The present_theoretical is a math tactic, but its scope of influence needs to be contained lest it distort clear perception of the present_natural. Th...
There's some difficulty of communication of your theory because verbal language, being about actions and actors and thus being rooted in animation, do...
I'm trying to picture what it means for temporal experience to be distinct from a world timeless. If the present is outside of time, how can observati...
So, time -- if it exists, and it may not -- can only approach the present from the past, or from the future, without arriving. You say the present is ...
I'm mulling over the idea that time as you describe it above doesn't exist at any time: the present exists outside of time; the past, once the non-exi...
Interesting character arc for Greystone: at first confidence on the cusp of arrogance; next, courage within the toothy maw of challenge; now deep insi...
So, it's a maybe on you thinking time is a first cause. Time is a universal context, unless you can think of something that exists outside of time. Th...
Your inclusion of the adverb reads like a hedge on your commitment to denial of cons_creative as the first cause. Why don't you share with me the fine...
Okay. So, cons_creative precedes cons_reactive, which is to say, cons_creative causes cons_reactive. Is this a correct reading of what you intend to c...
You're argument is rooted in a series: What's the reason for the rule's existence? Can you provide an example of a dialog that occurs outside of consc...
Note - What Cons Does: Examining in Overview by Analogy If quantum reality supports our empirical GUI, which we call reality, then, by analogy, we can...
You know that you perceive what you call reality in accordance with the cognitive constructions of your mind. Since the basis for what you know is you...
Regarding what you know, you can't transcend the scope of your consciousness. Everything you describe examples an organized perception of reality know...
Consider a symbol whose rule for its interpretation is lost. Though meaningless, the symbol still exists. Consider a symbol whose rule for its interpr...
A person cannot follow a pattern without having a purpose. This is true even if the purpose of the pattern is simply cycling through the pattern and m...
I agree with what you say. So, where are we now? Well, maybe it's easier to see that in the supposed noumenal world of Kant, existing things dwell in ...
First, you talk about consciousness as something reacting to a reality at least partially independent of it. Second, you talk about consciousness as s...
Interesting premise. Consider: If medical science could surgically reduce the human brain to the limited power of sustaining only the unconscious nerv...
Here I take you to mean existence must be perceived logically, not egotistically. With some nuance, I agree with this premise. My gut reaction, so far...
This is the story of a prisoner who seeks liberation from her imprisonment. The quest for freedom is one of the central themes within the whole of lit...
Yes. As described by Einstein's equation: E=MC^2 we're navigating our way around a reality populated by the mass/energy binary. Mass is the particle f...
If I lock you in a room and then leave the scene, does the apparent boundary line between your location and mine really exist? Let's assume the appare...
Some agents kidnap and tie you to a chair in an empty warehouse at a deserted mall. Tied to one leg of your chair is a bomb on a timer. You've got fif...
In reference to my quote at top, can you not distinguish the intentions of the perpetrator, who inflicts great pain upon you, from your own intentions...
Existence is simply a sequence of moments stocked with endless details? The observer, being wise, will not succumb to anxiety about outcomes? The open...
I think the empirical experience of inflicted acute pain, physical or emotional, does an effective job of locating the position and boundaries of the ...
I'm supposing you're finding that my statement suffers from circular reasoning. If I'm reading you correctly, you hold at least some sympathy for "wok...
Yes. With today's youth on the front lines, humanity faces radical changes to identity beliefs and values as science and technology make an ever close...
Consider: Self/Other binary ? the limit of the non-local is consciousness. Let me try to explain my hypothesis by referencing it for comparison to: ph...
I need to change my definition as follows: The word changes do not alter the meaning of the definition except to make it a more accurate description: ...
The way I defined "and" does not say "A = A." Here's the correct translation of my verbal equation to a math equation: Given A, A (two unconnected, id...
In a relationship between a thing and a sign that points to it, we find meaning. At the fight club, guys engage with each other in bare-knuckle fighti...
multiple | ?m?lt?p(?)l | adjective having or involving several parts, elements, or members The Apple Dictionary If you configure a circle of any size,...
As I understand your Collingwood quote, the formatted configuration of the referent populating our thought is the cognition itself, not the external t...
It's interesting how radically life, with threat of death removed, loses value and therefore meaning. It motivates me a long way towards claiming time...
My notion of consciousness, as boundary administrator for the everyday picture of reality, casts it in the role of a mechanism of perceptual organizat...
As I'm thinking about it, the values are the conclusions. Consider drinking water and eating food. Of course, the sentient periodically experiences th...
It seems to me obvious that self-awareness is the platform supporting the entire edifice of morality. Since it concerns proper behavior in society, mo...
I'm wondering if antinatalism is an extreme form of pessimism. If so, then being born and surviving through a normal lifespan means submerging into a ...
I see that Schopenhauer's vision of salvation requires abstraction from causality. I'm struggling to see how this isn't another way of saying that, fo...
It seems to me that, given the above, Christianity's Gospel cannot be served up to the masses (as we are taught); salvation cannot be be reeled in lik...
Your Schopenhauer quote says interesting things in the way of clarification: self transcendence -- as I'm getting it at the moment -- entails a journe...
I hear you saying social engagement is overrated because it causes more problems than it solves. I wonder if human nature might forestall isolation as...
"Represent" has meaning in more than one sense, depending on context. There's the sense of "represent" as "to speak for" in lieu of another. This sens...
Let me refer to what I said at the end of the last part that I posted: the physics of a material world, beyond mentally constructed information suppor...
By GUI I mean incandescent monitor displaying animated graphics and text streaming from a computer. Since you think GUI dimensionless and immaterial, ...
Maybe you, like I, can benefit by further examining what you mean by internal/external. In your quote directly above, I see that you're thinking throu...
If the deductive information is a logically correct derivative of the input information about the world, then barring emergence and supervenience, we ...
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