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Time is fundamental variable of any dynamical theory. This means that time cannot be an emergent property of a dynamical theory since otherwise it has to be emergent property and fundamental variable of the theory at the same time. My understanding is that in our current dynamic theory, Einstein's ...

From the onset, mental phenomena like thoughts or sensations should never be substantiated, i.e. be regarded as things (as does the author). Rather we are talking about (biological) abilities, e.g. the ability to consciously process a part of the sensory input or to speak or to perceive. Mind is no...

Brain is an organ made of specialised nerve tissue. Ok. You mean an organic brain. But there may be other devices which don't have nerve tissue with which consciousness is associated. How do you know that all *possible* devices that experience have nerve tissue? If you want to reserve the word "bra...

JustInTruth wrote: I think I can prove that our consciousness cannot be just a part of our brain if by brain we mean a collection of particles behaving solely as defined by contemporary physics. "---- if by brain we mean a collection of particles behaving solely as defined by contemporary physics" ...

Justintruth, your essay was long and I need to label ideas more briefly than that. If I understand you are saying that both the perception from eternity and the perception from duration are modes of the one substance, nature/reality. And that neither mode is cause of the other but that both modes a...

Differences are purely conceptual, they have no existential reality in and of themselves. Differences are existential within the dream of separation, illusions appearing real as the dream is real, as the dreamer is real.. This is just wrong. Again, take a Japanese flag and a Swedish flag and lay th...

....Infinitely many infinitesimals are summed to produce an integral." I thought that the integral was the limit of a series of sums. I don’t think the integral is a sum outright but rather if you take a series of a particular type of sum and then take the limit of that series you get the integral

My answer is yes. When you multiply 0 by infinity, the answer is indeterminate. This means the answer may be 0 or 1 or 2 or infinity. You would need further information to specify the answer. Since 0 is nothing, under ordinary circumstances, you would expect 0 as an answer. But with infinity, all b...

Grant Bartley argues that to say the mind is physical is an abuse of language. https://philosophynow.org/issues/126/Why_Physicalism_is_Wrong “What is physicalism?” Is a question that requires the question “What is physics?” to be answered to save physicalism from being just the bald statement. “Phy...

I think that feeling and thinking are in another category. And there are deep relations between them. Much of what we call feeling is a kind of thinking and some of what we call thinking - some alternative ontological states of mind, for example, are feeling/thinking. The divine perception of Being ...

I think you are wrong. The fundamental structure is a 4 dimensional manifold. In this context "manifold" refers to a "topological manifold." It is just a shorter name. A topological manifold is a type of topology. Not all topologies are topological manifolds but all topological manifolds are topolog...

Differences are purely conceptual, they have no existential reality in and of themselves. Differences are existential within the dream of separation, illusions appearing real as the dream is real, as the dreamer is real.. Differences are not purely conceptual, they have existential reality in and o...

.....edges are illusory because they are the contents of an edge-less boundary-less seeing. Perhaps it is better to say that an edge-less boundary-less seeing can be edge-less boundary-less edge seeing or edge-less boundary-less no edge seeing, depending on the circumstances, and that that is a rea...

For example, if I believe I am seeing a red dot on a white background but there is no sensory pathway but rather an hallucination is occurring and I am only red dot on a white background seeing then there is an ILLUSION present. All dimensions of reality are hidden within each other as multiple lay...

....Everything is seeing the same world. Images are appearances in seeing, therefore, edges are illusory ... This statement has the logical structure of a non-sequitor. In order to show that I must show that there exists at least one possible case where if "everything is seeing the same world" and ...