Nature makes the choice."

(1) Free will and Quantum Mechanics with Henry Stapp see min 33:44 "Nature makes the choice."
[Which is locality.The observer is Nature, not the experimenter nor the electron.]


(2) That is straight Neo Platonic thought--the observer is the Logos--not the individual.
(3) What the individual sees is  representation of reality. Pixels on a screen. What do the pixels represent? Hermitian matrices on a Hilbert Space..

That is a kind of matrix that stays the same if you flip it over and every "i" you turn to a "-i." And the Hilbert Space simply has a linear inner product defined on it.

The hermitian matrix is really a tensor. It has different values according to which direction it is pointed. So it is not a vector. But it might be made up of lots of vectors (forces whose value depends on direction). [Think of a corner stone in a building. At a single point the stresses and strains with will be different depending on direction.]
Anyway--these are the things that are real. What we see are merely representations. As Kant said the dinge an sich is hidden. But Schopenhauer thought there is only one real Ding an sich the Will. The rest of reality is a representation of that Ding an sich.
 (4) And that brings us to Hegel that there is a hierarchy with each level being a representation of the previous one. [Not thesis anti thesis synthesis which appears no where in Hegel and is not even an accurate representation of his thought. Rather he thought the concept internally had some self contradiction in potential that needed resolution. Not some anti thesis coming from without.]

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Alt Right

Private property, limited government, individual rights to be left alone from government interference,  the stopping of the importation of Muslims into the USA are good ideas. The Alt Right is correct about these things. But when they throw antisemitism into the mixture, I have to draw a line.

the religious world

In the religious world,   the obedient people who go to school and memorize zombie nonsense, then go to official positions of power and recite more zombie nonsense, and finally socialize with other people like them, get the most money. In theory they have the most children; reality seems to be mixed, on that point. But either way, the religious world, is selecting for these ideologically-correct conformists. When another century passes, if our the religious world, has not snuffed itself , all that will be left will be people be pleasant, dependent on the system, and anything wider than that will be a mystery to them.

[Not everything is zombie nonsense, but most of it. This comes from the zombies in power. No wonder the religious world since it became separated from the Jewish People has never produced one single original thinker. Not one new idea, not one noble prize. not one single contribution to the Jewish people or anyone else for that matter.]

Kant

"Concepts, or predicates, are always universals, which means that no individual can be defined, as an individual, by concepts." (Kelley Ross in his essay on universals)

This brings out a point that דע אלהי אביך ועבדהו [What Kind David said to his son Know the God of your father and serve Him] has to be by a different kind of knowledge.



This may seem like a small point, but it is not. Reason in its most expanded form perceives only universals. Hume made a mistake thinking that it only can perceive contradictions. And he built on this idea his entire book. See the Essay by Bryan Caplan which goes into detail about Hume's misunderstanding. From where did Hume get mixed up? Elementary High School  Geometry. Though he never says it, but this is clearly the source of his confusion. He saw Euclid had a few self evident axioms, and could build his vast and complex system on these alone and by the principle of contradiction. Hume concluded that that is all Reason can do. Clearly he was confused. Reason can do much more. It can know universals. But that is the limit.
Knowing an individual even by an infinite number of adjectives- still means one does not know the individual.
It is a different kind of knowing. Different in quality, not different in quantity.

Rav Elazar Menachem Shach

I realize not everyone has the time to go through the entire Talmud while at the same time going to university to learn a vocation. So I thought to myself what could encapsulate in   an easy way the basic essence of the Oral Law so that even the simplest person could understand it.
In other words I understand the idea of time limit.
So it occurred to me the best way to do this is to take almost at random any chapter or essay in Rav Shach's Avi Ezri and learn it well in connection with the sources he brings.

You could ask why not Reb Chaim Soloveitchik's Chidushei HaRambam?

First of all because Rav Shach is understandable and even easy to understand once you are familiar with the Gemara and Rambam that he is discussing. Second, I simply think it is a better book. I have great respect for Reb Chaim, but I think Rav Shach saw further and better.



There is a degree you have to trust my judgement on this issue. After all anyone learning any vocation has lots of difference of opinions than his mentors. It is just something that anyone and everyone has to go through to learn any subject properly. You just have to take my word for it until you yourself have gone through Shas and enough poskim rishonim and achronim to see what I am saying.
I had the same doubts when I was learning Gemara. I also thought, "What good is the in-depth learning, when I have not even finished Shas once yet?" Eventually I began to see that people that did not learn in-depth at the beginning of their yeshiva years, never even begin to understand Talmud. They think they know what they do not know. 

Trumpism is easy to define. It is the exact opposite of socialism. If you want to know what Trump stands for just think of the opposite of communism and socialism. Another way would be to look at the Constitution of the USA with limited powers of government.