The Crab
- Felix
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Re: The Crab
I prefer Eastern philosophy because it stresses the application and living of philosophy/psychology rather than the sort of calculative study of it that Heidegger referenced. Alan Watts explores the difference in detail in his book Psychology East and West (I have the paperback version). Frankly, the field of Western philosophy, like most other disciplines, seems to be populated primarily with "non-swimmers teaching swimming," a.k.a., armchair philosophers, whereas Eastern philosophy tends to the opposite - caveat lector though.
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- Felix
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- Hereandnow
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It is, of course, entirely unwelcome in common thought, quite a radical thing to say. But it is interesting to note that "getting out" is what our modern technology is all about: delivering the human condition from its burdens. In the end, when we will no longer bound to any physical impositions, we will look within. The final frontier.
- SubatomicAl1en
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"Maybe consciousness isn't electrical pulses, maybe it's a thing that exists in it's own state, because how could chemicals in our brains produce images and thoughts and emotion? And why do we feel them the way we feel them? This could mean that a rock is conscious. This could mean the whole universe is conscious, and that every scientific law we stated is just based on what the universe FEELS like doing. Like in the threebody problem: We are organisms living on a piece of paper, higher beings are randomly poking holes onto our paper, and we THINK that there's a pattern. We could even create two exact same consciousnesses using quantum entanglement and see if they act the same. How would proving consciousness is a being on it's own affect the world?"
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