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by Cleric
Sat Jun 21, 2025 8:58 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: On Attaining Spiritual Sight (Part I)
Replies: 17
Views: 9312

Re: On Attaining Spiritual Sight (Part I)

Steiner’s *Philosophy of Freedom* shows certain parallels but does not strictly practice phenomenology. His anthroposophy, which describes layers of subjectivity (if one may call it that) inaccessible to the uninitiated, quickly veers into metaphysics or remains a partially inaccessible description. ...
by Cleric
Wed Jun 18, 2025 10:44 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

Maybe it can help if we distinguish that there are two different bridges that are spoken of here. One is the bridge that acquaints a person with some of the practical consequences of SS. To make this example more explicit and sharply outlined, we can imagine that someone presents us with alien ...
by Cleric
Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:18 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces
Replies: 265
Views: 214528

Re: Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces

I found this episode interesting:



Of course, it is very far from connecting things with inner activity, but there's at least a ray of hope that strict bottom-up reductionism is open for revision (even though still in a purely mechanical sense).
by Cleric
Thu May 22, 2025 2:17 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

Maybe we can think of it by saying that the positive evolutionary development shouldn't shy away from bringing its fruits to the World arena. Yes, there's by no means guarantee that anyone encountering these fruits would spark an interest in proper evolutionary development. But these are still ...
by Cleric
Thu May 22, 2025 1:46 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces
Replies: 265
Views: 214528

Re: Cell Intelligence in Physiological & Morphological Spaces

There is a new presentation by ML on YT. Much of the content is known and there is no inversion of inquiry in the inner direction - all focus is on thought-content. But there are also various promising views for the evolution of scientific thought, and I’ve tried to highlight some points. Thanks F ...
by Cleric
Fri May 16, 2025 3:04 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

Federica wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 12:39 pm Thanks, Ashvin, I see.
I would like to share a picture of the halo I am seeing right now in the sky above me.
Realizing only now it's probably a halo Cleric has as profile picture :)
Thanks, great shot :)
Yes, it's the same in my picture. It's a 22° halo.
by Cleric
Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:00 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

Thank you so much Cleric, I see. I am sorry you had to write a long post. It was only my ignorance in these matters. Youtube served me that video, and I thought it fitted nicely as one more illustration of the previous post, but it doesn't. I was misled by the word "chaotic". Now that I've googled ...
by Cleric
Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:19 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

I haven't refreshed the pendulum example as a non-conservation-of-energy example . What I meant is that the pendulum shows a case of 'inexplicable' incoming energy . And the second bold implies precisely the first. My point was that in the case of the double pendulum, we observe behavior that seems ...
by Cleric
Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:06 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Saving the materialists
Replies: 488
Views: 326915

Re: Saving the materialists

This double pendulum demonstration comes in handy at this juncture: not only energy is not conserved - "it goes nowhere" in the video just above - but it may also come from nowhere, as it is noticed in this video. At some point the pendulum motion "gets some energy from somewhere" and unfolds in a ...
by Cleric
Wed Apr 23, 2025 7:10 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: The Fourth Dimension
Replies: 25
Views: 42018

Re: The Fourth Dimension

Hueck, Christoph J.. Evolution in the Double Stream of Time: An Inner Morphology of Organic Thought (pp. 31-32). epubli. Kindle Edition. Ashvin, thanks for bringing this to attention! It seems a very valuable work, I'll have to work through it. I see that it is freely available https://philarchive ...