Philosophical Speculations

Here is a short and simple to follow video from Bishop Barron on topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zMf_8hkCdc&t=4s and second with relevance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkHv8iTJPo BTW, if in conversation with a militant atheist (not recommended), and one defines or references God as ...

The classic analogy from Vedanta, and in the spirit of keeping things simple; is the rope and the snake. Walking in the forest, getting dark, Oh a snake, I must run. The snake, which was never there, is 'removed' by bringing in light, or clarity. Don't analyse the dark, bring in that which opposes t...

Generally, I now reject abstract interpretations of facts which ask me to deny my immanent experience of those same facts (as they are perceived by my Reason). The thinking activity which I can never perceive, as infinite and eternal as it undoubtedly is, finds a place of immediate contact with my ...

In short. I can fully agree with your statement if the core terms are taken one way and I'd disagree if taken another. So let me ask you, when you write: "when thinking activity becomes an object of observation, the present thinking is never observed." Could you please give me a concrete ...

The yellow must be a product of the brain/optical system. Look at the example of the bull or any other organism that doesn't see color. If the yellow were in world external to the nervous system, then all organisms would see color and see the same colors, no more no less. The fact that color vision...

I am not a neuroscientist, and don't know any; but based on my readings, I would venture that most neuroscientists would hold that the world is colorless, tasteless and odorless. If then asked where do color, tastes and odors reside, or how are they generated - I believe they would not be able to a...

I am not a neuroscientist, and don't know any; but based on my readings, I would venture that most neuroscientists would hold that the world is colorless, tasteless and odorless. If then asked where do color, tastes and odors reside, or how are they generated - I believe they would not be able to an...

I admit I didn't pay the .99 to buy your essay, so my comments are limited to your post. I don't use and am not familiar with the word 'avatar' except it's use to define the appearance on earth of a divine teacher, as in, Jesus is an avatar. You are essentially calling everything an avatar, so for m...

it's just a practical tactics to dismantle the naive realism belief in the existence of "things" independent of conscious/spiritual activity that actually creates them. The whole thing is that in the way the words are used, this "conscious/spiritual activity" is ultimately a Wor...

While we pretend to wait for Lorenzo's argumented thinking in support of his assertions above, I will let others know why they were motivated by pure prejudice and therefore no such argument or thinking is forthcoming.  In my humble opinion the best and simplist approach is to be opposed to any pos...