Philosophical Speculations

Anybody? Seems like an important hole in the model if there's no answer to this question.

Since my last thread, I've looked into BK's work more deeply. I've read the book on Jung and am a little under halfway in The Idea of the World. I am much more on board now than I was when I created my last thread. However, one question that keeps coming up and which I haven't seen raised or address...

Why not simply say that consciousness is fundamental and every form of experience is an excitation of consciousness? Why do the excitations have to be mental, and, again, what does that even mean in the absence of anything material? I don't see to need to attribute some substance to relative experi...

Well, the ‘mysterious’ third option could also be viewed as the most parsimonious. Count of fundamental ontological categories is going down from 1 to 0 as the 'fundamental category' in this case is truly un-representable! The act of representation reveals its dual nature as mind and matter, neithe...

Hi. If you take a materialist stance you are forced into preposterous nihilism (ala Dennet) or some form of crude dualism. Bernardos model has two huge benefits - it bypasses both those problems, and i t is directly pointing at the transcendent (the Tao that cannot be spoken of). Bernardo addresses...

This morning I sent an email to Bernardo with two questions. I came across his email address in a paper I downloaded from Academia, but now I see on the website that philosophical questions will not be answered via email but only on the forum. So, I'll just copy the email in the hope that Bernardo /...