A worthwhile mention while I’m at it: Heraclitus, despite his philosophy of cosmic flux - and despite his fragments being open to interpretation - held a belief in a singular, absolute governing force that stands apart from all else - what we could nowadays label a belief in “the Real” or the Absolute — javra
Is there any sense of differentiation in the womb? Interesting question but hard to answer, I'd say. — Janus
Oh I know enough about physics and I can understand what other physicists say to understand your proposal for a T.O.E is highly unlikely — universeness
Expose any sentient being other than a human to experience, and they're not going to learn to speak, — Wayfarer
See The Metaphysical Muddle of Lawrence Krauss, Neil Ormerod. — Wayfarer
There is a certain desperation apparent in the attempts of various authors to eliminate God from an account of the origins of the universe. For, at bottom, what motivates such attempts is the desire to overcome the very incompleteness of the scientific project itself - I call it anxiety over contingency.
This anxiety is perhaps nowhere better exemplified than in the recent work of Lawrence Krauss, who is attempting to do for cosmology what Darwin did for biology: remove the need for God as an explanatory cause. The muddle that Krauss' most recent work illustrates will help bring us to a fuller account of the need to recover the significance of intelligence and reason in relation to reality.
But that is where the observer effect in physics has put a cat well and truly among the pidgeons, as it attributes to the act of observation a fundamental role in the experimental outcome — Wayfarer
My point all along has been that so-called synthetic a priori judgements come after experience — Janus
Epistemic priority is not necessarily temporal priority. It's not as if human infants are born with the ability to reason — Wayfarer
1.It is necessary that something is self-explained.
2. If something is self-explained, there are no prior rules that explain why it existed.
3. Because there are no rules that limit why or how a self-explained existence can be, one cannot put a limit on what could possibly be self-explained when one does not know the origin(s) of the universe. — Philosophim
Oh I know enough about physics and I can understand what other physicists say to understand your proposal for a T.O.E is highly unlikely — universeness
Logically, if there are two electrons. then they are not the same. Perhaps you mean that there is only one electron that appears as two electrons in superposition. You can't have it both ways. — Janus
Of course, logically, a God is also not necessary — Philosophim
A photon is an energy packet, not a billiard ball, of course, it can be absorbed. What's happening in photosynthesis if energy cant be absorbed? — universeness
Oh I know enough about physics and I can understand what other physicists say to understand your proposal for a T.O.E is highly unlikely. We all have our subject specialisations. I — universeness
I’ve extended that indefinitely as I regard you as a troll and/or manic. — I like sushi
The supernatural, by definition, is something that defies the natural order of things. — I like sushi
What do you mean by Supernatural? I would think that means actions of God. — Jackson
Question : Is the mind separated from the body?
Philosophical answer : Probably not, because it would cause a lot of problems if it was. — Skalidris
Which is a philosophical statement about science.
— Hillary
Yes it is. — Tobias
I do not think philosophical concepts are 'stronger' than scientific ones, they concern different things — Tobias
Sciences maps what the world is like — Tobias
was just trying to be as ridiculous as you were being.
You implied that I envisaged an electron as being stuffed with photons.
I tried to explain to you that I found your suggestion as ridiculous as suggesting that everything in the Universe was made from the 4 elements the ancients believed made up the Universe.
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Your point here is moot as I am not challenging your physics with mine, I am challenging your physics with what other physicists say. — universeness
You implied that I envisaged an electron as being stuffed with photons. — universeness
Well, I was just suggesting that if we all just accept that everything in the Universe is 'stuffed' with some combination from earth, air, fire and water based on your accusation that I am claiming electrons are stuffed with photons, then your physics T.o.E might become more popular and people will accept the final sentence you will be compelled to write in your physics paper when it's finally ready to be published. — universeness
So based on all the evidence I have cited in this paper my final conclusion is, gods did it all, — universeness
All such monkeys are too busy trying to type out the full works of Shakespeare! — universeness