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- Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Intuition of the material world
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6216
Re: Intuition of the material world
Good question. I hope that those who post remember that old adage: “It takes few words to speak the truth.” Lorenzo, I am afraid you are under the influence of - as Steiner would say - "the demon who loves the easy path". You will admit it, it's quite convenient to rest on that old adage....
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:45 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Intuition of the material world
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6216
Re: Intuition of the material world
Good question. I hope that those who post remember that old adage: “It takes few words to speak the truth.”
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:19 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 18852
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
This is not an issue of physicalism vs various flavors of idealism, nor does finding life require intuitive thinking, most human beings can walk through a landscape and easily find life. If Saturn were a living being, or if there were a god of lightning, it shouldn’t require special abilities to spo...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 18852
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
The really interesting thing to me is that, because Bernardo refuses to seriously understand the Cosmos and its archetypes as living, supra-intelligent, and intentional agencies, he is forced to write articles with conclusions like this below, because he still maintains a duality between Earthly ph...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
- Views: 18852
Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
The really interesting thing to me is that, because Bernardo refuses to seriously understand the Cosmos and its archetypes as living, supra-intelligent, and intentional agencies, he is forced to write articles with conclusions like this below, because he still maintains a duality between Earthly ph...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26113
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
... A classic example where self-reference is mentioned is as follow: You first look at a unicorn. Then, you reflect on you looking at the unicorn. This is a trivial and easy to understand example. Fortunately, in order to show the unformalizability of self-reference we don’t need any more complica...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:41 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26113
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
I hesitate to recommend a book I have not read, but you might look into the book "Laws of Form" by George Spencer-Brown - he uses math\logic to construct reality and does so with fundamentals more 'primitive' than your model. If interested, you might begin with a set of videos: https://www...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26113
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. The claim that aliens must necessarily see their sun as yellow and sky as blue is baseless, doesn't even rise to the l...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26113
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
Curious, did you read this theory(s) somewhere or are you making this up? It doesn't pass any basic smell test. Why ? We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26113
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
.... The gray apple in front of the animal turned red because red has the meaning of "important" and the leaves turned green because green contrasts maximally with red and thus enhances the finding of food. Similar for yellow and blue for the Sun and the sky. Yellow looks yellow because i...