Philosophical Speculations

Hello, Cleric :-) Without sounding impatient, when will the next part of this essay be published? Or are you re-considering the way how to write the next part? So far, this essay series is brilliant to me. Hi Kaje, Based on the recent talk about non-linear expositions, I'm doing a few experiments ...

This collaboration between Hoffman and Gallimore is intriguing. On the one hand, it emphasizes the need to transition to 1st-person science and that Hoffman is open to doing so. Even more than Levin, he is willing to pursue scientific investigation into more integrated conscious perspectives, in ...

Last year, in this thread, I expressed the idea of "too healthy", and, let's put it like that, I was not able to convey the meaning of it in any way convincing. Now I am bumping in a passage that puts it pretty much in those same terms, only it's Steiner speaking. I'll report it here, for the ...

I fed the idea into Google AI and asked for examples. Evergreen notes seem a somewhat promising avenue for this approach. Here is an example: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/ Another free tool that could help - https://twinery.org/ (which allows for additional user coding) Thanks, Ashvin, I'll look ...

I want to share some feedback from Bruce's cross-post of this essay: "I did get some feedback about your first post. A friend tried to read it and was not able to finish reading. Not because it was bad but because it was so long. She may come back to it, but you might consider shortening what you ...

... It's interesting how things continue to unfold in their archetypal nature. 2000 years ago, some were expecting the Messiah, others thought that there was still time, others did not recognize him, they expected a power figure, a king... Today we do not expect a human form but a manifestation of ...

Here are a few more (and perhaps final) comments. I am curious, however, if you have any suggestions about addressing his content-less meditation and why the very technique he is employing prevents his consciousness from feeling concretely entangled with other conscious perspectives. Given the ...

... It occurs to me that I'm not aware of what JW's stance is on the matter of inner activity. I mean the following: From what I see above, it seems that he uses 'energy' in a more or less phenomenological sense, as the raw pixels/vibrations of experience - the elemental ground of experience. He ...

More comments: JW: "I think the difference between us is becoming clearer. I have no objection to describing inner speech, intuitive activity, or mental imagery as articulations. What I resist is granting them primal status because they are the articulations with which we are most intimately ...

You are incorrectly targeting a frequentist or classical (Laplacian) conception of probability, where probability is a ratio over an enumerated sample space. But what was is in play in my post is a credence or a Bayesian probability interpretation. This is not a count over possible universes at all ...