Re: My work on consciousness
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:36 pm
Cosmin,Cosmin Visan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:01 pm I'm answering you here from the reincarnation topic, so we don't be off-topic there.
That's exactly what I think it happens. And I talk about this in my presentation at SAND: at minute 20:27. Obviously, English is not my native language.
Actually, I like Berkeley's use of the term "idea" by which he referred to all qualia. That's where also the term "idealism" comes from instead of "qualism", from the fact that all that exists are ideas/meanings. Because an animal when he sees objects around him, the colors of those objects are united holistically by the ideas of those objects, even though the animal might not have the same rational capacity of humans to talk about ideas in abstract ways. Yet the unification still happens, because ideas are not only what can be thought of by using human reason.
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What I'm wondering is: given that extra sensory perception exists, why is not all perception extra sensory ? So in principle a blind could see even without eyes, but something is limiting him, I don't know what. But yes, probably there are states of consciousness in which one has access to the entire universe. But why the limitations then I wonder ? Just for God to have fun and put himself in all possible situations, including limitations and suffering
Thank you! I sense we are moving in a productive and mutually illuminating direction here. I will watch your video later tonight.
For now, I will say I agree with what you write above, except we need to be careful with "only what can be thought of by using human reason". In my experience, here the intellect can take our logic in unintended directions. For ex, we may start feeling human reason forms concepts internal to the "personal mind" and tries to match them with the "external" reality of objects, i.e. it is only creating models of an objective reality existing mostly independent of it. Since our mineralized concepts clearly cannot model a 4-D reality of holistic ideas which structures the entire phenomenal world, we feel human thinking must come up against a hard boundary which it cannot cross (this is Kantian epistemic tradition).
But you have already mitigated this issue by the questions of your 2nd comment. You have reasoned (and let's not forget it is your own reason which is asking these questions and perceiving that they are reasonable to ask because they could have discernable answers) that something is limiting our "extra sensory" perception, but it can't necessarily be declared a fundamental limitation of Reality or Thinking itself. Perhaps there are other more localized forces at work here. Certainly the fact that 'God' may be awakening to Himself through us is a critical factor to consider. And, if this is the case, who is to say the Divine Spirit within us stopped evolving in the 19th century?
These are some initial questions to consider for now, until I have a chance to watch the video and better understand your position.