consciousness ⁽⁶⁾

This was first posted as part 1 & 2 on substack. Ronald Cicurel, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, The Relativistic Brain: How It Works and Why It Cannot by Simulated by a Turing Machine (Natal: Kios Press, 2015 ISBN 9781511617024) Hat tip. Martin Ciupa of mindmaze.com At the time of writing in July 2023, there were some Douglas R. Hofstadter…

In Can we define the… —gap? I’ve begun my exploration of this near constant feature of our lives. There is, in philosophical border disputes between theology and science, a term created by theologians protecting the honour of their mono-god, and it is critical of other believers who use science up until some point where they cannot explain something, and who…

A method to use or explore an intentional suspension of judgement or separating out. While this term of the blur was developed before my readings on neo-Pyrrhonism, it has parallels with Pyrrhonist suspension of judgment I hope to draw on. I do not see ataraxia as the only endpoint/utility/framework of this suspension of judgment, I see more potential for it…

writing and reading densities, the proverb, the pun, the multitool and worlding a life This post is: While in the space of making a ‘three-parter’ on the…—gap, my daughter has mentioned that she has read a few posts (in 2023) on the substack version of why we should, if only because I mentioned her in one post, and she said,…

An interesting example of throwing one's favourite thing into the…—gap, in this case panpsychism, while offering it up, in the same action, as a moderating mediation. If not meliorating the pox in both their houses. On page 128 of Philip Goff's 2023 book Why? The Purpose of the Universe. I have to admit that I do not think of materialism that…

The sky pool The quote on Aldous Huxley at the end. this one links it to monotropism in hindsight Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves & Fyodor Dostoevsky Bookending worlds - Solzhenitsyn Religion, tanks, spirituality & yoga mats. Robert Ardrey Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative Figuring out the grounds beneath…