Philosophical Speculations

This is beautifully done, thank you. The only part I'm not sure about is the last, since I understand attention to involve focus (and often metacognition), whereas experience in general can happen without any focus of attention.

Going back to the original post about mind/body disconnection, I can recommend Thomas Zinser's book "Soul-Centred Healing". This shows in detail how easily the mind compartmentalises itself, and how we get sub-personalities. Having read this, I understood how over-optimistic is the notion ...

This thread is ostensibly about limiting the number of posts, but actually seems to demonstrate the very problem it is trying to solve.This thread is ostensibly about limiting the number of posts, but actually seems to demonstrate the very problem it is trying to solve. True! Perhaps it's because t...

Ashvin owns the forum.

We who talk about Consciousness don't often seem to analyse the components of conscious activity. Jung had Intuition, Feeling, Sensation and Thinking. Then there are the drivers to conscious activity, or creative urges, such as the Will to Survive (Darwin), the Will to Live or Die - Eros/Thanatos (F...

Dana, good decision, thank you.

I'd even pay to see that.

Blimey! This statement smells like leather wallets and mothballs to me

Not just food...what about sex? Most unnecessary.

Very interesting essay, Adur. Very insightful! Regarding your Law of Consistency, you might explain why two witnesses in a Court of Law may recall a different order of events or even different activity.

he would perhaps claim we have no good reasons to assume that there are any other possible ways of creating alters directly from the cosmic mind (other than generating metabolising entities, that is).

I agree.