Philosophical Speculations

Cue Anthropic principle, and how it applies to Idealism.

I could well imagine that talking of subject and object, of mind and matter, only makes sense in a relational framework and that a non-relational ontological primary (neither subject nor object and jet both at the same time) cannot be described, understood and made sense of in linguistic terms. An ...

Martin "the Orgasmic Alter" OMG! Late to the game. Sorry. but with an epithet like that, who can refuse? . My aim is to let have everyone have a chance to become familiar with the positions and make a comment before only one or two of us are off to the races and dominating the entire disc...

1. What Soul_of_Shu said: You are assuming that at death one enters M@L in its ultimate disassociated state. That's not necessarily true. There may be intermediate levels in which there is a level of reflecting self-consciousness. 2. Pay attention to the difference between Bernardos formal philosoph...

Seems like my initial reply was accurate, but not cogent

> It is all pointless and meaningless.
This is a subjective statement.

An alternative outlook might be that the lack of free will allows for "sitting back and enjoying the ride. " with good conscience.

Nah. No point. :p

Chaos is not a-causual. Indeterminism (as defined by you), is not the same as a-causuality. The three-body problem (classiclly formulated) is fully deterministic on short time scales, and the fact that we can't predict whats going to happen in the far future does NOT suddenly open up for some kind o...

Another:
Erwin Schrödinger
https://www.hendrik-wintjen.info/consci ... -one-mind/
https://www.essentiafoundation.org/read ... -j-kripal/

@Martin: it might be pointless (I'm not sure it is) but that is not a basis for dismissing it. If it is true and doesn't tell us anything - what's the justification for making up some other false story instead? Isn't it more reasonable to say something along the lines of "if it is true we are ...