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We can pause and reflect on the above essay. Some recent futurist writers have suggested that evolution is speeding up in an exponential manner. However, proposing a "speed up" implies that there must be some direction that the process is going. Is evolution going in a direction? If evolut...

Evidence from biology, geology, and climatology all suggest that life arose on earth 3.7 billion years ago as a primitive form of single-celled bacteria in the oceans. Life on earth consisted entirely of such bacteria sloshing around in the water for the next 2 billion years. It was not until 1.7 BY...

The two incompleteness theorems are Platonic. If man were truly the measure of all things, then we should be able to make up any mathematical system we want, which does not appear to be the case. I interpret Godel's theorems to say exactly the opposite of what you just wrote here. To me they (stron...

and as such the world must first consist of Objects itself before humans can produce their own Objects versioned on the natural Objects. Nonsense. This is the entire point. The world only ever existed as substance and only ever exists as substances now. The "object" thing happens only in ...

To me Objects are the sum of focuses of information accumulation, I addressed that exact claim six different ways. An ancient person living in Macedonian Greece does not know that the world around him can be harvested and fashioned into an iPhone 5. (or an airplane.. or a microwave oven). His "...

A "thing" is the mind taking perception of a fluid environment, freezing it and then comparing it to differing perception. The abstraction is not the real, it merely refers to the real. It then applies an action for this "thing" to perform. Consider an apple. You bite it. Is it ...

Which did not begin, therefore no creation, therefore no God. Okay, is that what this is really about? I'm a little deflated that you took this fascinating philosophical topic and drove it directly into the theological mudpit. I was on the verge of responding to your thread with issues about causal...

Immediate questions to arise are: Why is it important to acknowledge consciousness is involved in evolution, and that it itself evolves? Consciousness is either a "mathematical" property of certain interconnected systems, or, otherwise it is a biological function that changes outward beha...

Objects obviously exist because we can reason with them. In what form they exist , is another matter. Well at least you admit that the actual physical existence of objects is not the same thing as how humans have named them. I'm going to demonstrate this below with an example. and so obviously the ...

Within political discourse, and in particular, the political language used by politicians, there are several issues which are considered a "third rail". An issue which is a "third rail" means some topic that is never talked about in a public venue. The metaphor is that the third ...

The world is an undifferentiated collection of substances. There are no boundaries or "objects" out there. Only by means of human language and " what causes pain " and " what is important to me as homo sapien " does this substance of the world get broken into objects. T...

The following are posts made on another forum. They didn't go over well with the users there, either due to lack of knowledge of the subject or for some other problems having to do with interpersonal issues. Since this forum is connected to a published magazine, I expect to see some more ... intelli...

Although my profile avatars are often female models - I'm a male from New England.
There are several people here who already know me from other forums.