Essays and Thoughts
Enframing Enframing—the setting of borders and boundaries, the separation of the within and without, the distinction between inside and outside—is the central problem of our time. With humanity’s growing capacity to act, it is necessary to understand enframing—the process underlying action—else we may in turn be enslaved by its operation, acting thoughtlessly towards catastrophe. Enframing … Continue reading Enframing
(A braindump of my thoughts after listening to John Vervaeke's lectures.) To replicate, Biological systems need to satisfy three criteria: 1. Survival 2. Reproduction 3. Fidelity of copying—and, since most biological systems that exist are optimized for replication (since this is the process by which natural selection occurs), most are tethered to these three criteria. … Continue reading Consciousness From A Biological Point of View
(Working out some thoughts I've been having Education needs to be the optimal cultivation of consciousness. The exploration of the ends of education cannot be divorced from a Philosophy of Mind. Consciousness' central task is to simplify the world into what is relevant and what is irrelevant. This is done through a) the acquisition of … Continue reading Consciousness and Education
Panpsychism has been in vogue in the last decade or so, beloved particularly by analytic Australians. It is a misguided doctrine, because consciousness is specifically biological. And it can only be in organisms, that is, beings that organize and self-organize, cause and self-cause, that constantly react and act on the environment around them. Why? Because … Continue reading Against Panpsychism
Attached above is a map I used to conceptualize the problem. This post talks about the left third of the map. To answer the question, What Is Consciousness? It will be well to probe into two questions: What problem(s) is consciousness the solution to? (Which can be rephrased, more dramatically, as, What is the Human … Continue reading The Human Condition and Consciousness
Warren's Brain Dumps 