Philosophical Speculations

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...

We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. The claim that aliens must necessarily see their sun as yellow and sky as blue is baseless, doesn't even rise to the l...

Curious, did you read this theory(s) somewhere or are you making this up? It doesn't pass any basic smell test. Why ? We haven't encountered any alien life forms, much less one with a visual apparatus. We certainly have not interviewed any alien life form, tried to map their colors with ours, etc. ...

.... The gray apple in front of the animal turned red because red has the meaning of "important" and the leaves turned green because green contrasts maximally with red and thus enhances the finding of food. Similar for yellow and blue for the Sun and the sky. Yellow looks yellow because i...

If they had brought diapers, blankets and wine - then they'd really be wise.

This is the approach of modern initiation that we have been speaking about, which is a continuation of the ancient mysteries but at the level of lucid thought, i.e. at the level of activity that we feel creatively responsible for directing. What happens when we die? The subtle bodies separate from ...