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- Sat Apr 13, 2013 11:48 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
IS energy physical? If energy is just movement and matter is (essentially) energy, then what's moving? Well, exactly. As I said above, ultimately we're not describing what things are but how they behave . Conventionally, we describe anything that interacts with a physical system as physical. I also...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:47 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
And there is also Pluralistic Idealism Pluralistic idealism such as that of Gottfried Leibniz[44] takes the view that there are many individual minds that together underlie the existence of the observed world and make possible the existence of the physical universe That sounds like relativism or su...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:43 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Even thoughts or abstract ideas are not themselves conscious or are thought of as conscious. Does the logical principle of non-contradiction remember, know and feel? What? I am not sure where else a thought or idea would come from but a conscious mind. I guess the sentences I am writing is not cons...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:40 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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OK, that's fine with me.Metacrock wrote:emergence is anti-reductionist.
By simply not being an idealist.It looks like everything is the product of mind. I don't see how you can conclude otherwise.
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 10:38 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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see science has to resort to metaphor (knots in energy) when it doesn't understand stuff. We know there's something we call "energy" and something we call "subatomic particles" but I'm not convinced we know what they are. All language is metaphor and ultimately we're not describing what things are ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:56 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: newly worded CA
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Re: newly worded CA
the necessity must be able to create freely. Otherwise it's an arbitrary necessity. That's contradictory. Necessity can have nothing to do with will. If something is necessarily so then it can't have been freely chosen - that would make it contingent. A God who chooses A, B and C instead of X, Y an...
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:33 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
That's really interesting. Nietzsche had a similar passage in BGE where he rails against the idea of substance and uses the ideas of Boscovich to say that there isn't really anything "solid" at the atomic level - in Nietzsche's case he's not calling it metaphysical, more using it as a cudgel against...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:32 pm
- Forum: City of God in Secular City
- Topic: Here goes lil' Kim again
- Replies: 13
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- Thu Apr 11, 2013 12:54 pm
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
Seems an arbitrary call to me. Is the universe mysterious? Or is energy/change/movement mysterious? Just a sense that maybe some people have and some don't. It would be hard to argue, analytically. We only have experience of the one universe, so there's no more or less mysterious other universes to...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:18 am
- Forum: Adventure of Faith (Religion/Spirituality)
- Topic: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
- Replies: 128
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Re: we gotta get this thing kick started again.
If you're going to take the position that everything is equally mysterious, then "mysterious" clearly doesn't mean much. You might as well say that everything is schklorgle. The mind and a soda straw are both equally mysterious and equally schklorgle. So why are we doing philosophy of mind instead ...