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  • Space-Time and Reality
    ↪Mww
    A pure concept that is not empirical.
  • Aristotle: Time Never Begins
    ↪Tom Storm
    ↪Tom Storm
    ↪Kuro
    Time does not exist; it is used for human convenience and, Tom, you are correct. Time defined: what clocks measure; the measurement of motion. Time, therefore, is a measurement. I'm doing the measuring so I must be creating time or the clock is creating time. There is no past or future--only the present. The past exists in our minds and the present continues to what is called the future. Is time, then, a real immaterial existent? If I wanted to argue for time, I would maintain that.
  • "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
    ↪Pie
    Truth is when your view or perception matches reality. So what is reality?
  • "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
    ↪Pie
    When your thought, your view, your perception matches reality, you have the truth.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    Why no responders?
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    Examine, criticize.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    An interesting post
  • Is there an external material world ?
    ↪Hello Human
    I submit probability and quantum mechanics. This post is a development of such.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪universeness
    Science and philosophy
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪universeness
    We may be the universe's only consciousness, but there may be numerous other beings in a vast universe.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Agent Smith
    There are centuries of evolution ahead. What will we be then?
  • Consciousness and The Theory of Everything
    ↪Art48
    I think the three are basically incompatible, but a reconciliation would be a milestone. I think macro and micro reality are like apples and oranges: an apple, unless converted, will never be an orange.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Agent Smith
    It's unwise not to adopt that view, but we must keep trying and looking for verifications in reality
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Agent Smith
    Yes, we are the best and worst of creatures.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪universeness
    What good is the whole universe without consciousness?
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Landoma1
    If you say so.
  • Consciousness and I
    When we observe the most advanced of us, it's easy to develop that view; however, we must still perform animal activities, but our intellectual activities set us apart.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Agent Smith
    Indeeed, since the brain is part of the body .
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Agent Smith
    Thanks for your input.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Agent Smith
    I equals the body-brain; it is a pronoun that stands for the body-brain which is conscious.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Varde
    I never conflate both; they both work together to make the individual viable.
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Mww
    Do you have a different view?
  • Consciousness and I
    ↪Mww
    I may be wrong, but that is the way I see it.
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪magritte
    He He
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪Agent Smith
    ↪Agent Smith
    We have been living with nothing a long time. it has grown on us and it is hard to eliminate. Recently, it occured to me that we have been discusing a non-existent. Incidentally, I appreciate all coments, pro or con
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪180 Proof
    But is simply space nothing? Well, space may be simply immaterial. But that is not nothing but no-thing.
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪180 Proof
    ↪180 Proof
    ↪180 Proof
    This is much ado about nothing. I like this: Either something or nothing exist, but nothing does not exist; therefore, something exists. The logic is clear and so is the statement.
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪Agent Smith
    I will have to consider general nothing. Nothing is such an engrained part of our life, like time. Do you think that nothing (general or specific) could ever be located? It could--in the mind of humans.
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪Agent Smith
    If I have a dime and lose it, do I have nothing? no, I no longer have a dime. What will be left is the abscene of the last atom. We tend to call the abscence or end nothing. To us such ceasings may be called nothing. Let me repeat: nothing is a concept, the reality of which has no existence. There are other such concepts with no existence: infinity, time, etc.
  • Why is there something rather than nothing?
    ↪Agent Smith
    Why there is something rather than nothing is as follows: either something exists or nothing exists; since NOTHING DOES NOT EXIST, something must exist. That existent is immaterial space in the pre-universe.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Gregory
    Well, Kant probably felt time. But when I read that section, I thought that his intuition was equivalent to our perception; however, intuition is not perception. Associating consciousness with time may be common.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Gregory
    Gregory, thanks for response. On time, I use myself as the authority.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Gregory
    My view is that time does not exist. If I am wrong, time is an immaterial existence. Now it can be easily said that no movement, no time. Time is what the moving hands on the clock measure. Is that mass it measures?
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪GraziaBorini
    No. My space is real; Kant's was perceptual, but it is transcendental in accordance with Kantian requirements.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Gregory
    I see posts mentioning time. Is time a real immaterial existence or just a mathematical one?
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪Xodarap
    Thanks for post. I have mulled over it and it seems to be, in the least, plausible. Immaterial space becomes the first existent and the uncaused cause which is then related to actual space. I connected the transcendental with the empirical. Mass could not create itself; therefore, it is a result of the immaterial.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪universeness
    Yes, we wil leave not hostile to each other. Incidentally, I favor agnosticism and I am a Star Trek fan.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪universeness
    There is just one--immaterial space. Just this one, in my view, created the universe. Do I know that this view is correct--no! But it is a natural view of how the universe became. Again, do not talk about nothing; nothing does not exist. Why should one discuss a non-existent. Let's talk about nothing! To repeat: there is only one immaterial existent and it is immaterial space.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪universeness
    ↪universeness
    ↪universeness
    Too much to reply too . I'll answer at least a few. . I stick with the principle from nothing comes nothing; the book alienates me. Remember: existence can only be material or not material. Existence can only be immaterial or not immaterial. Cherry picking--perhaps. You're quite challenging and that is good.
  • Origin of the Universe Updated
    ↪universeness
    In the list of synonyms, not material is my selection; it is a Kantian transcendental since space is absolute, necessary and universal as I view it. The problem with immaterial is us; perception of the material is evolutionary for survival. There is no need to perceive particles. The immaterial is transparent as is current space; there is no blockage. Existence can only be material and not material; the material did not create itself. More later after your response.
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