Philosophical Speculations

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 12:47 pm

Looking forward to this.

We are addicted to time - big time. This is another of the bad mental habits that we'll need to overcome and it's quite serious. It's the one called anthropomorphism . And it will become more serious as time goes by if people refuse to learn something about the higher worlds and the needed stages o...

I've noticed that even some of the most enlightened thinkers and idealists still sometimes get caught in the trap of thinking about time as a super-structure that envelops consciousness, rather than consciousness enveloping time. It has been said that as the eternal Self, you can either be on top of...

So in a multiplayer video game, you have two important concepts : the server and the client(s). I sometimes wonder whether the concept of the Father and the Son points to the same premise, albeit using a sociological metaphor rather than a networking metaphor. In that case you could think of the se...

@isaac_hagoel Apologies I may have misspoke in referencing n=1. N=1 in an absolute sense is impossible within the context of a literal technological simulation, because the question remains what is the nature of the meta-computer? The reasons for why any meta-computer cannot be an ontological primit...

He then proceeds to ask whether there is a "meta meta computer" and concludes that "it would never end". I don't see why this reasoning holds either. I agree that it is possible that it is an "infinite regress" but it is also possible that it stops after n steps. It is...

@electricshephard ... Out of curiosity, what is your take on this realization eventually being actualized on a mass scale of any significance, rather than just in a few seers who are 'nailed' for their trouble ~ albeit not so much literally nowadays, but rather just cynically lambasted for talking ...

Speaking from the experience of this psyche, I can no longer look into the gaze of another sentient being and not feel the presence of the very same ipseity, the one 'I' that looks out from every One , the essence of which is That which supersedes all else, however distorted in may be by the veils ...

Not necessarily. The 3-person perspective is only an abstraction, do not take it literally. Of course what is implied here is some actual 1-st person existing perspective, but just a perspective of a person non-involved in the functioning of the system under study, an observer "external" ...

Saying 1st person unconciousness is impossible is a tautology, which I guess is your point. But what about 2nd and 3rd person unconsciousness? That is correct, but only from the 1-st person perspective. There are ontologies, such as idealism, claiming that there is nothing to the world beyond the 1...