in any search for truth, value, etc., some space is productively given to the valid track records of e.g. the traditions demonstrating an absolute dimension ...
Folks, I have found an interesting article on new physics - http://www.pytela.bc.ca/ormus/tw/newphysi.htm . Although I'm still sceptical about "mutliverse...
Hi everyone, did you happen to catch the quote of the day in the NY Times? "The engagements in the cemetery were done on foot, encountering numerous fighters...
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Http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm gives the 1996 Israeli plan for action ("Clean Break"), later brought into the New American Century presidential advisory...
Thanks, Damir, for the article's insight. "Modeling" may be a useful heuristic modifier of "falsification." Bertrand Russell noted that naive or (overdone)...
"jim", Imagine a table - a wondrously shaped rock by weather on a distant planet - perceived by no human or an intelligent being that has a concept of table. ...
Folks, I have found Richard L. Gregory's web-site ( http://www.richardgregory.org/index.htm ) and I warmly recommend a reading of his republished works -...
By delimiting sensations of consciousness qualia to created-by-the- brain, Mr. Gregory's hypothesis decides a priori that no consciousness exists outside...
"jim", I haven't noticed implied or expressed priories (unless we speak of limits of the field), however you are right to put it into this perspective. What is...
Damir, appreciate your "strict dualism not logically nor experientially justified" (betwixt ("possible") Spirit and "materiality"), "authenticity" based on,...
"jim", Why would be Gregory's findings be inadmissible? (Regardless of validity of his assumptions/conclusions. What you are saying below addresses only...
Folks: My philosophy is also dualistic. I view reality as composed of two realms. Realm #1 is the physical (material) and realm #2 is the non-physical...
... While the inside system of relation can be put on a scale and weighed, the inside system cannot stand by itself. Plausibility implies an equal contribution...
Damir, no i-("inadmissable")word used previously or implied. What was said previously addresses more the "validity" of the assumptions ("all sensation qualia...
"jim", After careful reading I came to a conclusion that we are not so far apart as it may seem. The "terminology" and, a kind of, "mixed signals" perceived...
Damir, am agreeing that our approaches to "really knowing" are parallel. What constitutes "deadness of organism" is firstly crossing from openness to "Above"...
"jim", I would suggest a little bit different picture to consider. A bit more optimistic picture. A picture in which Creator is being "created" by His own...
Damir, thanks for a different perspective. Was not too happy with the clarity of my previous, hurried post. A brief reprise: what soviet philosophers term...
"jim", Many things you say appear to be "rock solid" - except in "'God' is already eternally in place". (Unless I misunderstood. Feels fixed, unchangeable... ...
Hi Damir, let's consider the ultimate rock-like security of marxian materialism--"all truth is accumulated objective human truth"--and negate that, a la Pierre...
"jim", What I consider unacceptable is understanding of God of many others that sometimes does stretch to what Paul Erdos painted. And I agree that such ...
Damir, the "golden rule" maxim is a difficult simplicity, as it is guaranteed to give progressive results only under the most limited and ideal conditions....
Folks, A friend that chastises you in order to improve your "act" is a real friend and Dr. Fulda is proving to be mine. I just received his reply on my new ...
Folks, The northern hemisphere is obviously relaxing in the late summer and scientific news are rare. Nevertheless, some do come through and when they do,...
... when they ... the "master ... of a ... moment ... call, ... I have been reading Steven Strogatz's "Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order" for two...
by Benjamin Marks [Posed September 1, 2004] Down under, in Australia, it is often thought that we are a dry country. What if I was to tell you that we have...
Folks, An interesting finding: http://www.sciencedaily.com/print.php?url=/releases/2004/08/040831090221.htm Our "junk" DNA obviously "softens" the "hard code"...