Philosophical Speculations

How can you afford to only pursue one particular theme of your liking and decline any other ‘deep’ questions on the ground that they are tangential to… your particular line of inquiry? To be honest, I didn't understand what you had written, and I was trying to be polite. May I ask you, what Ideal a...

Thanks, Ashwin, will take all that on board. There is another whole discussion about whether such practices are suitable for the modern Westerner... I remember one of those well-known 60's translations of Eastern classics - I think it might have been Tibetan Book of Great Liberation through Knowing ...

Thanks all for the responses, they're very thought-provoking, and also for the welcome. I should say upfront, I'm pursuing a particular thread through the labyrinth, with elements from Plato, Kant, and the Buddha. I find a lot of Kastrup's work congenial and useful, and I have a lot more to learn fr...

But the question is how do you substantiate the statement of the primary role of the “perspective”? Do you postulate it, do you reason it out? Do you consider it self-evident? I think the response is that this is something that can be directly intuited by reflecting on the nature of experience - on...

I'll have to find some time to absorb that post, it's pretty lengthy and deep. But I just want to add, I don't think I myself am positing the kind of dualism that was criticized in the initial response, certainly not one that implies any form of 'dissociative boundary'. The discontinuity I pointed o...

Here is the main issue I see with the metaphysical idealist claim, which we have discussed here quite a bit. If it cannot be reasonably linked to a scientific understanding of how MAL's conscious experience is translated into the appearances on the 'screen of perception', then the materialist scien...

After debating idealism for many years on internet forums, this is the understanding that I've come to (basically a synthesis of neo–Kantian and Buddhist philosophy.) The accepted view, the mainstream social-consensus philosophy, is realism : that the world exists irrespective of the presence of an ...

Federica wrote: ↑Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:04 pm I would disagree, though, that “'scientia’ corresponds pretty well exactly to today's 'science'” if not for other reasons, because there is nothing in ancient Rome that exactly corresponds to today’s concept of science.

Yes, point taken!

There's an article that just came up in my feed which is possibly related to this, Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement . The opening statement is: Supercomputers can beat us at chess and perform more calculations per second than the human brain. But there are ...

For anyone born and raised in a neo-latin language like me, this is easier, as the word for science is literally a subsection of the word for knowledge. In English, the words ‘science’ and ‘knowledge’ don’t exhibit any connection and it’s a bit less intuitive. So it's important to ease the rigid co...