Philosophical Speculations

No, not at all "without intelligence". Intelligence does not need consciousness, as demonstrated by AI (which has no inner life). BK has often pointed out that MAL has an intuitional intelligence rather like an idiot savant: it knows, but does not know how it knows, because it is not self...

In a recent interview , BK talks of MAL using a "push from behind" rather than a pull from a pre-planned future. So, driven by what it finds increasingly interesting (in the same way as the warmer colder game), MAL's instinctive push happens. How can a mere 'instinctive push' without inte...

As far as I understand it, BKs theory is in line with Darwinian evolution and posits M@L as not having any design or telos. It is a blind instinct will that becomes self-aware in the evolutionary process with Individualisation emerging from the dissociated alters. But there is no design, aim, purpos...

Mind produces thoughts that come and go. It is mutable. Spirit (or consciousness) is the immutable "witness", the underlying "experiencer" of the thoughts that doesn't change. That's why conflating mind with spirit or consciousness is not a philosophically advisable practice.