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- Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
- Replies: 227
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Re: KASTRUP AND SHELDRAKE ON THE COSMIC MIND
The really interesting thing to me is that, because Bernardo refuses to seriously understand the Cosmos and its archetypes as living, supra-intelligent, and intentional agencies, he is forced to write articles with conclusions like this below, because he still maintains a duality between Earthly ph...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:24 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38427
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
... A classic example where self-reference is mentioned is as follow: You first look at a unicorn. Then, you reflect on you looking at the unicorn. This is a trivial and easy to understand example. Fortunately, in order to show the unformalizability of self-reference we don’t need any more complica...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:41 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38427
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
I hesitate to recommend a book I have not read, but you might look into the book "Laws of Form" by George Spencer-Brown - he uses math\logic to construct reality and does so with fundamentals more 'primitive' than your model. If interested, you might begin with a set of videos: https://www...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38427
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. The claim that aliens must necessarily see their sun as yellow and sky as blue is baseless, doesn't even rise to the l...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:00 pm
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38427
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
Curious, did you read this theory(s) somewhere or are you making this up? It doesn't pass any basic smell test. Why ? We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. ...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
- Topic: How Self-Reference Builds the World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 38427
Re: How Self-Reference Builds the World
.... The gray apple in front of the animal turned red because red has the meaning of "important" and the leaves turned green because green contrasts maximally with red and thus enhances the finding of food. Similar for yellow and blue for the Sun and the sky. Yellow looks yellow because i...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: MAGIC: A Fun Contemplation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 838
Re: MAGIC: A Fun Contemplation
If they had brought diapers, blankets and wine - then they'd really be wise.
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 276342
Re: Thinking about death
This is the approach of modern initiation that we have been speaking about, which is a continuation of the ancient mysteries but at the level of lucid thought, i.e. at the level of activity that we feel creatively responsible for directing. What happens when we die? The subtle bodies separate from ...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 276342
Re: Thinking about death
I was listening to a podcast yesterday, topics included early Greeks, early Christianity, Christianity as a continuation of Paganism, likely use of psychedelic's in early Greek and early Christianity, Christianity as the Mystery of Mysteries, and one interesting quote from early Christianity that ca...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Thinking about death
- Replies: 81
- Views: 276342
Re: Thinking about death
Let's say you suddenly awakened to how your own past activity, in this life or previous ones, in connection with other human activity, has shaped the planetary environment such that everything from natural disasters, illnesses, and cultural atrocities became possible within the otherwise harmonious...