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Information is the configuration of matter. That's what DNA is, for instance - a configuration of an original state encoded into organic matter that determines the attributes and limitations in the configuration of the ensuing growing entity. Matter is the configuration of matter. Information is an...

Most Westerners will look at a stone and see a stone seperate from its environemnt. Most Easterners will look at a stone and see it as being continuous with its environment.

So our conceptualizations can eventually even affect how we process imagery, for example.

It seems to become a conception like God. I mean what you say when you say “world itself”. It’s the kind of thing that means something, but that according to the standard account of Logical Positivism would deem “meaningless”, and claim was not “scientific”. We seem to understand the phrase “world ...

What I would like to know is why women are so hated in Western society--by both men AND women. Very strange. Men want to be loved, and want a companion for life, but women aren't capable of loving men and do not understand companionship either. Well at least not in the way that men need it. These m...

The "recipe" or "information" of making a human or any other organism, is in the DNA plus the right environment . The whole thing is one process. Put a DNA strand into just the right environment, at the right place and at the right time, and stuff will happen. Put it into the wro...

“By natural world I was just trying to refer to what exists "beyond" or rather "before" such conceptualization.” This doesn't work. Since, one must reflect, and come up with the concept of a “prior” or “before”, or “beyond”. Ergo, it is conceptualisation. Substance, ousia , in o...

Well I think of it this way, the ego is broken, but the ego was just an expression of self-awareness. Humans and a few other species have self-awareness in the head. After awakening, self-awareness is still there, if anything, it only becomes stronger. So the "essence" of me is still here...

I agree. Although, I don’t accept the phrase “natural world”. There are things and processes. And then, on the other hand, there are creatures that reflect and, as you say, form concepts and have views about the things and processes. Nature is one of the concepts. One never sees nature in the scien...

however, not all information integrated in the brain is represented in the phenomenal dimensionalities, as demonstrated by the implicit memory and subliminal perception experiments of cognitive psychology. But in the phenomenal dimensionalities, salient qualia (the redness of red), memories, and ab...

This is my first post, so hello. I offer a theory about the nature and evolution of consciousness. Hello, the way I see it, the problem is that what you have written only addresses how consciousness is "shaped", the so-called easy problems of consciousness. It ignores the hard problem: wh...

Yeah it's dangerous knowledge but in the end, it's awesome isn't it. :) And it's also the starting point for what I now consider "real" philosophy, the real inquiry about why this universe anyway, out of the infinite possibilities, and what's with the human form anyway. I'm from England.....

... I agree with absolutely everything you've said. And yes, some take this to the extreme, to the point of abandon from mainstream life as we know it. I haven't done that myself though, I have not yet retreated to the hills, but are sometimes tempted. I still enjoy life to the full as much as I ca...

Well.. this is where I think that some have perverted nondualism too much, with all that emptiness nonsense. Sure, the "content" of the story is illusory, it is just the "simulation" of reality, a narrative that is running in your head. But that doesn't mean that the simulation ...

Science already has acknowledged it, it's all over youtube. The thing is if even one teeny tiny blade of grass was missing the whole universe would collapse, that's how tightly interconnected it is. I agree, in my opinion, even if even one particle was slightly misplaced or missing, the universe wo...

Nowadays it is fashionable to believe that we have matter and we have information, and these two somehow work together. Even among scientists, this belief seems to be rather common. Such people have sort of a double vision, they percieve the same world twice, which leads to endless confusion. Inform...