Philosophical Speculations

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:42 pm a felt quality that for me is substantial.

Who would want idealism without thinking!

Asubjective can breath soap bubbles that can contain and observe subject-object relations as wholes. Not only neither, but also both. Temporal foam. Varieties of time travel: sails, anchors and other hooks with ropes, floating, imagination.

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:08 pm In any case, what is this 'substance' you are referring to?

I don't know, it doesn't feel like anything. Feeling higher with substance. Ah, feels!

Finally got around to watching this, needing some time to recover from the electron screen overdose of getting this womb of our own impregnated (how's that for mixing metaphors?), and it truly is an artful, wonderful, fantasia-like exhibition of inter-beingness ~ strangely reminiscent of those peyo...

Faeries are real

You may be missing the point somewhat, but that may be as well due to unclearness in my question :-) I am interested in the jump from not knowledge to knowledge. No one can claim knowledge if they cannot explain how they make this transition, imo. To answer your answer: "Not knowledge" is...

Under idealism Consciousness is the ontological primitive. The activity of this fundamental, irreducible Consciousness, i.e. its 'mentation'/'ideation', is its ontological imperative ~ as inextricable as formlessness><form. I'd suggest that any reasoning is a function of it being meta-conscious. Pr...

AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:56 pm he views the opposites as separate forces rather than inter-weaving and inter-penetrating.

Not how I hear The Tyger.

DavidSchuy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:57 pm Does life have an intrinsic and inherent meaning or is the existence and life ultimately absurd?

Best answer I've been given is that each experience is unique as such, and all unique has inherent value.

Chalmers has good discussion of Matrix:

http://www.consc.net/papers/matrix.html