Philosophical Speculations

Cleric, I was wondering whether you have since come across any work from others along these lines of the 'anthropic continuity principle'? It is also surprising to me that this intuition would not have been developed and fleshed out by others to some extent. I have not. Which is strange because it ...

Cleric, why does it take place every time we incarnate and not at every moment? Besides, this must mean that the usual philosophical starting question: “Why do we perceive the same world?” is actually a wrong question, because we don’t. :shock: What is a discovery then? Probably something much more...

I may not have been clear in this and other threads, I believe that a hierarchy of beings exist, such as angels, my position has been that the pursuit of these beings is not spiritual growth as these beings simply exist in the finite world as do all beings. More specifically 99.99% of people have b...

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...

I have been working on an essay which will be broken into a few sections. It is still a work in progress, but the first section is mostly complete and I will post the first part here. The first section is mostly an overview of the principled foundation for the intuitive thinking path, a broad surve...

Or in lieu of essays, one or more individuals could step forward and speak with authority on ‘intuitive thinking’. Speak on how they developed higher cognition and demonstrate some success with it. Perhaps indicate how we would know their intuitions ring true. Anyone here ready to step up? Lorenzo,...

Cleric, I have not said I find SS unconvincing, at least in its core ideas. Rather I am yet to be convinced of attempts to connect it to Christianity as broadly understood. In terms of what you have outlined above, my attention is drawn to points 3 and 4, the depth structure of reality. Christianit...

The continuity between the old faith and the perspective of SS is something I still aren't seeing. This seems to be a common result with the various interactions I've seen here. There is quite the leap from "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved" to "Strive for hig...

Sad indeed. The conversation could have gone in an interesting direction if the question was pursued: Avatars of what ? What is it that expresses through these avatars? And even more interestingly - in what relation does the human "I" exist toward these beings who express through avatars? ...

Thank you for the very interesting dialogue! It's clear that Marco is still inclined to see intellectual activity as more or less orthogonal to the higher Logos principle. It will be interesting to see if he'll be willing to consider that a higher being expresses through the rigidified intellectual ...