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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Randomness is not control!

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:31 pm (GMT -5) One must be knowledgeable of the chain of events in order to gain free will. The more knowledgeable; the more free will on can have. Randomness is not control, but it allows for the opportunity of control. If you toss a coin; but you do not have to toss ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Why something instead of nothing?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Simon says... Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:47 pm (GMT -5) I dont know, but I think it must have something to do with the rule of process of elimination. I would guess that the universe, "must" exist because it cant not, as in to not exist would result in a logical contradiction, thus, nothingness cancels ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:46 pm (GMT -5) Why does existence depend on conciseness Belinda ? (A rock is still a rock even if there is nothing to experience it. An unknown thing is still what ever it is, something just hasnt experienced it yet.) please explain. ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick, ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Randomness is not control!

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Simon says... Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:23 pm (GMT -5) Hold on a minute, so you are saying that if everything is deterministic, therefore everyone should react the same way to a given stimulus? Thats not necessarily true at all! Everyone has unique experiances, and also a unique genetic code, so its not ...
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• What Might Have Been; What Still Might Be

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 121
  Many progressives, even though they’ve been working for a PO-based health care reform bill, have 1) never given up Medicare for All as the goal of their activity, and 2) decided, in the first quarter of 2009, that Medicare for All could not pass the new Congress. They then reacted to their realization by concluding ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Randomness is not control!

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: setelement Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:23 pm (GMT -5) With in free will we will still have control but only over our action and all other internal things that go on. Indeterminacy shows us that we have no control over the external world. It is because of consciousness that our internal world is not random, ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Nick Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:23 am (GMT -5) Belinda, By the way, my avatar is a computer simulation of the beginning of a galaxy. If you look closely, you will see that it is spinning. Also, galaxies often have a crossbar of solid stars, and you can see one rotating in my avatar if you look closely. ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: Randomness is not control!

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Simon says... Subject: Randomness is not control! Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:20 am (GMT -5) Time and time again, the existence of idealistic free will, is argued for by using indeterminism as a proof. Determinism directly contradicts idealistic free will, because whilst idealistic free will claims that you ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Belinda Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:13 am (GMT -5) Nick wrote: lifegazer, you said, "The Essence of everything must itself be conscious." --> It is. It has been said that everything in the universe is consciousness. I like to say that a brick wall is nothing more than solidified ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Belinda Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:51 am (GMT -5) JPhillips, In the case of those of us who agree about the primacy of consciousness, if we also agree that only humans of all the animals are conscious enough to know that we will die some day, to know that we are subjects and also agents of change, and to ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:51 am (GMT -5) Nick wrote: I believe the difference between humans and animals is that we are aware of our existence while animals are not. Animals are aware of their consciousness we are animals. Further more they must be aware, there are many social ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Nick Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:16 am (GMT -5) lifegazer, you said, "The Essence of everything must itself be conscious." --> It is. It has been said that everything in the universe is consciousness. I like to say that a brick wall is nothing more than solidified consciousness. We cannot even ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: JPhillips Subject: Nothingness Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:34 am (GMT -5) Belinda I believe that everything comes from consciousness. First there was consciousness, than the universe, than man. I dont understand how people can think first there was matter, then consciousness came from matter. The only ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: The Essence of everything must itself be conscious.

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: wanabe Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:03 am (GMT -5) privatevoid, Your opening paragraph is a good argument, how ever the reasoning behind it seems weak. If the area the phenomenon is drastically changed than consciousness would drastically change. I agree that there are spectrum of conciseness. It seems ...
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• Den Xero (“I do not know”) by Charlie (CEL IV) November 18, 2009

  
  TIERRA LIMPIA by Charles Lincoln — Authority: 116
  French novelist Anatole France wrote: “An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.” What don’t you know? DEN XERO I choose to write on what I do not know, because that is the broadest ...
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• Car sharing as an example of post-capitalist cultural change

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 596
  From a stimulating essay by Catherine Marie Simpson on the decline on car culture: Catherine Marie Simpson: “Car sharing shifts the dominant conception of a car from being a ‘commodity’, which people purchase and subsequently identify with, to a ‘service’ or network of vehicles that are collectively ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: James S Saint Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:06 am (GMT -5) Belinda wrote: Me, I submit that the cause of somethingness is consciousness. Its a matter of faith whether or not there is something outside or beyond or above or underpinning consciousness.The best contender for the role of this Platonic ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: lifegazer Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:01 am (GMT -5) Belinda, I actually addressed his initial post on the first page of this thread, if thats what you mean.
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: Cause of Somethingness

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Belinda Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:51 am (GMT -5) I have been following the argument between JSS and Lifegazer,and I agree with Lifegazer, Now I request Lifegazer to link his argument with the original question. Me, I submit that the cause of somethingness is consciousness. Its a matter of faith whether ...
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• Epistemology and Metaphysics :: RE: what is the difference b/t the soul and mind?

  
  Philosophy Discussion — Authority: 175
  Author: Santini Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:56 am (GMT -5) satyesu, youd have to define what is meant by "mind" and by "soul" before thats an answerable question.
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