Philosophical Speculations

So the dichotomy between "pure experience" and meta-analysis thinking cannot be valid, as there would be nothing to meta-analyze in the absence of thinking. Good catch, I wasn’t careful enough with that description. I’m not intending to advocate that all thinking isn’t a meta-analysis of ...

I am mostly trying to differentiate between conceptualizing the dynamic of our consciousness, which I think we agree is not any sort of mechanical process like a clock, and experiencing its reality. Many 20th century thinkers have referred to this non-awareness of our own consciousness in its livin...

Right, so I think our main area of dispute, which is the most common for our times as well, is the following: 1) is our thinking limited to the periodic 'adjustment of the sail' for changing wind conditions, or is it more like the wind itself, which is pushing against the sail (will or perception),...

I think we can all admit that, normally, the world of outer perception appears as something pre-existing our own consciousness and ideation. It comes to meet us and we have almost no clue why we perceive it, what it means, or what stands 'behind' it. Like you said, when I perceive the blue sky outs...

I think we can all admit that, normally, the world of outer perception appears as something pre-existing our own consciousness and ideation. It comes to meet us and we have almost no clue why we perceive it, what it means, or what stands 'behind' it. Like you said, when I perceive the blue sky outs...

Anthony, I thank you for the computational metaphor - I am not good with such things, so it will take some more time for me to digest. But right from the outset, I must make a distinction here with what I wrote previously - I was not attempting to provide a conceptual metaphor for the dynamics of c...

Thanks Ashvin, there’s much for me to learn here. One thing confuses me: You mention that my reasoning is only satisfactory for physical sense thinking, and suggest that there is a spiritual thinking from subjective experience of world content that my reasoning doesn’t encapsulate. However, I’m not...

Thanks Ashvin, there’s much for me to learn here. One thing confuses me: You mention that my reasoning is only satisfactory for physical sense thinking, and suggest that there is a spiritual thinking from subjective experience of world content that my reasoning doesn’t encapsulate. However, I’m not...

As infants, we first learn to balance ourselves in the world and walk upright, then to use language and communicate facts, then to reflect on experience through living thinking (often associated with a child's imagination). This is not programmed into us from birth, but things we develop in our ear...

Furthermore, there are utilitarian benefits to some logical proofs that should not be completely overlooked, of which may even apply to the construction of inner concepts (and vice versa of course). Thus, I don’t really see the point in evaluating the utilitarian importance of these approaches agai...