Philosophical Speculations

I have no concrete reason to believe any of that but it does remind me a lot of this: You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to...

"But what is really the source of these pathologies - what is it within each individual's heart which inevitably leads to this fragmentation? " Probably ideologies like the ones you're espousing. Modern SJWs have controlled on tests that I think were cited by Gad Saad and others as having ...

Some tasty food for existential dread: What if, instead of us being enslaved in a simulation right now by machines, we're instead scanned at birth for societal defects or narcissistic traits by our descendants and all of us who have presumably failed get lumped summarily into a containment space sim...

ic, When we actually look at the results of Christianity, the entire story of Christ must be completely false. Christ must be actually the son of Satan and realized this when he succumbed to temptation during the forty days in the desert. The story as told has been part of an elaborate ruse to tric...

That said, he did say something that might be less tangential to the subject; he believed that everything we do, from poetry to art, comes out great when we don't 'think' about it or let anything taint our 'emptiness'. When we're born we're not dirtied by comparisons or greed or anything so all the...

Unfortunately, these things will become more common as people do everything possible to avoid confronting the spiritual reality which is irrupting within the physical. How do you stop an unstoppable force of Nature from manifesting in human experience? You don't fight the force itself, but try and ...

Only Man (evolved in a planetary environment) can metacognize. The transpersonal mind (MAL) does not metacognize (because it has nothing to oppose its will) so knows not what it does in moral terms (is amoral). Our self-reflection feeds back to MAL to inform future evolution (hopefully reducing pre...

Ben Iscatus wrote: ↑Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:24 pm The idea of God becoming Man is important in Analytic Idealism, because it can be interpreted as God's need for Man's metaconscious morality.

How so? Elaborate

Honestly I have never been able to see that much that was insightful in what Harari has written. It always seems either banal or over generalized. I pretty skeptical too about 2%. I would like to see what the investment is. Whatever investment is made has to be counterbalanced with stopping the bad...

Here is an excerpt/preview from another recent BK interview (full version only available to Patreon benefactors), wherein he once again emphasizes that the notion of some transcorporeal, individuated sense of selfhood—i.e. a disembodied sense of a distinct self contra other-than-self, surely integr...