Philosophical Speculations

Can one go anywhere free from speculations or postulates of any sorts in philosophy? I don't know about philosophy but we can certainly do that in phenomenology. When thinking is kept completely distinct from the spectrum of phenomena, we have the inner duality between the philosopher, knower, who ...

I don't understand the disconnection you are pointing to, other than perhaps, again, in opposition to Kant. You say: ‘he has disconnected ideas and ideation (subject) from will/perceptions (objects)’. I understand he puts perceptions on the subject side, and will too, on the subject side. There is ...

See, whatever we discuss here, be it meditative or non-dual or other mystical experiences, or philosophical discourse, or NDE accounts, you always refute them saying "no-no, that's all the products of your low-order cognition of individual egoic minds and abstract thinking, but I'm talking abo...

How can I understand what is meant by it if I have no direct experience of it? It's like asking a blind person to understand what it meant by "red color" It's not the same, Eugene. There are things which are indeed function of karmic circumstances, like being born as the king's son or bei...

I can resonate with much of this. Just to be clear, while I feel that two poets could encounter the same Poetry , so to speak, their unique talents, vocabularies, sensibilities, muses, etc, would result in two novel takes on that Poetry , and thus two distinctive poems. This is really at the core o...

Cleric, I think you still grossly misunderstand what I'm saying. I can give a simple analogy: an orchestra where there is a musical score - the global constraints, structures and attractors, there is a conductor - a higher-order being that keeps the global flow going and makes sure every performer ...

To make a hint about the nature of what's at hand here, we should point attention to something we do quite habitually when thinking about these things. We're very well aware how sensitive the topic about hierarchies is. People immediately picture a power struggle and no matter how hard one tries, no...

You described a progression of self-similar states where a given frame contains embedded within itself the patterns of others. Stated differently, a successor state doesn't have a discontinuity with respect to prior states....except when it comes to the absolute state. The absolute state doesn't se...

There are definitely structures/curvatures/attractors in the universe of meanings just like there are laws and structures in the physical realm. Yet, in both realms these are only frameworks, they shape but do not pre-determine the process of the unfolding of life. There is so-called "butterfl...

I'm trying to understand the dilema here . . . For example, as I sit here and look out my window, over the course of a few minutes, there are a large number of impressions, configuration of birds, plants, joggers, visual and auditory, etc. Is the question: Did each of these impressions already exis...