Philosophical Speculations

When you have a dream, the dreamed body is in consciousness not consciousness in the dreamed body. Perhaps your awake body too is in consciousness. Kids like to ask: How do you know you are not dreaming? Waking life is qualitatively the same experience as a dream except it is consistent, shared and...

I admire the quality of the commentary here. The original post raises the fundamental question of who (or what) one is. Another way to approach that question, in addition to the commentary above, is to remove what one is not, and what remains is what one is. Each of us have many identity elements. M...

I'm new here. What does the acronym M@L mean? Is it the same as MAL?

When I retired in 2017, I decided to spend six months per year (the winter) traveling to warm places. I have spent a lot of time in SE Asia, especially Cambodia. My wife is a professional a decade younger than me. She is very different than me. For example, she may have 4 drinks a year, whereas I dr...

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I haven't learn how to embed a quote snippet. Eugene wrote: This is the most daring question to any version of idealism that assumes that the universal consciousness is meta-cognitive. BK avoids answering this question by claiming that the universal consciousness is not meta-cognitive and therefore,...

I am excited by science, technology, and intellectualism nearing understanding reality. They have the wind in their sails and the harbor from the shit storm of time is near. When they come into the port bars, the mystics will be waiting to buy them a drink. Our story is like the Odyssey, which is on...

I have done a lot of work in computer virtualization. My expert opinion is that it is turtles all the way down.

I feel vented. Thanks for listening. My experience is that biology is built on nanotechnology, my human is an android, and the whole she-bang is presented by holography, using many dimensions beyond 4D. An onion model of reality using virtualization technology. My dashboard is not only my six body s...

Evolution is the theme of our lives. Beyond mortal biological evolution and psychological evolution (human development) there is immortal spiritual evolution. This leads to considering the motive of universal consciousness creating alter-consciousnesses, and putting those alters through hell. What w...