A purpose is the reason why things happen — apokrisis
Thanks for clarifying. If I understand you correctly then, yes, the first person point of view is indeed a thing. It is the embodiment of a purpose, an intentionality. — apokrisis
From this perspective we can apprehend the existence of information at non-spatial, dimensionless points, and the unity of those points through the means of that information. — Metaphysician Undercover
The question concerned the purpose of nature, of existence in general. Last time I looked, that lay outside any personal concerns I might have. — apokrisis
Why would we be compelled to apprehend this unity? — praxis
So at best revelation, and more likely just learning the habit of feeling a conviction? — apokrisis
Order is the way to achieve disordering by breaking down the blockages preventing a free moving dissipative flow. — apokrisis
I always believed that a telos wouldn't be able to be revealed until after it is reached. You can't be told your fate is to turn right before doing so because you could then decide to turn left. — JupiterJess
The fundamental concept of mathematics is unity. The entire conceptual structure of numbers is based in one concept, the unit. And this unit, "one", is itself immaterial. — Metaphysician Undercover
Actually Bertrand Russell says, in his chapter on Pythagoras, that it was the mathematical dimension of Greek philosophy that differentiates it from Eastern traditions, and is one of the principle reasons that it gave rise to modern science (which has now, however, forgotten its Platonist origins). — Wayfarer
in Plato, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, and Kant there is an intimate blending of religion and reasoning, of moral aspiration with logical admiration of what is timeless, which comes from Pythagoras, and distinguishes the intellectualized theology of Europe from the more straightforward mysticism of Asia.
Oh, this has to do with your pathological aversion to anything scientific. — Wayfarer
An example I recall reading was Kurzweil and google were working on ways to circumvent the second law of thermodynamics. — JupiterJess
One way to look at what he is telling us is that the universe is front of us is filled with so much white noise that we need to filter it in order to understand a truth that promotes our survival. We can take the idea of a Superposition of all information of our world, and suggest that our mind Decoheres it in order to make sense of it (Rich won't like the idea of a decoder as the mind).
In this model of the world our mind has created visual buttons for us to understand the world around us, hiding the complex behind it. The snake, the train. In this instance closer inspection reveals the atoms and molecules. — MikeL
So you confuse the immanent purpose of naturalism with the transcendence claimed by theism? Finding creative ways to get the issue backwards as usual. — apokrisis
One way to look at what he is telling us is that the universe is front of us is filled with so much white noise that we need to filter it in order to understand a truth that promotes our survival. We can take the idea of a Superposition of all information of our world, and suggest that our mind Decoheres it in order to make sense of it (Rich won't like the idea of a decoder as the mind).
In this model of the world our mind has created visual buttons for us to understand the world around us, hiding the complex behind it. The snake, the train. In this instance closer inspection reveals the atoms and molecules. — MikeL
The purpose of survival is to allow the mind to create. To create and learn it's the purpose of life. — Rich
So, the hologram is formed, but who views it? — MikeL
Is the assertion that creativity and learning is the purpose for all life, including moss? — MikeL
these things (creativity and learning) not simply masks to enable learning that can be applied to survival via complex reasoning later on? — MikeL
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