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The one yearning here for something out of psychological desperations is clearly the one who wants the world to be just an illusion, never real. So now we even have an illusion upon another finer illusion, allegedly. Illusion squared.

We couldn't know that they are illusions if indirect realism wasn't the case (we would have no external, mind-independent reality to compare phenomena to), which again shows that transcendental idealism is bollocks.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 9:01 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 7:19 pm

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 7:05 pm Rationalism, and reason, are linguistic projects primarily, aren’t they?

I genuinely don't know what this is supposed to mean.

I’d just drop it were I you.

Good point, back to reality.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 7:05 pm Rationalism, and reason, are linguistic projects primarily, aren’t they?

I genuinely don't know what this is supposed to mean. What is reasonable can be expressed in language, and what is unreasonable can also be expressed in language.

Terms that are described using language, usually presented within an intelligible order, and expressing ideas or facts that pertain to that which the speaker is trying to communicate? Is the non-dual understanding here different? 😂 I suppose you think that was funny just now. Anywyay, no, it's just...

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 5:11 pm First, what you term •religious malarkey• can all be expressed, and is expressed, in rational philosophical terms.

What does "rational" mean in "rational philosophical term"?

Ugh sorry … these topics are too big to get into here. Nondualism is a whole different world, and yet it's the same world. Did you know that you probably also were a nondualist once, for a short time, in very early childhood, before it got overwritten.. I do not believe I have a problem imaging a n...

I have stated a '000' times, For there to be reality, there are three phases of the FSERC, 1. the emergence [ human-based ] of reality 2. the realization [ human based ] of reality 3. the human-based perception, cognition, know and describe reality Such a 3-step process looks suspiciously artificia...

It's not a strategy or resolution. The study of science and psychology led me to the understanding that Western philosophy is simply fundamentally untenable due to its dualistic thinking. It just doesn't fit the known world. It's not capable of fitting it. I discovered nondual thinking before I eve...

So imagine my surprise when, while searching for truth, I stumbled upon a philosophy that is (in my opinion) beyond both the ecstatic mysticisms and these theleological established ways of experiencing life. I've become something like an "Eastern nondualist mystic", went through the proce...

The issue is that, for "skeptics" like me, that's just not good enough. I reject subjective evidence in general. I see it as just a standard psychological thing that whatever faith someone has, that person will receive subjective experiences consistent with that faith. For example someone...

But so far there's no evidence for any kind of objective morality, as to my knowledge. The way I conceive of this issue goes like this. I do believe that objective morality is real, and I do believe that it is defined philosophically and also religiously. But what •it• is composed of, the stuff of ...

I am much more curious about the strange phenomenon of objective moral truth, but nobody seems to have enough confidence in the idea to risk making a fool of himself by trying to explain it, except VA, of course, but the horse has already bolted in his case. Anything is possible, objective moral tr...

Though it should be noted that Kant's - transcendental idealism is neither transcendental, nor idealism - transcendental realism is neither transcendental, nor realism - phenomena don't mean phenomena and noumena don't mean noumena - empirical doesn't mean empirical - abstract doesn't mean abstract ...

Kant didn't view the mind as a separate, non-physical substance. Nor does indirect realism. Where do you have this random obsession from? Phew. So the transcendental ego is a physical thing that transcends mere sense data, as is the mind that experiences mental representations of reality, rather th...