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we philosophize — Gnomon My new books in Lounge: I looked at the Rubaiyat Weave webpage. Is the artwork yours? Fantastic! What is your connection to the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?*1 I noticed the Sean Carroll quote : " there is no life after death ". And I must agree, except that my Enformationi...

So dance upon these threads while still you may , For though they quiver, still they hold their sway, And in their intricate connecting lines Lies meaning for our brief cosmic stay. Humans did not compose the rhythms of reality, but we are motivated by necessity to dance to the music of Evolution. ...

She just creates an ongoing Process of Emergence The video begins with a wardrobe malfunction, and concludes with a philosophical malfunction. If you ignore the progression of the Evolutionary Process, and assume it is totally random, then the Pale Blue Dot in the cosmic blackboard "should not exis...

But if we take God out of the mix, we still have nature ; what does that make of the use of death and pain as the engine of survival in nature (the physics of it)? The world is still as it is , with it's pain and death. Exactly! Arguing about the goodness or badness of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim Go...

The 'Hotel Manager' Indictment https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/984441 One of the most frequently raised objections to religious belief in the modern world is the Problem of Evil. The argument is simple and emotionally powerful: if God is all-powerful and all-good , then why does H...

The hidden hand that writes creation's tale Leaves traces of intent we might unveil, If only we could read between the lines Of DNA and stars that never fail. Excerpt from [reply="180 Proof;984104"] post above : " Note --- We read the same science books, but interpret their philosophical implicatio...

creative process — Gnomon The answer to your quest! Yes, others have joined in the quest to understand the "creative process" of our evolving universe . Some even liken that Process to a line-by-line computer program, as-if designed by a creative mind. For example, Charles Seife makes use of the co...

Life's a web , of whos, whys , whats, and hows , Stretched as time between eternal boughs. Gossamer threads bear the beads that glisten, Each moment a sequence of instant nows. I'm currently reading a science book for the general public : The Science of Why We Exist , A history of the universe from...

creative process — Gnomon The answer to your quest ! As a conceptual model, to imagine the physical universe as-if it is a computer simulation*1, is compatible with my Enformationism thesis. But the philosophical question remains : who or what was the Putative Programmer, the Cosmic Coder, the Quan...

You and I have discussed this numerous times and each time This is pretty close to my understanding of metaphysics except in most cases people who take a particular metaphysical position are not aware that they are. Metaphysics is generally the unconscious, unexpressed, unintentional foundation of ...