Philosophical Speculations

With the God-man dualism, you are making God the "Mind" and man the "matter". Not at all. The universe is mind but the universe is not god, and god is not the universe. For the materialist-dualist, our inner mental life is private, inaccessible by others, purely "subjective...

Sorry for the nitpicking, but "two physical forms taking the same space and time" sounds like a very narrow (and thus nonsense) definition of a physical form. I get that you are referring to scholastic res extensa definition or something similar, but we've also moved on from those days an...

I actually think it’s a pretty good paper. It’s clearly from a physicalist perspective, but is at least asking some of the right questions (e.g. from the inside). Some of the brain damage cases are also useful to think about from an idealist perspective, as these all need to fit any more detailed de...

They are the exact same thing if you hold to God who truly creates and sustains the world. You are just pushing back the dualism onto transcendent God because it seems consistent with idealism and not as obviously wrong. But the fact is that it is not consistent with idealism and just as problemati...

Yep. When I read Sophist the first time, it clicked major way. "Hey, this is the essence of quantum physics!" was my reaction. But since then I've become also increasingly critical of standard mathematical formulations of QM, and the underlying foundational theory of mathematics. Through ...

OK, well, you must at least admit that is dualism of the post-Cartesian sort i.e. a division in essence between God and not God. Yes exactly, god doesn’t see the need to avoid any dualism at all levels, and knows that he is not the same as his creation. Dualism between mind and matter is wrong, dua...

OK. Your jug example reminds me of Plato's inquiry into Theory of Forms. And Plato was also obsessed with perpetual idea/value of continuity. Have you read Plato's Sophist , which in common interpretation is the culmination of his inquiry of Theory of Forms, as well as synthesis of Heraclitus and P...

I don't think you are an idiot, and who knows, perhaps you are crazy in a good way. I'm trying to learn from you, hence question marks. :) I still don't know what you mean by 'consistent' and 'being'. I like to keep things as simple as possible, as words are mostly vague pointers. So being is the n...

What are " archetypal ideas that shape [phenomenal world] " if not living beings ? Are they blobs of 'mental stuff' floating around in spiritual dimension? They are ideas in the divine intellect. They form the universe through being spoken. But you and I have VERY different ideas of the d...

But are sun and moon really same from yesterday to tomorrow? All ‘things’ are always changing, but for a time they are things. They have no being, then they have being, then they have no being. And is it really "consistent" if some observers observe them primarily as spiritual beings, and...