My thoughts exactly! And me and you have similar journeys. For sometime I was a diehard physicalist even to the point of entertaining the thought that the mind doesn't really exist, that it's some kind of illusion produced by certain elements or biological materials and function in reality. But then I noticed that I was being dogmatic and not even bothering to look closely at other metaphysical alternatives because some of my intellectual heroes handwaved them off as woo-woo. But my experience and my willingness to be honest with myself eventually led me to look at other arguments and hypotheses with an open mind. I never expected or even dreamed that I would find idealism, or even panpsychism, positions more compelling than materialism/physicalism/eliminativism. I also think there is a world beyond our personal human minds, so I am a realist, but also an idealist.
@stephengee4182 Quite remarkable! I was able to predict how Tesla would be brought to life, as it were. And Samuel Johnson resembled an Iberian Christopher Hitchens. 😄
@@ArlindoPhilosophicalArtist In a top down, "subjective reduction", view of the wave to particle transition, intuition comes from our link to the infinite consciousness quantum field, with holographic fractal memory engrams embedded down to the planck length at every point in space.
@stephengee4182 🙌🏻 Love it! When me and Clayton were talking about intuition, he briefly mentioned 'intimations of SOMETHING' (which for the life of me I can't recall) but you're answer which employs fractality and infinity in that quantum physical and mathematical model provides a very plausible scenario.
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I just can't wrap my head around something like phenomenal consciousness emerging. it means there has to be a point in time where there was an entity that wasn't conscious, and then it was. That just seems unlikely in the extreme. Nothing would ever have happened. At all. Without agency.
@@MattGray_Chelsoph My guess is that every cell in my body has agency and its own goals. More excellent discussions in the search for truth. ua-cam.com/video/Lr93mW3QmWo/v-deo.html
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My thoughts exactly! And me and you have similar journeys. For sometime I was a diehard physicalist even to the point of entertaining the thought that the mind doesn't really exist, that it's some kind of illusion produced by certain elements or biological materials and function in reality. But then I noticed that I was being dogmatic and not even bothering to look closely at other metaphysical alternatives because some of my intellectual heroes handwaved them off as woo-woo. But my experience and my willingness to be honest with myself eventually led me to look at other arguments and hypotheses with an open mind. I never expected or even dreamed that I would find idealism, or even panpsychism, positions more compelling than materialism/physicalism/eliminativism. I also think there is a world beyond our personal human minds, so I am a realist, but also an idealist.
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@stephengee4182 Quite remarkable! I was able to predict how Tesla would be brought to life, as it were. And Samuel Johnson resembled an Iberian Christopher Hitchens. 😄
@@ArlindoPhilosophicalArtist In a top down, "subjective reduction", view of the wave to particle transition, intuition comes from our link to the infinite consciousness quantum field, with holographic fractal memory engrams embedded down to the planck length at every point in space.
@stephengee4182 🙌🏻 Love it! When me and Clayton were talking about intuition, he briefly mentioned 'intimations of SOMETHING' (which for the life of me I can't recall) but you're answer which employs fractality and infinity in that quantum physical and mathematical model provides a very plausible scenario.
If consciousness occurs prior to the wave to particle transition in quantum mechanics, then consciousness is more likely to be fundamental and causal as postulated Planck and Schrodinger, key figures in the founding of Quantum Mechanics.
ua-cam.com/video/0nOtLj8UYCw/v-deo.html
I just can't wrap my head around something like phenomenal consciousness emerging. it means there has to be a point in time where there was an entity that wasn't conscious, and then it was. That just seems unlikely in the extreme. Nothing would ever have happened. At all. Without agency.
@@MattGray_Chelsoph My guess is that every cell in my body has agency and its own goals.
More excellent discussions in the search for truth.
ua-cam.com/video/Lr93mW3QmWo/v-deo.html