I've been writing an essay on this for awhile. As someone who grew up in a militantly atheist household and also has spent a lot of time a Evangelical...
Right, and it doesn't have a good solution I can think of. That's part of the problem. I tried to lighten it by making the modern plotline about budge...
"Peak experience," is sort of an anachronism. It's from Maslow, working in the 1960s. It just means a powerful, intense experience that becomes a foun...
Thanks for the feedback. That's exactly the stuff I like to hear! That's why it's rough, not so much not having been edited for grammar, but I'm think...
I don't know if that is necessarily a common teaching; certainly, it is not universal. Faith is multifaceted. Do we choose what it is that we believe?...
I finally put a sample chapter up, if you or anyone else is interested. https://medium.com/@tkbrown413/a-fantasy-novel-based-on-real-world-esoteric-sy...
Wouldn't this be more: For all AP, KM (appearance; known mediately). AC is not KM (action; known mediately) Thus, AC is not AP. Same as: All men are m...
The problem with Nietzsche's philosophy becomes obvious when you seek to generalize it. How are we all to become overmen, revaluing all values. Cannot...
Biblical literalism is a vocal minority view, strongest in American Evangelical Protestantism, which is a small minority of the faithful no matter how...
Ah, even less can it match up then. Behold! https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/141117002325-dnt-ia-virgin-mary-tree-00003411.jpg I think...
Counterpoint: Jesus with a halo praying carved into the universe with a nebula. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Cone_Nebula_...
There was an even more alien looking six inch tall mummy with a conical head that was dug up in Chile a few years back. It turned out to be the remain...
Energy being physical is fairly well established. If you want to get into a more wonky question there is the matter of it information is physical (Lan...
The first thing to stress would be that composition in computation doesn't work like composition in superveniance metaphysics. Salt is salt because of...
Bickhart and Deacon have some good explanations of this I will try to find. The SEP article is rather lacking. Nested functions are part of code, stat...
I may indeed be stuck in empiricism. I think rationality is something we primarily experience for instance. But the way I meant that was more: "our wo...
Sorry, I didn't mean "the set of discernment which are not subjective." I meant, "the set of all discernments (which are necessarily made by subjects)...
My apologies, where I said "the article explains some of them," above I meant to share this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physics-experiments-spell-...
It depends on how you define emergence I suppose. I do not mean classical emergence, where combinations of different substances somehow generate new t...
I didn't mean feedback necessarily, just the view that process might be seen as fundemental, not substance. That what a thing is might not be best def...
Disembodied or incorporeal would be my least favorite here. If someone talks about "the text of War and Peace, but not the books it is printed on or t...
I found this summary fairly interesting: https://www.projectenportfolio.nl/images/1/16/Robertson-Laws_of_Form.pdf Interesting vis-a-vis the original t...
The article reviews a few of them. True. Although given the ways we've already found that life has adapted to take advantage of quantum effects, I fig...
That was sort of my feel too. It felt like he had an axe to grind at some points, although it does seem like some people intentionality went out of th...
It's not you, it's a confusing solution that is invoked to save relativity's "speed limit." Non-locality suggests that causal influences can move fast...
Yes, that's the idea. It's a special case of what Berkeley is talking about. He is saying it is pointless to talk about things that aren't perceived. ...
Are those special terms? I just meant that we can't have a principal by which "what goes in and comes out of our bodies is inviolably our right," and ...
Or, from the horse's mouth: https://www.nature.com/articles/514161a Whereas many of the rebuttals (in this article or this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.n...
Right, that's what the debate is generally about; is the simplification pragmatically warranted or does it obscure important facts. It's pretty rare t...
If everything intrinsically has some form of first-person subjective experience that would explain why there is first person subjective experience. We...
For a bit more context: But of course, phenotypes also get replicated, as do broad forms like wings, eyes, etc. Ants represent 20% of terrestrial anim...
You're quite right here. I wasn't really sure how to formulate the Principle exactly. It has a modal component in that it's about what is necessarily ...
I forgot this part! This is a formidable challenge. Do you think this makes Leibniz Law untenable entirely? Or can we talk about entities' properties ...
Sure. But we've already stayed the hand holding the razor to allow unobservable noumena to exist. I think it was glass balls because I remember one ge...
Panpsychism has always been a problem for physicalism because it seems to be decidedly not what physicalists want to posit, but at the same time it is...
I don't disagree that there is a useful distinction to be made between the "image" and the physical photograph. We can think of the image as the "Shan...
From Karl Barth's "Evangelical Theology: An Introduction," but much the same could be said for philosophy. Philosophy seems like it should have a spec...
Yes? We speak of the "law like behavior," of the universe and it is considered perfectly legitimate to rule out a scientific explanation if it suggest...
There is the debate over whether there are properties without (active) observation. The Principle of Indiscernability doesn't look at that. It looks a...
Yes, but the argument is about things that cannot be observed by definition. For example, suppose we posit a new fundemental particle, the nullon, tha...
As opposed to how well philosophy doing right now at being relevant? Every time I go into a book store I check out the philosophy section and it invar...
I think those are all good points. Speculation is pragmatic, we get joy (utility for us welfare economists) simply from feeling that we understand the...
Oh for sure. But when someone say's "does touch really exist," I assume they mean: "from the standpoint of fundemental physics or metaphysics," simply...
Right, and children are most labor intensive in the first three years and in the US at least the general provision of services is such that families a...
I'm pro-choice but I will play devil's advocate here. 1. Bodily autonomy isn't something we can uphold as an absolute if we want to have a functioning...
Touch, for example, billiard balls touching and transferring kinetic energy, etc. is the bread and butter of physics. It's not that touch isn't the so...
Maybe some sort of analogue of Mandelbrot's fractional dimensions is needed here? At a certain scale, two items seem to be touching, but zoom in or ou...
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