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by Cleric K
Thu May 30, 2024 11:02 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Essay: Retracing Spiritual Activity (Part V)
Replies: 21
Views: 283

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: 21
Views: 283

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: 42739

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: 42739

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: 42739

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: 42739

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: 42739

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...
by Cleric K
Tue May 21, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
Replies: 33
Views: 463

Re: This forum

OK, Eugene. I see your point and I apologize that we have driven the forum in a direction that deviates from pure speculation. But picture that this purity was maintained. Where do you think that would have ever led to? After a decade, a century of pure speculation, what would have become of man? D...
by Cleric K
Tue May 21, 2024 8:22 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: On the Gradient of Thinking
Replies: 33
Views: 463

On the Gradient of Thinking

I had to google 'Toruk Makto fallacy', and I know I've seen the movie Avatar . . . I'm not familiar with the movie to comment on how I may be suffering from the fallacy( and you and Ashwin ) are somehow not. I've re-explained that just a few days ago here . I'm repeating it again: As explained coun...
by Cleric K
Mon May 20, 2024 7:13 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: This forum
Replies: 173
Views: 5382424

Re: This forum

Unfortunately it's too late, I don't believe anyone would return. But the point it - this forum was created as an open platform for philosophical speculations. Anyone who is/was interested in specific practical ways to explore the reality deeper than just philosophical speculation (and there is a l...