Philosophical Speculations

... in my view, he actually offers stronger practical and commonly understandable arguments for the power of consciousness than do most Idealists. [/i] You must be tiring of other arguments you're involved in, to offer up this utterly ridiculous point. :lol: When you think on it more deeply, you ma...

Metacognitive conscious agents that have dreamed up ideas like the United States and Google are also what will conceive of the needed paradigm shift away from the current deprived one, with the praxis that is wedded to it serving the function of sustaining the status quo. Speaking of paradigm shift...

Actually you've missed my point. Google and the United States really don't exist. They are category abstractions that group together many different kinds of things. When we say they do anything at all, it is not at all in literal sense. We are just taking a sort of shot cut that language allows us ...

How does Google help rivers, tree, and lions survive? If it does it all, it does it either by employees or inspired users taking actual physical actions in the material world. On the other hand, you can also find Google ads for hunting safaris. https://www.google.com/search?q=safari+hunting+trips&a...

Here is a very intriguing quote from Yuval Noah Harari . The undeniable power of Consciousness to alter physical reality. “Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, t...

Lou, The context of my comments has related to measurable brain activity by scientific means, such as EEG or fMRI. It is not related to whether your brain feels busy or feels calm, feels balanced or feels confused. The comments are in the context of this thread which is the context of scientific re...

quote=findingblanks post_id=4308 time=1617222648 user_id=68] In short, if we take a broader view , we can see that it can still be true that consciousness has direct physical image in the way everything is entangled together, while we can never build a physical tool that can measure this entangleme...

Yes yes, we all see the life and love and beauty in all of nature all of the time... or at least that's our story and we're sticking to it. Do you mean you don't subscribe to the story of inanimate nature as comatose? I was just using "comatose" as an example of how we no longer see the c...

Perhaps the concept of Autopoiesis or "self organizing" can help. Your petri dish image made me think about the work of the evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis who was once married to Carl Sagan and who co-authored The Gaia Hypothesis with James Lovelock. For a more metaphysical spin see...

Yes. I can't imagine how humanity could interact with nature as it has in the modern era without seeing it as comatose. I am referring to mineral aspect of nature and not plant life, although we treat plant life rather poorly as well. Animal life for that matter too. I am speaking of pure mineral l...