I think it is completely natural for human beings to see the world through a mythopoetic lens (thinking by means of intuitive forms, myths, narratives...
Was reading J.L. Borges short story about Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius, about a conspiratorial interpolation of a false world into the records of the real...
The Atlantic: When Hearing Voices is a Good Thing I remember now someone in a podcast brought up the work of Tanya Luhrman. Seems to accord with Unenl...
Well, furthermore, a first person immersion VR interface itself becomes as plastic as the thing being designed within it. So you can change scales, do...
Ted Talk: Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality. In the above talk Seth gives an example of audio hallucination by nudging our bra...
Berkeley's idealism is too simple for complex minds. You have to be dumb to understand it. Or maybe you just have to be dumb to believe in it because ...
Seems like Philo of Alexandria could partially responsible for how Christ became associated with the Word of God. It was a meme that took flight after...
Not sure it is of any significance to the inquiry but when you stick ????? into google translate, you get the following synonyms (uses): reason ?????,...
Not only a Cynic might think so, but someone like Alexander the Great (perhaps a Cynic then). Anecdotally (or legendarily) he said to Diogenes after s...
I thank Wallows for toughing it out in a tough world. And to the moderators who put up with trespassers, migrants, tartuffes, feral cats and naughty b...
I want to really learn a musical instrument (to cultivate any proficiency at music). Also would like to understand some more basic physics in connecti...
I think the resurrection refers to a metaphorical "second birth". Something akin to ego shattering and the possibility for a new orientation to life i...
I stopped dreaming (or being able to recall them) along time ago. Dreams used to be so great though. So stunningly brilliant and full of absurd enigma...
No one is interested in saving endangered species unless it is in some way lucrative. Very few GMO's belong to the public domain. Even if there are pu...
Zeno might wonder how you traverse between discrete links in a "chain of moments" . But every time his wife told him to take out the trash, he'd reply...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away Where innocence is burned, in flames A million miles from home, I'm ...
I feel ya buddy. Society is just changing a little to fast and culture is trying to play catch up. My entire childhood I isolated myself by fear which...
This is a problem with unofficially published lyrics online. People write down what they hear and as a result I often look for more than two versions ...
The archaic "nature" literally meant birth ("it natures" which is like our use of it nutures). That which births, nurtures. Take this as a psychologic...
I like Mircea Eliade's metamyth of the eternal return (though I'm not conveying his theory but borrowing bits of his structure). Archaic time is circu...
How do you differentiate what is nurtured from the inside of what does the nurturing? Nature nutures as much by the dominance of man as by the state o...
Metaphysics is possibly destabilizing to one's sense of reality, possibly in similar way some drugs are. The metaphysically adept are like deep sea cu...
The exist in any substrate they do exist in as information, but they are something else. Though maybe they don't properly "exist" until they appear by...
The same information could have many encryption keys but the only encryption key that makes the information relevant (gives it a conditioned existence...
Suppose you have a book of gibberish that could be a possible language if you had an interpretive structure (a decryption key). If the key no longer e...
T-shirts are as categorically abstract as clothes, as trees are to matter when talking about abstracting properties from sense experience. We experien...
Personally I'm in an absurd position in my life. I owe my current job (income) to Yogananda Paramanhansa's dogma indirectly by charitable benefactors ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10J6crRacZg Scientific American: Zen Gamma The cost associated with Olympic level meditation is probably comparable to...
It isn't easy to generalize this along the lines of "collectivist versus individualistic" cultures and I'm a bit wary of your conclusion. Though I con...
The strange thing about the general prohibition against suicide is that seeking help from loved ones or even a clinic (ie. exposing the problem) also ...
Europe had ballet, which provides examples of dancing for someone rather than with, and is therefore comparable to other non-european solitary dances ...
James K is actually just repeating what Berkeley argued, not that it is true. Folks are just trying to be charitable to Berkeley. The ad hominem is pr...
I still don't get why the difference of red and yellow in any particular circumstance wouldn't indicate a true physical difference (though there could...
How did Berkeley differentiate ideas that are just sensed (ie. the objects of perception) from those that are abstracted? It seems that the notion of ...
You know well enough you'd be perfectly healthy being a vegan for the rest of your life, Sir, so long as your diet was varied and you got enough prote...
On Thursdays I think I sense awareness but all other days of the week I doubt it so severely and whine to myself that the universe could be so cruel t...
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