Philosophical Speculations

If my conception of idealism is incorrect, please forgive me. However, from "satchitananda," it seems that idealism is chit in absence of sit and ananda. What I mean is that consciousness is not its own free-floating thing, yet is part of a triple world that is a unification, a whole, it i...

That would assume that mind "is" receptor cells, electromagnetic waves, chemistry, and biology. Idealism does not hold that this is the case. The apple's circumference is not "the" apple, in fact the circumference is determined by the real being, the real apple. Similarly, recept...

Hi Federica, and thank you for the response. It is the consciousness of idealism that demotes the real thing to thinking and mind. This is why I term the naturalistic "consciousness" of idealism as "iconsciousness" as compared to actual consciousness, which constitutes in fact a ...

The two most obvious aspects of reality are 1) your consciousness; 2) material objects external to you. What distinguishes material objects from mind is the fact that material objects have BOTH a spatial and temporal existence, whereas mind LACKS a spatial location (there is no thought in centimeter...