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- Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:31 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Intuitive Idealism vs. Analytic Idealism (Part II): An alternative formulation of idealism
- Replies: 335
- Views: 20770
Re: Intuitive Idealism vs. Analytic Idealism (Part II): An alternative formulation of idealism
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...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:43 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Intuitive Idealism vs. Analytic Idealism (Part II): An alternative formulation of idealism
- Replies: 335
- Views: 20770
Re: Intuitive Idealism vs. Analytic Idealism (Part II): An alternative formulation of idealism
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...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 4:02 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Why do alters of mind at large need to eat in order to stay alive?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2105
Re: Why do alters of mind at large need to eat in order to stay alive?
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 ...
- Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:09 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Question about the "Objective world"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Question about the "Objective world"
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,...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:49 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Question about the "Objective world"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Question about the "Objective world"
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...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Question about the "Objective world"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Question about the "Objective world"
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...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:11 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Question about the "Objective world"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Question about the "Objective world"
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...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:56 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: John Horgan defends not knowing
- Replies: 104
- Views: 7307
Re: John Horgan defends not knowing
"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...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:16 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Conjecture: A dissociative process can not understand universal consciousness
- Replies: 8
- Views: 932
Re: Conjecture: A dissociative process can not understand universal consciousness
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, ...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:05 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Please, I need help from patient and committed idealists
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4898
Re: Please, I need help from patient and committed idealists
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...