Philosophical Speculations

Materialism simply cannot account for life after death in principle. I just showed in the previous comment how it could account for survival after death in a Universal EM field. And claiming the debate is "meaningless" is like claiming a trial to determine someone's innocence or guilt of ...

It may not demonstrate the "substance of reality", but it would certainly demonstrate materialism is false. Anything that doesn't demonstrate whatever the "substance of reality" is cannot demonstrate idealism or materialism to be either true or false. That is why the entire deba...

Surely one instance of precognition (in a dream or vision) undermines that entire premise? That would depend the exact nature of the evidence and what theories arose from it. Retrocausation as an explanation for precognition could be compatible with materialism, for example. Survival of self after ...

In most cases I’d agree, where people debate to be right. I am debating to be wrong, (fingers crossed) and I’m slowly becoming more skeptical of the materialist worldview, where Nihlism really seems to be the ultimate fate. If the arguments I’ve put out are flawed, I really want to know I would arg...

I've been through plenty of these arguments in the old forum and find it is pretty much fruitless trying to persuade anybody out of what they already believe. Personally I think the ontological question is unanswerable and of no value to settle. In the end, the answer doesn't need to change how we a...

Who would have thought that a civil servant needed a brain? :) The case has been variously marveled at and misinterpreted. That the brain is filled with fluid by itself does not mean that the cortex is missing but rather it has been compressed and has taken on a different shape. In other words, the ...

It might be useful to learn of learning and memory defined the broadest terms as like the food pyramid. At the base is genetics that represents evolutionary learning, develops and changes slowly. Next is epigenetic learning that works through changing the expression of genes and works from one gener...

See epigenetic memory - most likely what is happening here.

https://www.nature.com/subjects/epigenetic-memory

https://www.evolvingsciences.com/Geneti ... ry%20.html