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Here's an index of the Dialogues in which the forms are discussed. The key dialogue is Plato's Parmenides. On a very general note, this lecture, Lloyd...

Re 'the person' - Cultural differentiation is something that occurs over centuries, individual differentiation over lifetimes. The various depictions ...

The idea of the forms has always been very elusive. I'm intending to do more reading on the topic.

Thanks for your interest, and a very good point. There's an essay I often cite, 'What's Wrong with Ockham', by Joshua Hothschild, which unfortunately ...

Jesus was not 'convinced of his divine powers'. When asked, he demurred - 'It is not I that is good'. And when he suffered on the Cross, he cried out ...

I have heard, from critical scholarship, that the 'eye of the needle' was a gate in the wall of the Old City, and that the camel in the parable was fu...

It being Easter, there was a famous underdog, born into lowly circumstances, died a horrible death, betrayed by one of his supposed friends. (Forgive ...

I was reading a criticism yesterday which said that Jung was a greater enemy of religion that Freud. — In Quest of Catholicity: Malachi Martin Respond...

You can transmit enormous amounts of information using light as a carrier - that’s how fibre-optic cables work, they’re the backbone of the internet. ...

The way that saying came down to me was ‘my life has been a whole series of crises, most of which never occurred’. I always took it to mean that many ...

Thanks, but don't hold your breath! It's a tricky subject and some of the books I'm reading about it are diabollically complex. Although perhaps rathe...

which, from the article you've linked, is described as 'a confident path to the Deathless. That path includes not only time-proven guidance, but also ...

'recording' requires encoding, meaning storage of information. As photons are simple, i.e. not composed of parts, how could they support a complex ope...

Sounds more like the momentary dhammas of some Buddhist schools - each moment of experience arises and passes away in an instant, although the Buddha ...

Ah yes, Future Shock. Might be interesting to revisit Toffler, to see how his predictions played out. No, but it looks interesting. He was a breakthro...

The book I was referring to was The Naked Ape, published in the mid-60's, and one of my main sources of sex education when I was about 12. It points o...

You’re working within the representative realist notion where ideas stand for, or represent, things. Physicists went out to explore just those ‘object...

More along these lines. Although I don't know if I have the chops.

‘There would be no fool’s gold if there was no gold’ ~ Rumi.

I think Watts’ book Wisdom of Insecurity was mainly concerned with that very question. (Even if his alcoholism makes you wonder if he was really capab...

Actually, dogs, unlike humans, only copulate when the female is in heat. Without those pheremones, dogs are not the least interested. Humans are uniqu...

Actually I tend more to the conservative view although I don't dictate it. Morality can't be reduced to merely objective judgement, as objective judgm...

This brought to mind a powerful essay from The Hedgehog Review two years ago, The Strange Persistence of Guilt, Wilfred McClay. Perhaps this too is a ...

:up: (I too don’t much like the word ‘spiritual’ but there’s not many equivalents in the lexicon, I suppose ‘ecstatic’ is actually a pretty good candi...

you need more line breaks in your text. It looks like the Terms and Conditions of an insurance contract, never mind what it says.

Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times opinion writer, published an op called The Children of Pornhub in Dec 2020. This created a lot of waves, notably th...

what is the connection with the subject matter? How do you know it's not your ISP or a config issue with your home internet?

I've started Kierkegaard's 'Concept of Anxiety', but can't shake the feeling that anxiety/angst/dread is simply what the Buddha terms dukkha. I will p...

Some notes on Hadot from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://iep.utm.edu/hadot/ Agree with the opening line. I think analytical philosoph...

Absolutely not. ‘All the words or concepts we use to describe ordinary physical objects, such as position, velocity, color, size, and so on, become in...

Porn is a habit, but not all habits are porn.

Quantum physics could never have been discovered without maths. Interpretation of the meaning of QM is another matter, but without the mathematics the...

You’re trolling. It’s a meaningless distinction, a distinction without a difference.

Yes, you’re right.

Yeah makes wonder why phycisists went to all the trouble of devising new form of mathematics and symbolic forms to express concepts that literally cou...

Thanks. I don't agree with your rejection of platonic realism, however. As far as I know, Plato never placed dianoia - mathematical and discursive kno...

You don’t say! No, seriously, I understand. There’s disputes over whether ‘addiction’ is the right word, but there can’t be any dispute that it’s stro...

Yeah, I know! That’s why I think it’s a good title! You know that well-known quote by Arthur Eddington, ‘the stuff of the world is mind-stuff’. There’...

More work to be done, indeed, but something is emerging. BTW I’ve just discovered an exceptional science writer by the name of Timothy Ferris, who’s b...

Eisenstein? :chin: Albert Einstein often made his feelings clear on God. Here's some examples: Along similar lines: However, just to balance things up...

Quite. I have acquired an edition of Anxiety now and will proceed with it.

One thing I would like to run by you. I looked into the Kierkegaard text you mentioned on anxiety, which actually does complement those essays I menti...

I watched a video interview with McGilchrist, he makes sense to me. Glad to see people of that stature exploring such ideas. There's an earlier book, ...

I think that the majority of posters on this forum would naturally assume that the mind is the product of the evolved brain. This is the issue I'm wan...

I get the impression he's a rung above Tyson in terms of credentials and scientific accomplishment. I have read some critical reviews of his last book...

Also worth knowing about Iain McGilchrist The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

And a camera! What wasn’t, was a means of transmitting it seamlessly to billions of screens simultaneously.

I have a first edition of the Rosalind Rajagopal Sloss book. I was very dissappointed by it (although bear in mind that Krishnamurti never preached ce...

There was a social phenomena during the mid 20th century, called ‘the sexual revolution’. As I’m born in the fifties, I’m aware of it, but many born i...

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