Philosophical Speculations

On a sidenote, why are you people so sure that time doesn't exist for MAL? I mean, if there is a structure to its ideations (one follows from the other), and it experiences them in that order, isn't that basically "time"?

#1 makes very little sense to me as you formulate it above. How has the unlimited ideational randomness evolved out of MAL, so there is no more potential for random ideation? That potential for true randomness in eternal MAL essence would likely mean no sustained existence is possible beyond the mo...

I wouldn't exclude the random universe scenario you've described in point 1. However, in that case, I think it would be reasonable to assume that while ontologically we have a perfectly neutral and random MAL, the level of dissociation that constitutes our universe - so, a sub-MAL - has the characte...

A MAL with entirely random instincts would not have any way to structure its mental processes. It would be pure chaos, with every possible variation of its thought patterns existing at the same time. Now, this is theoretically not impossible, and we may just happen to live within a particularly well...

If we can like and dislike things, so can MAL. But as I conceptualise it, MAL's likes and dislikes are way more abstract than ours - with the caveat that, with sufficiently deep deconstruction, our likes and dislikes would also become complex manifestations and tangles of very abstract likes and dis...

re: Love - yes I agree (although I am not sure what is meant by "lack of emotion"), but again the fullest expression of Love is that which is freely desired and meaningfully enriched by our highest thoughts. It is not love out of naïve sentiment of connectedness with others, but Love born...

"My mission in the world is no predetermined one, but rather it is, at any given moment, the one I choose for myself. I do not enter upon my life's path with fixed marching orders." I only partly agree with this. As Schopenhauer said, "Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what...

I would say that with point number 4, this wasn't necessarily the case for me. Without having read about Solipsism, it came about "naturally" for me during times of extreme and rather constant synchronicities, while in the midst of spiritual breakthroughs (or shall I say breakdowns :lol: ...

I'd expand my position on meta-cognition with that I deem it entirely plausible (likely, even) that MAL is BECOMING meta-conscious. As I said, as new experience is accumulated in it from its alters (the metacognitive realisations of whom merge back into MAL after the end of dissociation), MAL's capa...

Yes and no. You, as "avatar" of MAL, act in the world, and how you act in the world reflects back upon it. What you do here speaks of what MAL is. But then also, you as an individual are an infinitesimally tiny fragment within Creation. It's not you or humanity that bears this task, it's a...