Philosophical Speculations

This discussion from NTA gets into some Jung-inspired ideas about how our soul initiation process, on a collective level, has become stuck in arrested development, seeming an interesting counterpoint to much of the recent discussion herein on the idea of soul ascension into a transfigured psychic st...

The lobbying has begun with a comment I made on this youtube video to get BK on board with a chat with Jordan Peterson, along with an email I sent to BK with the same message ... Get busy with the 'likes'

You guys are doing an good job of avoiding getting real here, now that those of us in the ivory tower who don't follow Lou, our foreign correspondent, on Facebook have been brought up to speed on the tragic situation in Brazil

So what are we to make of the following excerpts and commentary re: The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer, a book Nietzsche supposedly considered to be a nutshell introduction to his greater body of ideas.

But as the research I just listed directly implies through the experiment that no neurons firing no consciousness, I feel a stronger counterargument is needed on behalf of idealism. [/i] Once again, this is only according to someone's subjective opinion, already biased by an a priori assumption, an...

This may be of interest here, from the same guy who recently interviewed Bernardo for over 4 hours, wherein the claim is made that there is no collapse of the wave function ...

@ Cleric ... I take it that you're not referring to these beings ...

Dave ... As far as I can tell, none of this latest data can be said to definitively refute Bernardo's premise and model, and that this ongoing debate has been no further advanced from the ones in the old forum. Not to say that further research won't eventually verify materialsm's premise, but until ...

Perhaps we need some theme music ...

Approximately 60 million human bodies meet their demise on this planet every year (never mind the non-human ones) and I expect that pretty much all of them have some tragic effect on someone's life, whether as profound grief, or angst, or some other kind of existential suffering. Are we to now start...