I dont know what you think Im saying. My point is that supernatural philosophy isnt an influence or relatable to this conversation and I have no idea who you have in mind when you say supernatural philosophy.Natural philosophy cannot in any way inform supernatural philosophy.
The choice is being made based on collected information. The choice that is made leads to creation and is supported by the ideas/ideals that are collected. Its not a whole lot different then when you gather a few ideas to form a plan of action except this time all the ideas are gathered to form a plan to build the universe.I'm going to look past change being a necessity of activity. That still isn't intelligence by any definition of the word. Intelligence is the ability to make choices and decisions based on information collected. Intelligence is not ideas. What you're describing is just a really big book. And people do collect ideas, they're called memories.
We move in him and him in us so I dont know in what way you want him to know us more. Yes you cant see him and you cant know him but you can understand why that is so.Then that's what I said earlier: we cannot interact with God. The problem with this is that we will never "see" or "know" God, and God can't "see" or "know" us.
An object changes by motion, decay or combustion typically. In what way do you suggest that the initial cause of the universe changed?I'm unsure what this question means.
The sun for example performs a constant activity. Its activity doesnt change when our planet starts to convert its energy to life. Yes, the sun can burn out, and there is change going on, but the suns activity doesnt change due to something being changed by it. Same principle applied to God.Because whatever it is acting upon must change. If the actor and what it is acting upon do not change then there isn't an action. If what the actor is acting upon does change then the actor is acting on something different than what it was acting upon previously, and has also changed.
In what way do you think it is you?This doesn't make much sense to me. Just explain how you know that the voice in my head, that sounds just like me, isn't actually me.
The voice isnt you anymore then the scent you give off is you. It may smell like you but it isnt actually you, but instead an emergent property from your physical activity. Now this emergent property isnt actually a new type of matter or organism but simple organic structures that are also used in the building of the larger more complex body. Similarly your thoughts are produced from stimuli in the physical world but what the thoughts are actually made of isnt a new form of matter/energy but a fundamental property of matter and energy that is being used to convert energy to usable information.
Regardless if what you are seeing in your thoughts is a new emergent property to matter, or the non-material building blocks to matter, what you are observing is another category of sensation. Just like you can sense temperature, light, sound and pressure, you can sense the thoughts within your mind. Just like those other stimuli can be filtered by focusing your vision or hearing, your thoughts can be focused as well. This allows some the ability to control their thoughts which will show that the voice can be shut off or changed to sound like someone else. When this happens an individual can see that what they think is actually them is just another kind of sensation/observation but instead of light, it is ideas. A lot of people are unaware of this, and like when you watch a good television show, you get so pulled into it you start responding to the action, because you have projected yourself into the scene. People are constantly pulled into what the voice in their head is saying as if it was actually them doing the talking. When in reality its just another stream of stimuli going across our perception..
The soul observes. There is no interaction with it but awareness of it comes with the above example of shutting down the voice and thoughts in your mind and observing nothingness. When you observe nothingness you realize that its not really nothing but your observation of the nothingness is actually something and it is that awareness of the observer/soul that also helps separate yourself from the voice in your head.And what does the soul do? How do we interact with the soul?
Okay, but what
What they think it does varies on what you think the initial state of the universe is, its not that philosophers dont have an idea about what they think it does they just dont all think the same. It becomes necessary because people have difficulty explaining the world in a purely material fashion so have to theorize non-material elements. The Logos, like Platos forms, comes from theories of materialists Heraclitus and Democritus respectively. The concepts just evolved and were attempted to be used to harmonize/rationalize the belief in gods that were popularized by the Greek poets.is it? Why is it's existence necessary if we don't actually know what it does?
Its an organization process that is active in the physical world and since your brain is in the physical world it is active in organizing your thinking/thoughts. The process that is happening in a larger scale in the universe is happening on a smaller scale within the mind to produce order.How does the Logos relate to this analogy? The Logos is a mind? Is it a sensory system?
Ok what is energy? What is it made of? What is that made of? Do you think you could answer that line of questions forever and never break matter into something that was non-matter? Not-matter is what spirit is.Matter and energy (technically just energy). How does spirit relate to that at all? For that matter what is the spirit?
Not Informed enough to have certainty but certainly to understand the conversation and options rationally enough to know that asking for physical evidence of non-physical objects is absurd. Which I assume is the standard of being informed you are working with there.Only because you assume it is possible to actually be informed.
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