Philosophical Speculations

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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"...

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...

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 ...

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...

This is why Cleric says DH's approach is so susceptible to the TM fallacy. In the video, it is said that DH understands the fabric of space-time as 'derivative from the perspective of the CA hierarchy interactions' (around 38 min). What this means is that the space-time fabric is felt to be derivat...