Philosophical Speculations

Hi! When will this be posted on your channel?

This is great! What about pulling in Tom Campbell? The hardest question is not why is there consciousness, but why does there seem to be individualized consciousness? Why do I seem to exist as consciousness associated with a specific body looking out of a specific set of eyes? After all billions of ...

Perhaps Sheldrake should ask if consciousness is using the sun as an avatar.

To Cleric K and AshvinP. What will be experienced when dying?

Thanks for your responses. You paint a suggestive relationship with this "other half-plane of reality" or "higher consciousness", but what does that look like? Our "other half-plane of reality", hallowed by thy name?? In the name of "other half-plane of reality&qu...

Honestly, even though at first idealism simply seemed like an interesting yet surprisingly logical ontology, the more I thought about it the more existential anxiety welled up in me. I'm at the point where I'd happily "convert" back to physicalism if I could still believe it to be true, w...

Honestly, even though at first idealism simply seemed like an interesting yet surprisingly logical ontology, the more I thought about it the more existential anxiety welled up in me. I'm at the point where I'd happily "convert" back to physicalism if I could still believe it to be true, w...

Honestly, even though at first idealism simply seemed like an interesting yet surprisingly logical ontology, the more I thought about it the more existential anxiety welled up in me. I'm at the point where I'd happily "convert" back to physicalism if I could still believe it to be true, w...

Dsamson - thank you for your post, and I hope you are coping as well as you can with your profound loss. A couple of thoughts to add fuel to yours: Love is an attractive force, and thus akin to its sensory-limited cognates gravity and subatomic bonding. Love released (freely given) seems akin to en...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg Profound experience of Love. Along with the meditative experience of Love and the psychedelic experience of Love just about every NDE mentions the primacy of Love. We're all familiar with the millions of words generated in an attempt to understand existenc...