Tag: philosophy
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Analytical idealism explained.
An excellent presentation of the work of my favourite philosopher, Bernardo Kastrup. I think this is perhaps the most accurate model of reality we have right now.
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The science of consciousness.
I think this is a really good overview of the latest understandings in quantum science and consciousness ( don’t be put off by the ‘technical’ language in some parts). Watch it through and you will gain some appreciation of how science is beginning to understand that consciousness is not produced by the brain, that we…
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Less wired, more weird.
I don’t talk about it much here anymore, but I’m still enthusiastically exploring alternate deep routes. Trying to grok the suchness of life. For example, here are my current views on a range of anomalous phenomena rated from 1 ( exceedingly unlikely) to 10 (exceedingly likely verging on veridical). Of course, this is a high-level,…
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The dude on the hill.
I wrote a whole post about this old viral video. One of my fave things of all time. But it was way too many words….if you know you know. This is an alternate view of the event (original here) that just showed up in my feed. And I experienced the joy all over again. The…
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Conflict and resolution.
Conflict has come from our thought, and it has evolved over the whole period of civilization. Thought has developed in such a way that it has an intrinsic disposition to divide things up…We could sum up by saying that we’ve got to look at thought. In this process, we will come upon some more subtle…
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This deranged age.
When I was in High School there was a popular educational TV science show called ‘Why Is It So?” that was hosted by Professor Julius Sumner Miller (here is a clip from the show). I remember in one episode he asked his panel of smartypants students why it was NOT possible to have a universal…
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