Philosophical Speculations

And my apologies to Steve, but the below is exactly why no one can take religious theology, whether historic or modern or post-modern, seriously anymore. So, you're saying that the theology offered by the gospel writers and Paul shouldn't be taken seriously? They were historic theological presentat...

Here's a quote from Llinás who believes the brain and nervous system developed to enable intelligent locomotion. For myself, I suspect that subjectivity is what the nervous system is all about, even at the most primitive levels of evolution. As I've said, subjectivity does seem to be important. It ...

What was casually added to the same situation by subjective experience? It does give me a sense of myself having that pain but is there also something else? This is, of course, the philosophical zombie question that Pinker talks about. I accidently touch a hot stove. My hand immediately pulls back,...

Hi all, I would appreciate any comment, critique or discussion on this paper I wrote ( https://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/704 ) which was published in Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy a while ago. The topic of the causal efficacy of subje...

Guess I'm more intrigued by the One Mind having one never-ending blast of a masquerade party which all of its idea constructions are compelled to attend ... including this One. ;) This might be akin to a D&D tabletop (my son has been a dungeon master for years). What I saw was the fun and inter...

Judging from the comments of Cleric and Ashvin, I may have inadvertently created a misunderstanding with my Go game metaphor. I'm not suggesting that anyone has a privileged position over others to unambiguously recognize teleology. Ambiguity is part of life. As I mentioned about quantum mechanics w...

Cleric, I think I'm coming to better understand what you are saying. Clearly, much of it seems foreign to me because I haven't been emersed in "spiritual science". That, in and of itself, shouldn't necessarily deter someone from delving deeper, but I think there can be warning signs that a...

OK then, although a human mind has apparently evolved from earlier animal minds, when it comes to an amoeba, which can display much of the behaviour of a complex animal, what would you say that is associated from? My view is that everything from quarks to amoebas to humans and ETs is a mental creat...

Very interesting, Steve - a very useful metaphor! But where you say MAL is undifferentiated and "there is no association to be dissociated from", it seems to me that you are creating a problem that need not exist. A whole rubber band can be chopped up. If you're suggesting that a rubber b...

I think I can understand why Bernardo took up the analogy of dissociation. It offers a readily available picture of the One mind becoming many. However, it breaks down very quickly when we consider his ontology of Mind-at-Large. In his ontology, M@L is undifferentiated. There is no association to be...