Recursive Obligation
Recursive responsibility
tag > Philosophy
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A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications - A comprehensive overview of theories by Robert Kuhn, @CloserToTruth
Comment by Dr.David Luke: "and with increasing complexity (or its increasing discovery) there can only ever be an increasing number of theories of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate chimera. Admit it humans we just don't and probably can't understand ourselves. Mysterianism rocks the hard problem"
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We find ourselves in a peculiar predicament: if time travel is theoretically possible tomorrow, it has, in practice, already been happening since yesterday. The implications for linear time technologies, including today's AI, are profoundly comedic.
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"The device works works just as well when it is not plugged into the power supply as when it is"
'"How is phenomenal space related geometrically and topologically to physical space?" ... The Cartesian error that no mental elements can be extended has crippled progress in this field for three centuries.' – JR Smythies, 1992
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Lilly's maxim
"In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits." - John Lilly
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“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.” ― Philip K. Dick
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“Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play.” — Johannes Itten (1888 - 1967)
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In a society that abolishes adventure, the only adventure is in abolishing that society
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When you enter a monastery the world just disappears
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Approaching everything with beginner's mind is best practice in the user generated reality.
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Detach from the laws of detachment to detach from detachment. Embrace it.
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“It is better to restore one dead heart to eternal life than to restore to life a thousand dead bodies.” — Annemarie Schimmel (1922 - 2003), in "Mystical Dimensions Of Islam"
Related: “The Secrets of Creative Love: The Work of Muhammad Iqbal”, by Prof. Annemarie Schimmel
