Philosophical Speculations

- Respect for the individual
- A total revision of the understanding of knowledge
- A deep scepticism towards objectivity
- Science will be reduced to rationality only

Lou Gold wrote: ↑Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:25 pm That's the question.

Idealism is a kind of thinking - so the answer would be: NO

"I think, therefore I am an idealist"

I think the major error in Tom Campbell's thinking is that consciousness IS information or data. I would agree How exactly can consciousness be information or data? Consciousness is nothing other than consciousness. This is a tautolology but never mind. It is true. Consciousness is the basic level ...

Think of perception as the attached screen of an (oldschool) video recorder - but that the only "thing" you have access to is what occurs on that screen. There is a dissociative boundary between what the screen presents and what it re-presents (an axiomatic choice). If you are locked in a ...

The choice of words describing this metaphysics, may not be well chosen ... but then there is a dilemma between what can be understood in a common language to describe physics and transpose them into metaphysics to give them another meaning, risking confusion. There is no common language for metaphy...

I can only say that there in one state I know for certain, beyond any doubt whatsoever: in this now this awareness exists. Beyond that, everything else seems a relative, provisional story that arises out of it, I know not how. I think I agree with you to some extend. You implicitly say that knowled...

Well, if I need to question it, how can it be knowledge. But here again we have a hidden preconception of what we expect knowledge to be. The above question implicitly restricts knowledge only to the domain of absolute truths. I have not referred to a "we" and certainly not a nation of a ...

I think you should elaborate further on what you consider "knowledge" to be. I am not sure that I need to "define" knowledge for the question to be valid. I was wondering how you get from not knowing "something", to knowing it. If a definition is necessary it would ind...

Information is a meta-conscious interpretation of experienced/cognitive aspects of consciousness, I would say

I have searched for that for some while. I don't think any exist that is sufficiently superb !