Philosophical Speculations

So do you think there is any means of taking those experiences and begin penetrating into the Reality itself, and, if so, what specific question could we start exploring in that regard? Expressing the Gnostic dualistic view that this not real, only that out-there Reality it -self is real... do you ...

Nagarjuna, as we can observe, offers a link and bridge from the conclusions of axial age philosophy to post-modern era and post-structuralist and metamodern philosophy. It was not a coincidence that there were lots of comparisons between Derrida and Nagarjuna, or that deconstruction of QM and univer...

To avoid the extremes is to be impaled on the fourth horn of the tetralemma, "neither X nor not-X". To stay clear of all horns, view the extremes as the two poles of a polarity, mutually dependent while mutually opposing. Ah, you read it that way. In Western tradition negation of "ne...

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:05 pm Imagine here a wack from a keisaku ... now that pants are down

This imagination fertilizes the diarrhea of my self-narrative in a way that is not without a pleasure of its own. Yes it's brown.

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:47 pm Another koan ... Before awareness becoming nominal what was it?

The bloating potential of a meal of beans?

I still think Nevens attempt at recasting numbers as wave frequencies is an elegant attempt at marrying mathematics with spiritual and metaphysical insight, since waves are scale invariant. There's a relation with Relop approch, as strings of relational operators, e.g. <>< <> ><> <<> <> <>> ><> <> ...

Process philosophy can consider idealism/yogacara a good methodological choice without commitment to substance metaphysics. Oh no!! Now we have the either/or substance metaphysics/non-substance metaphysics ... You're not free of the trap after all :lol: In any case, is process philosophy without co...

However, I doubt the existence of the dimension of time altogether, because we actually never experience the dimension of time, we always and only experience the moment of NOW with ever-changing content of forms/ideas and with never-changing and ever-present It would be frankly insane to believe th...

Under idealism, any such substance/prakriti is a mind-dependent, mind-created idea construct, as is whatever Nagarjuna was conceiving. Of course, under idealism, so is idealism. :mrgreen: Process philosophy can consider idealism/yogacara a good methodological choice without commitment to substance ...

Jim Cross wrote: ↑Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:18 pm A great superposition of everything that can ever be.

The Completeness axiom/theorem refuted by Incompletess theorem.