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- Sun Nov 12, 2006 2:14 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: What is the Basis of Belief?
- Replies: 8
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What is the Basis of Belief?
What is the difference between faith in randomness vs. faith in a Supreme Being?
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:49 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reality = Mind
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1509
Re: Reality = Mind
Prove it. Reality is perceptual, perceived by the mind. All perceptions are discrete yet connected to the whole totality of Reality. That means Reality is the result of a unity, more specifically, it is a unity of consciousness. That means when a perception takes place, the "essence" of t...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:09 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:20 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Reality = Mind
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1509
Reality = Mind
Reality is the result of a unity, more specifically, it is a unity of consciousness. That means when a perception takes place, the "essence" of the perception is a "conscious, real event". One may try to "atomize" the perception, attempting to break it down into a simpl...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
The grandson can kill his grandfather for the simple reason that he travels backward in time and the grandfather doesn't. There is no paradox. The time frame in which he was born was not the same time frame in which he encounters his grandfather in the act of murder. It is a comparison of apples an...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:04 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
http://www.rationality.net/freewill.htm#Deviations%20from%20Causality Some persons may argue that, if only we had total and complete knowledge of all minuscule causal factors influencing the fall of a die, we could use a supercomputer to analyze all such factors and their cause/effect relationships....
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Newcomb's Paradox
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4883
Newcomb's Paradox
http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/newcomb.html Newcomb's Paradox provides an illuminating non-theological illustration of the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom. We are to imagine a being with great predictive powers and to suppose we are confronted with two boxes, B1 and ...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
w, There are levels of reality where cause precedes effect and X = X. Then there are levels of reality where casality and predeterminism appear to break down and X = not-X The conclusion does not logically follow. Invalid argument: there is an A, therefore there is a B. Pardox is of the form X = no...
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
- Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:38 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
Causality and predeterminism can still be preserved with the many worlds hypothesis? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) is an approach to quantum mechanics according to which, in addition to the world we are aware of directly, there are many other s...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:26 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Predeterminism
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5704
Predeterminism
Predeterminism assumes that there are unchanging laws from the very beginning of time to very the end of time. But it is possible that the constants of physics and therefore the laws of physics can change slightly over billions or millions of years. Hence the slight almost imperceptible changes, wou...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:29 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Free Energy?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2322
http://www.newebmasters.com/freeenergy/sm-article-pg1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(system_theory) Open systems have a number of consequences. A closed system contains limited energy. The definition of an open system assumes that there are supplies of energy that cannot be depleted; ...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
In general, as soon as you conceive of X, you also conceive of not-X...? Yes, this is a necessity. Ksolway theory, duality, and complementarity, seem to say that X cannot exist without a complementary not-X. Holism and duality are not incompatible. One can eat a piece of cake while acknowledging th...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:39 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Synchronicity: Fact or Fraud?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 39404
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_field A morphic field (a term introduced by Rupert Sheldrake, the major proponent of this concept, through his Hypothesis of Formative Causation) is described as consisting of patterns that govern the development of forms, structures and arrangements. The theory ...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:45 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:17 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:24 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
What is the connection between all things that are caused? They all exist, and they're all caused. If two things are mutually exclusive then there necessarily exists a difference between them. That separation between mutually exclusive entities, the difference is a relation that also exists. All of...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:19 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:40 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:35 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
- Replies: 94
- Views: 24554
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:19 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Mindless Causality?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6576
Since causality necessarily stretches back forever, it cannot be said to have been created either accidently or on purpose. Ideed, it has never come into existence at all. - An infinite series of cause/effect moments can be represented by a single finite equation. The equation contains the predicta...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:46 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
- Replies: 94
- Views: 24554
It doesn't mean anything to say that A=A is caused or uncaused , because it isn't a specific thing as such. Rather, it is what underlies the existence of all specific things. It is part of the very body of causality itself. Causality can only create and destroy specific things, whereas A=A is the c...
- Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:02 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: The Symbolism of Sex
- Replies: 94
- Views: 24554