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by romansh
Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:22 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: The Immaterial
Replies: 23
Views: 13415

Roncooper wrote:In this case.
Ah, I see.

So is it the material or the immaterial that does the forgiving and is it the immaterial or the material that requires the forgiveness?

In certain cases that is.
by romansh
Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:37 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: The Immaterial
Replies: 23
Views: 13415

Roncooper wrote:Nor yours.
Exactly Ron ... this is exactly my point.

Forgiveness is completely unnecessary.
by romansh
Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:45 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: The Immaterial
Replies: 23
Views: 13415

Roncooper wrote:I agree. The interviewer, the pope , and the comedian are blind. It is obvious from the way they behave. Not their fault, though.
The good thing Ron ... it's not your fault either.
by romansh
Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:43 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

There is the idea of the supernatural world that somehow interacts and intervenes in the natural world, and there is the notion that the world of the spirit is very much a part of the natural world. If there is an intersection then I would say it can be observed, and if it can be observed it can be...
by romansh
Sun Jul 17, 2016 8:19 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
Replies: 252
Views: 69587

Is this a transcendent moment?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n25czHfojyU

Our fundamental particles in action.
by romansh
Sun Jul 17, 2016 5:51 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: The Immaterial
Replies: 23
Views: 13415

Came across this you tube of Dave Allen inadvertently

Could not help but think of immaterialism ... sorry :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3BZs5fx3Q
by romansh
Sun Jul 17, 2016 3:29 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

I read her newest post twice. Her argument follows from her assumptions. She believes in Materialism and she believes that she can extrapolate from electrons and protons to human beings using simple either-or logic. So as a scientist you think extrapolation from a subsystem to a larger system has n...
by romansh
Fri Jul 15, 2016 12:42 am
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

by romansh
Sun Jul 10, 2016 6:14 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

Here is a physicist claiming science is on her side. Judge for yourselves ... assuming anyone cares ... :) And your reply Ron What do you expect. She is a materialist. Of course she doesn't believe in free will. What I can't understand is why she is loyal to a theory that is so obviously wrong. A t...
by romansh
Sat Jul 09, 2016 10:20 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

When I do suggest philosophically minded physicists like Sabine who actually tackles the problem head on ... we have a simple dismissal of the issue using the word materialist . Do we not? Here are a couple more of her blogs on free will from the theoretical physicist: http://backreaction.blogspot.c...
by romansh
Thu Jul 07, 2016 9:20 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
Replies: 252
Views: 69587

Andreas wrote:I was trying to be funny.. jeez.. rom..
And I got the impression you were trying to curtail discussion.

My bad.
by romansh
Thu Jul 07, 2016 8:49 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

I was reminded by Andreas's Don't need luck ... of a quote by Galen Strawson Luck swallows everything. And looking it up came across this piece by G Strawson: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwVariousStrawsonG.html In it he points out a Kantian point of view ... Kant is a famous example of a philosop...
by romansh
Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:00 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
Replies: 252
Views: 69587

Andreas wrote: I can still make an argument that a tree is not without a ghost.
The tree's software and hardware are one.

Good luck with your duality Andreas. :)
by romansh
Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:14 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: What do you understand by "Transcendence"?
Replies: 252
Views: 69587

Erm... Sigh... So because we know that our bodies are composed of chemicals we understand reality... I dont know... Might be a sufficient answer for you. But try to understand what others are saying also. Sure there is no ghost in the machine but then again there is no machine without a ghost. And ...
by romansh
Thu Jul 07, 2016 4:12 pm
Forum: The Conversation with a Thousand Faces
Topic: Free Will
Replies: 2783
Views: 416073

Here is my take Ron. Materialism is real whether it is the only reality I don't know. Having said that our access to our material reality is limited and often (if not always) that reality is not what it seems. So in that sense, the material is illusory as well. I will go back to my favorite metaphor...