Punshhh

Yes, I’ve already realised this. It’s almost like prose.

The difference between the action of gravity on our experience and the action of a universal mind, for example, may be that one appears in the externa...

Thanks, but my laptop has been in the drawer for the last few years. I only use an IPad now.

I’ve read the passages you mentioned, he’s explaining how in considering time and causation we can conclude that things have an existence in themselve...

There are ways around this*, you know how gravity works at a distance, but absent the theory of relativity, there is no known physical mechanism by wh...

Thanks, I was just about getting my head around it. I’m there now. Sounds about right for how I treat the issue.

Thanks for linking to the text, I’ll have a look.

I’m finding this almost unintelligible. Can you summarise in layman’s terms what is being said about these boundaries? I’m new to Kant, so haven’t yet...

Well I’ve had a look at what the Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy has to say about it; From point 6.1; From point 6.2; https://plato.stanford.edu/...

It was a joke, about people looking at the same thing from different perspectives.

So is it the case that whenever this perspective is proposed, it invariably originated from a study of Eastern religious ideas? I would use the word o...

Yes, this crisis/initiation is foundational in Eastern religions and spirituality. It’s promising to see that philosophers are making it over this hur...

You’re both looking down different ends of the telescope. That’s why it looks different.

YES, I HEAR YOU, I UNDERSTAND. I’ll have take your word for that for now, until I’ve read more about it. Agreed, I have been doing the same from a dif...

So there may be a sqircle somewhere, but because we can’t frame it, we can’t say it exists. Because to say it exists we would have to define (definiti...

This is why in mysticism the intellect, like the ego is held on a leash and is only of secondary importance (while acknowledging that they are necessa...

I’m freeing myself from belief. Yes beliefs in their barest form as you define them are used and required in carrying out the necessities of life. But...

Pun is in my name (;-)

No worries, I enjoy what you write. I was using the phrase to say that I hold as few beliefs as I can get away with. I would rather do away with the w...

I did say; ‘ I don’t hold beliefs other than what beliefs are necessary to live a life.’ So here is my belief system. Also beliefs are intellectually ...

Believe is a vague term, so I can’t answer that without a definition. I don’t hold beliefs other than what beliefs are necessary to live a life. Howev...

Know independently, yes. I was referring to the spiritual teachings. As to my own beliefs (I don’t hold beliefs, rather I seek wisdom), part of my pre...

Yes, l presupposed that sa?s?ra was part of maya forgetting its root. Thanks for putting me right.

But we were always going to hit this wall once straying into Buddhism. In Buddhism this whole world of appearances is nothing but maya. So how can the...

Sorry, I meant, is there a good reason not to believe in a demiurge. I’m happy to keep religion and spirituality to one side. Yes, I see now. I was in...

Well, putting religion and spirituality to one side, no. But is there a good reason not to? I don’t see what belief has got to do with this, surely if...

The Ontic structural realism, may be external and pre-existing to the perception of humanity (or any beings on earth), but intrinsic (internal and not...

This all sounds great, they are good ideas and pretty much everyone here would agree with the gist of it and already knew about it before you arrived....

I was referring to you, who says lots of things about the one and then says they are true etc. I said it makes sense, not that I agreed with it. I rem...

I was just getting ready to start discussing the pro’s and cons of Everythingism versus Nothingism with him. I’m not sure that would have enriched our...

Belly laugh!!

I only adopted this position once you had agreed with me that nought can be said. If we are both in agreement about something, then we can take it as ...

I’m not the only one. Yes, I’m not denying that, with the use of infinity as you define it here. It all makes perfect sense and I have had a lot of th...

Apologies for not having read all of your posts, or your book. But unfortunately all I keep seeing is you saying things about the one about whom nough...

Yes, but I would draw back to the idea of the organism and natural selection working in lockstep. And that of the two, the one which was adapting was ...

-Punshhh But you have said a lot about the one about which nought may be said. Isn’t that a contradiction?

We are getting there now. What you are describing is the one about which nought may be said.

Yes, but the lineage hasn’t finished yet. Who knows where it will go in the future. Although, when it comes to the devastation of the planet, that tur...

Not minds in the usual sense of the word. But an agency, which wouldn’t be present if there were no life at all. Even with natural selection there wou...

Well maybe we need to look at our definition of mind again. Because there was some kind of intelligence going on. An intelligent and strategic respons...

Think about it like this. If life had not evolved at all on earth, today the planet would be just rock and sand with sterile oceans. There would not h...

Perhaps what these people are talking about is always skirting around the edge of the truth of the matter. Whenever one takes aim, the attempt glances...

What is infinite about this? It’s just one. Or if it’s a singularity, what is infinite about it? Yes, I know what infinity is, it’s a concept. It desc...

There are numerous problems with the use of infinity here. One is a number and infinity in maths is about large quantities of numbers, or divisions of...

There is one word which doesn’t fit here, it’s the word “infinite”. It actually signifies the opposite of what you mean to convey.

It has tendency to slip into that.

Is navel gazing frowned upon now. Whatever next!

Interesting, I hadn’t realised that philosophy had gone this far. Has a vocabulary been developed, for this subject?

Yes and we know how difficult it is to prove something.

Well we have a narrative of process, rather like our interpretation of ourselves, it is an interpretation. It can be refined through experience and tr...