Philosophical Speculations

Once conscious activity is delocalized from physical objects like the brain, then I see even less reason for you to consider your own lack of memory as evidence of anything about the existence of the underlying conscious activity. When you had no memory (except duration and continuity of self, as m...

After last night, I don’t know why I’m even bothering to respond to you, but experience of the world is not conjecture. It is that direct experience that distinguishes it from metaphysics. Seriously, you’re hopeless. Also, other than Kastrup, there are quite a few "hopeless idiots" among ...

In fact i have been the one here arguing against consciousness as a hermetically concealed container we cannot escape. It is far more like an entanglement that obliterates subject/object metaphysics. But experience only shows this when a living brain is part of the entanglement. I do see it as a lo...

For some fans of Kant's epistemology on this thread: First, I’m not a Kantian. Second, your quote is out of context which goes on to argue against what you think it claims. He is referring to the scandal created by Hume’s skepticism and Kant goes on to resolve that scandal by securing a sure place ...

There is nothing in [my] experience to suggest there is as there is nothing to suggest that consciousness exists without a living brain. I once underwent general anesthetic and had no consciousness of anything during that time. [My] observations support the understanding that consciousness only exi...

Non-metaphysical thought holds fast to what is experienced in the physical world. In our experience we encounter energy with no signs of consciousness, and we experience consciousness which is grounded in energy. That in itself reveals consciousness to be reducible to energy, and thus physical. ......

For some fans of Kant's epistemology on this thread: It remains a scandal to philosophy, and to human reason in general, that we should have to accept the existence of things outside us (from which after all we derive the whole material for our knowledge, even for that of our inner sense) merely on...

If we put somebody in a sleeper hold the blood supply to the brain is cut along with the glucose. Guess what then goes out. That isn’t speculation. I've experienced that, and subjectively there was no time at all. So when was it out? During the time others were conscious and seeing you unconscious....

The most that can be said with any certainty is that there is a correlation between conscious agency and certain kinds of energetic states, allowing that correlation does not necessarily equate with causation. Surely you're not saying that you've experienced that consciousness is an emergent proper...

You can’t possibly be this dense. He explicitly predicated consciousness on the burning of ATP. Actually, it is glucose that burns, ATP just distributes it, but Kastrup still made his point based on energy. Show me where he used the word "energy". What would you suggest he meant by “burn ...