Recently, I had reason to refer to Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, a book which had a good deal of influence upon my thoughts, upon my views of how human beings are embodied creatures and not body-soul chimeras and also upon my views of the way that human beings are embedded in … [Read more…]
There was once a strange tint to the philosophizing of some modern biologists and philosophers working in that field. They set up unidirectional structures of control from DNA to soma and from brain to physical limbs while also setting up one way flows of perception, including that of pain, from physical limbs to brain. The … [Read more…]
Readers of this blog might be interested in a few articles I’ve posted on To See a World in a Grain of Sand. I’ve tried to reserve this blog, Acts of Being, for more technical writings and my other blog for writings that would be more accessible or which cover topics outside of the development … [Read more…]
I’ve defended the legitimacy of philosophy in this age of empirical thought and will continue to do so but I admit to being less than impressed with the state of philosophical thought about causation. It strikes me as being localized in the way of pre-modern physics and pre-modern geometry. Localized physics (such as special relativity) … [Read more…]
This article, Immaturity Of The Brain May Cause Schizophrenia, talks about one of the possible causes of a disease which may actually be “several biologically distinct heterogeneous populations,” that is, a set of symptoms caused by various diseases. This was the case for ‘consumption’ in the 1800s — TB or lung cancer or some variety … [Read more…]
In two earlier entries, The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 2. God as the Creator of Truths and The Christian in the Universe of Einstein: 2. What is Mathematics?, I argued that God creates truths, though not in the sense that He could have created contradictions or the ‘truth’ of “1 + 1 = … [Read more…]