Philosophical Speculations

I develop multiplayer video games almost everyday, and I often find myself comparing idealism to how multiplayer video games work. So in a multiplayer video game, you have two important concepts : the server and the client(s). The server is the computer that receives and sends data to all the client...

How can M@L "like" or "dislike" anything (instinctively, intuitively or otherwise) if it has no sense of "self" ? In my understanding, meta-reflection creates distinctiveness and "self". The concept of "self", supported by thought and memory, is pos...

Maybe suffering, tragedy, drama, is exactly what the cosmic consciousness was looking for when it "decided" to divide itself. Suffering in the end is just another experience. Also this cosmic consciousness, if it was metacognitive, wouldn't already know what we are supposed to be showing i...

Poking a cat and seeing the cat's reaction doesn't necessarily mean that the cat is self-aware, it just means that they respond to sensory stimuli. So, by reading your responses and thinking about it, there are different ways to think about it : - cosmic consciousness can only become self-aware out ...

Hello, Kastrup often insists on the fact that for him, the mind at large or the cosmic consciousness doesn't metacognate or acts without premeditation. So my question is simply : how come humans have the capacity to metacognate ? Is it because of evolution ? I feel like metacognition is something bi...