Philosophical Speculations

Re the secular language in your example - any verbiage I don't initially grasp or know, I can lookup (Google) and learn. For example, I can Google "Sun's Hill sphere" from your example above. Re Ss, looking up Ss verbiage, Google\ChatGPT and etc., simply describe Ss verbiage as belonging ...

Lorenzo, maybe you can simply offer to Guney your simple few-words child-level explanation of how to understand the nature of the physical world. Guney had specifically asked re an Ss explanation - which I cannot provide - and it appears, no one can provide an explanation using ordinary language. I...

The enjoyment of a cup of coffee or a sunset is as easy as falling off a log, and apparently, so did Jesus think of his path. To make any kind of spiritual progress, or to understand spiritual progress, should not require rigorous philosophical thinking, or intuitions outside of one's daily experie...

Good question. I hope that those who post remember that old adage: “It takes few words to speak the truth.” Lorenzo, I am afraid you are under the influence of - as Steiner would say - "the demon who loves the easy path". You will admit it, it's quite convenient to rest on that old adage....

Good question. I hope that those who post remember that old adage: “It takes few words to speak the truth.”

This is not an issue of physicalism vs various flavors of idealism, nor does finding life require intuitive thinking, most human beings can walk through a landscape and easily find life. If Saturn were a living being, or if there were a god of lightning, it shouldn’t require special abilities to spo...

The really interesting thing to me is that, because Bernardo refuses to seriously understand the Cosmos and its archetypes as living, supra-intelligent, and intentional agencies, he is forced to write articles with conclusions like this below, because he still maintains a duality between Earthly ph...

The really interesting thing to me is that, because Bernardo refuses to seriously understand the Cosmos and its archetypes as living, supra-intelligent, and intentional agencies, he is forced to write articles with conclusions like this below, because he still maintains a duality between Earthly ph...

... A classic example where self-reference is mentioned is as follow: You first look at a unicorn. Then, you reflect on you looking at the unicorn. This is a trivial and easy to understand example. Fortunately, in order to show the unformalizability of self-reference we don’t need any more complica...

I hesitate to recommend a book I have not read, but you might look into the book "Laws of Form" by George Spencer-Brown - he uses math\logic to construct reality and does so with fundamentals more 'primitive' than your model. If interested, you might begin with a set of videos: https://www...