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- Mon May 16, 2022 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: New topic split from 'concise criticism of analytic idealism' thread.
- Replies: 166
- Views: 85349
Re: Looking for concise criticism of analytic idealism for an upcoming AMA with Bernardo
Beyond one of these hurried-along Q&A sessions, allowing mostly quick pat answers with no deep dive into any thorough explication, someone really needs to have a long talk, i.e. dialogos, with BK about the question of redemption in the here and now, according to his Schop-inspired version of id...
- Sun May 15, 2022 1:21 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: Evil abstraction: the psychology of totalitarianism
- Replies: 73
- Views: 70759
Re: Evil abstraction: the psychology of totalitarianism
For those interested in the philosophical and ideological foundations of Putin's political views and plans developed by Russian philosopher Dugin, here are good discussions on it showing why the world should be concerned: Mikhail Epstein "Where is the center of hell?" Political Theology: ...
- Wed May 11, 2022 1:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Steiner and concepts
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3417
Re: Steiner and concepts
Most ancient traditions have a clear layering of reality, for example google: Purusha / Prakriti / Mahat&Buddhi / etc. The Vedic tradition proposes an extremely 'crowded' subtle plane way beyond the subtlest Physics has yet to 'discover' or describe. Yes, the Vedic layering and your diagram bot...
- Fri May 06, 2022 1:35 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Conspiracy theories surrounding CERN
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12414
Re: Conspiracy theories surrounding CERN
I'm finding I'm agreeing more and more with Bernardo on a variety of issues.
"Close-minded" can be a problem. "Gullibility" can be another one.
"Close-minded" can be a problem. "Gullibility" can be another one.
- Wed May 04, 2022 5:34 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Psychic phenomena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22162
Re: Psychic phenomena
Hello, there are not many people here discussing or believing in psychic phenomena so I just wanted to touch on this subject and the criticism of it (It is very late in my country so I will write a short text) "If psi is true then science is not true" If psi phenomena exist then they woul...
- Wed May 04, 2022 4:17 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: Psychic phenomena
- Replies: 11
- Views: 22162
Re: Psychic phenomena
Hello, there are not many people here discussing or believing in psychic phenomena so I just wanted to touch on this subject and the criticism of it (It is very late in my country so I will write a short text) "If psi is true then science is not true" If psi phenomena exist then they woul...
- Mon May 02, 2022 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Re: Waves and Dimensions
But what is information? My understanding of Shannon is that basically everything is information. I fail to see what is special about the information in IIT Information about the external world. For example, information that there's a snake hiding in the weeds. To generate this information requires...
- Mon May 02, 2022 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
- Mon May 02, 2022 11:59 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Re: Waves and Dimensions
Is this argument with this stuff that EM itself is conscious? Nope. Consciousness itself may be a sort of folding of 3+1 spacetime as information embedded in an additional dimension mediated by an electromagnetic field. The spatial patterns of neural firings essentially encode the qualia into the a...
- Sun May 01, 2022 7:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Waves and Dimensions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 793
Waves and Dimensions
I've put something on my blog that relates to this post on the Institute of Art and Ideas https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-and-higher-spatial-dimensions-auid-2107?ts=1651424881# A brief quote from my piece: The linking of an extra dimension to electromagnetics in the Kaluza-Klein theory and the...