Philosophical Speculations

But what is information? My understanding of Shannon is that basically everything is information. I fail to see what is special about the information in IIT

So this becomes experience (self reflective) because it folds on itself?

Is this argument with this stuff that EM itself is conscious?

As one who has experienced these veridical, so-called OBEs, the initial inquiry that came to mind when it first happened—and while I was still, by default, assuming physicalism to be viable—was how can the conventional model explain it. After delving into any such explanations on offer, I came to r...

If it is a necessary feature of idealism, perhaps. Granted, I'm not an idealist so I wouldn't expect it to be necessary

As in, I don't think it has to be a lawlike phenomenon necessarily. I would be wondering how such events would accord with a theistic worldview, of course

Apparently results from studies have been statistically significant (maybe this is disputed?). I've always heard that the effects were typically quite minor and infrequent, however.

The argument perhaps would be what constitutes 'evidence'

Any thoughts on the TAG? The simple form of the argument is that God is the necessary precondition for certain transcendental categories (logic is a typical example). Part of the argument is that universals cannot be reduced to particulars (e.g. matter), then that the ontological basis of such thing...

I'd have to look in to it more (really going on J.P. Moreland and Gary Habermas discussions, but haven't read the book) This sounds like a form of the "divine hiddenness" kind, in any case. One could counter "why doesn't it happen more?" with "why does it happen at all?"...

The OBEs are more interesting than typical NDEs. If someone can be shown to have witnessed something they otherwise couldn't, then this would be an interesting phenomenon (I do think some of the stories are true) That said, I always remain sceptical of how much science can reveal about metaphysical ...