Philosophical Speculations

Brad Walker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 9:16 pm Should pay day loans be legal? Should soft drinks be sold in schools? Etc.

Sorry, I really feel dumb in this moment
I still don't get it. Soft drinks would be illegal in schools if everyone believed that free will is an illusion?

Question is purely empirical ;) OK. Empiricism it is :D Attention is a more elementary act of cognition - we simply observe a perception and experience certain meaning in relation to it - its concept/idea. In this sense, it is the same to ask if attention can attend itself or if thinking can think ...

Both the thinking process and thoughts which flow therein are 'produced' (i.e. generated) by what I have called 'Brahman' (among other labels). That is the ONE 'root' (albeit said 'root' also has many 'branches') of all Being-n-Doing. Hope to induce you to pull your impressively cogent mind's activ...

Brad Walker wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 1:04 am Society could be less predatory if people got over the illusion of free will.

Can you explain what you mean?

Oh, attention and attending attention... can attention catch attention?! Can a hand draw a picture of "itself drawing itself"? :) https://previews.123rf.com/images/psychoshadowmaker/psychoshadowmaker1602/psychoshadowmaker160200097/54540658-human-hands-drawing-itself-in-a-album-on-a-wooden...

It seems my question should have been, what else have you written that I can read? Or, if not much else yet, can you keep writing these penetrating and illuminating articles once a day, a week, or whatever is best for you? No, I haven't written anything. Actually I don't have philosophical or any o...

"The potentially liberating and amendatory truth (which ... many don’t appre­ciate) is that every body (or thought- form ) in existence is spirit ually motivated by a mind fully discriminating intrinsic potency . This was termed ‘atman’ or ‘soul’ by sages of old, who recognized everyone and ev...

I like empirical approach very much. Very scientific! Starting investigation from sight, the visual sense of the "external" is already a (sub?)conscious choice. There is no guarantees that conclusions would be the same if we don't start from sight (which reading invites to do) but instead...

Ashvin, Scott already alluded to this. The most down-to-the-core consideration of the matter (to my knowledge) has been expressed in Rudolf Steiner's Philisophy of Freedom (PoF). Because of the sensitive nature of the word freedom , it has been translated with different titles like Philosophy of Spi...

Thanks for the comments, everyone! There definitely is: it is the ever-present awareness of any perceptions, feelings, will, thoughts, concepts, ideas. The perceptions, feelings, will, thoughts, concepts, ideas are always changing and fleeting, the awareness of them never changes, it does not move a...