Philosophical Speculations

Well on a different but similar note doing further research I have found yet another article claiming to solve the mystery of anesthesia https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200529150619.htm where using evidence gathered from an experiment the article claims to resolve the mystery of uncons...

So it seems rather blurry, but a lot of evidence points to psilocybin as increasing gamma wave oscillation, although other studies say not so much. I could not locate an article discussing the direct relation between psilocybin and gamma waves nor could I find an article discussing directly a relati...

Even after my debates on the previous incarnation of this forum I am still perplexed as to the dismissal of anesthesia as a thorn in the side of idealism by most debaters on this forum. Whilst I did state before in my previous post in this new forum that there is people under low doses of anesthesia...

So the strongest argument against Kastrup's idealism is...... uuummmm..... do people realise that the constant narrative framing of this so called 'çancel culture' reads as the same mass hysteria you are accusing it of? Suspicion of the suspicious! Anywaaaay a strong consideration against Kastrup ma...

I feel there seems to be a total lack of any mediatory contemplation, whilst the materialists usually do not even consider non materialist ideas most of the time the idealist response is to merely flip the bias in their own direction. Materialists (or emergentists not necessarily from materialist me...

Still, this does offer a place for them to actually begin their argument, it seems to be the strongest material position considering the result of damage done to it and the evident consciousness of patients with the upper brain removed by fluid or simply not even there by defect of birth. I could go...

Hello all, on the previous incarnation of this forum under the username John Casarino I issued fourth challenges to idealism mainly centered around the unconsciousness generated by anesthesia. I later realised that when looking into cases where people are put on low doses of anesthesia a problem occ...