ANALYTIC IDEALISM

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WITH NO WOO WOO NONSENSE 

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Consciousness is the theater, and precisely the only theater on which everything that takes place in the Universe is represented, the vessel that contains everything, absolutely everything, and outside which nothing exists

Erwin Shrödinger

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Scientific truths cannot be decided by majority vote.

Galileo Galilei

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You are the vast space in which everything happens.

Eckhart Tolle

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Why do you deny that the universe is a conscious intelligence when it gives life to conscious intelligences?”

Cicero

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The brain is a necessary but not sufficient organ to explain consciousness.

Massimo Gandolfini

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While female Alzheimer’s patients outnumber men by two to one, the reverse holds true for Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s, both of which are twice as prevalent in men. Yet Parkinson’s also appears to progress more rapidly in women than in men, for reasons that are not clear

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Blind people are sometimes able to see in dreams. Helen Keller, who turned blind and deaf at the age of nineteen months, emphasized the importance of these occasional visual experiences: “Blot out dreams, and the blind lose one of their chief comforts; for in the visions of sleep they behold their belief in the seeing mind and their expectation of light beyond the blank, narrow night justified.” In one study, congenitally blind subjects produced dream drawings that judges were unable to distinguish from drawings of sighted subjects, and as EEG correlates between were sufficiently similar, this strongly suggests that they can see in their dreams—but do they? It is also interesting to note that Keller’s dream tunnel contained the phenomenal qualities associated with smell and taste, which most of us experience only rarely in the dream state

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MATERIALISM IS A METAPHYSICS

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NO EXISTENTIAL LOAD OF BIGGER QUESTIONS

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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

E.Schrodinger

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What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

Stephen LaBerge

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It is not clear how much upside it is possible to achieve, but the literature suggests that sustained, diligent training can pay off. A small study of nine well-trained octogenarian endurance athletes (cross-country skiers) found that their average VO2 max was 38, versus 21 for a control group of untrained octogenarian men, a difference of more than 80 percent. That’s huge. The athletes had the aerobic capacity of people decades younger than them, [*3] while the men in the control group had declined so far that they were on the verge of losing their ability to live independently. True, the study subjects were lifelong athletes—but that’s also part of the point here. Our goal is to become elite athletes of aging.

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Basically, we use our mind to put ourselves into the mental shoes of other human beings.

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Was the daimonion an aberration, a hallucination, an eccentricity — as some authors have suggested (e.g., Karpas, 1915; Muramoto & Englert, 2006)? Or does it illustrate for us a peculiar problem in the integration of the conscious and unconscious mind in making decisions? For instance, could this relate to recent suggestions that human beings have two parallel minds — a verbal, analytical 'left brain,' and a nonverbal, intuitive, unconscious 'right brain' (Jaynes, 1976; McGilchrist, 2009)

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Faggin and Bernardo Kastrup have started a revolution towards a rigorous combination of science and spirituality and it is SO necessary; it's a Herculean task to break people out of their physicalist dogmas, but the more these ideas are spread, discussed, pondered ... the more self-evident they will become!

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SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

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What we are observing is not nature but nature as it is affected by our observing minds . Thus , reality is defined by the mind that is observing it ." ~ Werner Heisenberg

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To return to psychology, there are practical reasons for us today to study Socrates' daimonion. As each one may readily observe, in the course of any day we frequently experience inner 'voices' of doubt, caution and hesitation — what the modern Platonist, Paul Elmer More called the "inner check." This presents us with a task of discernment — often difficult: should we act as originally planned, or heed the voice of warning. And on what basis do we decide?

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