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> I wish more programmers understood metaphysics better. We’re built to be philosophers. Total agree, programmers are professional thinkers after all =) > The

by xaedes 7y ago

> I wish more programmers understood metaphysics better. We’re built to be philosophers. Total agree, programmers are professional thinkers after all =) > There is a more “real” level of existence where all our actions really exist. Yea I go with that. Hm, but do you think that your life force analogy is what is the more real level? I think it is just another analogy or explanation for whats really going on. Your "life force" concept actually reminds me of thermodynamic entropy from physics: On which life force does a plant feed? Mostly it is energy from the sun or geothermal processes (think deep-see geysers). So we can say it "feeds" on the entropy of these celestial bodies. Similar we feed on matter configured in a specific way. Containing energy in the specific configuration of atoms which we transform into other more unstructured ones. We fuel our batteries by increasing disorder in our nutrients(including oxygen) and therefore our environment. Now going with the life force concept: I think in your life force concept air should also have some kind of life force. Otherwise how do you explain that people die when locked in air tight room but with enough food and water and everything else? Do you say they life on? Don't they die because the "life force" of the air is all consumed? Similar probably everything else has to get some life force.

sdegutis 7y ago
I still maintain that this life is the analogy for the true reality. Physics is only concerned with the “how” but metaphysics explains the “why”, although both are answering questions about the same events. Physics isn’t untrue, just, by itself it’s missing the bigger picture. The word spirit originally meant breath and the way we became alive is that God breathed into the nostrils of Adam. In the beginning, the spirit of God was said to be upon the face of the earth and it still is, hence wind. But when we cut ourselves off from the spirit of God, we will soon run out of what spirit of God we last breathed in and this die.

by xaedes 7y ago

sdegutis 7y ago

I still maintain that this life is the analogy for the true reality. Physics is only concerned with the “how” but metaphysics explains the “why”, although both are answering questions about the same events. Physics isn’t untrue, just, by itself it’s missing the bigger picture. The word spirit originally meant breath and the way we became alive is that God breathed into the nostrils of Adam. In the beginning, the spirit of God was said to be upon the face of the earth and it still is, hence wind. But when we cut ourselves off from the spirit of God, we will soon run out of what spirit of God we last breathed in and this die.