Philosophical Speculations

Simple question, not a trap, ' That is my understanding of Kastrup's analytical idealism. Would you agree? ' What part of it? You made a lot of assertions in that post. But for sake of simplicity, I will say yes that is BK's idealism. What next? Ashvin, I think it is time for me to lay my cards ful...

It sounds like you are simply assuming that more association means less distinction. That is the "Flat M@L" view in Cleric's essay - the view that re-association means a smearing out of ideal-perceptive contents. That is not the spiritual scientific view. While higher cognition will revea...

Completely agreed again. As to that last question, I am arguing that the metamorphic progression of Spirit has provided us the tools to expand that threshold to encompass increasingly more ideal relations in very fine detail. It is not much different from the common cultural view of science, except...

How do you make your argument, in the sense you and I would both understand, yet at the same time acknowledge "You are actually correct to say that we cannot fundamentally investigate beyond the "boundary" of the alter ." Completely agreed again. As to that last question, I am a...

Fair enough, and I’m not one to often appeal to “mainstream consensus” (Kuhn and all that), but Gibbon was accepted as a “poisoned well” 30 years ago. Yes and I’m a supporter of analytic idealism. I certainly don’t agree with Bernardo on everything, but what I like about it is that he generally doe...

You are actually correct to say that we cannot fundamentally investigate beyond the "boundary" of the alter. The question is, what is that boundary? For me personally, being a relative newcomer to analytical idealism, this is the question and you've hit that nail on the head by asking it....

I am not sure how many more different ways I can say this... but let me attempt another - the metamorphic view does not exclude any authentic Eastern spiritual traditions or downgrade their importance in the whole progression. There is both temporal and 'spatial' progression of Spirit in that sense...

Your statement “Whole countries were won over in this way” is interesting. It's not my statement Simon, I was using a quote. I don't want to get into an argument about whose experts are best and should be used, ie Poisoning The Wells (Discrediting the sources used by your opponent.). ....but I woul...

Gibbon’s 18th century views that coloured history for so long have been almost entirely rejected by modern historians and archeologists, and yours is even more extreme than Gibbon’s! You can try this Wikipedia article for a summary of this, maybe go straight to the “Evaluation” section -> https://e...

So the ontic-epistemic dualism of Kant, between thing-in-itself and appearance, is dissolved by analytic idealism because there is no 'thing-in-itself' that is anything other than Mind and simply how it 'appears' or 'what it looks like' across a dissociated boundary. It's an image, and it fragged m...