Philosophical Speculations

Hi Ashvin Again, thanks for this response! Mike, There is confusion here. Cleric's post was illustrating why you don't agree. Because when you are only backing up to view the contents of thinking and how "thoughts are thinking themselves", as you may observe juice contents blending in a bl...

Hi Cleric Thanks for all this, you are a very generous and gracious soul! After reading the quote you provided it's not difficult for me to see why the whole Thinking stuff doesn't seem agreeable to you. I understand how you see the funnel, the meta view, like stepping outside the movie and observin...

Mike, Thanks for this post! It is really appreciated that you are taking time to follow and understand the comments being made (some of my own, but mostly by Cleric) because it means we can potentially move on to deeper discussion of them, instead of going around in circles on the same few initial ...

Hello I'm working on the initial great responses from Ashvin and Cleric to my original post. A word to the moderator... I specifically chose to place this post in the Topic-specific Discourse section, in order to prevent precisely what is happening now. The original topic is getting lost in this bac...

Hello Everyone As a lurker, I've watched with fascination the interaction between Cleric and Eugene, as well as Ashvin. I admire and am grateful for all your passion, intelligence, and patience (😉). In general, I read some of what Eugene says and very little of Cleric and Ashvin. I just got the (inc...

1 - Why do we find no discussion of this infinitely self-deepening nature of Thinking activity which Steiner discusses below: The reason why we generally overlook thinking in our consideration of things has already been given. It lies in the fact that our attention is concentrated only on the objec...

I'm really trying to figure out what this obsession with panpsychist ontology is for people who are clearly fed up with materialism and are also familiar with idealism. I think panpsychism is the ontology of choice for people like Goff who are smart and honest enough to admit that pure materialisti...