Philosophical Speculations

But couldn't it be that thinking activity is only a more limited form of a higher form of spiritual activity of self-reflective quality? This is because, based on your and most other peoples experience, any thinking can only be self-reflective. Maybe you missed this part of this post? Clearly, it i...

I would like to point out Camus' essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. In it, he takes a very bleak view of life. According to Camus, reason demands meaning in life, but without abandoning reason in favor of fantasy (such as imagining there to be some God who endows the whole with meaning, which he consider...

I find Bergson to be instructive here, who would claim it is not symbolic knowledge: Henri Bergson defined metaphysics as the science that dispenses with symbols to grasp the absolute.[1] Hence metaphysics involves an inversion of the habitual modes of thought and is in need of its own method, which...

How do you figure time and space are not experienced? I mis-wrote.. it should have said .. time and space are not perceived. Off course they are experienced, otherwise you and I would not talk about it :-) Every experience of a 'particular object' is experience of qualia. I would say that the "...

When characters loop back on themselves, wouldn't they go a bit mad. They have seen how things play out the first time around, and no matter what they do the same events must occur - a bit like being in locked in syndrome while the world plays out? [SOMEWHAT OF A SPOILER FOR TENET BELOW] I have wat...

These videos are so well done. Gebser's work also corresponds well with what he discusses in regards to the Eternality of the Great Mother and the consciousness of magical cultures. Frequently we find statutes with no eyes or mouths in these cultures, because the auditory sense was much stronger tha...

As Scott said, everything you experience is knowledge of an 'objective world' under idealism. I disagree. Time and space for instance are not experienced ... which would mean that they would have qualia. And I would even go further to say that qualia does not exist, as they are not in themselves sp...

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made b...

I can only say that there in one state I know for certain, beyond any doubt whatsoever: in this now this awareness exists. Beyond that, everything else seems a relative, provisional story that arises out of it, I know not how. I think I agree with you to some extend. You implicitly say that knowled...

It is clear that we can’t go beyond thought through thought. We can’t think our way out into a form of cognition that is different from thought. The result of any logical train of thought is still a thought. ... But couldn't it be that thinking activity is only a more limited form of a higher form ...