Philosophical Speculations

The hidden message of the post was "You can't infer the existence of free will by measuring complexity of behavior". Simple machines can exhibit complex behavior, as it is well known from chaos theory, double pendulums, cellular automata and ... washing machines. Point was - I can only fin...

Sorry everyone, I know this may be completely inappropriate but David's video somehow summoned in me this:



I know this is not the place, so may the moderators simply delete this post

Thank you David, for your answers and citations!
This was what I wanted to know at this time
If anything else pops out I'll ask.

Yes, there seems some inherent, perchance inevitable, dare one say even integral, suffering proneness that is the price of 'admission' to be paid, so to speak, into this alter-mode corporeal realm. And then there's the exacerbated suffering proneness that comes from that baby becoming meta-cognitiv...

Ooops... my sincere apologies, Dana No worries ... Speaking of identity fluidity, wondering now, what's the problem with exploring and playing at the role of being a 'doer', or say a 'co-creator' ~ so long as it's not reified as some exclusively fixated, segregated, suffering-prone entity/identity ...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:19 pm ...you 'misgendered' Dana! I may have to report your comment to Dana for that one

Ooops... my sincere apologies, Dana

Blame it on the boogie... and the English language. In my native language you would have been been exposed through grammatical gender

'It' thinks it is liberating itself. However it is more accurate to say that conditions have transpired to allow for self enquiry. I'm sure that while you're typing on the keyboard you can completely dissociate and look at the letters appearing on the screen and say "there - that's the state o...

With the belief in doership, we always have a nagging sense that life could have been different than it was or is. All human suffering arises when that could becomes a 'should'. Wants or desires are not the problem - it the false idea that life 'should' go 'our' way. It is quite correct to say that...

if one believes that one's 'self' is a living extension/expression of All -Creating / Ever -Flowing Brahman, one's thinking and choice/decision-based actions will be calm/secure/easy-flowing/seemingly-happening-without- personal -'effort'/at-' home '-among-others/etc. I would like to ask you someth...

In my language 'attention' is huomio , and to 'take into consideration' is to ottaa huomioon . The still aspect of attention grows by the moving aspect bringing more content and context into attention, revealing new relations, old trauma etc., feeding positive loops and soothing and releasing negat...