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by AshvinP
Wed May 29, 2024 2:05 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
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Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

ooooh I suspected this would come :) The third eye is in "the head region" but not in the convolutions of the brain. There is actually a connection here with the pineal gland. The only point here is that we will struggle to understand these facts of spiritual research if we prematurely de...
by AshvinP
Wed May 29, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

I wanted to add, on this image of 'convolutions', we could make a comparison with the major 'lobes' of the brain with their convolutions, which I briefly referenced in the essay. The functions of these may not be exact correspondences with the 'rungs' or aeons, but nevertheless, I think it gives a ...
by AshvinP
Tue May 28, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

Ashvin, I'm not sure where you've previously used Cleric's IK metaphor. It's not important though. I'll return back to my 30% likelihood of Cleric=Ashvin :lol: Yes, one can identify a unique depth and insight in Cleric's writings. He is also less likely to make sweeping statements about other peopl...
by AshvinP
Tue May 28, 2024 1:09 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

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...
by AshvinP
Mon May 27, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

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...
by AshvinP
Mon May 27, 2024 2:09 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

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...
by AshvinP
Sat May 25, 2024 4:49 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 14
Views: 202

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...
by AshvinP
Thu May 23, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42649

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...
by AshvinP
Thu May 23, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
Replies: 33
Views: 425

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 ...
by AshvinP
Thu May 23, 2024 7:18 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42649

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"...