Tag Archives: philosophy

First Encounter with A.I. Grok

GROK’s Summary: 1. The series emphasizes the idea that reality is not singular but composed of multiple layers and levels, or dimensions. This concept is applied to various contexts, from daily activities to philosophical and spiritual insights, suggesting that what we perceive as reality is multifaceted, involving physical, mental, and experiential dimensions.

Layers & Levels Punto 6: Terrence Howard’s Multidimensionality

Yet, we cannot perceive or even begin to measure either of the 3 expressed Dimensions mentioned here without the position from which we observe the intersection of these planes. A position that is in and of itself a separate and distinct Dimensional plane of Space /Time.

Layers & Levels Series Chapter One: The Five Skandhas

The five skandhas basically describe what and how we experience ourselves as a ‘me’ or ‘we’. There are different layers and levels to this experience which is why they are such a perfect fit for Chapter One of this Series.

Series: Layers & Levels Introduction

The following series will gradually explore an idea which has been steadily emerging of late namely that experience, aka ‘reality’, is never really just one thing, rather many things at once. This is not an especially original or earth-shaking notion, but it keeps coming up because so often people express opinions or make plans as if it were not the case, that reality all happens on one level, that there is one single, definable, perceivable, understandable reality without different layers and levels.

Article 73: Truth as Value Adding

Values evoke a response in us and call us to some end. They are what give meaning to life: such things as beauty, goodness, truth – and purpose. Science can tell us what their brain correlates may be, but cannot help us understand their nature. It can, though, help us misunderstand them. ….

Reality is a Fantastical Creation

Article 27 Reality is a Fantastical Creation We imagine realms which in turn reflect back as actual places and situations – beautiful and ugly homes or streets, loving or dysfunctional families and so forth. According to some traditions, this sort of thing also determines what sort of situations we are born into including place, statusContinue reading “Reality is a Fantastical Creation”

The Great Switcheroo

Article 25 The Great Switcheroo What happens to a fish taken out of water? It soon dies and so is soon no longer a fish. Does the fish exist separate from the water it is born, lives and (usually) dies in? Similarly, do any forms exist outside the container of space? No. Now leaving asideContinue reading “The Great Switcheroo”

Masculine and Feminine, Take One

Article 24 Masculine and Feminine Take One (edited from initial July 21st version) As contemplated and systematized extensively in the Chinese yin-yang theory tradition, it seems we live in a world that always has two sides. In Buddhist philosophical jargon these are called ‘form’ and ‘formless.’ There are many other such pairs such as: masculineContinue reading “Masculine and Feminine, Take One”

The All-Pervasive Realm of Speech

aka: Who’s talking? Article 23: The Realm of Speech This writer, like many I suspect, can get a little entangled in his own verbiage. Perhaps this is because I began to see common threads and themes in this series of articles and started to feel obliged to explain thematic linkage even though there is noContinue reading “The All-Pervasive Realm of Speech”