Philosophical Speculations

I can resonate with much of this. Just to be clear, while I feel that two poets could encounter the same Poetry , so to speak, their unique talents, vocabularies, sensibilities, muses, etc, would result in two novel takes on that Poetry , and thus two distinctive poems. This is really at the core o...

Cleric, I think you still grossly misunderstand what I'm saying. I can give a simple analogy: an orchestra where there is a musical score - the global constraints, structures and attractors, there is a conductor - a higher-order being that keeps the global flow going and makes sure every performer ...

To make a hint about the nature of what's at hand here, we should point attention to something we do quite habitually when thinking about these things. We're very well aware how sensitive the topic about hierarchies is. People immediately picture a power struggle and no matter how hard one tries, no...

You described a progression of self-similar states where a given frame contains embedded within itself the patterns of others. Stated differently, a successor state doesn't have a discontinuity with respect to prior states....except when it comes to the absolute state. The absolute state doesn't se...

There are definitely structures/curvatures/attractors in the universe of meanings just like there are laws and structures in the physical realm. Yet, in both realms these are only frameworks, they shape but do not pre-determine the process of the unfolding of life. There is so-called "butterfl...

I'm trying to understand the dilema here . . . For example, as I sit here and look out my window, over the course of a few minutes, there are a large number of impressions, configuration of birds, plants, joggers, visual and auditory, etc. Is the question: Did each of these impressions already exis...

Did you really mean "infinitely many conceivable states"? I was expecting the absolute state to encompass all the states that were actually temporally realized. We had a progression of self-similar states which imposed a constraint on the sequence and then we have an absolute state which ...

Cleric, yes I'd already gone through your post to Eugene before I saw your response here. I feel like it is one of your most significant and I'll have to read it through a few times to really grok what you are saying about the absolute state. Of course your focus there was the "final" sta...

I wonder how the depth reality you depict here relates to what is discussed in: In short, Westcott Louden here and elsewhere argues that the structure of DMT experiences mirrors that of the 4-fold state - waking, dreaming, deep sleep void, formless awareness - described in the Mandukya Upanishad. H...

All of this certainly does require meditative effort! If we speak in terms of "frames" and trace these back, is there a "first frame" or "alpha point" of frames? Again, here I'm exploring God-like concepts viewed from a SS perspective. Anthony, please consider my previ...