Philosophical Speculations

Fiction: Solipsism means the person adhering to it does not accept the reality of any other perspective apart from his own, and therefore will lack compassion and empathy for others, or will be acting against his own worldview when displaying compassion and empathy for others ( see illutration belo...

After a loong time contemplating, reading, researching and staring at the ceiling I am back with more questions for the idealists. I have concluded that due to many consistent reports from anesthesiologists and surgeons of people being woken up whilst under anesthesia and/or on light doses of anest...

Hi folks original author of this thread here, (Don). Jim Cross, I have a question for you. I worked for about 25 years as a clinical psychologist, conducted research, and had nearly two years training in neuropsychology. Is it your understanding that in fact, the vast majority of neuroscientists be...

Ashvin and Cleric, Why is it sometimes I feel like you might be the same person? Is it a coincidence that you joined the forum on the same day? Jim, Maybe because your intuition tells you the One ontic Mind is correct? Cleric beat me to the most obvious explanation for why we joined the same day. B...

‘Survival’ is the cornerstone of Dawinian theory of evolution. Organisms struggle to survive and reproduce. Conscious experience must have some survival value, otherwise consciousness couldn’t have evolved. This is a strange way to understand life. I can’t be sure about other organisms, but at leas...

https://i.ibb.co/yWb8HrM/rudolf-steiner-sans-titre-web.jpg “To judge by the plants and fish I have seen in Naples and Sicily, I would, if I were ten years younger, be very tempted to make a trip to India, not in order to discover something new, but in order to contemplate in my own way what has alr...

Hello all Out of interest for BK's work, I have been reading this forum, now and then, for quite a time now, with more or less ease as english is not my mother langage. This is my first post, springing from a feeling of gratitude I want to express here because, Cleric, I find a very deep interest a...

It should be noted that this holds true even for simple qualities as, say, 'red'. Even if we imagine that our human consciousness was filled entirely with pure perception of red, when we fill the void with our intellectual concept of 'red', this wouldn't make the redness disappear. The reason is th...

Ashvin, Yes, if you are putting together a list, that would be great. Also, I get that not everything is suitable for all situations (see below, I recognise the power of the twin-track approach). It's the imaginative and cognising exercises I am looking for which require quiet and concentration. Ri...

Ashvin: I can understand the motivation to look for reasons behind the dominance of physicalist thinking. Physicalism is truly a disease and could lead to devastating consequences in not too distant future. However, I cannot agree with your analysis. Human consciousness has undergone significant ev...