Philosophical Speculations

More generally "winning" just seems as a rather not sublime word that, sadly, creates lots of "losers." Game theory has so far focused more on win-lose games, but better comprehension of such games, and how easily win-lose games can become lose-lose games, is already a win-win g...

In deep sleep or under anesthesia, there is less activity in the brain too. In those cases, less activity corresponds with less experience. So why are psychedelics exceptions to the rule? BK's model has psychedelics as having the ability to increase the porosity or permeability of the localised ind...

Anyway, my point is simply that Bernardo's model would predict that the psychedelic experience would look like some perceptual structure from across a dissociated boundary given the adequate interaction tool. So, just as 100 years ago we couldn't simply look at a brain to see how a dream can appear...

Shaibei, Why want to be a winner? An anthropologist invited children from an African tribe to play a game. He placed a bowl filled with sweet fruit by a tree. He addressed the children saying: “The one who gets to the tree first will be rewarded with all of the sweet fruits.” When he signaled the c...

Looking upward requires man what is especially difficult for idealists of a certain kind, and that is to transcend himself and believe in a transcendent meaning. A meaning that is expressed in a real and symbolic way by looking at the sky and releases us, for a flitting moment, from a subjective pe...

Shaibei, Why want to be a winner? An anthropologist invited children from an African tribe to play a game. He placed a bowl filled with sweet fruit by a tree. He addressed the children saying: “The one who gets to the tree first will be rewarded with all of the sweet fruits.” When he signaled the ch...

The clip is a great score for the Hero's Journey. Superman's story is the journey of a hero who wins a victory after a crisis, but that is not what I meant in the quote above. Looking upward requires man what is especially difficult for idealists of a certain kind, and that is to transcend himself ...

SanteriSatama wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:02 pm And as she said, our theories can't hold water, they leak. Pee, tears etc.

Mitakuye Oyasin -- All Our Relations.

Santeri, I agree with your drift about men and animism and tears but find it playing out differently. Yes, one committed to metaphysical materialism does as you suggest but I know lots of men who are simple (non-philosophical) materialists who are darn good with letting the tears flow. What do you ...

I am finishing your MEANING IN ABSURDITY. Figure 2 on page 92 does not have space for the supra-consciuous (the realm of divinity, if I may say so). What if we had, as well as the formless potential, the collective unconscious, the personal uncoscious, the ego consciousness, three extra realms abov...