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- Sun May 26, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
A great project is taking shape through the parts of this series, Ashvin. Thanks for another insightful part! This time, it took me some more effort to get into the ideal flow. First, I had to proceed carefully through the paragraph on the “relative perspectives” and then I got clearly stuck in the ...
- Sun May 26, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
- Replies: 63
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Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
BTW, Roger Penrose is one of the most intuitive thinkers of those who are knee-deep in the abstract intellect. Even though he seeks the answers in mathematical thinking, it's interesting to see how in this way he tries to express ideas that stem from deeper intuition (and he is to some extent aware...
- Sat May 25, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
- Replies: 63
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Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
https://i.ibb.co/TYcLQgN/30a30f92-03d0-45c4-9169-36b166a7e954.jpg One of the images that has come to mind, reading Cleric’s last prodigious walkthrough, is that of the apocalyptic ghost town, or wasteland, abandoned by all lifeforms, found in science-fiction. Perhaps this image can help consolidate...
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
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Re: On the Gradient of Thinking
The above gets to the heart of my beginning the thread on definitions and uses of specific terms . . . *** Nothing is more dangerous than allowing yourself always to be carried by language, meaning that you say: “ and here is how you express this thing, here is how you express that one ” insofar as...
- Tue May 21, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
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Re: This forum
Great! Then I imagine the next time we hear from you, after you have digested the material on this forum at your own pace, it won't be another video link to nondual awakening, which we have all agreed traps us at the threshold of true Self-lucidity, or commiseration about the past history of the fo...
- Tue May 21, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
- Replies: 9
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
In our normal life, our thinking is something like a commentator of the happenings around us and the happenings inside, like our feelings and other qualitative states of existence we go trough. In concentration it is different. There we try to consciously think our thoughts, our guide our own activ...
- Mon May 20, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
- Replies: 9
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
In our normal life, our thinking is something like a commentator of the happenings around us and the happenings inside, like our feelings and other qualitative states of existence we go trough. In concentration it is different. There we try to consciously think our thoughts, our guide our own activ...
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:39 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: This forum
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Re: This forum
For my part, besides what Ashvin said, I still use these dialogs as opportunities to understand the perspective of the other person. The reasons why things are rejected or misunderstood could have various sources. For example, I vividly remember my young materialistic years. I used to argue with a ...
- Sun May 19, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 185
Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
I already added some sentences to these concluding paragraphs, see if this makes it any clearer (edited back into the original post, beginning with "the sensory landscape"). Yes it does, and the other comments too. Only this: By intensely focusing our concepts as testimonies to the proces...
- Sun May 19, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
- Replies: 9
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part IV)
Thanks for another brilliant and rich installment, Ashvin. I will add a few personal comments. These are essentially about the choices of narrative flow, not about substance. The one slightly more substantial question I have is about the choice to present a conceptualization of imaginative cognition...