For a really fun book on a lot of the "big picture," ways information theory could really become a paradigm shifter across the sciences the book "The ...
No, because meaning has an experiential element. Like I said, I am not convinced by any of the explanations of how first person experience might emerg...
This is thinking much too high level. "Meaning" for us is the result of a massive amount of communications at lower levels. It's better to think of th...
Sure, just ask the guy who was swapping out museum paintings with copies so he could sell them. https://www.9news.com.au/world/german-museum-worker-se...
I'm not sure if I see the direct relation. Here we're talking about a universe that has observers in it. The question seems to be: "can we say math ex...
But how do words and signs take on their meaning and how do we learn them? That meaning is "constructed," is an important part of the story, but it ca...
These are two incredibly amorphous terms and any contradiction will depend on how we define the terms. Obviously, some forms of religion contradict th...
What would you say about the events in Second Chronicals where Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, does evil in the sight of the LORD and walks in the ways of...
Right, there is a strong tendency for the mathematical patterns "at work in," or "describing" natural phenomena to be similar at very different levels...
Operation Barbarossa was the Axis invading the USSR, which was a composite of many current and previous states in any event. An invasion that was init...
Gotcha, I get how you mean nondualism now, in the sense that Shankara's advaita is nondualist, right. That makes perfect sense to me. Although, I woul...
If there is a sense in which we are and a sense in which we are not then you can simply clarify those senses in a bivalent way by breaking the stateme...
Maybe the set of all truths? Because certain truths are grounded in experience, which makes them inaccessible to others. The full truth of someone els...
The Bible is fairly scarce in truth claims about itself at any rate and it's unclear what they are to apply to within the context of the text. The Bib...
It seems to me like this is partially right, and partially missing something. Sans some interpretation of consciousness where mind does not emerge fro...
I think you have it exactly right, my phrasing might have been incautious. God is beyond the analysis offered of on terms of "God as omni-x." My point...
The logic of theology that I'm aware of tends to be dialetheistic, allowing for "true contradictions," and denying proof by contradiction in some case...
Thanks. Perhaps we just have different definitions of the word "duty." We can have more concrete duties that we choose to take on. For example, to be ...
By virtue of what are natural disasters bad? The storms of Jupiter, the ongoing nuclear explosions of the Sun, we don't see as disasters. If they were...
I think you articulate it well. I would, however, push back on the idea that it cannot be our business to tell others what is moral. No man is an isla...
I think the "evil as absence" theory works if your starting point is Neoplatonic emanation because the lower hypostases, of which the physical world i...
Nietzsche refers to the ego as a "congress of souls," early in Beyond Good and Evil. It's an apt metaphor. I've always found research on split-brained...
Excellent point. , this is what I refer to when I talk of the involvement of "thought" in freedom. Of course, thought its self has causes, and so this...
No. An act not being entirely arbitrary is a precondition of its being freely chosen. However, this does not entail that anything that is not arbitrar...
How are we free unless our actions are ruled by our thoughts, unless we act for a reason? Surely, completely arbitrary action isn't freedom, right? I ...
This plus having people on the inside to facilitate their rapid takeover. What we know now is that part of Russia's strategy hinged heavily on the fac...
IMO, this is where moral freedom, the freedom to pursue what we think is good, comes in. To be sure, we could come to agree with all natural circumsta...
I think we're talking about the same thing. All I mean is, "part of freedom is being able to do what you desire." What is a common desire of man? "To ...
Right! A lot of musts for freedom. That's the paradox of freedom within the context of human society and world history. It turns out that being free r...
This is less in topic, so I didn't post any of that in the response, and I don't want to derail the thread by getting into that in depth, although I c...
You might be right, I haven't read The Myth of Sisyphus in a while and might be conflating it with the rest of the genre. I'll maintain that it rings ...
It is a collection of short things I wrote for someone, so perhaps it needs a bit more context. See: If we don't do what is good, it seems like we wil...
I have settled on a modified version of Axel Honneth's typology of freedom in Freedom's Right, based on Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right.. ...
Right, that's proven a very difficult question. If I knew the answer I'd be collecting my Nobel Prize. My point is simply that process allows for stro...
:rofl: I had forgotten how much I dislike Camus. De Beauvoir and Richard Wright (when he moved to France) were definitely the stars of that set for me...
Sure, from that we get atomic theory, cell theory, etc. However, note my examples above. Superveniance has also led science astray, particularly, it s...
If I recall correctly, Kastrup allows that there was a period in the universe where there were no dissociated minds. He claims that only life produces...
How does superveniance substance metaphysics require any less speculative ifs? Superveniance became dominant at a time when physics looked completely ...
Right, but all the "stuff" is just mentation, mental stuff. We're all part of one disassociated cosmic mind for him, right? So, of course if all minds...
It seems it'd be possible to deny this is the right question though, or even a meaningful one. If information is primarily process (good arguments for...
Well yeah, that's the whole point of the reductio, but it's generally considered a valid way to form proofs (exceptions like intuitionist mathematics ...
Maybe I phrased it poorly. I think your posts explain why we should act a certain way in principle, but there remains the subjectivity involved in whi...
R. Scott Bakker has a good short story he published in some philosophy journal about accomplishing this in the near future through neural implants. Th...
I was addressing this. Sure, if you take it as axiomatic that facts cannot be moral, then you can't have moral facts. But like I said, the term facts,...
Perfection is a unity. It lacks nothing. Creation is not a unity. All created things lack something. Creation is continuous, a process of becoming. We...
I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts. For the fate of the sons of men and ...
How does that work? Worship of God is idolatry because people are actually worshiping their conception of God (a created thing)? I think this is partl...
This is very good. I can see the immediate rebuttal being that people often disagree about how to define harm. Is a parent dragging their child to con...
Maybe I'm not following, but this seems fairly circular. Moral realism is irrelevant because there are no objective facts about morality. But isn't th...
Right, it doesn't fit the bill for Hume. What I never understood though is how he could maintain his view on miracles when his thoughts on the problem...
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