Philosophical Speculations

Your sentiment above simply results from the lack of appreciation for the noble role of Thinking in our spiritual life. If you downgrade it to the mere intellectual activity, then of course you will miss entirely the import of what is actually occurring through that activity and dismiss it as some ...

For physicalism everything is an object, it's all about inventing object called "nature". "Force" and "field" are not same, though often related concepts in their language. What they mean by physical field is numerical value/variable at each "point" of space-t...

As we saw from the finger in front of your eye example, realizing you are a unique perspective of God does not inhibit your ability to function or know about the world. In fact, it gives you a much more harmonious understanding of the world you are functioning in. You go from, " I have two eye...

I never never said it was waste energy. In fact, it is nature using feedback for adaptive advantage. Did you ever see this article? https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/evolving-a-conscious-machine I hadn’t and it’s interesting, but equally it’s crazy speculation to think that this could eve...

Jim Cross wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:37 pm
Circuits produce energy - that is somewhat less tangible physical quality that can feedback to the more material parts of the brain. That is the "film" to use your term.

That “self aware” waste energy is some magical stuff!

I generally disagree - even for the physicalist these types of inquiries are (or should be) pretty much meaningless. Of course they can claim non-conscious physical processes give rise to consciousness and remain within the realm of reasonable scientific inquiry, but to claim that conscious experie...

I’ve corrected your statement for you :) I think the paper works really well with the BK/Hoffman dashboard/desktop model for consciousness. Most of what is happening is outside meta consciousness but meta consciousness simplifies and integrates the most salient aspects of reality into representative...

I guess I'm referring primarily to Quantum Field Theories, in the steelman sense. Which in mathematical physics consist of mathematical objects called "physical fields". But those lose meaning if you stop believing in the absurd BS of "real numbers". Can you call them objects? I...

I think I see part of the confusion here when you keep referencing "pantheism". You seem to think I am speaking of a situation where God and the Universe and man are naturally at the same 'level' of spiritual development. Under pantheism of that sort, God and the Universe are unified in t...

I started reading but could not get past a few basic errors before I stopped: "This research is an investigation of whether consciousness—one's ongoing experience—influences one's behavior" What? How could "one's ongoing experience" not influence one's behavior? It’s an importan...