one is wi...
Which country, America or China has the greatest history of imperial expansion. Which country has the other surrounded with military installations and...
Janus, Perhaps you would like to enlighten me on where my statements have gone astray. Explain if you would, how the world as an object, obtains its m...
Knowledge of good and evil. "There is no such thing as right or wrong, only thinking makes it so." Billy Shakespeare In other words, the knowledge of ...
It sounds like a bit of nonsense to me. All meaning is cognitive, all meaning is the property of a conscious subject. Meaning like apparent reality it...
In today's political world, many people still hold onto the American apple pie concepts of the country, through self-serving self-generated mythologie...
It is a bit like, when does a condition become a thing. There are processes to anything which becomes manifest. It is true this is just speculation, a...
You feel you are totally restricted by the context of the question? The OP might not have realized that its possible to negate both, that perhaps he h...
If DNA were faultless, evolutionary development would not be possible. Mutation is a high price to pay for adaptation, with most mutations meaning dea...
Yes, it is not knowledge that is handy in ones day to day experience, still it is nice to understand where meanings come from. What we see as the phys...
Well, the physicists tell us that ultimate reality is a place of no things. When one gives it a bit of thought, one must realize that all the energy f...
The Americans are quick to criticise other countries for their way of governing. The fact remains that there are only two parties because Americans re...
Your senses present you with what is called apparent reality, as opposed to ultimate reality which is only partly accessible to us. Your whole body ho...
Emergent existents from the implicit to the explicit, essence is the implicit workings of manifestation, that being forth the existence, the explicit....
Certainly, different biologies experience a somewhat different reality than human biology. Whether we are talking of humans or other animals we are ta...
A model, aimless and fickle-like evolutionary development? The evolution of the organism would be quite impossible if it had any fixed determinism or ...
That is a by-product of the realization of the truth of Nihilism, when all is said and done, the conscious subject is the free agent in creating his o...
What is considered unnatural, is when humanity creates an element to add to the periodic table which does not occur naturally. In contradiction to thi...
Banno, There is no inherent meaning to the physical world as object, there is nothing in this world that has meaning in and of itself, but only in rel...
Meaning is something derived from experience, or meaning, experience, is knowledge. I think your talking about reaching for a goal, to build a meaning...
That which exists is a cause, that which reacts to existence is an effect, so, a subject in this sense is both cause and effect but, the subject is no...
"Thoughs who know the most, must mourn the deepest, orr the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life." Self-control of the collective mu...
We already do delusion and denial, no argument here, but, can we not shake it and move on. Are we as mindless as the beast, and must wait for nature t...
According to the religious, God is not to be found in time and space. All matter is found in time and in space, this is what is meant by the term exis...
Perhaps the answer is in the fact that all people are more at ease in commonality. People tend to speak of racism as something that is the property of...
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