> On 1 May 2019, at 22:54, spudboy100 via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will add, whether testable or not testable (yet) I ask, (my stubborn > ignorance free of charge! How can this make life better? Subjective, I know!
Maybe my answer on quora might give light on this: How can we bring in an age of enlightenment? My answer: << By bringing back theology at the faculty of science. Science is modesty, and doubts. Science only suggests theories and means to test them. Platonician theologies contains physics, derived from non physical principles (like mathematical), and so are indirectly testable. It is not well know, but the universal Turing machine, the one knowing that they are universal (with knowing in some standard mathematical sense, accepting some axioms and rules) have a very sophisticated theology, quite close to the neopythagoreans and the neoplatonicians. They contain physics, and are confirmed by the (quantum) observation of Nature. The current darkness comes from the separation of theology from science, making exact science inexact and human science inhuman. Religion is the only goal, Science is the only mean. >> Now, I do think this would help to make life better. Instead of bombs and insults, we publish paper and test the theories. There is no problem with institutions and communities, as long as the priest can blink and take distance with literal interpretation of text, out of mathematics. (cf Alan Watts). As long as some people claim to know the fundamental truth, there will be problems. Bruno > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, May 1, 2019 12:15 pm > Subject: Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only > ontology" > > But does Kastrup's TOE yield any testable predictions? > > Brent > > On 5/1/2019 12:28 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > Not my view of course, but here is > > Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology > Bernardo Kastrup > Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2019) > https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3 <https://philpapers.org/rec/KASAIA-3> > pdf: https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf > <https://philpapers.org/archive/KASAIA-3.pdf> > > Abstract > > This thesis articulates an analytic version of the ontology of idealism, > according to which universal phenomenal consciousness is all there ultimately > is, everything else in nature being reducible to patterns of excitation of > this consciousness. The thesis’ key challenge is to explain how the seemingly > distinct conscious inner lives of different subjects—such as you and me—can > arise within this fundamentally unitary phenomenal field. Along the way, a > variety of other challenges are addressed, such as: how we can reconcile > idealism with the fact that we all inhabit a common external world; why this > world unfolds independently of our personal volition or imagination; why > there are such tight correlations between measured patterns of brain activity > and reports of experience; etc. The core idea of this thesis can be > summarized thus: we, as well as all other living organisms, are dissociated > alters of universal phenomenal consciousness, analogously to how a person > with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) manifests multiple disjoint centers > of subjectivity also called ‘alters.’ We, and all other living organisms, are > surrounded by the transpersonal phenomenal activity of universal > consciousness, which unfolds beyond the dissociative boundary of our > respective alter. The inanimate world we perceive around us is the extrinsic > appearance—i.e. the phenomenal image imprinted from across our dissociative > boundary—of this activity. The living organisms we share the world with are > the extrinsic appearances of other alters. > > Keywords > > idealism panpsychism cosmopsychism dissociation altered states of > consciousness mind-body problem consciousness hard problem of > consciousness subject combination problem > > > The (1hr) thesis defense: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMOape0PY8 > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcMOape0PY8> > > > - @philipthrift > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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