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What is beyond time?
OP: metaphysically, there must be a classical continuation of time beneath this limit.
Indeed, not just metaphysically. Planck's constant is the smallest possible change of energy. As regards Planck ...
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Classifying the ethical characteristics of entities by cognitive properties, non-human-specific
Congratulations on being the first to use the post-humanism tag! I suspect there are two inter-related and fundamental difficulties facing your intriguing suggestion. The lesser of the two is the need ...
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Classifying the ethical characteristics of entities by cognitive properties, non-human-specific
What you describe is: To base an ethical system on the cognitive capabilities of the beings involved.
Just to imagine what this means:
Intelligence tests from psychology classify human beings
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I am the last living human being on Earth. Does "humanity" remain an Essential Universal or become something else entirely?
When it comes to categories, Aristotle was an essentialist. That means, he thought the essence of human beings was something that had an existence by itself. He saw it, like his master Plato, as an ...
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What did Plato and Plotinus mean by "beyond being?"
Here is the passage (Greek, English) quoted from Plato’s Republic (Emphasis J.W.) referring to "beyond being":
καὶ τοῖς γιγνωσκομένοις τοίνυν μὴ μόνον τὸ γιγνώσκεσθαι φάναι ὑπὸ τοῦ
ἀγαθοῦ ...
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The Real Problem of Being
If your question boils down to this...
'Be who you choose to be' might result in you choosing to be in some wanting state.
'Be who you are' might result in you being and remaining innately in some ...
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Is there a theory that if something doesn't exist, it doesn't...?
The concept of actuality, in comparison/contrast with potentiality and inactuality, originally involved such a thesis. I think the following search result is an attribution of this thesis to Aquinas, ...
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Classifying the ethical characteristics of entities by cognitive properties, non-human-specific
Insults according to notions of intelligence: Perspectives from education and newsmedia
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bld.12470
Background
The terms idiot, imbecile, and moron are ...
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Certainty for the existence of tomorrow?
We can use the stars and planets to plot the trajectory (past and future) of the Earth in a 3d Euclidian geometry space.
We can point along that trajectory and say "On this day the Earth was here&...
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What do you think about all existence following the very same laws?
I don't see any extra explanatory power being added by assuming objects like black holes, stars, or the universe have purposes.
The sun continues in its current state because it burns. What would it ...
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What did Plato and Plotinus mean by "beyond being?"
There is a similitude here:
(508-509) "it is right to deem light and vision sunlike, but never to think that they are the sun, [in the same way] the idea of good [...] you must conceive it as ...
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How is imaginatrice related to the philosophy of religion?
Henri Corbin is discussing a special kind of imagination, which he calls "imaginatrice." This isn't just regular daydreaming; it's a powerful tool that allows us to perceive a specific realm ...
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What do you think about all existence following the very same laws?
Use the law of the living to explain reality itself
This is a strong statement.
Although intuitively, we can find some truth in it.
I would take the most fundamental law of theoretical physics: "...
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Certainty for the existence of tomorrow?
I do not think that any physicist or philosopher can guarantee that tomorrow will exist, and if he calculates that tomorrow must exist by a series of known scientific evidence, he cannot answer the ...
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What did Plato and Plotinus mean by "beyond being?"
Plato, particularly in Plotinus' "neo-Platonic" interpretation, believes--or at least talks about--multiple levels of reality. Our ordinary, everyday life is an illusion, it's several levels ...
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What is beyond time?
According to Relativity an external observer will see time stop for something at the edge of a blackhole, hovering forever at the Event Horizon. So, what use is intuition? It couldn't tell us that, we ...
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What is beyond time?
The Planck limits are set by the typical wavefunction range. We can see separate particles in the current universe. In the very early universe, everything was squashed in a lot tighter. Going back in ...
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What is beyond time?
By trying to measure the "unmeasurable" you end up with numbers. By using numbers you do not measure reality; you just make (your representation of) reality conform to your measurement. ...
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What is beyond time?
Yes, there are things beyond time. It takes time to go from point A to point B in space. The speed is defined as (change in distance)/(change in time). Therefore change in time can be defined as (...
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What is beyond time?
Related Questions
Finite and infinite temporal duration
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Is there a theory that if something doesn't exist, it doesn't...?
To exist means to have an observable effect on reality.
Physical existence is obviously observable. Physical objects or events can be observed, measured and analyzed.
Abstract immaterial ideas are ...
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Is there a theory that if something doesn't exist, it doesn't...?
You are asking questions about the word 'exist' which presuppose it has a single clear-cut meaning- it doesn't. The word can be applied in different ways, and you will get into all kinds of muddles if ...
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Can any given hypothetical being suffer from not coming into existence, if we consider that there is an infinite variation of them?
According to On Denoting (Bertrand Russell, 1905), words and phrases which denote things which don't exist must be understood as denoting phrases which point to nothing, not references to a particular ...
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Can any given hypothetical being suffer from not coming into existence, if we consider that there is an infinite variation of them?
If you believe that failing to beget a human being is act act of harm, then yes you are causing harm if you do not exercise your powers of reproduction to the maximum extent. However, the assumption ...
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Is Heideggerian “Being” like the instantiation of a class into an object?
You could think of Being as 'system ready'. Nothing is executing but it's ready to run, ready to think.
The ready environment of Being includes the clearing in which the things (beings) present-at-...
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