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The very foundation of reality that underpins, supports and sustains consciousness must be something that cannot be groked by the final experience product (what we feel as "us" or "our" ... why plural? because it is impossible that our own experience of "mineness" occurs without a logical...

incredulous threats are almost ALWAYS fake. A real threat by definition is credible :)

There is no "Flat Earth Theory" -- it is psuedoscience. Scientific Theory (definition): a coherent group of propositions formulated to explain a group of facts or phenomena in the natural world and repeatedly confirmed through experiment or observation. (dictionary.com) I am afraid the huge...

Doesn't look like anything conclusive -- for image geeks, here's a quick info dump (ImageMagick) PS > Magick identify -verbose IMG_9675.png Image: IMG_9675.png Format: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Mime type: image/png Class: DirectClass Geometry: 1127x750+0+0 Units: Undefined...

Ironically the taint of dualism may be required in an organism to help it grok the world as non-dualistic

Symmetry can greatly reduce the amount of information and effort needed to create an organism. With bilateral symmetry you get 2 for 1...with more axes (metaphorically speaking) you can end up with many to one.

Last one first. Any workable complete description of reality may not include the full picture. "As long as it works" only works for so many levels deep--unless of course you want "turtles all the way down." I agree that mathematics is not the arbiter of absolute truth--however, our ability...

Well...perhaps not everything Stellar nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia "Dark Energy" evidently is just a term in the Einstein Field Equations (formerly known as the "Cosmological Constant") that represents the "negative energy" generated by large clumps of space between large clumps of matter (in...

“There must be beings for us which are not yet kept in being by the centrifugal activity of consciousness” An interesting analogy that assumes a force acting on pre-existing concrete particulars that are not explained by the relation that is posited. Does "ontologically late" mean that the...

The "astral plane" is a remnant of an old cosmology/metaphysics that assumed that the there were 5 elementals--earth, air, fire water....and the aether (star stuff) Modern astrophysics has confirmed that everything comes from "star stuff" or the elements forged through stellar nucleosynthesis...

I take this opportunity to add some quotes from one of my favorite books--Hermeticism as a philosophy asserts the existence of one thing that makes up the entire universe and being. Working toward a complete theory of human phenomena requires a great deal of digging around ...sometimes we find...

Describing being with mathematical precision requires a pre-existing framework that meets the conditions of logic regarding concrete particulars. Realizing this, we end up with a framework that assumes what it is already trying to prove--applying the predicate calculus to named entities, with...

What does it mean to be "ontologically late?" Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

But what precisely is this "one thing" ? :) Edit: By the way...well said. This is basically a better verbalized form of the argument I bring forth regarding the pluralistic origins of the realm of temporarily unreal human experiences.

Some people (mistakenly) think that all paranormal phenomena must be placed under a singled unified explanation (strawman alert!). Ok, perhaps most would think it absurd to try to lump all sightings and experiences under a single rubric. What do you think about the massive numbers of...

Binary thinking. You seem to assume (my inference) that the Bible is either infallible or worthless...most books are neither. Lord, Liar or Lunatic...false trichotomy...and most apply false dichotomy to ancient scriptures. The Bible is not worthless...but it is also not infallible. And...

There are no authors involved in the emergence of that which is ontologically "late"...this means that all ontological beings (beings who have "arrived" on the scene--the foreground to the background) must by definition be "late." There are no such "ontologically early" beings.

I am about 1/3 through the book right now (audible)...it is work a credit :)

"...without any evidence equal to that supporting the Bible.." A good question that couches a huge assumption -- by what evidence or |authority" would you consider the corpus of modern UFO stories as "equal" or "less than" that of the Bible? What do you mean by "historically accurate" -- are...

This is a really good argument. Except that ufologists may simply cherry pick passages and interpret them according to their own assumptions .... Wait...what if orthodox religious people are doing exactly the same thing. :)