/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12652347
>Which is?
Objective.
>How
Change and time.
>Which conflation?
Mental as physical.
>That's a nice religious doctrine, but how are abstract concepts proof of what reality is made up of?
Exactly. The abstract presupposition of classical ontology doesn't prove anything, it's not concrete. This is where we use human reason - which allows man to act, goods - to decide appropriate concepts. A classical ontology let us establish a theory of knowledge, but we're not restricted to the limitations of scientific rationalism. I propose scientific pragmatism which can take the whole evidence of human experience into account.
>Explain how ideation counters determinism, and how lack of determinism implies free will.
The ultimate abstract principle of actual existence for Whitehead is creativity. Creativity is a term coined by Whitehead to show a power in the world that allows the presence of an actual entity, a new actual entity, and multiple actual entities. Creativity is the principle of novelty. It is manifest in what can be called 'singular causality'. This term may be contrasted with the term 'nomic causality'. An example of singular causation is that I woke this morning because my alarm clock rang. An example of nomic causation is that alarm clocks generally wake people in the morning. Aristotle recognizes singular causality as efficient causality. For Whitehead, there are many contributory singular causes for an event. A further contributory singular cause of my being awoken by my alarm clock this morning was that I was lying asleep near it till it rang.
>First we know that our experiences of free action contain both indeterminism and rationality...Second we know that quantum indeterminacy is the only form of indeterminism that is indisputably established as a fact of nature...it follows that quantum mechanics must enter into the explanation of consciousness." (John Searle)