Philosophical Speculations

I am not a neuroscientist, and don't know any; but based on my readings, I would venture that most neuroscientists would hold that the world is colorless, tasteless and odorless. If then asked where do color, tastes and odors reside, or how are they generated - I believe they would not be able to an...

I admit I didn't pay the .99 to buy your essay, so my comments are limited to your post. I don't use and am not familiar with the word 'avatar' except it's use to define the appearance on earth of a divine teacher, as in, Jesus is an avatar. You are essentially calling everything an avatar, so for m...

it's just a practical tactics to dismantle the naive realism belief in the existence of "things" independent of conscious/spiritual activity that actually creates them. The whole thing is that in the way the words are used, this "conscious/spiritual activity" is ultimately a Wor...

While we pretend to wait for Lorenzo's argumented thinking in support of his assertions above, I will let others know why they were motivated by pure prejudice and therefore no such argument or thinking is forthcoming.  In my humble opinion the best and simplist approach is to be opposed to any pos...

So I hope that we've cleared that Thinking path shouldn't be confused with intellectual-theoretical path. Instead, it is the direct facing with everything that chains the free spirit. It is Thinking path in the sense that we're not blindly following dogmatic rules and rituals but everything must pa...

I don't detect any logical progression of thought in these fragments - I see ambiguous flowery language generated in nearly random order. Word Salad trick -> occaisionally a word is capitalized impying the word has some special meaning other than what a normal person might think..

Even if you substitute Hoffman's network of conscious agents for W it is still "out there". Goethe thought light was "out there" too. I think a more accurate phrase than "out there", is "independent of individual mind(s)" BK, Rupert Spira and physicalists all...

to prove Materialism/Physicalism we'd have to find 'matter', we'd have to discover (be aware of) something outside of what we are aware of.

This question just keeps nagging at me. Both ancient Hinduism and Buddhism are very committed to the idea that people's mission in this reality is to check out of it. To awaken to its illusory nature, not just for the purpose of being able to experience it in a more level-headed way, not just for r...

Bernardo never begins as a Materialist, he begins by presenting the Materialist arguemnt and then defeating the materialist argument by suggesting that there is nothing about matter (what we know of matter) that would predict matter generating experience, or matter becoming aware of itself. While Be...