Philosophical Speculations

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:21 pm What I can't go with is that there is Thinking absent Awareness.

Not possible

In our basic experience we encounter things, and the perpetual appearance of new things lets us know there are many things we have yet to encounter. To stray from this basis of experience, such as to suggest these aren’t things or they only exist when we observe them is the metaphysical speculation...

This is an excellent question which puts me in the position of giving an objective answer to a a situation that defies objectivism, but I will try it. The only thing that does apply to everything is that it exists, therefore Being. The question then becomes the nature of this Being, which we can on...

Of course, you are quite right it’s reductionist. My preferred approach is a non-reductionist acknowledgment that we can’t even know if there is an “ontological primitive”, let alone say what it is. But Kastrup explicitly makes his argument as a reductionist, for which I have played clips in both m...

What I see here is you imposing your metaphysical framework to work your own reductionism. A couple quick examples: 1. You refer to the “thought system of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”, although Nietzsche emphatically rejected any systematization at all. Nietzsche speculated that reason itself might be ...

3. The highest level of those who are acutely sensitive to the “vibrations” in the room and channel them unmediated by theory or artifice of any kind. Like Miles or John Coltrane. They barely even hear what they are playing, but are rather a pure conduit through which Being speaks. Another one of t...

Interesting quote from Einstein from that video talk: "The most incomprehensible think about the universe it that it is comprehensible" which is another intractable problem for materialism, but almost a tautology in idealism - it is comprehensible simply because it is a manifestation of Co...

But why are we assuming the "measurement device" is also not a conscious observer? It seems to me these technologies are extensions of our natural perceptual-cognitive capacities, created through those capacities, which simply allow us to observe from a non-local 'place' within Space-Time...

All those speculations about "observer" in QM turned out to be nonsense. It was experimentally proven that the QM measurement results (e.g. the double-slit experiment) are the same regardless whether there is an observer registering the results at the moment of the measurement or not. For ...

I guess I'd be labeled a "trinitarian" because my faith is in the Father, Mother and Child within a Great Mysteriousness. Not put forth to argue about it, just a way that works for me. Exactly, as another NDEr Nancy Danison said about her encounter with the Source: "It is like a chil...