Philosophical Speculations

Suffice to say I'm optimistic that philosophical pessimism will eventually be relegated to an ideational evolutionary dead end ;) Maybe, i just hope that it'll happen through an increase of well-being and mental clarity rather that some darwinian pressures that just root out without any increase of...

I'm not saying that Schopenhauer thought that " because a given subjectified 'personal' consciousness is transitory means that such a conscious entity is not meaningfully participating in a relational process of the evolution of transpersonal ideation", but that he didn't believe in any p...

I don't necessarily think the two are related, one can believe in idealism and in the illusory nature of death without believing in any evolving relationnal process, Schopenhauer after all was both an idealist and a pessimist. Regardless of whether or not Schopenhauer might be viewed as a pessimist...

There are some philosophies of time that see time as cyclical and not linear. Any time we assume time is this or that form, but not some other form, we make category error as all forms of time are thought in time. You can replace time with processes or thought objects, we can see them as evolving l...

If one believes, as some do, that everything is reducible to non-conscious matter, and such is the ultimate fate of every conscious entity, then sure, from there it seems easy to be resigned to some meaningless nihilism. But if every conscious entity is participating in an ever-evolving relational ...

No. Very simply put, the body could be storing some muscle tension that we become conscious of when we wake up and then the mind deduces about the passage of time by the magnitude of this tention. Something, whatever. The point is, that we have no clue. You base your whole "we were very well e...

What do you guys think about this ? Abstract "Are psychedelics able to induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? While it is popularly believed that they can, this has never been systematically tested. Here we exploited a large sample derived from prospective online surveying to determine...