Philosophical Speculations

Cleric ... thanks for sharing. Suffice to say, I expect Astra will do what Astra will do regardless of whatever well-intentioned advice we may give here. This I've learned from from being a parent to a couple of teenagers, and a social worker to many more ;) My interest in psychedelics comes from a...

I don't think anyone claimed it proves any ontological position. It disproves physicalism in the way most scientists understand it, which is made pretty clear in the article you linked. I wonder if Smolin's replacement theory of a "tiny and complex world of causal interactions" will also ...

dana not sure what issue you are having now but there is nothing about nonlocality that proves any ontological position. that is the science of the matter. see this article by Lee Smolin that discusses nonlocality and quantum gravity https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/space-the-final...

Astra ... Not to belabour the point, I'm just saying that if presuming, a priori, a factual ontology of physicalism has not lead to a definitive explication of these ongoing questions, then perhaps it's time to posit another avenue of investigation that does not presume physicalism from the get go,...

Astra ... Not to belabour the point, I'm just saying that if presuming, a priori, a factual ontology of physicalism has not lead to a definitive explication of these ongoing questions, then perhaps it's time to posit another avenue of investigation that does not presume physicalism from the get go,...

Cosmological Multiverse is the simplest model to account for the incredible number of distinct universes necessary to make this one unsurprising. Cosmologists have probably thought of all possible patterns that can produce infinite worlds. The problem with Multiverse is the number of useless univer...

Atheism entails the cosmological Multiverse because of cosmic fine-tuning, or accepting that we're just astronomically squared lucky like Goff. Well I don't see how anything "undoes" atheism if they can just take Goff's position. I don't see why it isn't reasonable to say "of course ...

Multiverse might undo atheism because it's a quantifiable reductio ad absurdum. Philosophy of Mind might be consensually irresolvable and most won't have the time or skill to arrive at the optimally aesthetic identity cosmopsychism as a default position. Atheism or physicalism? I don't see anything...

Astra ... It's simply not true that the only question left for materialism to answer is the 'problem' of consciousness. Physics has no answer for quite a few questions, e.g. the phenomena of entanglement, i.e. instantaneous, apparently acausal interaction at a distance (no matter how great the dist...

That's very interesting. If I am understanding correctly, apart from the hard problem of consciousness, you feel like most of the science stacks up in favor of materialism? And that also caused you to question/abandon esoteric Christian theology? Yes pretty much. Besides the problem of consciousnes...