Philosophical Speculations

Actually, it does matter, and using such a tactic in the forum would be considered ban-worthy. Again, after looking into it, I'm satisfied there is simply no evidence to support the conjecture. Hopefully, now that some good laughs have been milked from it, it will no longer be a distraction. Yeah. ...

Well, it's been an interesting thread. I love the anthroposophical interlude, but I do think there are fundamental flaws in Steiner's approach. I had some interesting conversations with Arthur Zajonc, a nuclear physicist who is also past president of the American Anthroposophists (sp?. He admitted ...

If MAL differentiated under an impulse to experience without knowing (somehow), it would be returning to the exact same state it began from, which makes little sense, either as an inner telos or in light of our own immanent experience of life, in which all previous states integrate within the prese...

I'll take the revival of this cynical rumour as an attempt at humour. For the record, I've looked into the posting history of both Cleric and Ashvin, as well as their account details which only admin has access to, dating back to the old MS forum, and I'm satisfied that there is simply no evidence ...

Bernardo seems embarrassingly uninformed about how neuroscience understands vision and other senses work. In the article, he seems to believe that materialism somehow requires that the brain be a passive recorder of the external world like a camera. I don't think that the brain can be compared with...

These are what I consider the essential nature of cognition, along with Imagination. It is a Tri-Unity of cognitive perception. Again, this cognition does not stand apart from an external reality and model it, like abstract intellect, but rather is completely One with the Reality it is perceiving-c...

Actually the in-body-experience is so compelling because it is completely real . I never needed to be convinced that the in-body-experience, however real it feels, is far from the only kind of experience one can be compelled to explore, or is any more real than the alternatives, so I just wonder wh...

Fiction: Solipsism means the person adhering to it does not accept the reality of any other perspective apart from his own, and therefore will lack compassion and empathy for others, or will be acting against his own worldview when displaying compassion and empathy for others ( see illutration belo...

After a loong time contemplating, reading, researching and staring at the ceiling I am back with more questions for the idealists. I have concluded that due to many consistent reports from anesthesiologists and surgeons of people being woken up whilst under anesthesia and/or on light doses of anest...

Hi folks original author of this thread here, (Don). Jim Cross, I have a question for you. I worked for about 25 years as a clinical psychologist, conducted research, and had nearly two years training in neuropsychology. Is it your understanding that in fact, the vast majority of neuroscientists be...