Philosophical Speculations

I'm noticing another theme here which is the emphasis on Cleric and Ashvin's 'approach' being argued as revealing or yielding the further-est insight insofar as Thinking goes, such as, the higher-order cognition of man's local body and its relation to the Cosmic Body, and mineral kingdom's relations...

In reading through this thread, I see Eugene defending a form of Sophia Perennis albeit unknowingly or without naming it, in the vein of Schuon, Coomaraswamy and Nasr. This is a view that I defend on different forums where most of my activity is at. It would - theoretically - be more clear if he sta...

One thing worth noticing is that the essence of what we consume/ eat / need, is Enthalpy , not energy. (We, as metabolizing entities radiate the same amount of energy as we ingest; but the entropy content is different; low entropy IN; high entropy OUT.) So, one might say that there's a transfer of ...

If I may, I'll push for some more clarity. The common way would say "Yes, inner thinking provides the ideal content to percepts in the following way. Percepts are raw pixel- or feeling-data. Inner thinking makes concept or images from this data." But, this is not what you mean. Certainly,...

Thanks for the feedback, Lysander. I could say the same for myself a year ago. I had come across the abstract concept of Reality as shared meaning. for ex. in Peterson and Vervaeke videos, but they remained isolated concepts not really plugged into the whole network of ideas I had surrounding essen...

You are thinking in abstract physicalist terms which the idealist outright rejects as having any reality, and therefore lacking any use when speaking of underlying essence. There are no essential spatial dimensions, i.e. position and size. Information is not stored anywhere in "space". Th...

Thanks. But then where in MAL is the information stored ? Where is the Database that holds the position, size and color of every physical object ? You are thinking in abstract physicalist terms which the idealist outright rejects as having any reality, and therefore lacking any use when speaking of...

"THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Why do we exist? The answer, according to the major monotheistic religions, including the Catholic faith in which I was raised, is that an all-powerful, supernatural entity created us. This deity loves us, as a human father loves his children, and wants us to behave in a c...

Because if such a process could understand (or access) "truth" (universal consciousness) - it can translate that understanding (an experience) into other experiences - thereby creating new dissociative processes. So if a dissociative process can not give rise to new dissociate processes, ...

Ashvin, I agree with your dichotomy of Healthy vs Unhealthy Solipsism and find it useful. But I think I am missing some of what you're saying. I am still stuck one point. Specifically your first sentence. Do you feel empathy if you see a cartboard cut-out of a man get torn into pieces? How about a l...