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More Josh Philosophy

2 years, 7 months ago

More Philosophical ideas taken from my “thoughts.txt” file. Let me know what you think. There are issues of ethics, and total determinism that I didn’t have the stamina to include at the end. I’m sure there are plenty of other points as well. Though I’m aware of a few that can be examined, it would be nice to have others’ issues pointed out just in case. Also a nice critical review of my writing style would be nice..?

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On the Totality of Consciousness</p> <p>Like a point on the surface of water, we may feel like we move up and down uniquely and individualistically, while our position is most obviously dependant on all other points around. Trying to imagine such a point as independent is nonsensical: it forms a wave, an undifferentiated element of a gestalt – The Ocean. </p> <p>It is neither by accident nor natural inclination that we see ourselves as independent agents. Individualism is a central tenet of Capitalist indoctrination; Christianity is founded on our free agency. Thus, our Western hegemony creates a belief system that opposes the possibility of its own operation.<br />

Where can we find this imagined separation? The delineation between our body and clothes, the air and the skin of others is arbitrary. The nature of quantum interactions between our skin and the air is no different from those between the neurones of our brain, which in turn exhibit nothing more magical than the currents in a hot cup of tea. </p> <p>Fathom that our delineation of our "soul" from a totality is artificial, and recognise that a totality is not a single consciousness. A single implies another possibility, an outside to this against which consciousness is set. While in fact the totality expresses the impossibility of anything else. All is consciousness. </p> <p>We reach some obvious questions: How and why and on what basis are we subjectively perceiving ourselves as single entities? Why do we not have "access" to everything else?<br />

Would we presume to believe that an individual neurone comprehends the nature of a man’s thoughts, as we presume that an individual man can recognise the consciousness of a system in which he is part? Yet still we have a glimpse of the beautiful truth. Our own physical experience can on no accounts be said to end at our body's delineations. Others exist in our minds to a greater or lesser degree. Is the degree that they are accessible to us arbitrary? Why do we have an affinity to other parts of the world that share our physical mode of being? </p> <p>We are aware of a Greater, and share a level of communication based on Resonance. As in physics, this is the ability for a complex system to introduce changes and sympathetic resonance in another - Our empathy operates through attunement. Like the string of a harp, we are physically determined to respond to certain frequency that at the same time is the frequency at which we contribute. Human civilization operates on the basis these harmonic resonances.<br />

2 Responses to “More Josh Philosophy”

  1. Josh Says:
    November 27th, 2005 at 6:14 pm

    I’m not sure if I need to specifically engage in the idea that our thoughts form an aspect of our physical existence. Those holding onto a (flawed, Cartesian) Dualist belief that the mind and the body are totally different will certainly find the jump between the 3rd and 4th paragraph an impossible one to make.

    While I’d hate to have to tack something in between these paragraphs to illustrate what exactly my model of thought is, and where it is located within Philosophical discourse, it may need to be touched on.

    Of course the irony of the use of double-quoted “soul” in the 4th paragraph is that this concept is solidly grounded in the sort of Christian ideology that I explicate in the second paragraph - both Dualism and free agency. I don’t think it is a mistake to use it; on one hand it points out the prevalence of this way of thinking in our language/society, while allowing it to represent a seregate for all our Individualistic models of existence.

  2. h Says:
    November 28th, 2005 at 1:55 am

    can i comment as you

    yeh we’re coming out

    shouldn’t that be going out

    no no…the closets man

    what about the closets

    where we keep the clothes,

    the coats and the socks

    yeh yeh…the closets man

    alright i see it working

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