Philosophical Speculations

... I'm speaking about what in our Darwinian conception looks like the chain of mutating species that transform from chemical soup, through single-celled organisms, all the way to a human being. An interesting question that science and philosophy are concerned with, especially after the discoveries...

I haven't read the old thread you quote here, but I see this question: "So for us the natural question is, could there be an Anthropic-style explanation of consciousness? Well, we could certainly have a mild version of the argument, which would simply say that we shouldn’t be surprised that con...

... I'm speaking about what in our Darwinian conception looks like the chain of mutating species that transform from chemical soup, through single-celled organisms, all the way to a human being. An interesting question that science and philosophy are concerned with, especially after the discoveries...

There are words and phrases bandied about - and I'm wondering how folks employ them. For example the word 'soul'. Some regard the soul as the immortal aspect of an individual, perhaps the inner-most thoughts, desires and feelings of a person. Does the soul evolve, or, is the soul the highest\purest...

I was wondering why, speaking of the pictorial consciousness of the young child: “At first, this thinking still unfolds entirely in mental pictures rather than verbal concepts. The pictures reflect objective relations in the environment which bring pleasure or pain, which attract the soul through s...

When you mention the craving for gregariousness, it also makes me think of hedonism . It's interesting how so many philosophical, scientific, political, and religious frameworks seem to have been attracted around the kernel of justifying the pursuit of personal pleasures, free from the interference...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 3:29 pm But I am curious, how would you title it? Maybe your input will help me title future essays.

Oh I didn't reflect on the big picture of coming essays and their titles, which you perhaps will group in larger collections with titles as well, so that was not a very considerate comment I'm afraid!

In Part I, we laid out some broad principled foundations of the instinctively developed mental, emotional, and physical spaces of life and started to discuss the principles of spiritually retracing these spaces. To start this section, let’s first be clear that exploring this foundation is not entir...

I haven't watched Session 9 yet, but I'm seeing an interesting note from Matt Segall, that also connects to the quantum theme on the other thread . MS calls the collapsed 'wave function' a "cake that has already been baked" (what a romantic way to say it :)): I wanted to reiterate my appre...

If it wasn't dangerous, one could call this 'quantum reversed or negative solipsism'.... :geek: :?: Then, scientific discoveries can perhaps be understood as cognitive synchronization events... Like a sort of squaring of the shared space of possibilities? That's an interesting way to put it. Much o...