Philosophical Speculations

Self is the ultimate false memory that tries to stitch experience together. There is no true metacognition. Yes but I am not talking about the self, which you are right is just a thought. I am talking about the "witness/consciousness", the thing that can experience all of this, the self a...

I don't remember much from my sleep, an occasional dream is about all. Why do you assume you should remember any of it? If someone comes to your ear and screams very loudly to wake you up: who or what was there to hear the screaming? Basically I believe consciousness is all about memory. Even raw p...

Jim Cross wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 4:21 pm I don't remember much from my sleep, an occasional dream is about all.

Why do you assume you should remember any of it?

If someone comes to your ear and screams very loudly to wake you up: who or what was there to hear the screaming?

I think it is a thousands and thousands of things, not one or two. I'm not conscious every second of my life. I sleep seven or eight hours a night. Are thousands and thousands of waves really different from the ocean made of water? Is each little wave and ripple its own fundamentally separate thing...

Hello, Those who are dualists postulate that there are 2 separate fundamental substances in the universe: matter and mind, the material realm and the mental realm. But this leads to what is called the interaction problem: if these 2 substances are fundamentally separate, how do they even interact? F...

If you open my skull you will see my brain, but it will tell you nothing about my inner life. I am the thing in itself and so I know for certain that the way it looks like to you or even to me has absolutely nothing in common with being the thing in itself. According to BK, the same goes for the min...

Another objection I have to Bernardo's analytic idealism is the consistency and regularity in the behaviour of the physical world. Let's take for example Newton's classical laws of motion. If planets and stars and billiard balls are the extrinsic appearance of M@L's inner life, why is this inner li...

Another objection I have to Bernardo's analytic idealism is the consistency and regularity in the behaviour of the physical world. Let's take for example Newton's classical laws of motion. If planets and stars and billiard balls are the extrinsic appearance of M@L's inner life, why is this inner li...

Am I missing something? Don't forget that according to BK or Donald Hoffman, space and time are a category of perception, a production of consciousness, and so is what we call physical matter inside the structure of space and time. All this is our perception. And so we can imagine a consciousness t...

I think it's the story of his girlfriend and the grandma who had an accident.