From altering-perspectives.com: An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But will this make us stop […]
Tag Archives: Philosophy of Mind
Lifting the Veil of Illusion
From Unlocking the Science of Spirit. When we see a situation or a thing, what is it that we see? A thing is itself, of course, some philosophers would say. Yet, what we see is what we interpret through our eyes, and what we experience is a function of mental cognition and the operation of […]
Prelog to the Prologue
This chapter should come in, after “A way out?” I started this book the way I did and I will let it stand as is, but when I reread it, I came to realise that something was missing, namely the reason for my ending on the streets in the first place. There is no one […]
From the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Connecting the science of mind, brain, and spirit with perspectives from the Institute of Noetic Sciences.. From Wikipedia, about Noetic theory: In traditional philosophy, noëtics (from the Greek noētikos “mental” from noein “to perceive with the mind” and nous “mind, understanding, intellect“) is a branch of metaphysical philosophy concerned with the study of mind […]