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Jack Cummins

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It is interesting that you resuscitated this thread because I have been thinking about the theism/debate recently. It is an extremely complex area and...
August 27, 2025 at 05:29
I agree that sexuality is such a wide spectrum range from biology, psychology and culture. However, in thinking about narcissism the psychology aspect...
August 21, 2025 at 15:29
I am not sure to what extent Bergson's idea of mind as 'filter' can be taken literally. It is speculative in the sense that one can only pinpoint the ...
August 21, 2025 at 06:22
Defining 'mind' is extremely problematic and entire volumes have been written with this aim by Hegel and so many writers, including Gilbert Ryle's 'Co...
August 19, 2025 at 18:08
Without a brain there is no imagination or capacity to reflect, as you point out. Imagination and reflection are process related. I am wondering wheth...
August 19, 2025 at 04:06
Yes, I am probably 'wrong' to speak of some beings or objects as more 'real' than others. It would come down to the issue of more 'real' for whom? Con...
August 19, 2025 at 03:36
I am sorry if you don't understand my argument. Part of this may come down to how 'objects'are understood. Are they as real as conscious beings; or mo...
August 18, 2025 at 21:12
Generally, respect of others is important. It is complicated when ideas are so much in conflict. Part of the art may be about seeing the positive argu...
August 18, 2025 at 20:47
Quantum.fields may be important in understanding of consciousness and panpsychism. It is this aspect which may be significant, or dismissed, in the de...
August 18, 2025 at 20:14
The duality of body/brain is inherent in nature. There is the problem of seeing consciousness in the brain alone, as opposed to the nervous system and...
August 18, 2025 at 20:02
So much of human understanding is concrete as opposed to symbolic. Part of this dilemma comes down to the question of what the human imagination stand...
August 18, 2025 at 19:54
What I wonder about most in reading ideas of Spinoza, and others, including Shopenhauer; is to what extent ideas like reincarnation and resurrection a...
August 18, 2025 at 19:15
There is so much to be questioned in theory and human experience. With diagnostic criteria of body dysmorohic disorder, erroneous perception comes int...
August 18, 2025 at 18:55
I do struggle with the clear distinction between life/ death and mind/matter. Prior to interaction on this forum, I definitely believed in disembodied...
August 18, 2025 at 18:38
I am still grappling with the label and ideas of substance dualism. I have had a number of discussions with @"180 Proof" about it and how Spinoxa's ph...
August 18, 2025 at 18:24
An interesting outpost, as so much can go wrong in the mirror. The reflection in the mirror physically and psychologically is the foundation of person...
August 17, 2025 at 06:49
By the 'One' I am referring to 'mind' although I am not a dualist. I don't think that body and mind are separate with the body as container. It is far...
August 17, 2025 at 05:26
Even if rocks were seen as having some consciousness, it is unlikely that human beings would care. Generally, ecology been dismissed and human beings ...
August 17, 2025 at 05:21
Thank you for the summary of Whitehead's philosophy relating to panpsychism. I will try to explore his ideas further because immanence and transcenden...
August 17, 2025 at 05:10
With the interaction between humans and objects, while the objects don't have consciousness in their own right, I do wonder if human consciousness per...
August 17, 2025 at 05:05
I haven't read Whitehead but would like to, in order to consider the idea of 'God' as imminent or transcendent. Of course, it does go back to debate r...
August 16, 2025 at 11:00
Yes, it is a good question as to whether everything being seen as cells, like brain cells, is equivalent to panpsychism. I do think that James Loveloc...
August 16, 2025 at 10:39
In thinking about the comparison between panpsychism and ancient ideas of 'ensoulment' I am wondering about its comparison with paganism. I have also ...
August 16, 2025 at 10:15
The 'unity of experience' raises questions because it involves so much. Plotinus's idea of the 'One' is useful though. That is because it links the na...
August 16, 2025 at 10:02
I was a little unsure of the description of Strawson's ideas. It would be too simplistic if any panpsychist thought that rocks were alive in a similar...
August 16, 2025 at 09:58
Panpsychism is a way of trying to understand connections and the source of that which is not a sentient form. Objects have a role in the world and uni...
August 14, 2025 at 10:12
I can see Strawson's argument because experience is the central to being alive. A chair or a rock doesn't experience the person sitting on it, even th...
August 14, 2025 at 09:53
Awareness is a term which is used in many different ways, like consciousness. What a too wide use of the term misses is the capacity for reflective aw...
August 13, 2025 at 09:35
The issue of experiential sentience (sensing and knowing) is important in considering the idea of panpsychism. Both sensory experiences and developmen...
August 13, 2025 at 00:40
Theoretically, if objects were seen as having consciousness it could be argued that they need to be treated with greater respect. There is the questio...
August 12, 2025 at 13:06
I like your detailed post. Mold is certainly an issue with sick building syndrome, related to damp. It can lead people to become sick physically. Simi...
August 12, 2025 at 11:03
Yes, I agree that objects, including buildings, are different from a rock. That is because objects include human interventions in design. However, eve...
August 12, 2025 at 10:56
Defining consciousness is not a simple task for a dictionary definition. That is because apart from different usage of the term it involves so much in...
August 12, 2025 at 09:57
I wonder if you are seeing consciousness as being about the processes of being alive, as in that respect it is the same. However, rocks and crystals a...
August 11, 2025 at 09:10
I have just read the link on contatus and definitely see immanence as important as opposed to 'supernatural'. However, I am not sure that the idea of ...
August 01, 2025 at 08:47
I know what you mean, as my path in life has gone a bit weird. The issue may not be the daimon as such but what we need to learn in life. I have a mix...
July 31, 2025 at 17:16
My understanding of the idea of daimon is of a spiritual power, but it is not the same as demon. I read a book on the topic by Brian Ingliss, 'The Unk...
July 31, 2025 at 10:11
There is also the issue as to what extent 'soul' can be seen as an independent 'entity' or as a source, especially in relation to individual experienc...
July 31, 2025 at 04:04
The concept of the 'soul' is one which is believed in by most religions and ancient philosophers, but rejected by many materialistic thinkers. In many...
July 30, 2025 at 12:31
The concept of eternity and the idea I'd eternal recurrence are interesting in relation to the question of how will time end? It is a perspective in a...
July 22, 2025 at 07:37
I do realise that you were not trying to be reductive in a minimising or reductive way. The argument which you develop is similar to ideas developed b...
July 22, 2025 at 07:28
This is an interesting questionable area, whether time is a concept in the mind, or an independent aspect of existence. Time is about the experience o...
July 20, 2025 at 04:03
It is a wide topic, but one of importance. The idea of existential angst is central. I have read Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling', and found it wort...
July 07, 2025 at 07:24
I like the way in which you personify or anthromorphise time, especially as all forms of existence are dependent upon it. Time may be a dimension, or ...
July 07, 2025 at 04:54
Somehow, I missed your post, but it makes an important point about the unknown. What came before the 'big bang' or after any 'end' remains unknown. Th...
July 06, 2025 at 16:49
Part of the reason why I have not written more in the thread which I created is because I do see the 'end' of time as problematic. It would require st...
July 06, 2025 at 16:34
In terms of systems thinking, directionality is important and hierarchies. The only way in which directionality could be seen in metaphysics would be ...
July 06, 2025 at 11:40
There being two football teams playing seems to be what happens in cultural wars, whether it is over religion or gender issues. As for 'the same rules...
July 06, 2025 at 07:12
It may be that the question of the war between good and evil, or the picture of a wider scheme of opposites was a complex dialogue in ancient thinking...
July 05, 2025 at 12:54
The analogy between the death of the universe and the human experience of death is an interesting one. The question is whether: death=nothingness=unco...
July 01, 2025 at 10:00