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Presentism is astounding: The frame rate is zillions of times per second or whatever is one second divided by the Planck time! The Poet Programmer must be coding on a natural quantum computer of the quantum fields, everything connected to everything via entanglement. Since the making of the new 'no...

But it cannot explain the origin of existence of the Earth and life , can it? No. That's why I have pieced together my own philosophical theory of how the primal Energy (causation) and Laws (information) of the Big Bang could evolve into living and thinking beings. :smile: Enformationism : A philos...

Again, I normally try to ignore Politics — Gnomon Based on what you've said here, a sound practice Thanks. I try to know my own limitations. Perhaps, if I was a member of a powerful political party I could change the system. But as a lone militant moderate, I avoid aligning with Left or Right Wing ...

Whitehead says the ultimate reality is Creativity, a principle: “The universal of universals, characterizing ultimate matter of fact, is Creativity. ” Everything that exists is a process of creative becoming . Actual entities (also called “actual occasions”) arise by creatively prehending other ent...

Whitehead models his occasions of experience on the events in Einstein's Block Universe of General Relativity; however, he mixes and matches by using Presentism instead of Eternalism . More poetic prose from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain : Thomas Mann was writing in the early 20th century, aroun...

Whitehead models his occasions of experience on the events in Einstein's Block Universe of General Relativity; however, he mixes and matches by using Presentism instead of Eternalism. I'll have to take your word for that. But I suspect that thinking in terms of Eternalism might be like breathing un...

His prehensions could be the qualia , which get stored in memory for future use. That may be a simpler interpretation of an arcane term that I didn't grasp 20 years ago, upon first attempting to read a technical philosophical work that was way over my untrained head. I'm using this thread to get a ...

The Hari-Krishna had a constant presence in Waikiki in 1971, where I was in the army doing computer programming at Fort Shafter, drafted out of my first year at IBM. I'm not a computer programmer, but was introduced to digital coding on mainframes back in the 80s. Hippies & Hares were not much of a...

After you land, a Hari-Krishna will give you a map at the airport. . . . “Is your answer an untruth,” added Rascal, “for security purposes?” “I ain’t not lying about nothing no way, no how, or nothing exists ,” unanswered Nobody. [reply="180 Proof;979079"] likes to portray Gnomon as a hippie-dippy ...

Not sure I agree with every characterization here but once again a very reasonable and interesting post, Obviously, the characterizations of Autocrat (King ; Prince ; President) and Democrat (rule by committee) are over-simplifications of complex issues that I am not qualified to discuss. But the f...