Philosophical Speculations

Thank you, Adur, for your thoughtful exploration. There are many things we could comment on but I don't have much time right now. One of the things that I wonder about is how your interpretation accounts for Bell's inequalities. If I've understood correctly, you say that as long as there's entangle...

Thank you, Adur, for your thoughtful exploration. There are many things we could comment on but I don't have much time right now. One of the things that I wonder about is how your interpretation accounts for Bell's inequalities. If I've understood correctly, you say that as long as there's entangle...

I feel the experience of absolute nothingness (which I've only reached in deep psychedelic states) is similar but not identical to that of deep sleep. Like I said in my reply to Eugene, it's not really an experience. I expressed myself inaccurately. When we encounter the absolute nothingness there ...

You can not know for certain if the awareness dissolves under anaesthesia. The fact that you have no memory of your deep sleep states or anaesthesia does not mean that there was no awareness, it simply means that they were not "recorded" in your memory. It is impossible to actually prove ...

Adur, We should distinguish the act of remembering things which summons up content within the soul, and the actual integrative process of memory which is the basis of the "I"-experience. Think of it in this way: there's something of your everyday self that was present in the empty state. ...

Adur ... A.H. is surely a fine teacher in many respects, but in the first exchange with Rupert you shared, on the specific point regarding his apparent knowing of the absence of awareness, I can find no resonance. As mentioned, in the old MS forum I've gone into some detail on a few occasions as to...

So, my point is not that we can experience nothingness, but that we can know it is there. We can know that nothingness or absolute emptiness is the ground and source of all experience, not by directly experiencing the nothingness, but by experiencing how our awareness dissolves into nothingness, an...

Adur ... I just found A.H. to come across as unconvincing, and never really gave an unequivocal answer to Rupert's inquiry, and seemed to be the one 'not getting it'. In the old MS forum that preceded this one, there were numerous discussions about the topic of the absence of awareness, as opposed ...

If I remember correctly BK says in his theory of the mind at large dissociating in different alters (we as subjects) that mind at large is not conscious of itself, i.e. meta-conscious. However it is shown that dissociation (Dissociative Identity Disorder, schizophrenia etc.) only occurs within huma...

Hi everyone, I'm new here and was hoping people might be able to offer some insight on this. I've been reading about illusionism and have been trying to understand the 'illusionism problem'. Is the problem have to do with how the brain creates such an illusion or why the brain creates the illusion ...