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- Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:50 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Jordan (H) Peterson chats with Curt Jaimungal about God, consciousness, Jung, etc.
- Replies: 10
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Re: Jordan (H) Peterson chats with Curt Jaimungal about God, consciousness, Jung,, etc.
Not a typo, guess what the clickbait 'H' stands for—though CJ was no doubt being a tad satirical ... This was first recorded in Nov 2021, but seems to have only just been posted today. Political fencing aside (though no doubt it may well have a trigger-effect), I feel there is enough metaphysical c...
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:55 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
Whatever we experience is real, but we have to set up certain degrees of "how real". We can, I assume, agree that while a dream is a real experience, from the waking state you can realise that while the experience was real, the actual events that took place in the dream are at a lesser le...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 10:02 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
The problem is that the use of psychedelics is what allowed Bernardo to find out that this world, the “normal world” we experience is an hallucination too, even he said that our brain generates similar substances as psychedelics. This is a self-defeating epistemology because then the conclusion tha...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 9:27 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
I agree. Something that I've been thinking of lately is that while the consciousness states one can experience while on psychedelics can be felt "more real than waking life", to which I can attest, there is simply no way to know whether this is because they are actually more real, or beca...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
In one talk - or maybe essay, I can't quite remember - bernardo stated that MAL's primary directive is to deceive itself. Apart from that the choice of words leaves a bad taste in my mouth - it'd sound way better as "MAL's primary directive is to be fully engaged in its imagination" -, th...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
Re: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
In one talk - or maybe essay, I can't quite remember - bernardo stated that MAL's primary directive is to deceive itself. Apart from that the choice of words leaves a bad taste in my mouth - it'd sound way better as "MAL's primary directive is to be fully engaged in its imagination" -, th...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:04 pm
- Forum: Bernardo gets a room of his own
- Topic: If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 22489
If mind's prime directive is to deceive itself, why does it leave means to circumvent this?
In one talk - or maybe essay, I can't quite remember - bernardo stated that MAL's primary directive is to deceive itself. Apart from that the choice of words leaves a bad taste in my mouth - it'd sound way better as "MAL's primary directive is to be fully engaged in its imagination" -, thi...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 2:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Article on David Chalmers' views
- Replies: 1
- Views: 441
Re: Article on David Chalmers' views
He's not in two minds, he's in infinite minds.Ben Iscatus wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:49 am https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2022 ... of-reality
Interesting article. I hadn't realised David Chalmers was in two minds about whether we live in a virtual reality.
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:42 pm
- Forum: Metaphysically Relevant Art-forms
- Topic: Winds - neoclassical metal for the existentialist idealist
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13157
Winds - neoclassical metal for the existentialist idealist
I just remembered this band, having listened to them some time ago and really liking their music. This time around I also read their lyrics, and found that they all deal with metaphysics and spiritual existentialism. The music itself is top notch, 10/10 in my opinion and doesn't resemble anything ar...
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: René Guénon and traditional metaphysics
- Replies: 9
- Views: 635
Re: René Guénon and traditional metaphysics
Secondly, the claim of attaining "omniscience or omnimpotence", or not caring what happens because one is aware of all that happens, is a sure sign of deceptive mysticism. If one were to actually attain to such a state, they would know the answers to all riddles of the Cosmos. Not in a va...