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- Tue May 28, 2024 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Then, as I said, when you explain the rungs of the four convolutions, not everything is clear to me, it sounds abstract. I understand the described evolution as an arc, but I am not sure I grasp how that consists of convolutions . And that the new rung is said to unfold from within the context of t...
- Mon May 27, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 6
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
I discuss the IK metaphor previous to this. Do we finally have definitive evidence that Ashvin=Cleric, something many of us have suspected? The linked post belongs to Cleric. I have been thinking that Ashvin's posts and essays have increasing evidenced a familiarity with scientific/mathematical tho...
- Mon May 27, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 126
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...
- Sat May 25, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 126
Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
In the last part, we explored how the imaginative state makes the inner rhythms of the soul space more objective, focusing primarily on our personal rhythms of thinking, feeling, and will impulses. Yet we also briefly touched on how these personal rhythms are experienced as being contextualized by b...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
- Replies: 63
- Views: 42618
Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Likewise, if they say that an adequate explanation can only be something in which our first-person thinking perspective doesn't participate , they are clinging to past modern habits of analyzing the World state from a safe distance. If they say we can't become the explanation of how spiritual inten...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 410
Re: This forum
What you are referring to as 'states of consciousness' is CA that has been learned instinctively . The reasoning here is similar to a mathematical virtuoso who can simply do calculations 'in his sleep' saying, "There is no conscious activity here, I don't need to invoke anything, mathematical ...
- Thu May 23, 2024 7:18 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
Thanks for the insights, Cleric, I have nothing to disagree here. My only comment is that in the IFS example there is still a computational machinery that transforms our gestures into the resulting shapes. So, the IFS is an interplay of the willing gestures of the player and the "machine"...
- Thu May 23, 2024 1:42 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
I agree. But with all that said, the question again is how to integrate this living insightful approach with mathematics which is by nature a mental abstraction, so that we can continue developing sciences and technologies in more harmonious ways while still using all the power of mathematical tool...
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
- Replies: 33
- Views: 410
Re: This forum
Not denying anything you've written above - however, I am not referring to conscious activity. I am referring to what could be called 'states of consciousness'. The field of psychology has recognized 3 general states of consciousness, sleeping, dreaming and waking. The Upanishads recognize several ...
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:40 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
I'm sure Cleric can respond with more helpful elaborations, but I will only say that we are externalizing thinking (CA) as long we keep looking for some other 'mathematical or algorithmic structure' that should be responsible for shaping sensory experience, besides our own CA. We have to experience...