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Thanks, prothero. I ran into the article you linked to yesterday, always thought it was well written. :-)

Thanks, prothero. I have been doing just that, reading Elizabeth Kraus's book The Metaphysics of Experience and focusing in on Whitehead's take on per...

A 6-month-later followup to this thread, the answer to which might require familiarity with Buddhism. Is this accurate: Buddhists say true existents h...

Even if we don't find a sentient-being civilization to decimate, we could always trash the planet itself. ;-) Sorry for being so silly in your thread....

Sounds Star-Trekian! Let's just make sure we don't go 'out there' with the drive to conquer and subjugate this time, okay?

Defending the planet against an alien (the ultimate immigrants) invasion? ;-) I think we're (globally) in for a rough Fourth Turning ride for a while....

Some people derive pleasure from remaining in a harmful situation. They spin it into a story of the nobility of suffering, or of the struggle of a hum...

God, what's that, I never mentioned any God ... but that's best left for another discussion. ;-)

You mean our commentary on HZ's current view on consciousness? That's what I tried to do ... in a tangential kind of way, by suggesting another way of...

Another way to look at it is that there is one consciousness that flows through a vast multitude of individual brain-body-minds, like sunlight refract...

I really like the notion that an artist is a collective-level dreamer who shares his/her dreams with the collective: world, culture, society, tribe, e...

Not in order of yumminess: Petrushka, Stravinsky - because it's exquisite as music and as ballet Matthäus-Passion, Bach - I have a strong personal con...

Um, well, uhhhhh ... now that you put it that way, how could anyone disagree? Just one question: Am I God? (Hence my avatar?) Because if I am, shame o...

Thank God for God ... without whose Godly unbroken observation of ALL, things would keep popping in and out of existence!

How do you know?

Recorded.

It's a really interesting challenge, right: Follow the conductor's pacing and phrasing while simultaneously following your own internal pacing and phr...

Yes, civilization, the world created by humans. Yes ... but I was imagining each musician playing subjectively with musical time. Crash and burn! ;-) ...

Imagine if the world ran on subjective/experienced time. Symphonies would fall apart halfway through. Email packets would arrive and assemble whenever...

From our (humans) point of view, there is a huge difference between subjective/experienced time and objective/clock time. One 360-degree sweep of the ...

Okay, I admit it: I'm a regular contributor to the Akashic Records.

The Wittgenstein bubble should have been blank.

No worries, it's just the Fourth Turning. Sit back and relax for another decade or so, weather the storm ... and all shall be reborn in another First ...

He'd probably bust a gasket if he heard your Meh. ;-) I get the sense of a BIG ego operating here ... but of course I could be utterly wrong. I looked...

! ;-) I am a professor (well, an adjunct, does that count?) ... but not THAT professor! And my days of trying to stir things WAY up are long gone. (Th...

Is Anti-PC the new PC?

Yes it’s an Advaita question. And yes, both the question and an appropriate answer to it are context-bound. And one more time yes, the disconnect in t...

In non-dual circles it is often said that consciousness is the ultimate substrate, i.e. that everything is (made of) consciousness. When you ask a non...

I feel like a guy who's walked into a room of sommeliers and asks: "Umm ... how do I get the cork out of this here bottle?" I apologize for not being ...

1. "What you know can't hurt you." 2. "What you don't know can hurt you." I agree with 2. A lot of our suffering comes from psycho-emotional stuff swi...

But every arrangement of Y consists solely of ... Y. No? (If an arrangement of Y is, in turn, a more deeply nested arrangement, this nested arrangemen...

Yes, you're right, I'll be more careful. I was diagnosed with OCD 20 years ago. So when I refer to "my OCD" I know of what I speak. I like to talk abo...

Yes, mixing metaphors, that sounds right. But I'm not sure how else to get at what I'm trying to get at. What is the essence of a marble statue? 1. Ma...

Apologies for dropping out of a conversation I started ... but the material started to go over my head at some point. I'm'a hafta read all the posting...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the thread. I was originally going to respond to each response, but that would be a little too OCD, even for me...

You are saying that X consists solely of Y and X is Y are nontrivially different. It's pretty clear what X consists of Y means. So what does X is Y me...

To what extent is it 'valid' to say: Their forms are different, but in essence they are both just marble.

Wayfarer, The OP was not clear ... or at least my intent behind it. Lemme try again: To what extent can one reduce the 'essence' of an object to that ...

Let's say you've got two blocks of pure Carrara marble. One is carved into an exquisite sculpture by a master artist. The other is left untouched. To ...

And this is kind of what I'm trying to get at. If X consists solely of Y, does it make sense to say X *is* Y? A diamond is carbon. Michelangelo's Davi...

Thought thinks?

This might sound like a goofy question, but there's a reason I'm asking it ... which I'll share a bit later on.

apokrisis: Not speaking for Whitehead, but for process thinking in general, the problem for the process view is how does "atomistic" individuation ari...

raza: I'm very much with you on this. That said, I love words and symbols!

I'm happy to share my view/belief/feeling about this ... but you might not like it! The answer to both: the Mystery. Or, because it sounds so gorgeous...

Thanks, Janus! What I get from this (with respect to my original questions) is that no-thing (no unchanging substance) exists in the present moment. E...

Thanks, fdrake.

> You can find argument for your own non-existence, whether temporal or physical, if that's what you want. But it's not very useful; if nothing else y...