Heidegger

In a message dated 12/27/2008 8:51:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
I have a second-cousin in Australia who is something of a hermit and lives
incommunicado in the out-back and has cancer. Because I do not know if has
proved fatal yet- does it mean that he is both dead and alive? Does […]

>Joe: the problems for your approach are that you haven’t got a coherent
>theory to explain:
>1. how determining influences can make one group of people (the
>Ubermensch of philosophy) believe in determinism and another group of
>people (the Untermensch of philosophy) disbelieve in determinism
>without creating a class structure built into the […]

In a message dated 25/12/2008 20:58:02 GMT Standard Time, jPolanik at nc.rr.com
writes:
Philosophical Implications of Quantum Phenomena
Jud,
let me see if I can summarize the main thrust of this thread. you had
asked about the implications of one particular aspect of QM, the
Heisenberg principle of indeterminacy, for one particular philosophical
debate, the debate […]

Philosophical Implications of Quantum Phenomena
Jud,
let me see if I can summarize the main thrust of this thread. you had
asked about the implications of one particular aspect of QM, the
Heisenberg principle of indeterminacy, for one particular philosophical
debate, the debate over free will vs determinism.
I answered more broadly by pointing to some empirical research which, if
replicated, […]

In a message dated 24/12/2008 11:18:44 GMT Standard Time,
_jpolanik at nc.rr.com_ (mailto:jpolanik@nc.rr.com) writes: Causal Agent or Causal Object?
_GEVANS613 at aol.com_ (mailto:GEVANS613@aol.com) wrote:
Joe:
phenomenologically, we experience ourselves as causal agents making causally
effective choices. so where does the belief in determinism come from?
Jud:
Phenomena is philosophical doctrine manqué proposed by the […]

Causal Agent or Causal Object?
GEVANS613 at aol.com wrote:
>Joe: phenomenologically, we experience ourselves as causal agents
>making causally effective choices. so where does the belief in
>determinism come from?
>Jud: Phenomena is philosophical doctrine manqué proposed by the
>insufferable scallywag Edmund Husserl based on the study of human
>experience in which considerations of objective […]

Walter Horn wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>but there is the possibility that quantum phneomena are intimately
>>involved with neural activity linked to consciousness. if you google
>>’quantum’ and one or more of ‘brain’, ‘mind’ or ‘consciousness’
>>you’ll get many, many hits. one that I particularly recommend is
>>http://quantumbrain.org/.
>>Hu and Wu also list their […]

In a message dated 12/23/2008 6:29:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jpolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
Photons are intrinsically quantum objects and natural long-distance
carriers of information. Since brain functions involve information and
many experiments have shown that quantum entanglement is physically
real, we have contemplated from the perspective of our recent hypothesis
on the possibility of entangling the quantum entities inside the […]

In a message dated 12/23/2008 11:43:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Joe:
the abstract:
“Photons are intrinsically quantum objects and natural long-distance carriers
of information.*
Jud:
Utter rubbish - the is not one shred of evidence for photons being
*long-distance carriers of information.*
Jud, the (utter) rubbish is in your own garbage pail. Neither is there any
evidence that such cosmic radiation […]

Jud: (earlier)
If one accepts the notions of the Heisenbergian *principles* of the
uncertainty or indeterminacy of particulate/wave randomness … then the next
question is: what are the implications (if any) for humans? How is the argument
about human freedom of decision-making versus human deterministically governed
behaviour resolved by observing the random behaviour of photons fired through
double slits?
Joe:
the relation between […]