Philosophy Now Forum

I showed my irritation of the "eyes are of the brain" post because it failed to address the issue and perhaps distracted from the issue, and then I tried to illustrate how we frequently miss the point because we are so easily distanced from meanings by the inherent cloudiness of language. ...

Eyes are the brain, that's all you need to know :roll: Symantic arguments pervade all philosophical debates, because words are the tools we have to unlock meanings and we all have different definitions of each and every word. If philosophy took a more scientific approach to words, and some deeper co...

We need a good metaphor for consciousness. I will throw mine in. I think I can do better. Imagine you have an outer body experience and wind up in someone else's body, you can hear all their thoughts and feelings, sense every sensation that they sense. You start to somehow believe you are that perso...

If we create a tree in our mind, from out of sense data or just out of our memory are either or those trees real? Or is it the tree itself, a few steps away, made from atoms? It is difficult to exclude any of these elements from reality so I would have to say that it is all of the above, therefore I...

I was addressing the idea that a duality between physics and metaphysics is conceivable, contrary to a theory of omnideism, and that God could be "all that is not physical". That includes our collective consciousness. The miracle of civilisation could just be the baby steps of the infant G...

*Anything* is possible, including human consciousness uniting as one entity and transcending the physical to become an all powerful being. You may state that it seems unlikely, and that would not be false, but being open to the possibility is not foolish, no matter what the odds might be. I would sa...

I would say that God is the metaphysical, omnimetaphysical if you will. All of our consciousness is a giant mind that thinks over the eons, creating itself, morphing itself into the "God" of our imagination. Able to move mountains, able to destroy planets, the cloud of consciousness grows ...

What fascinates me on how "metaphysical thought occurs" is whether it has an influence on the physical, or not. Einstein liked to theorize that it is irrelevant, the physics of the universe is everything, the metaphysical is the minds way of being "conscious" of the physical but ...