Philosophical Speculations

Ashvin, in fairness, you asked whether I had any thoughts directly relating to this thread. My thoughts on death are that it is nothing to fear. However, I think that dying slowly and painfully is fearful and would be a disgrace if the Thinker-of-Reality were metacognitive and moral. As reported in...

Ashvin, in fairness, you asked whether I had any thoughts directly relating to this thread. My thoughts on death are that it is nothing to fear. However, I think that dying slowly and painfully is fearful and would be a disgrace if the Thinker-of-Reality were metacognitive and moral. As reported in...

Are you saying that the way "consciousness uses life forms", for example, is part of your own human experience? Obviously. I am a point of view of consciousness associated with a specific body. To deal with extreme fear of death I had to understand death through the experiences of conscio...

What is data, for you as idealist? The data of "human" experience. Are you saying that the way "consciousness uses life forms", for example, is part of your own human experience? Obviously. I am a point of view of consciousness associated with a specific body. To deal with extre...

In the way I understand your words here: I see a few assumptions: - consciousness uses life forms in a 'one to many' relationship - that all life forms are "used" by consciousness is enough to say that their experiences of death are similar - individual experience has a monolitic characte...

Fredrica What specifically is arbitrary? I'm merely pointing out aspects of the implications of materialism that I don't generally see addressed. In the way I understand your words here: Since I am consciousness using a certain life form for experience I know that consciousness also uses all other ...

Fredrica
What specifically is arbitrary?
I'm merely pointing out aspects of the implications of materialism that I don't generally see addressed.

Actually Materialism does not imply that death is the end. If we're assuming that random processes somehow create the individualized consciousness we each seem to be then why couldn't those random processes create us again? Where is the law that says an individualized consciousness is a one shot dea...

Re: Thinking about death Post by Federica » Fri Dec 15, 2023 6:55 pm tjssailor wrote: ↑Fri Dec 15, 2023 3:51 pm As someone who's gone through intense fear of death episodes including panic attacks, a deep study of NDEs helped get me through. Eventually you come to the realization that I can't see yo...

As someone who's gone through intense fear of death episodes including panic attacks, a deep study of NDEs helped get me through. Eventually you come to the realization that I can't see you and you can't see me right now because consciousness cannot be seen or detected in any way. So how could we sa...