Philosophical Speculations

I do not believe in a FUNDAMENTALLY distinct and separate mind that is a 'soul'. I believe Brahman = Atman. That said, I think there is a hierarchy of dissociation so that when you die you do not immediately return to the universal mind but rather return to being your Higher Self, from which this al...

Haven't read Ecological Approach to Visual Perception? It does look interesting, but yikes not cheap on Amazon. Published in 1979. I might try to track down a copy anyway. The Z-Library is a great resource for digital editions of books. The Gibson book is available here. https://book4you.org/s/Ecol...

I made a subreddit for discussing idealism in a modern, analytic context. Our emphasis is on how idealism is superior in terms of post-Enlightenment logical values in comparison to physicalism. In essence, we're attempting to help seize the rational high ground from materialist academia. Please che...

I made a subreddit for discussing idealism in a modern, analytic context. Our emphasis is on how idealism is superior in terms of post-Enlightenment logical values in comparison to physicalism. In essence, we're attempting to help seize the rational high ground from materialist academia. Please chec...

Maybe connectivity has some specific meaning in brainy science, but in math and formal language, I don't see how ability of strings to be concatenated - connectivity in that sense - according to some generative algorithm, has anything to do with entropy? Interesting thought, though... Essentially, ...

I just gave a link to a typical NDE in another thread , and there are thousands of similar NDE accounts. And, unless we want to stay in a denialist mode together with materialists, these accounts suggest that the Consciousness at Large is nothing like being non-metacognitive or instinctive, but qui...

Maybe connectivity has some specific meaning in brainy science, but in math and formal language, I don't see how ability of strings to be concatenated - connectivity in that sense - according to some generative algorithm, has anything to do with entropy? Interesting thought, though... Essentially, ...

Thank you everybody for your swift replies and (if I understand DandelionSoul correctly) we can´t come to a conclusion whether idealism or materialism is valid based on the results of the study. However, there is another question that I would like to ask: If I understand Dr. Kastrup correctly, he s...

Thank you everybody for your swift replies and (if I understand DandelionSoul correctly) we can´t come to a conclusion whether idealism or materialism is valid based on the results of the study. However, there is another question that I would like to ask: If I understand Dr. Kastrup correctly, he s...