Philosophical Speculations

I know I'm not the only one noticing this, but I feel like Bernardo's focus is slowly but surely shifting from a meaning-oriented yet rational philosophy towards something that's basically nihilism in anything but name. Tbh this worries me to some extent, because I think Bernardo is a man of great i...

I have pointed out before The Last Question and its interesting answer to Heat Death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question "Let there be light!" It's a really good short story but I don't think it really fits idealism Heat Death doesn't fit idealism either. :) Maybe that's your...

Jim Cross wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:17 pm I have pointed out before The Last Question and its interesting answer to Heat Death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

"Let there be light!"

It's a really good short story but I don't think it really fits idealism

Discussed here a bit https://metakastrup.org/viewtopic.php?t=686 The OP post here makes me think of a mid 19th-century German idealist, Philip Mainlander, who thought that God created the world as a means of dividing its incomprehensible hyperrealistic suffering into small chunks, which is life. Th...

But what happens when it all falls apart? I think one of BK's ideas is that MAL absorbs all our insights and thereby goes on to imagine it better. This is assuming that MAL is free to imagine what it wants to imagine, which I always found to be incoherent with the idea of there being archetypes, i....

Are you worried that MAL wants to end it all by stretching its synapses till they break? Perhaps the current model of heat death just reflects our own thinking - our cultural bias towards a pointless and meaningless universe. Other scenarios for the end of the universe haven't been disproven. But w...

Here's a little thought that's been giving me some existential angst recently. AI assumes that whatever we can perceive in the Universe as external to us is a representation of the consciousness states of MAL. One example BK brought up in one book is that a star can very well be imagined as a radiat...

I get your meaning, but the problem still stands in my view. Any kind of sensation or experience can only exist as a process. When you accidentally bump your feet into a table leg, even if the pain lasts only a second, that second could be divided into infinite smaller time units, a kind of Zeno's p...

Bernardo argues that MAL probably doesn't have metacognition. He also says that for example in anaesthesia, in his opinion we don't exactly LOSE consciousness, it's simply that memory formation is inhibited, so that we cannot create a contiunous story-like experience of those consciousness states. H...

Well, Steiner's PoF was a good work of philosophy and some contemporary philosophers have been appreciating that ( here is one example ). But better ask Justin's professional opinion on that. I'm not a professional philosopher and am not familiar with Steiner's later work, but I do think he was a b...