Philosophical Speculations

I love how in videos where someone is bashed they always choose their least flattering picture as the thumbnail.

One of the possible answers to such formulation of the "vertiginous question" is the classical solipsism: there is only one "live" field of experience exactly because there is in fact only one. Another answer is the "sequential live experience": there is only one "...

That's similar to something I wondered about since I was a child. One time when I was little my dad told me about how a human's characteristics are created by chance at the time of conception, and that if it took place a day later I'd probably look and be different. And then I thought: no, that woul...

I've been thinking about that one, if not the most, important argument for idealism is the impossibility of explaining how qualia emerges from lifeless matter. So my question is, suppose there IS a world "out there", that exists and would exist without any consciousness being present in it...

In any case, if indeed such transcorporeal entities exist, what would preclude them from conveying information in this manner of so-called channelling? I remember reading a book by Hungarian-Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmár, titled the Rainbow States of Consciousness, in which one of the sto...

Ah, sorry, I wasn't aware. I wasn't around back then yet.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAqVmZwqZM I found this to be a very interesting conversation. Peterson seems to be struggling with the conclusions stemming from the various realisations he has reached. He's starting to arrive to a kind of mystical idealism, and you can see how he's basically...

Eugene I wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 1:49 am

JustinG wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 12:26 am He assured me that full and complete awakening could provide no greater satisfaction then he felt the moment the clock shattered under his hands.

Not really. Mystical communion is the return to an ontologically more "primitive" state (I'm not using this word in any pejorative sense, I just mean to imply that the primordial consciousness state is FROM WHICH thinking minds emerged). And I'm not against the experiencing of such commun...

On a sidenote, while I choose to place my belief in a teleological MAL, as it gives me a sense of purpose and meaning, I'm also a person morbidly drawn towards the worst possible thought experiments. And there's a lingering existential dread in the back of my mind about what if it is really just abo...