Philosophical Speculations

1. Your conscious perceptions exist; 2. The conscious perceptions of other living entities, different from your own, also exist; 3. There are things that exist independently of, and outside, conscious perception; 4. Things that exist independently of, and outside, conscious perception generate cons...

"Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism ... and the actual findings of paleontology. Following phyletic lines through time seemed to reveal only minimal gradual changes but no clear evidence for any change of a species into a dif...

I'm interested in better understanding the dashboard. It seems to me, based on personal experience, that reality is presented holographically. Assuming that, it seems possible that the brain is a holographic transceiver. What you mean by dashboard or Dashboard? Are you referring to this by BK? http...

My view on this is that this problem is undecidable and unresolvable. That does not mean that we should deny any validity of our knowledge or stop trying to know more about reality. It just means that we can never be 100% sure that what we think we know about reality has any actual relevance to wha...

OK, so if this no-thingness process has no point of origin, i.e. it's process all the way down, in other words uncaused , I'm missing how it is not the essence of our being ... which under idealism is the aware process of ideation, aka M@L. Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from both, Nor w...

No point. OK, so if this no-thingness process has no point of origin, i.e. it's process all the way down, in other words uncaused , I'm missing how it is not the essence of our being ... which under idealism is the aware process of ideation, aka M@L. Neither from itself nor from another, Nor from b...

So it is no- thing . That, of course, means no self or soul exists. Things in fact lack essence, according to Nagarjuna, they have no fixed nature, and indeed it is only because of this lack of essential, immutable being that change is possible, that one thing can transform into another. Each thing...

If you stop thinking of the world as made of "things", and only processes, then the answer is more obvious and satisfying. It is in the very essence of process to differentiate and unify in a rhythmic fashion. That is how we experience our own mental essence in every moment, as we observe...

I think I see now the answer to a question I have occasionally posed. Why is everything not simply a blob of mind? How would the mind at large, if that is what everything is fundamentally, be able to create the multitude of objects and things we seem to experience and see around us. Nagarjuna's ans...

I think I see now the answer to a question I have occasionally posed. Why is everything not simply a blob of mind? How would the mind at large, if that is what everything is fundamentally, be able to create the multitude of objects and things we seem to experience and see around us. Nagarjuna's answ...