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Surely. I will say denominations of Buddhism have (and will) push away countless people, including ones such as yourself beyond qualified to take this...

Cheers to you!! I’m very curious to hear your interpretation of Buddhist philosophy, it very much falls in this realm. This is not the appropriate thr...

Precisely. It is difficult to reject the seduction of direct experience- it is in some cases self-proving and axiomatic. However, there is the rare oc...

appreciate the kind words Banno. This specific response was lost on me amongst the many unintentional pages belonging to this thread, however I view i...

so I’ve understood lol!

so I’ve come to realize although admittedly the various spawned conversation topics have been very interesting.

I really think everyone is over-thinking my initial thought. I mean nothing more to say than that our individual subjective experience of “red” may di...

Banno I believe we speak the same exact language here. So long as a medium exists which allows us to agree on “red” then the similarity/difference bet...

I agree, “red” can mean many things, there are many different shades upon the light frequency that would all be considered “red” but have a distinct d...

perhaps the answer to this takes a realism vs. idealism aspect. Under the umbrella of realism- red must represent some state of external reality that ...

absolutely. If someone doesn’t understand “wavelength of x is actually what red is” all they are actually speaking of is their visual experience of re...

thus the intrigue I have with this question. What is red but a word we’ve agreed to call something that looks red? From a materialistic perspective, r...

certainly, but moreover “red” being merely a word representing an experience that may or may not be the same. I really do appreciate the time you’ve t...

we can call red a “color.” The experience of red may differ however. I’d rather not fall into semantic rabbit holes

color blindness to me is a phenomenon that even more posits my question. Unless put to certain tests specifically designed to determine colorblindness...

well, we can switch the word “perception” with “experience,” perhaps that word would be more appropriate. There wouldn’t necessarily be any “implicati...

I agree it wouldn’t have any meaningful impact to how our day-to-day lives work, nor would it ever. It’s more of an interesting thought exercise, whic...

the light wavelength that equals “red” is universal- that doesn’t change, and which is why when I ask you for the red pen you would know the exact pen...

I think you know what I’m trying to get at. We both agree the pen is “red,” but because we’ve been conditioned to agree it is red. But what we actuall...

but our personal experience of the color red may very well differ from the actual experience of the same light wavelength another may have, which we’v...

Agreed. Do you think the relative conveniences a base-12 system would offer could have possibly lubricated our understanding of mathematics/physics to...

I would refute by stating that we have agreed to call a specific light frequency as “red” however the subjective experience of this “red” that others ...

when speaking about base numbers, what advantages do you posit would come from utilizing base 12 over 10?

I think this might be the kind of thing I was looking for!!

is 10 a different type of number compared to 12? Simply by way of it doesn’t split evenly in the same way it’s higher orders do, the way 12 does?

I think my question pervades the specific maths. It’s almost a metaphysical question- how can the pure simple number 10 defy it’s premise of even 1/2’...

Perhaps this is a “why is the sky blue” kind of question. I don’t fully understand why, but for some reason this discrepancy bothers me. It feels like...

im not sure how else to digest this, I would simply say that why do higher orders of base-10 divide evenly into 1/2 and 1/4 while the number 10 itself...

yes, I guess my struggle is with the fact that the smallest unit of base 10 cannot be divided evenly except into 1/2, unless that base 10 unit exceeds...

wow man, I am in no way qualified to even engage with your response, I’m a mere layperson with some questions that popped up pertaining to the attache...

as much as I appreciate your insight, I am perplexed at the unnecessarily demeaning tone with which many on this site choose to provide their response...

not really to me, the art of combat seems fundamentally different than the art of something like soccer. One is to be the symbolic force of your will ...

that’s a great point! Although that seems more in the realm of strategy (chess etc) rather than contemplation of reality.

I recommend looking into Rupert Spira’s teachings. Ultimately, “I” is something to be demarcated from the idea of one’s self, which is simply a mental...

Hello, I believe you misunderstood what I meant by infinity. I meant the endless transformation of phenomena, the constantly changing form that phenom...

Thank you Josh!

I also very much appreciate this post, Gnomon. I look forward to looking more into your cited works.

Thank you all for your responses. For me, eternity is more of an experience, hence why I “know” it to be true (by “know I simply mean for me, obviousl...

Death isn’t to fear, no, without death there is no life. The constant transformation of phenomena is why life even “is.” There is no such the as life ...