"What Am I" is the most important question I can ask and yet the answer may have to be discovered not by reasoning but by experience.
The Limits of Reasoning
Tag: Consciousness
Conscious Nonsense
I am deeply disturbed to discover what a search on the word "consciousness" produces when you sift through WordPress websites.
How to be Human in an indifferent Universe
How damaging we are to each other. How grim the human condition can become, and it does not take war or physical conflict to make it so. The most important thing any of us can do is to behave decently but how difficult that is when push comes to shove. Is it when we are … Continue reading How to be Human in an indifferent Universe
“I” do not exist
I have felt with increasing certainty recently that the Buddhists are right. We have no separate existence, no soul, no fixed place in the universe.
The Mysticism of Blade Runner
Does it sound curious to link a vastly popular work of science fiction to the concept of mysticism?
The Doors of Perception
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.
“Objective truth” is an illusion.
Unqualified objective truth can not exist. Heavily qualified objective truth probably does.
Art as metaphysics
I have sometimes wondered whether art has any importance, and if so, what?
The Existence of Evil
Evil cannot exist without consciousness and free will.
Anger – an Evolutionary Curse
Anger is an invention of the selfish gene, an evolutionary tool for the survival of the fittest.
