Philosophical Speculations

I haven't been able to meet or hear of anyone who strikes me as having had this upgrade. In a world of 8 billion, and mass internet connectivity, it's almost surprising that we don't come across a few homo sapientior types. So I'm a skeptic. Harari says homo deus will have to be bio-engineered; but...

Papanca, Regarding the secret code and NDEs. They have tried that and nobody has seen the code so far. Of course, we would also need to rule out some experimenter collaboration, deliberate or inadvertent, if somebody did claim to see the code. A veridical OBE would still show the primacy of conscio...

Not necessarily. For example, consider the simulation hypothesis: our perceived world is a VR simulation run by an advanced civilization existing in a "materialistic" base reality. In such VR simulation any veridical NDE/OBE and any other "supernatural" phenomena are still possi...

Hello everybody, I often encounter the position that all ontologies are infalsifiable, but is that really the case ? Of course, there can always be a certain elaboration of both positions that makes them unfalsifiable, but the way i see it is that there are experiments/results that would at least fa...

What now came to my mind is that one of my friends told me that in an LSD trip, he was 4 persons at the same time, experiencing each in a totally detailed and self-contained, yet simultaneous manner. I wonder how usual this kind of experience is. It really fits with the notion of everything is expe...

Eugene I wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 1:31 pm I think the "vertiginous question" belongs to the category of unanswerable questions along with "why there is something rather than nothing"

I agree, but i think it can serves as a good koan/pointer and it's intrinsically related to the hard problem of consciousness.

One of the possible answers to such formulation of the "vertiginous question" is the classical solipsism: there is only one "live" field of experience exactly because there is in fact only one. Another answer is the "sequential live experience": there is only one "...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question "Benj Hellie's vertiginous question is as follows: of all the subjects of experience out there, why is this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—the one whose experiences are live? (The reader is supposed to ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question "Benj Hellie's vertiginous question is as follows: of all the subjects of experience out there, why is this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—the one whose experiences are live? (The reader is supposed to ...

This mind-blowing question has been haunting me since my childhood. The way I formulated it was: if I would be one of the pair of identical twins born from the same parents, which one (and why) would be me? Or, if my mother would marry another man and they would have a son, would it be me (the one ...