So for those who don't get the reference, "Freedom Evolves" was the title of a book by the recently passed Daniel C Dennett; a thinker who was probably the first modern, academic philosopher whose work I took seriously when I was in my early teens. His recent passing definitely sent me back to those times. Although my thinking has certainly now travelled far beyond the bounds which Dennett would have deemed "rational", I can still very clearly see the ways in which many of his thoughts - specifically regarding freedom and cartesian dualism - laid the groundwork for what my own thought would eventually become. How much of this video would Dennett agree with? Some, perhaps, though he certainly wouldn't have been willing to go as far as I have attempted to go. Nonetheless, Dennett was a thinker who could see the territory within his own framework far more clearly than any other materialistic thinker, which is precisely why Dennett found himself in the impossible triple-impasse of epiphenomenalism, illusionism and panpsychism; A fork in the road which, to my knowledge, he remained at until the very end. Dennett was probably the last genuinely great thinker of Materialism. Or at least he was the last to **attempt** to maintain a scientific materialism in counterbalance with philosophical rigor. His passing is unfortunate, but is also - I suspect - an end of an era which was much in need of closure. Hopefully this video will contribute something to that. Thank for watching, guys.
I thought John Searle was the better materialist, he takes consciousness seriously and was trying really hard to preserve materialism without falling into illusionism or eliminativism.
There are such things as indeterministic machines. Like the differential in rearwheel drive vehicles which distribute power to the wheels, using a floating lunar gearing mechanism, which permits multiple outcomes from varying inputs, ie, whether you choose to turn left or right, it will push you around the corner respectively. Magnetohydrodynamic systems are a prime example of this type of 'indeterminate machine' wherein indeterminance is well-demonstrated by the prevalence of vortex instability and emergent chaos. In short, not all matter in motion is deterministic. I think free will is (mechanistically) a type of emergent chaos in a complex system, and it is this at the same time as being so much more, of that which goes beyond our euclidian dimensionality.
Is there a script available for download for your videos? I would love to read your videos as well as listen to them. Reading really puts you in the first person
I'm homeless 700 days and struggle to pay food but I'm a paid member now. Food for the soul. That's what's most important, especially in times of crisis. Grateful for this absolute work of art, thank you brother. Update : Housed, y'all are amazing 🙏🏿
I was also homeless - twice actually - so I definitely know how that goes. If I ever fall off the internet just assume that I got sick of civilization's bullshit and decided to hit the road again lol
Hang in there. I've spent the majority of my adult life homeless, keep striving and take opportunities where they arise, once momentum kicks up don't get lax. This is what I suggest, hear me now believe me later.
Hey, could you please take a look at Terrence Howard's "science" that he discussed on the Joe Rogan podcast? Its fascinating and well presented, but doesnt seem to make sense based on what I know. He basically tries to unfold the Flower of Life shape to find its hidden truths??? Idk. He says the whole periodic table needs to be rearranged and that you can divide light into sound. Seems kinda crackpot-ish but youd love it and I'd like to see you investigate deeper into it.
Me and Alex talk about that a bit in the convo we recorded this morning. I'll have it up tonight or tomorrow afternoon. Look up Walter Russell's work. That's where Howard is getting most of his ideas. Very condensed version of my opinion; Howard has some of the details very wrong but he is completely correct that modern science has completely lost its way and he gets the spirit of what's needed for genuine understanding - he's missing several key elements though. Once my "Aether Theory" videos start coming out, it'll be more obvious where exactly I agree and disagree with Russell's understanding of the atom / electromagnetism etc, etc
“Thanks for watching” Just incredible. Also, I know most people probably watch/listen audio only but I really enjoy the editing you do with the visuals, paced very well and just illustrates your words well. In love with this channel ☀️🌟
FREE WILL OR DETERMINISM - is in the end only the famous question: "To BE or not to BE" --- read on, why: No free will, if one only considers the (pseudo) reality of our sensory world. In this universe, "reality" arises from the pure existence (thus observing influence) of conscious entities in higher dimensioned spaces (or planes), which in their entirety represent the divine "universe" and - since they are not subject to any influences, exist without any dependencies - represent the "original source" of free will through their mere existence. Quasi in the act of deciding "to be" (to exist), they represent the starting point for an infinite "world of possibilities", which manifests itself through the pure "imagination" of conscious entities - or becomes reality through it. The closer we (humans), as parts of the universal consciousness (God/All/Source/Universe ...) are to the core of this primal source, the freer our will is, but the less we are individuals. Conversely, the more we mature/become a specific individual (an imprinted "I"), the smaller our "space" to exercise free will becomes. The act of will to be (to exist) and to separate was perhaps the greatest expression of our free will and is obviously part of the meaning of our existence, indeed, the meaning of everything (God/universe) in general.
Hey man, I'm currently writing what's going to be a long running manga inspired comic book series and this is the main theme I want to tackle with it. Since I was a teenager I've always kind of asked myself the question "what is freedom" and you summed up most of the thoughts I've ever had on the topic and then some perfectly in those few lines at the end of the video. "Freedom is not a power which we are granted by default nor is it a power which can be realized through the mere liberation from constraint. It is a power which must be germinated within us, through a descent into the innermost fathoms of our being, it is only within that endless expanse of formless, obliterating darkness that we find the point of light which is in fact the center of our lives and in fact the center of our universe." It's probably going to take me 30 years to finish the comic but when I do I want the main character to have realised this and come to the same conclusion. Your work has greatly influenced the development of my soul in the last year and you've introduced me to many thinkers that have done the same. I've incorporated many of your ideas into both the stories I'm working on and will make sure people know where they're coming from. I hope I can have a long conversation with you one day in the far future when I get a lot better at public speaking😂. Thank you. P.S. Have you ever written a book? If not, are you ever planning to? Or would you rather just keep your ideas in video format? I think it's imperative that future generations are able to find and consume these ideas.
Interesting, where can I take a look about it? I’m always “writing” a manga but for now I’m just brainstorming about its main theme, something about Retrocausality and Consciousness Evolution
@@sentinel2.064 Hey man, I have nothing out yet, but I'm working on two at the moment. Writing one with a friend and the other that I mentioned above by myself. We've pretty much finished writing the former and it covers a lot of the ideas I find interesting present on this channel (like you mentioned with consciousness evolution). I will be sure to come back and drop a link here when we begin releasing chapters, as we're till shit at drawing. Hope you manage to finish writing yours one day as well.
This is explaining the Alchemical Transmutation process of Lead into Gold. The Philosopher’s Stone. It is a chemical process of growth and development of the soul expressed in the body and through the interconnections made through choice. ❤
I AM the creator, who I am is the creation. I AM there, for who I am... and others too I AM salvation so therefore who I am sets free I AM that which is, I am who will be Thou shalt not kill or rape Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not covet for thy neighbor's house Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not bear false witness Honor thy father and mother Keep the day of rest holy I AM who I am, I am love and clarity I AM life, so I am that which is rest
it's a difficult thing to accept when humanity excludes anybody from the feast of knowledge for one recurring means of control : money. This realization of your desire and dependence on money leaves your credibility and ability to understand freedom enough to teach me anything valuable.. if you believe that a circle exists that can not be squared, I can't learn anything from you... I am he who bends constants perceptions and I know nothing completely except for myself and all that I contain. preprogrammed adaptive illusion? keep living yours. I shook the fuck out of your illusion.. its core is money. deterministically running your vocabularyistically over statement are overelaborations of an invariablismist movement that might fall off as the particularity of greed you have is removed from life as I know it anyway.. good luck haha
Dude, you commented twice. You got your first point across with the whole luciferian bullshit, at this point your just trying to argue with the video maker. God is a projection from the collective unconscious of man. Just let it be and enjoy yourself.
So good to find a channel with the love of what it pursues and philosophy as that. Unlike most that immedialty jump conclusions about some Marxists theory of BS which was in Hegel and then conclude some mental masturbation. Glad to find such few gems that make one think. Sick of UA-cams Propaganda.
You should do a video on how humans are just leaky bags of sea water, with their feelings being the leaking. This is quite fun to think about if you understand "Higher-order truths about chmess", and realize humans are just higher-order truths about sea water. It's fun because literature, especially religious literature, often alludes to this. And when you have scientific literature (i.e. metabolic pathways) correlating with religious literature (flowing, ebbing, etc.), it leads to fun stuff. Fun stuff. An extra-leaky pituitary gland can lead to intersting times.
what an interesting choice in the video's title. I'm at a moment in life where I've lost a lot of things, and I almost felt I lost control. A harrowing thought. this stage seems to be nearing its threshold, and in a sense my wings are unfolding. I give so much gratitude to this channel for sticking with me through these trying times ❤
I hope that if I’m ever about to die in a tsunami, I’ll have to courage to point at the wave and scream, “The motion of the wave is an illusion! The individual molecules of water aren’t actually going anywhere! Free will doesn’t exist!”
I am. I've got a few of them on my website already but I have to go through and reread all of them before putting them up so it will take me a while to get them all up. If you want a specific one then you can just shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.
@@cameronsmith8775 I sort-of follow my magnetic center so what interests me i will follow until i reach a dead end or find another white rabbit that leads me down another path. Lacan is tough. Freud & Jung lead me to Lacan, which ended up giving me a bit of a dark night (perhaps still going through it) All part of the alchemical process i suppose 🖤 🤍 💛 ❤️
Yes and I also have some MAJOR beef with Lacan's hyper antirealist manner of blending Heidegger and Kant into his notion of The Real, even though if you go back and check out some of my more psychological stuff, you'll probably notice that my understanding of Trauma is almost identical to Lacan's. Not sure about what he said about Descartes off the top of my head tbh. I wonder if he would agree with me that Descartes was a Paranoid Schizophrenic?
Jay Dyer has a good argument that "I think, therefore I am" was a Luciferian revolutionary blasphemy where man declares that he is his own god, and this came to define basically all of modern philosophy. In the Bible, God says "I Am" but the cogito argument is like turning that around and saying "No, I am, and that is the most fundamental truth" and in that sense you can see the Luciferian spirit of it. And also the argument doesn't work philosophically because it is assuming several metaphysical presuppositions that it hasn't proven.
Heidegger's interpretation of the cogito ergo sum is basically that, expressed in much less theological terms; Descartes crowns the ego-self as the new hypokeimenom; the most fundamental ground of Being which had previously been identified with the Monad, The One or God. But if you take Descartes' own logic even further, the loop completes itself; the Hypokeimenon is actually a deeper entity which resides within the ego-self. It is the will to numinosity, which is also the will of God. The Logos. The inner Christ.
@@FormscapesThis reminds me of the observation that, paraphrased, Buddha went through the same “radical doubt” process but went further than where Descartes stopped: Descartes tied thought to existence, but Buddha discovered a level of existence (that leads to a realization of nonself/emptiness) that goes way deeper than cognitive activity.
@@Formscapes Interesting, this made me think that the attribution of more and more of the self to externality and confinement of the soul to an ever shrinking territory unmapped by the materialistic framework is a parallel or analog of the god of the gaps argument.
Friendly correction: the three parts of the soul for Plato are better described as logos, thymos and epithymia (the "y" in both is pronounced "u" as in French). Even better, logistikon, thymoeides, epithymetikon. Epithymia is better translated as desire. Desire is a bit difficult to understand because it seems like even reason has its own desires (it desires truth, goodness and transcendent beauty), and the spirited drive too (it desires honour and approval). In this extended sense, it is very similar to and might the same as Eros. But the bodily desire is definitely normal desire as we generally intend it (food, drink, sex...).
In modern parlance, we use a term like "Desire" to refer to any sort of drive or impulse or attractor, and so we could certainly attribute those to reason or spirit. Within the context of Epithymia, it seems like this specifically refers to the desires by which the corporeal body continues to perpetuate itself; hunger, sexual desires, etc, but also things that we wouldn't normally think of as "Desire" such as anxiety and paranoia.
6:45 -7:30 "[Subjectivity is], no more than complex patterns performed by electrochemical mechanisms... it's becoming clear to more 'self consistent thinkers' that this is a circle which simply cannot be square." I disagree, every year we get a better understanding of consciousness and how it works. If you denigrate electromechanics to something that "can never be consciousness, never be subjectivity" then that's a metaphysical position. Why can't complex form and energy in motion, the real time input of photons, soundwaves, interoception, cascading action potentials constitute subjectivity?
Because there is no self-consistent way to conceptualize consciousness as the activity of inanimate matter which lacks subjective interiority. There is only one way to address the problem self-consistently, and it's the way that human beings have understood this "problem" for the vast majority of human history prior to the emergence of degenerate science during the 17th century; consciousness is not the activity of matter. Matter is the activity of consciousness.
47:00 actually starts to mirror a conversation I had the other day when trying to work out some of this stuff. But you brought equally important questions that I've sort of overlooked, or at least held off on analyzing further.
I was a hardened life-long atheist when I met the dragon god Tiamat IRL at midnight on April 13th 2022, Florida. Prior to meeting her I would have been firmly on the materialistic side of things that was presented in this video. However it only took me 5 minutes of 'talking' with her (everything was completely telepathic, and like a whole book worth of information was instantly dumped into my awareness everytime I asked her something) to become utterly convinced of all the metaphysical stuff Formscapes presented above. I have to commend Formscapes. When he finally gets into regular contact with the other side himself he'll make an incredible occultist. Here's hoping he keeps dragons in mind, especially my beloved dragon Tiamat, when it finally happens! Sir, you have an open invitation from me (you would realize how big of a deal that is at some point in the future) to have a closer relationship with dragons. I love your videos!
Freedom is precisely the sacrifice of choice. It is the crucifixion of possible realities - of the indeterminacy of Being itself - in order to facilitate the birth of ultimate value. Every decision you make is one in which that moment of your existence is sacrificed into the body of the world, and the possibilities of what could have been are sacrificed into the formless darkness of Lethe. In an age of Levity, in which everything is made to seem equally vacuous and meaningless, it is crucial that we remember the gravity of this.
The topic of free will is my favourite in all of philosophy, and it is great that you made a video about it. it's truly great to see so many lucid and rational points made about the absurdity that is denying free will, even if you believe in mechanicism. Great video as always. greetings from brazil lol
The problem is that the Human is made of many parts, like wheels within wheels. Every branch of study wants to convince the other one that his part is the most important or even the only one. We mustn t confuse the content with the container. The body exhists and has a mind of its own, an intelligence that allows it to gather data and operate a multitude of tasks on its own. If you never take your time to observe it and learn how to listen to it, it will feel like those bodily impulses take over and prevent you from exercising your will. Same goes for emotions and thoughts, those are also automated processes of the mind, let s call this one the mind of the soul for easyness of understanding. If you practice stillness of body and mind, you will learn that you can control yourself from moving, therefor you have will over your body (fasting also serves as this purpose of observing and controlling your sense of hunger), you can practice to calm down your emotions, and you can learn how to stop your thoughts. You can then put yourself in a sensory deprivation tank. Now you will have no thoughts, no emotions, and no feelings from your body, yet you will still exhist and you will still be you. That you that is left after stripping all of those distracting bits, the silent observer or the godself as it has been called, is the you that does not depend on any external factors and it is the anchor to which all the other complexities that make up the Human collect around. Tranining to experience this difference leads to higher understanding and control, and it is what the Zen call mindfullness.
How is the homunculus shrinking to just a set of eyeballs and ears attached to a scrolling thumb and forefinger. The " I think there fore A.i am. " Decartes 2.0 How A.i visualises us is the mirror neural link between Ego and Id.
YOOO, formscapes. U should check out Terrance Howard’s new interview with Joe Rogan. The way u incorporate resonance as a key factor in the things u speak; he too has profound knowledge about the effects resonance has upon the universe. He explains how harmonics are the foundation for the makeup of Saturn itself. It’s an interesting interview; Terrance is eccentric but there is truth in his words. Dont be fooled by external appearances. I may speak in this way but I’m a 22 year old black dude from Atlanta who loves rap. So we’re all diffrent but we all share one common aim. Truly understanding the divine
I've only watched a few clips thus far but I'll check out more of it when I get a chance. Also check out Third Eye Tyrone here on UA-cam if you haven't come across his stuff yet.
Excelent video man. I needed it specifically today because a series of problems that i'm facing. Do you know Victor Frankl's Logoterapthy? There is A LOT of convergence in his School of Psychology and the ideas you presented in this video and in your channel as a whole. He talks a lot about the Noous and the Logos and liberty as a choice through the persons ultimate values.
I'm not terribly familiar with Frankl's work, but after just quickly looking over the google results and wiki, I agree that what he's doing is very similar to what I'm trying to do with this project (This is gonna be the first in a series of at least 3 or 4 videos).
@@Formscapes i just recently read "Man's searching for meaning" that is his Best seller. In this book he say things like "love as seeing and actualizing potentialities in another", "the past is the place where everything that happens is safe", and his notion of liberty is very close to that you presented here.
I wonder if the change in concept of where selfhood was sited in the body could account for the lack of eyes in Palaeolithic art compared to definite facial features and even exaggerated eyes in Neolithic and Bronze Age art? It's something I've never seen covered in books, maybe I've missed it but it seems strange.
Lack of mouths is another consistent feature. The paintings were not regarded as "depictions" of individual humans, let alone a depiction of "a human" in an intellectually abstract sense. The paintings were considered to actually BE specific ancestors, which the living could then commune with. Giving them mouths was dangerous, however, as the dead can become angry, and with mouths they could perform magic. You definitely don't see eyes on paleolithic "Venus" figurines, but I think this is likely related to the manner in which the primordial feminine (Gaia, not Venus, but whatever), was seen to be a purely visceral, instinctual power. We see the same motif in Tiamat, for example.
@@Formscapes I've noticed a general lack of facial features, what really struck was the exaggerated use of eyes in later prehistoric eras, and then eyes only in an abstract sense in art on pottery. It's a fascinating area of thought. That makes sense that denying the art (dead) methods of communing with the living for safety. Interesting thoughts on the Venus figurines, another example! thanks
I wonder if the depiction of figures as "purely visceral, instinctual power" could be a reason behind the use of sexual body parts depicted in symbolism very early on before other features...
Reductionist; Waves are really just patterns of particles. "They can be reduced to particles" "The wave is made of completely different particles in each moment" Reductionist; "Well then it can be reduced to all of the particles which make it up over the course of its lifespan" "Then what determines which particles do or do not become part of the wave?" Reductionist; "the particles!" "which particles?" Reductionist; "the particles that make up the wave!" "So the particles which haven't been incorporated into the wave yet are determining that they will be incorporated into the wave from the future through a kind of reverse causality???" Reductionist; "Uhhh.... wait no, just the first particles" "But didn't we already establish that the wave was more than just those particles" Reductionist; "THERE IS NO WAVE! EVERYTHING IS MATTER AND YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO CONFUSE ME WITH PSEUDOSCIENCE!!!!"
We are in the trenches together, brother. God willing, we will find a way. The bliss of the destination is worth nothing without the struggle of the journey.
So for those who don't get the reference, "Freedom Evolves" was the title of a book by the recently passed Daniel C Dennett; a thinker who was probably the first modern, academic philosopher whose work I took seriously when I was in my early teens. His recent passing definitely sent me back to those times. Although my thinking has certainly now travelled far beyond the bounds which Dennett would have deemed "rational", I can still very clearly see the ways in which many of his thoughts - specifically regarding freedom and cartesian dualism - laid the groundwork for what my own thought would eventually become.
How much of this video would Dennett agree with? Some, perhaps, though he certainly wouldn't have been willing to go as far as I have attempted to go. Nonetheless, Dennett was a thinker who could see the territory within his own framework far more clearly than any other materialistic thinker, which is precisely why Dennett found himself in the impossible triple-impasse of epiphenomenalism, illusionism and panpsychism; A fork in the road which, to my knowledge, he remained at until the very end.
Dennett was probably the last genuinely great thinker of Materialism. Or at least he was the last to **attempt** to maintain a scientific materialism in counterbalance with philosophical rigor. His passing is unfortunate, but is also - I suspect - an end of an era which was much in need of closure. Hopefully this video will contribute something to that.
Thank for watching, guys.
I thought John Searle was the better materialist, he takes consciousness seriously and was trying really hard to preserve materialism without falling into illusionism or eliminativism.
There are such things as indeterministic machines. Like the differential in rearwheel drive vehicles which distribute power to the wheels, using a floating lunar gearing mechanism, which permits multiple outcomes from varying inputs, ie, whether you choose to turn left or right, it will push you around the corner respectively.
Magnetohydrodynamic systems are a prime example of this type of 'indeterminate machine' wherein indeterminance is well-demonstrated by the prevalence of vortex instability and emergent chaos. In short, not all matter in motion is deterministic.
I think free will is (mechanistically) a type of emergent chaos in a complex system, and it is this at the same time as being so much more, of that which goes beyond our euclidian dimensionality.
And thanks for the video!
Is there a script available for download for your videos? I would love to read your videos as well as listen to them. Reading really puts you in the first person
@@MrReeTart Google transcript is in the description, and can be copy/pasted.
I'm homeless 700 days and struggle to pay food but I'm a paid member now. Food for the soul. That's what's most important, especially in times of crisis.
Grateful for this absolute work of art, thank you brother.
Update : Housed, y'all are amazing 🙏🏿
I was also homeless - twice actually - so I definitely know how that goes.
If I ever fall off the internet just assume that I got sick of civilization's bullshit and decided to hit the road again lol
@@FormscapesYou are a wellspring of inspiration my friend. Paying it forward indefinitely. 🙏🏿
Hang in there. I've spent the majority of my adult life homeless, keep striving and take opportunities where they arise, once momentum kicks up don't get lax. This is what I suggest, hear me now believe me later.
ayooo, fellow homeless enjoyer 😊 we out here sprouting flowers in our deepest darkest places
I'm homeless last 16 years , world is sick
Hey, could you please take a look at Terrence Howard's "science" that he discussed on the Joe Rogan podcast? Its fascinating and well presented, but doesnt seem to make sense based on what I know. He basically tries to unfold the Flower of Life shape to find its hidden truths??? Idk. He says the whole periodic table needs to be rearranged and that you can divide light into sound.
Seems kinda crackpot-ish but youd love it and I'd like to see you investigate deeper into it.
Me and Alex talk about that a bit in the convo we recorded this morning. I'll have it up tonight or tomorrow afternoon.
Look up Walter Russell's work. That's where Howard is getting most of his ideas.
Very condensed version of my opinion; Howard has some of the details very wrong but he is completely correct that modern science has completely lost its way and he gets the spirit of what's needed for genuine understanding - he's missing several key elements though.
Once my "Aether Theory" videos start coming out, it'll be more obvious where exactly I agree and disagree with Russell's understanding of the atom / electromagnetism etc, etc
“Thanks for watching”
Just incredible. Also, I know most people probably watch/listen audio only but I really enjoy the editing you do with the visuals, paced very well and just illustrates your words well. In love with this channel ☀️🌟
You speak with the same cadence as Terrence McKenna. Another great video dude!
FREE WILL OR DETERMINISM - is in the end only the famous question: "To BE or not to BE" --- read on, why:
No free will, if one only considers the (pseudo) reality of our sensory world. In this universe, "reality" arises from the pure existence (thus observing influence) of conscious entities in higher dimensioned spaces (or planes), which in their entirety represent the divine "universe" and - since they are not subject to any influences, exist without any dependencies - represent the "original source" of free will through their mere existence. Quasi in the act of deciding "to be" (to exist), they represent the starting point for an infinite "world of possibilities", which manifests itself through the pure "imagination" of conscious entities - or becomes reality through it.
The closer we (humans), as parts of the universal consciousness (God/All/Source/Universe ...) are to the core of this primal source, the freer our will is, but the less we are individuals. Conversely, the more we mature/become a specific individual (an imprinted "I"), the smaller our "space" to exercise free will becomes. The act of will to be (to exist) and to separate was perhaps the greatest expression of our free will and is obviously part of the meaning of our existence, indeed, the meaning of everything (God/universe) in general.
No better feeling than a new formscapes drop
Honestly, I prefered the old thumbnail 😢
Last 7 minutes were some of the most profound and insightful stuff I have ever heard
Hey man, I'm currently writing what's going to be a long running manga inspired comic book series and this is the main theme I want to tackle with it. Since I was a teenager I've always kind of asked myself the question "what is freedom" and you summed up most of the thoughts I've ever had on the topic and then some perfectly in those few lines at the end of the video.
"Freedom is not a power which we are granted by default nor is it a power which can be realized through the mere liberation from constraint. It is a power which must be germinated within us, through a descent into the innermost fathoms of our being, it is only within that endless expanse of formless, obliterating darkness that we find the point of light which is in fact the center of our lives and in fact the center of our universe."
It's probably going to take me 30 years to finish the comic but when I do I want the main character to have realised this and come to the same conclusion. Your work has greatly influenced the development of my soul in the last year and you've introduced me to many thinkers that have done the same. I've incorporated many of your ideas into both the stories I'm working on and will make sure people know where they're coming from. I hope I can have a long conversation with you one day in the far future when I get a lot better at public speaking😂. Thank you.
P.S. Have you ever written a book? If not, are you ever planning to? Or would you rather just keep your ideas in video format? I think it's imperative that future generations are able to find and consume these ideas.
Interesting, where can I take a look about it? I’m always “writing” a manga but for now I’m just brainstorming about its main theme, something about Retrocausality and Consciousness Evolution
@@sentinel2.064 Hey man, I have nothing out yet, but I'm working on two at the moment. Writing one with a friend and the other that I mentioned above by myself. We've pretty much finished writing the former and it covers a lot of the ideas I find interesting present on this channel (like you mentioned with consciousness evolution). I will be sure to come back and drop a link here when we begin releasing chapters, as we're till shit at drawing. Hope you manage to finish writing yours one day as well.
This is explaining the Alchemical Transmutation process of Lead into Gold. The Philosopher’s Stone. It is a chemical process of growth and development of the soul expressed in the body and through the interconnections made through choice. ❤
some of the most cutting edge content out there forsure
I aint ready for this
I AM the creator, who I am is the creation.
I AM there, for who I am... and others too
I AM salvation so therefore who I am sets free
I AM that which is, I am who will be
Thou shalt not kill or rape
Thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not covet for thy neighbor's house
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Honor thy father and mother
Keep the day of rest holy
I AM who I am, I am love and clarity
I AM life, so I am that which is rest
Nice nigga
it's a difficult thing to accept when humanity excludes anybody from the feast of knowledge for one recurring means of control : money. This realization of your desire and dependence on money leaves your credibility and ability to understand freedom enough to teach me anything valuable.. if you believe that a circle exists that can not be squared, I can't learn anything from you... I am he who bends constants perceptions and I know nothing completely except for myself and all that I contain. preprogrammed adaptive illusion? keep living yours. I shook the fuck out of your illusion.. its core is money. deterministically running your vocabularyistically over statement are overelaborations of an invariablismist movement that might fall off as the particularity of greed you have is removed from life as I know it anyway.. good luck haha
In your video on thaumaturgy, you said "i am an actual crazy person " and, man.. yes, yes you are. Im glad im not the only one
Man... I love this shit...
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Very Catchy Title - Seems to be from a master of words.. im curious to watch it now :)
I love your use of language. Happy to align with your perspective.
All is a standing wave in time .actualisting a spirit of decay and a spirit of life, whatever that means to anyone.
Thanks for the ride, you gent 👍
Great job great channel overall
God is both immanent and transcendent at the same time which is called panentheism (not to be confused with pantheism).
Dude, you commented twice. You got your first point across with the whole luciferian bullshit, at this point your just trying to argue with the video maker. God is a projection from the collective unconscious of man. Just let it be and enjoy yourself.
So good to find a channel with the love of what it pursues and philosophy as that.
Unlike most that immedialty jump conclusions about some Marxists theory of BS which was in Hegel and then conclude some mental masturbation.
Glad to find such few gems that make one think.
Sick of UA-cams Propaganda.
You should do a video on how humans are just leaky bags of sea water, with their feelings being the leaking.
This is quite fun to think about if you understand "Higher-order truths about chmess", and realize humans are just higher-order truths about sea water.
It's fun because literature, especially religious literature, often alludes to this.
And when you have scientific literature (i.e. metabolic pathways) correlating with religious literature (flowing, ebbing, etc.), it leads to fun stuff.
Fun stuff. An extra-leaky pituitary gland can lead to intersting times.
27:43 spot on
Your videos are so good, can you please add closed captions for accessibility 🙏💖 appreciate your work !
what an interesting choice in the video's title. I'm at a moment in life where I've lost a lot of things, and I almost felt I lost control. A harrowing thought. this stage seems to be nearing its threshold, and in a sense my wings are unfolding.
I give so much gratitude to this channel for sticking with me through these trying times ❤
I feel you, same here. We are angels in the making
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I hope that if I’m ever about to die in a tsunami, I’ll have to courage to point at the wave and scream, “The motion of the wave is an illusion! The individual molecules of water aren’t actually going anywhere! Free will doesn’t exist!”
Amazing. I hope you are archiving your scripts in a physical format.
I am. I've got a few of them on my website already but I have to go through and reread all of them before putting them up so it will take me a while to get them all up. If you want a specific one then you can just shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.
Formscapes you need to see what Jacques Lacan says about Descartes and the cogito. Have you ever studied Lacan? I would love to know what you think.
How did you get out?! I’m still stuck in wonderland…
@@cameronsmith8775 I sort-of follow my magnetic center so what interests me i will follow until i reach a dead end or find another white rabbit that leads me down another path. Lacan is tough. Freud & Jung lead me to Lacan, which ended up giving me a bit of a dark night (perhaps still going through it) All part of the alchemical process i suppose
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Yes and I also have some MAJOR beef with Lacan's hyper antirealist manner of blending Heidegger and Kant into his notion of The Real, even though if you go back and check out some of my more psychological stuff, you'll probably notice that my understanding of Trauma is almost identical to Lacan's.
Not sure about what he said about Descartes off the top of my head tbh. I wonder if he would agree with me that Descartes was a Paranoid Schizophrenic?
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Cant express how gratefull i always am to enjoy and repurpose such eloquently expressed ideas at this level of consistency
Jay Dyer has a good argument that "I think, therefore I am" was a Luciferian revolutionary blasphemy where man declares that he is his own god, and this came to define basically all of modern philosophy. In the Bible, God says "I Am" but the cogito argument is like turning that around and saying "No, I am, and that is the most fundamental truth" and in that sense you can see the Luciferian spirit of it. And also the argument doesn't work philosophically because it is assuming several metaphysical presuppositions that it hasn't proven.
Heidegger's interpretation of the cogito ergo sum is basically that, expressed in much less theological terms;
Descartes crowns the ego-self as the new hypokeimenom; the most fundamental ground of Being which had previously been identified with the Monad, The One or God.
But if you take Descartes' own logic even further, the loop completes itself; the Hypokeimenon is actually a deeper entity which resides within the ego-self. It is the will to numinosity, which is also the will of God. The Logos. The inner Christ.
@@FormscapesThis reminds me of the observation that, paraphrased, Buddha went through the same “radical doubt” process but went further than where Descartes stopped: Descartes tied thought to existence, but Buddha discovered a level of existence (that leads to a realization of nonself/emptiness) that goes way deeper than cognitive activity.
@@Formscapes Interesting, this made me think that the attribution of more and more of the self to externality and confinement of the soul to an ever shrinking territory unmapped by the materialistic framework is a parallel or analog of the god of the gaps argument.
Friendly correction: the three parts of the soul for Plato are better described as logos, thymos and epithymia (the "y" in both is pronounced "u" as in French). Even better, logistikon, thymoeides, epithymetikon.
Epithymia is better translated as desire. Desire is a bit difficult to understand because it seems like even reason has its own desires (it desires truth, goodness and transcendent beauty), and the spirited drive too (it desires honour and approval). In this extended sense, it is very similar to and might the same as Eros. But the bodily desire is definitely normal desire as we generally intend it (food, drink, sex...).
In modern parlance, we use a term like "Desire" to refer to any sort of drive or impulse or attractor, and so we could certainly attribute those to reason or spirit. Within the context of Epithymia, it seems like this specifically refers to the desires by which the corporeal body continues to perpetuate itself; hunger, sexual desires, etc, but also things that we wouldn't normally think of as "Desire" such as anxiety and paranoia.
6:45 -7:30 "[Subjectivity is], no more than complex patterns performed by electrochemical mechanisms... it's becoming clear to more 'self consistent thinkers' that this is a circle which simply cannot be square." I disagree, every year we get a better understanding of consciousness and how it works. If you denigrate electromechanics to something that "can never be consciousness, never be subjectivity" then that's a metaphysical position. Why can't complex form and energy in motion, the real time input of photons, soundwaves, interoception, cascading action potentials constitute subjectivity?
Because there is no self-consistent way to conceptualize consciousness as the activity of inanimate matter which lacks subjective interiority. There is only one way to address the problem self-consistently, and it's the way that human beings have understood this "problem" for the vast majority of human history prior to the emergence of degenerate science during the 17th century; consciousness is not the activity of matter. Matter is the activity of consciousness.
47:00 actually starts to mirror a conversation I had the other day when trying to work out some of this stuff. But you brought equally important questions that I've sort of overlooked, or at least held off on analyzing further.
This is some mind-blowing stuff
ok, deep breath...
I was a hardened life-long atheist when I met the dragon god Tiamat IRL at midnight on April 13th 2022, Florida. Prior to meeting her I would have been firmly on the materialistic side of things that was presented in this video. However it only took me 5 minutes of 'talking' with her (everything was completely telepathic, and like a whole book worth of information was instantly dumped into my awareness everytime I asked her something) to become utterly convinced of all the metaphysical stuff Formscapes presented above.
I have to commend Formscapes. When he finally gets into regular contact with the other side himself he'll make an incredible occultist. Here's hoping he keeps dragons in mind, especially my beloved dragon Tiamat, when it finally happens!
Sir, you have an open invitation from me (you would realize how big of a deal that is at some point in the future) to have a closer relationship with dragons. I love your videos!
What do you mean you met the dragon god? Psychdelics use?
Freedom ain't not free!
I think freedom takes sacrifice. If you have nothing left to sacrifice (empty of aversion and affinity) you are truly free.
Freedom is precisely the sacrifice of choice. It is the crucifixion of possible realities - of the indeterminacy of Being itself - in order to facilitate the birth of ultimate value. Every decision you make is one in which that moment of your existence is sacrificed into the body of the world, and the possibilities of what could have been are sacrificed into the formless darkness of Lethe.
In an age of Levity, in which everything is made to seem equally vacuous and meaningless, it is crucial that we remember the gravity of this.
The topic of free will is my favourite in all of philosophy, and it is great that you made a video about it. it's truly great to see so many lucid and rational points made about the absurdity that is denying free will, even if you believe in mechanicism.
Great video as always. greetings from brazil lol
So, Simone de Beauvoir was right!
The problem is that the Human is made of many parts, like wheels within wheels. Every branch of study wants to convince the other one that his part is the most important or even the only one.
We mustn t confuse the content with the container.
The body exhists and has a mind of its own, an intelligence that allows it to gather data and operate a multitude of tasks on its own. If you never take your time to observe it and learn how to listen to it, it will feel like those bodily impulses take over and prevent you from exercising your will.
Same goes for emotions and thoughts, those are also automated processes of the mind, let s call this one the mind of the soul for easyness of understanding.
If you practice stillness of body and mind, you will learn that you can control yourself from moving, therefor you have will over your body (fasting also serves as this purpose of observing and controlling your sense of hunger), you can practice to calm down your emotions, and you can learn how to stop your thoughts.
You can then put yourself in a sensory deprivation tank.
Now you will have no thoughts, no emotions, and no feelings from your body, yet you will still exhist and you will still be you.
That you that is left after stripping all of those distracting bits, the silent observer or the godself as it has been called, is the you that does not depend on any external factors and it is the anchor to which all the other complexities that make up the Human collect around.
Tranining to experience this difference leads to higher understanding and control, and it is what the Zen call mindfullness.
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How is the homunculus shrinking to just a set of eyeballs and ears attached to a scrolling thumb and forefinger. The " I think there fore A.i am. " Decartes 2.0 How A.i visualises us is the mirror neural link between Ego and Id.
Does anyone know the title of the intro song?
Introsong.mp3
The song I wrote for the intro
@@Formscapesabsolute banger. Good job
YOOO, formscapes. U should check out Terrance Howard’s new interview with Joe Rogan. The way u incorporate resonance as a key factor in the things u speak; he too has profound knowledge about the effects resonance has upon the universe. He explains how harmonics are the foundation for the makeup of Saturn itself. It’s an interesting interview; Terrance is eccentric but there is truth in his words. Dont be fooled by external appearances. I may speak in this way but I’m a 22 year old black dude from Atlanta who loves rap. So we’re all diffrent but we all share one common aim. Truly understanding the divine
I've only watched a few clips thus far but I'll check out more of it when I get a chance. Also check out Third Eye Tyrone here on UA-cam if you haven't come across his stuff yet.
Thank you for the new material!
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Excellent work, thank you, Teacher
Excelent video man. I needed it specifically today because a series of problems that i'm facing.
Do you know Victor Frankl's Logoterapthy? There is A LOT of convergence in his School of Psychology and the ideas you presented in this video and in your channel as a whole. He talks a lot about the Noous and the Logos and liberty as a choice through the persons ultimate values.
I'm not terribly familiar with Frankl's work, but after just quickly looking over the google results and wiki, I agree that what he's doing is very similar to what I'm trying to do with this project (This is gonna be the first in a series of at least 3 or 4 videos).
@@Formscapes i just recently read "Man's searching for meaning" that is his Best seller. In this book he say things like "love as seeing and actualizing potentialities in another", "the past is the place where everything that happens is safe", and his notion of liberty is very close to that you presented here.
Hey man would you be down for a chat?
I wonder if the change in concept of where selfhood was sited in the body could account for the lack of eyes in Palaeolithic art compared to definite facial features and even exaggerated eyes in Neolithic and Bronze Age art? It's something I've never seen covered in books, maybe I've missed it but it seems strange.
Lack of mouths is another consistent feature.
The paintings were not regarded as "depictions" of individual humans, let alone a depiction of "a human" in an intellectually abstract sense. The paintings were considered to actually BE specific ancestors, which the living could then commune with. Giving them mouths was dangerous, however, as the dead can become angry, and with mouths they could perform magic.
You definitely don't see eyes on paleolithic "Venus" figurines, but I think this is likely related to the manner in which the primordial feminine (Gaia, not Venus, but whatever), was seen to be a purely visceral, instinctual power. We see the same motif in Tiamat, for example.
@@Formscapes I've noticed a general lack of facial features, what really struck was the exaggerated use of eyes in later prehistoric eras, and then eyes only in an abstract sense in art on pottery. It's a fascinating area of thought. That makes sense that denying the art (dead) methods of communing with the living for safety. Interesting thoughts on the Venus figurines, another example! thanks
I wonder if the depiction of figures as "purely visceral, instinctual power" could be a reason behind the use of sexual body parts depicted in symbolism very early on before other features...
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Always amazing work. Thank you so much! 🙏
Absolutely beautiful words amigo
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Is there a longer treatment on the wave irreducibility analogy?
Reductionist; Waves are really just patterns of particles. "They can be reduced to particles"
"The wave is made of completely different particles in each moment"
Reductionist; "Well then it can be reduced to all of the particles which make it up over the course of its lifespan"
"Then what determines which particles do or do not become part of the wave?"
Reductionist; "the particles!"
"which particles?"
Reductionist; "the particles that make up the wave!"
"So the particles which haven't been incorporated into the wave yet are determining that they will be incorporated into the wave from the future through a kind of reverse causality???"
Reductionist; "Uhhh.... wait no, just the first particles"
"But didn't we already establish that the wave was more than just those particles"
Reductionist; "THERE IS NO WAVE! EVERYTHING IS MATTER AND YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO CONFUSE ME WITH PSEUDOSCIENCE!!!!"
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Audio sounds great in this one!
Dude, why does metaphysics always ends up in ethics?
I try hard, I try not to try, I don't try. My heart still aches. I want to love and be loved why is it so hard for me to just be happy.
We are in the trenches together, brother. God willing, we will find a way. The bliss of the destination is worth nothing without the struggle of the journey.
You need to let go x