[This entry is part of a work-in-progress which will deal with the evolution of the human mind as we can see it in the work of St. Thomas Aquinas, Albert Einstein, and other great thinkers -- an entity capable of shaping itself to empirical reality in such a way that it can draw forth abstract [...]
I’ve written of this universe and its stuff as shaped from the manifested truths of the primordial universe. Looking at this from another direction, the claim becomes: there are no natural laws but only properties of particular sorts of being including their forms of interaction. What we see as abstract laws, mathematical or metaphysical, are [...]
The concluding paragraphs of this article: God Or Science? A Belief In One Weakens Positive Feelings For The Other, are: “What is really intriguing is that the larger effect happens on the opposite belief,” she said. “When God isn’t being used to explain much, people have a positive attitude toward science. But when God is [...]
There’s a question which has bothered me for a while: How could the ancient and Medieval thinkers have seen clearly so many truths about human nature and the rational nature of this universe (though they didn’t have this modern concept in quite this form) when they had such an incomplete view of basic physical reality? [...]
Reason is typically defined as if it were an object or faculty separable from the human body, much in the way that many define the soul. I don’t believe in souls as being entities residing alongside or apart from our physical substance and I don’t believe in reason as defined by traditional thinkers. It’s not [...]