Philosophy Now Forum

Is telepathy a physical phenomenon that it can be so proved by science? If you want to know and learn about such things you have to go into sorcery 101, as Carlos Castaneda used to say. It's as demanding and rigorous a path of learning as anything can be. The Chaz challenge is a shot from the ration...

What are the differences between times when philosophy and science resided more indistinguishably from each other and our own? Perhaps philosophy has detached from science altogether in some way that Hawking senses as death. Science has gone into immense detail and taxonomy, like a man who has devel...

Thanks for the crystal clarity and magnetic engagement of your musings. Its good to ponder the inorganic ways of growth and attraction. Life allows no form to perfect absolutely; as soon as the possibility of perfection manifests, lateral shoots emerge to create new forms.

Syntax A man staring at his equations said that the universe had a beginning. There had been an explosion, he said. A bang of bangs, and the universe was born. And it is expanding, he said. He had even calculated the length of its life: ten billion revolutions of the earth around the sun. The entire...

I beg your pardon.

Though perfect round doesn't have any existence except as a theoretical idea. No-one has ever seen or been able to create a perfect circle, nor will ever. There are endless refinements that can be applied to any form, and that just simply doesn't allow absolute perfection of form.

Descartes = disassociation. Sorry to be heavy-handed with him, but he was typical of his age; the turn toward industrialization. His religious thoughts are perhaps... nostalgic? or reliant on an older generation, and hard to take seriously. But thanks for the clarification. I don't see how a thing c...

This to me says God must be kept finite and a producer of quantities - meaning finites ('All' of light being a quantity).