Category: Death Adjacent
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Is time real?
In this article for The Conversation, Sam Brown looks at the difficulty science is having understanding if time is actually a thing. The story so far… Physicists have divided our reality into two ontological (think the nature of being) operators manuals. First, the strange world of Quantum mechanics describes how the universe functions at the tiny levels of particles. Photons,…
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Seeing the world through a dashboard
So, what I am particularly interested in right now is exploring the topic of analytical idealism. This is a branch of philosophy proposing that consciousness rather than matter is fundamental. That is, everything you see around you and everything you are experience is part of one trans-personal, universal consciousness. If you like you can (carefully ‘cause all…
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Physics: Things are getting reassuringly weird
In this short article, cognitive scientist and author Donald Hoffman reminds us that right now physicists are questioning the very existence of our fundamental subjective experiences of space and time.The big question is: What lies beyond? Hoffman argues that the problem in answering this question lies in the fact that we have evolved to possess senses (sight, hearing,…
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Does ChatGPT think there is life after death?
Ian Wardell is a philosopher and deep thinker who writes about psi phenomenon and the possibility of an afterlife at his blog: Philosophical Thoughts. A lot of good stuff worth browsing through. In a recent post, he has a fascinating ‘conversation’ about life after death and consciousness with ChatGPT which is a question/answer interface driven by artificial intelligence.…
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