Philosophical Speculations

It looks like our views on this topic are simply diverging further. I think we have covered the main points before, i.e., that there is endless room for refinement within the phenomenological pipelines (PPs), how we can smooth out their gradients, how we can customize them to speak to aspects of ...

Yes. Our mental pipelines can take multiple beneficial shapes. For example, the shape of the game metaphor. Another example is the shape of the chess metaphor. The cognitive methodology they point to is one, but the shapes of the mental pipelines are distinct. Both pipelines are intended to ...

The game metaphor, of course, is an example of the phenomenology of spiritual activity, which facilitates perspective inversion. You seem to be suggesting that our mental pipelines can take a different shape, distinct from this cognitive methodology, yet still change our focal perspective and ...

Since you didn't try to correct me, nor did you dispute my answers to the questions, I will assume that my understanding is correct. Your writing isn't poor, Federica, and you can't perpetually rely on that to try to convince us that we are seeing mirages in your dozens and dozens of posts on this ...

Federica, haven't you noticed that this entire forum is repeating the same things on and on and on? :) It is always various ways of approaching the central topic, or the center of the central topic, because that is what is habitually neglected in our time, and that is what the intellect continually ...

Ashvin, you are misunderstanding me. Here again you keep on resetting the same generalities. I appreciate the effort, but don't you get tired of repeating the same things on and on and on? I thought I had expressed myself clearly, but perhaps not so much, so I'll see if I eventually come up with ...

Ashvin, you are misunderstanding me. Here again you keep on resetting the same generalities. I appreciate the effort, but don't you get tired of repeating the same things on and on and on? I thought I had expressed myself clearly, but perhaps not so much, so I'll see if I eventually come up with ...

By the way, I came across a very helpful illustration that Steiner gives in GA 213 of the dynamic we are discussing. The facts and patterns of the focal plane (mirror images) are not unimportant; indeed, they must be studied very carefully and precisely if we aim to develop a deeper, more refined ...

I was being ironic. Of course I don't consider that imaginative observation unobjective. And I know that the observation can only be arrived at in higher cognition, and that the physical plane responds to different laws. Indeed, we have discussed that through a long series of posts. But I do think ...

I was being ironic. Of course I don't consider that imaginative observation unobjective. And I know that the observation can only be arrived at in higher cognition, and that the physical plane responds to different laws. Indeed, we have discussed that through a long series of posts. But I do think ...