“According to quantum field theory, fields alone are real. They are the substance of the universe and not 'matter'. Matter is simply the momentary manifestation of interacting fields which, intangible and insubstantial as they are, are the only real things in the universe.” RealMatterUniverseFieldsTheoryUnitySubstanceManifestationQuantumReal ThingsMomentaryInteractingIntangible Book:The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics
“Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite, of the universe as a whole, i.e, god. You cannot get more metaphysical than that. I think that Hegel scholars have to admit this basic fact rather than burying their heads in the sand and trying to pretend that Hegel is concerned with conceptual analysis, category theory, normativity or some such contemporary fad.” ThinkingTryingPhilosophyWholeFactsUniverseTheoryConcernedInfiniteContemporarySubstanceAnalysisSandCategoriesScholarMetaphysicalFadsHegelBurying Author:Frederick C. Beiser
“I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.” ShouldBelieveCertainI BelieveReligiousInfluenceExampleTheoryConsciousSubstanceSubjectiveReligious ExperiencePhenomenologyRealnessVariance Author:Thomas Metzinger
“The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.” MindBodyTheoryConceptsDenialSubstanceMind And BodyCausationParallelism Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.” ThinkingMindDoePhilosophyNamesNiceModernTheoryCommunicationTraditionNotionRationalLegacySubstanceRejectsRationalityImpossibilitySuggestingTranscendentalModern Philosophy Author:Allen W. Wood