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- Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:39 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Jordan Peterson: Advocate for Spiritual Freedom
- Replies: 21
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Re: Jordan Peterson: Advocate for Spiritual Freedom
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...
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 4:39 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8583
Re: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
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 ...
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8583
Re: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
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,...
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 12:30 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8583
Re: Evolution and the causal efficacy of consciousness
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...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:24 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 10:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...
- Thu Sep 09, 2021 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3561
Re: Dr. Bernardo Kastrup, Idealism vs Materialism
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...