Philosophical Speculations

Well, yes. The same as yours: inability. I'm rather more inclined to go with futility ... now at 41 pages, and might well go on for 41 more, and no-one here has changed their starting premise one iota. BK would be no exception. Indeed, one would probably be better served by listening to music ... Y...

So we have 'being' that can esthetically engross itself in tactile experiences which have more truth value than either scientific or analytical metaphysical speculations, and these tactile experiences teach us of the entangled nature of being or 'energy' which somehow despite being made of non expe...

Eugene I wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:40 pm Well, I can see now that there is a reason why Kastrup does not want to answer your arguments and avoids talking to you.

Well, yes. The same as yours: inability.

That allows for no possibility of interpreting a realm that rebels against those conditions. Anything we say about quantum reality or what existed prior to the Big Bang is bound to be wrong because it reduces what exceeds our ability to conceptualize to our conditions of thought. This brings up the...

I make no claim at all other than that I have no reason at all to accept the claim of universal consciousness. I note you had not idea what Kant had actually argued or its effectiveness. I also remain amused at your false assumption that I am a Kantian. Fine, nobody forces or expects you to accept ...

You pick one since it is your claim, not mine. You claim the existence of something: that there exists an external non-conscious physical world outside your consciousness. When the existence of something is claimed, it has to be either proven or declared as a conjecture. If you can undeniably prove...

Let’s take baby steps. Let’s start with what you think Kant’s transcendental arguments were and how they failed. I'm the dumb one here, I dunno. So please take one of them that you think is successful and demonstrate how can it be used to prove the existence of the physical non-conscious world outs...

First, you should look up the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam. Second, you are hopeless because you don’t understand the issues, not because of what you try to defend. Perhaps I don't then please help me to understand. Let's take baby steps here and start from the scandal in philosophy started...

But it isn’t delocalized from the brain. Each individual brain has its own consciousness which entangles with the world, but that consciousness is only experienced within that brain. That conscious activity was occurring in other living organisms only shows that conscious is individuated, not cosmi...

It seems to me that what is at issue concerns the domain of interest. To use quantum mechanics as an example, there is the "shut up and calculate" camp that doesn't seem to have an interest in deeper interpretations or, on the other hand, those who feel the need to delve deeper, form meta...