All this intelligent design stuff has a good missed premise
It seems that bio form is independent or behind the atomic stuff that fills it in. These little bits (it seems) are like iron filings—that is, they are being arranged not as the cumulative effect of simple laws on atomic s...
Read MoreAfter taking LSD or MDMA or psilocybin, or after having a mystical or oceanic experience, the silly and hackneyed Who am I? question is replaced with another, more prescient one:
Why is my consciousness local?
Why is this (my) consciousness local?
Why is this (my) consciousness stuck in here and...
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CSH: Fara was talking about 1423—the year perspective was discovered in the early Renaissance. And then how this particular illustration (below) shows you the invisible grid that supports the three-dimensionality and the depth of the object. That invisible grid is always running in the imagination. The imagination is pre-permeated with t...
Read MoreIn most mystically inspired metaphysics, the physical universe is a fake, shallow, low-level, or otherwise inferior grade reality (e.g., Plato’s cave, Jewish fallenness, Descartes’ dream). The idea is not only that 3-space is less than the real, but also in some way detached from it.
How would your quality of lif...
Read MoreCSH: So Michael was saying that the best way to succinctly explain Buddhist metaphysics to novices is to use the mereological nihilism account. With this difference:
Consider the understructure of the universe. Whatever this is, it pervades the whole of spacetime and everything within it. Now, realize that it must pervade consciousness as well. The understructure of matter and consciousness is also present in matter and consciousness. The container pervades the contained.
On DMT and Salvia,...
Read MoreFear is craving for separation from sensation. When the object of fear is a particular threat in space, fear motivates the animal to move away from the threat.
Fear is flight from sensation. But when the animal is steeped in general anxiety, where does it intend to go? Well, if...
Read MoreCSH: When consciousness identifies itself with the sensation of corporeal solidity … Think about what it’s like being a solid. You think your body/consciousness is solid. But you know that the solid is constantly passing away in time. That’s fantastic.
How deeply does this passing-out-of-existence cut? Your very substance is actua...
Read MoreVisual awareness produces a supreme weirdness: “I,” the subject of awareness, seems to pervade the whole space presented by (and, we will see, identical with) my visual field. I can generate a relaxed, non-specific visual awareness and put my attention on how my awareness occupies every (x, y, z) subject to my a...
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