Philosophical Speculations

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...

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: ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

JJFinch wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 3:00 pm So this becomes experience (self reflective) because it folds on itself?

Because it is information.

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...

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...