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by Cleric K
Thu May 30, 2024 8:52 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 27
Views: 344

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

I have not suggested that 'the contents of experience are of no value', I have not suggested banishing or dropping experiences of the world or dropping consciousness - - I have suggested the value of adding unboundedness of Being to life. Adding the Unboundedness of Being is the source of freedom a...
by Cleric K
Thu May 30, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 27
Views: 344

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

Your paraphrasing\rephrasing of my POV is baffling and can't respond to that . . . not sure what you are referring to re 'uncreated' or 'losing consciousness' or 'dropping consciousness' . . . I have not used these phrases . . . 'dropping consciousness' is not desirable. Re 'astral vision' and whet...
by Cleric K
Thu May 30, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 27
Views: 344

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

In the latter link above - you refer to astral vision . . . are you suggesting that abilities (ie astral vision) are baked into self? By 'baked into self', I mean part of our essence and identity, who we are. By 'baked into self'. I mean astral vision (and perhaps other abilities) is not a sensatio...
by Cleric K
Thu May 30, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 27
Views: 344

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

I don't know anyone for whom this metaphor applies: quite the opposite, people think\feel they own the items around them, and they are the owners and authors of their actions. According to major religions, this 'error' is the source of human suffering. Abraham, thinking he was rich with cattle and ...
by Cleric K
Wed May 29, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 27
Views: 344

Re: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)

With that said, I spent some time last Saturday pondering one of Cleric's latest posts at: https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?p=24783#p24783 and a few lights turned on in me where I finally grokked what is being talking about regarding concentration, hysteresis, the immediacy of thinking, and fr...
by Cleric K
Sun May 26, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42760

Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness

Thank you for the introspective cues, Cleric. It would be interesting to hear where they take the reader. On gravity, the following has crossed my mind. As spiritual collective of beings, our humanity was born in the warmth of Saturn, it awakened to life in the Sun environment, and grew up in the M...
by Cleric K
Sat May 25, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42760

Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness

https://i.ibb.co/TYcLQgN/30a30f92-03d0-45c4-9169-36b166a7e954.jpg One of the images that has come to mind, reading Cleric’s last prodigious walkthrough, is that of the apocalyptic ghost town, or wasteland, abandoned by all lifeforms, found in science-fiction. Perhaps this image can help consolidate...
by Cleric K
Thu May 23, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42760

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"...
by Cleric K
Thu May 23, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42760

Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness

The problem is that mathematics is by nature a mental abstraction. Yet, from the direct experience we know that the sensory experiences are always structured with precise mathematical regularities, and if we want to approach and understand/explain this fact, we need to use mathematics. There is a p...
by Cleric K
Wed May 22, 2024 3:54 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness
Replies: 63
Views: 42760

Re: Donald Hoffman's search for a mathematical theory of consciousness

Regardless of what DH claims his CA theory to be or to do, IMHO it has its important place. If successful, it would fill a missing link in the philosophy of consciousness and address the main challenge from the materialistic camp, namely - if everything is consciousness and the whole reality is not...