Actually I should add a few points. 'Existentialism' is not a school or tradition or theory. It's a mood, an attitude, a type. It literally means 'gra...
When you go to the hardware store, do you have to ask the nice man to open the cabinet to sell you the spray paint? Hence the 'observer problem' - tha...
There are many religious existentials who by no means 'omit God from the picture'. Or they may claim that God is not something which can be part of a ...
Just want to amplify one more point about the above. It is in relation to concepts, and how concepts relate to religious or spiritual discernment or u...
You've explained your belief that 'all religions are false', but I don't share it. Sure, religions are a mixture of history, myth, superstition and ma...
My take is that decoherence explains why Schrödinger’s cat is never actually both dead and alive, but it doesn’t resolve the fundamental role of obser...
Some refs to Howard Pattee: https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/pattee/ https://www.academia.edu/234713/The_Physics_and_Metaph...
The Wall Street Journal is a Murdoch paper, is it not? More likely crying crocodile tears over the poor benighted black population to feed meat to the...
I acknowledge that all forms of lockdown and restriction of movement are an infringement on civll liberties, but in light of the severity of this illn...
That assumes there is such a thing. Perspective is what rational sentient beings bring to the picture. ‘A physicist is an atom’s way of looking at its...
The philosophical term ‘substance’ is not the same as the ordinary language definition. In ordinary language, substance is ‘a material with uniform pr...
This is what I keep trying to point out. You cannot explain ‘the observer’, because ‘the observer’ is implicit in any observation. By trying to explai...
Backwards. The observer exists already, you can't explain what you're seeing without reference to the observer. So you can't explain the observer in t...
Right. So, divest yourself of consciousness, and then tell us what really is fundamental. But you can't test it. You can't go into a lab, or into the ...
This track features Steven Stills, just before Crosby Still and Nash was formed, and Al Kooper, singing and playing organ, who around that time formed...
Indian religions say that recall of previous lives is something that ascetics are able to obtain. Accordingly such texts as the Bardo Thodol are belie...
Well, I think declaring that rocks cognise anything is the height of folly, myself. See again, your ‘definitions’ are so broad that all meaningful dis...
I've cited one of the Howard Pattee papers you mentioned a few times, specifically this passage: Pattee mentions Descartes' dualism, but says (rightly...
Consider the famous essay by Bertrand Russell at the dawn of the 20th Century: This became the theme of an enormous range of literature, drama, art an...
It bears resemblance to the idea of the Logos, the Tao, Dharma - a principle of organisation which can only be discerned in its effects, never in its ...
You should know that Apokrisis is a published author in this field, although that particular author, Marcello Barbieri, has a different approach to th...
'Vaccinated People May Spread the Virus, Though Rarely.' Perhaps their freedom of movement may also be curtailed, though less so. Perhaps 'social dist...
Last night's Media Watch program - a TV program that monitors reporting and media across Australia - noted that there's been a 180 degree turnaround i...
Does an Understanding of Comparative Religion Have any Important Contribution to Philosophy? Definitely. Alduous Huxley, whom you mentioned, made the ...
But the OP says: So - what is the 'substance'? The passage you quote says 'It does not make any sense to talk about reality without the INFORMATION ab...
In that article, the application to ‘information’ is mainly in respect of using entanglement to provide secure communications a.k.a. ‘quantum cryptogr...
I myself wasn't saying that natural science was confused about this notion, but that the effort to understand everything in terms of information, as g...
Thanks! My own field of study was first comparative religion, then Buddhist Studies. But the point I started out trying to make was the emphasis on 's...
Even though I can see your point, I think ‘subjectivity’ is the wrong term. ‘Subjectivity’ implies taking one’s own predilections and inclinations too...
:rofl: You think a monk in his cell is 'escaping reality', then you have a serious problem of understanding. I don't include 'paranormal investigation...
I think what you're referring to here is the faculty of judgement. That is the faculty that synthesises sensory data into judgements, including elemen...
I found an article online by a biological theorist, Marcello Barbieri,What is information? It starts off with: The advantage of this approach is that ...
OK - I should have said ‘non-dualism’, not ‘yoga’. Yoga is middle class folks in expensive tracksuits doing Downward facing Dog. I had in mind more th...
A joke explained is a joke lost. Sorry - stupid thing to say. What I mean to say is that the benefits of meditation don't have any utility beyond them...
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