Philosophical Speculations

It seems ridiculous, of course, to think that a complete amateur like me could come up with an idea for an experiment that has never occurred to any professional physicist. But the thing is, I don't think that any professional scientist has thought about QM in the way that I do. I sincerely think t...

Thank you, Ashvin! Yes, I think what you are saying is fairly accurate :) I feel that Bernardo's thinking still has some unacknowledged "materialistic residue". More accurately, he is still influenced by the defining characteristic of Western thought (according to A. H. Almaas): the mista...

Like many others, I've had for a long time the intuition that quantum physics somehow proves the primacy of consciousness. The amazing fact that, after a century of quantum mechanics, absurd theories like the "Many Worlds" interpretation are gaining wide mainstream support among professio...

Adur, my comments: - It's a know fact that once you drop the assumption of locality, Bell's inequations do not hold, and so hidden variable interpretations can be introduced and QM entanglement paradoxes do not arise. So your interpretation is simply employing the trick of giving up the locality as...

I might be completely wrong about this. But I think it's an interesting and novel idea. And here is the thing: If I'm correct, we are at the end of mathematical physics. No new "fundamental" mathematical laws will ever be discovered. The new goal of physical science will be to understand ...

Materialism is currently under threat, not from philosophers, but from scientists doing actual experiments in quantum mechanics. But as far as I know, nobody has done yet the kind of simple experiment I'm proposing. Since I'm not an expert, it is impossible for me to know if this experiment is poss...

Wonderful essay and interesting critiques. Just a few brief suggestions: BK's analytic idealism vs intuitive idealism: I think there's room for both. I don't think BK has done a good enough job playing by the rules of materialism and explaining his ideas. The problem with materialism is not really ...

This is only understood when factoring in metamorphic progression of consciousness. That is a great example of a qualitative essence which we can test and verify via experience and Reason. A lot of modern anthropomorphic prejudices must be abandoned, like the insistence on strict rational "rul...

The simulation metaphor: the law of consistency in action This is how the law of consistency gives rise to the regularity of the observed world. At the beginning of the game, the players would be free to perceive the world around them behaving in any possible way they could imagine. As the game pro...

Adur, Well thought out and written essay. First, I also disagree with BK's dissociative analogy. Being tied to Dissociative Identity Disorder gives it a negative connotation but it also doesn't fit in with his characterization of Mind-at-Large or Universal Consciousness. He thinks M@L is instinctiv...