by James Nixon | Philosophy
Panpsychism—the philosophy that everything has both a physical and a mental dimension all the way down through cells and atoms to the quantum level and all the way up through plants, insects, animals, and humans to the level of the Earth, the Solar System, and the...
by James Nixon | Philosophy
Any scientist who thinks about it carefully, even one totally committed to the materialistic, deterministic, probabilistic model of explanation, has got to have some trouble with the idea that everything in the physical Universe is created out of nothing every instant...
by James Nixon | Philosophy
Let’s take a look at what I believe is one of the most difficult things for spiritually oriented people who believe in some interpretation of God or the Creator to understand. The Creator: According to my understanding (and my glimpses of the deeper forms of...
by James Nixon | Philosophy
We all pretty much recognize that the world as we have known it is in trouble. The symptoms are everywhere – from climate change to failed and failing states to the emergence of jihadism to the weak recovery from the Great Recession and the current global economic...
by James Nixon | Philosophy
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argues that normal Science moves in a relatively smooth fashion, integrating new knowledge into preexisting theories, which operate within particular world views. However, periodically, there are scientific...
by James Nixon | Philosophy, Philosophy of Consciousness
The different aspects of our consciousness—our conscious thoughts, feelings, sensations, intuitions, etc.—provide us with our experience of ourselves and of the world around us. In fact our conscious experiences are our only awareness of ourselves and the world. This...
