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Assert the Other Mind
I have a strange question for you. Are you all somewhat agitated right now? Hmmm, yes and no. A part of me is agitated, but another part of me is delighted and calm. Is it something I said that agitated you? You’re bringing focus to what I have already experienced. That part of your mind…
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The Brain is One Big Recognition System
Science is the study of what and how something happens. Metaphysics is the study of why, and there is a conceptual split between the two trains of thought in society. Our mind is the centre of everything we try to do, and we would engage in our activities with or without a deep understanding of…
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Transliminality
Your body doesn’t react any differently to internal stimulation than it does external. Pain from sickness is processed the same as pain from attack, say. The brain will begin a pattern of reactions as if you were under physical assault when you fall ill or suffer great strain. So the greater part of the iceberg…
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Intelligence of Your Body
Let’s then look at what this means about our autobiographical memory, our memory of our life as we believe it happened to us. Your reaction to anything that happened to you is an assembly of physiological reactions, mirrored social reactions from other people involved in that time and place, your own memory or similar events,…
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Behaviour Arises from Environmental Processes
The Buddhists have always told us that “self” is an illusion. Useful, but not a place to stop with inquiry. There is a rare form of brain damage that leads someone to believe they do not exist. They believe the world around them exists. They believe that people talking to them exist. They even believe…
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No Perception of “Absolute” Reality
They have experimental verification that body language is a reliable indicator of people’s general disposition. It’s almost robotic. Where our understanding goes wrong is in misinterpretation. But say, untrustworthiness results in touching the hands and face compulsively, crossing the arms and leaning away from the person they are interacting with. These patterns of body language…
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Trust Your Relationship to the Projected World
I ponder “Getting himself ‘together.’” Dreaming is getting yourself together. Brain synching the neocortex with the rest of the brain arises from the brains habit of “checking” the self, making sure all your parts are still there. Since we can’t really tell truth from falsehood in an absolute sense, why not just accept everything as…
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Supportive Coexistence
Epigenesis is primarily a word used to describe the process of development that any organism goes through as they mature, yet there is more to it. Though there is solid evidence to support these observations, you won’t commonly hear about them. In classical evolutionary theory, organisms are thought to evolve through competition summarized by the…
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Cooperative Intelligence
Let’s rewind a bit. The physical basis of cell formation, the simple chemical forces that cause DNA to form, this is an innate aspect of matter to the point where we can now produce synthetic parallels to human DNA. XNA they call it. It isn’t human DNA, and it isn’t necessarily compatible with human DNA,…
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Social Animal is a Hybrid Animal
Everyone familiar with mitosis? Asexual reproduction? When a certain degree of differentiation has occurred, there is a sort of “pulling in” or gathering of all the information generated, and as this information is focused it is also distilled and used to spawn a copy of the original “mind” though not identical, just possessed of the…
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Epic Genesis Online
I have an idea about the internet. What if humanity is beginning to find a new way of communicating with itself on a mind/soul level, collectively. It appears that everyone out here is intermingling to some degree with many others, mind to mind, and they are intercommunicating on a deeper level. Worlds biggest MMO? What is…
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Imprint of Our Psyche
Today’s topic is psychic morphism, also related to the concept of psychomorphism, which is the tendency to ascribe human-like thinking to animals and objects, like when we joke that some household appliance is out to get us, and things like that. Evil coffee maker. Yes, I have a cease fire with the coffee maker. I…
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Driving Force Behind Human Activity
If psychic morphism weren’t the primary driving force behind human activity, then why have our tools and technology changed so much over the extent of human history? And they have a very great deal. Many of the most archaic tools would still be just as usable today as they once were, but we still change…
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Set the Pace
So how would we set the pace? Reestablish healthy rhythms? We’ll have to become more aware of our real needs — as living organisms in a holistic sense and not separated from the worlds around us. The Greeks had not one concept of time originally, but two. They had chronos, the literal time, and another,…
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Betterment of Our World
All of this doesn’t mean we aren’t meant to think or create things. We most certainly are meant to do both, and even seek to grow in our understanding and imaginings as well. But rather than create for “humans”… We have no actual idea what they want. Even our scientists are observing that. This is…
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Life First
I’ve read stories of British explorers back in the 1800s. They would ignore the local ways as barbaric and try to use their own technology in the foreign land. It was insane and disastrous. It’s amazing how blind we can be. Yes, degenerating to behaviour much worse than the local cultures even fantasize about. The…
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Getting to Know You
Psychic morphism is a fact. It will not stop and neither should it stop, but the psychotic schism that contemporary thought is based on, these models of “real life” and “the real world”, those need to be put aside. We may be able to revisit elements of our insight now, at a latter date, and…
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Control Your Perception
Today’s topic is going to be a bit weird, but hopefully enlightening as well. I have some strange questions to start with. Can you decide to not feel pain? Can you decide that anger makes you happy? Or that fear makes you calm? You can decide your reaction to these things, but I think the…
Category: Metaphysics of Science
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that focuses specifically on the concepts we use to understand reality itself, rather than what might be the best way to do something. Science was originally classified as a philosophy, in my opinion it still is, but many object to the notion that science is still a philosophy. They point at what they feel is proof that science possesses substance that philosophy doesn’t.
There is a schism between science and metaphysics that I believe would be well served by being bridged rather than having the bridge burned. Would you say that working toward a better and clearer metaphysics is without merit in today’s world?
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” Albert Einstein
“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions” Vera Rubin