Critique and Revision of A Unifying Principle Diagram
Based on Raymond de Lacaze‘s post at https://infobiotecnologia.blogspot.com/2026/06/from-void-to-mind-universe-as-process.html I made some revisions to illustrate the Multisense Realism view. I...
View ArticleAppearance vs Reality
Today’s post is a response to a couple of social media comments about life being meaningless and how real things are different from their appearance: Everything is an appearance in some sense, even...
View ArticleUnderstanding Qualia: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
My comments on Joscha Bach & Andrés Gómez Emilsson on the Nature of Consciousness | Part 1 are below. Starting from 3:04, Andrés says “In the QRI world is it where uh your Consciousness is kind...
View ArticleWhy Consciousness Defeats Materialism: Key Arguments
This is from a thread on a question in Quora and its continuation over ChatGPT4.o. Long story short, GPT concludes:“Final Form of the Argument All epistemic activity, including proof and reasoning,...
View ArticleAI on the Meaninglessness of AI
Me: “What values do the vectors actually consist of?” ChatGPT said:Great question. Word embeddings—such as those generated by Word2Vec or Transformer models—consist of numerical values that encode...
View ArticleFundamental Sensory Dynamics: A New Perspective on Reality
I used ChatGPT to write a synopsis of my ideas on how Multisense Realism can be used to reimagine physical theory so that it is not based on unproved and unprovable assumptions of the existence of...
View ArticleMathematical Insights into Identity and Experience
Using ChatGPT to Clarify the Multisense Realism (MSR) Non-Well-Founded Identity Principle ChatGPT did a pretty good job of this, especially since it is pulling its language from our legacy worldview...
View ArticleClaude’s first crack at Multisense Realism
Me: What can you understand from this diagram? c refers to the speed of light, but recontextualized as a perceptual constant, so not really a speed but the natural, middle value of a power law...
View ArticleThe Hard Problem of Signaling
Download: PDF – The Hard Problem of Signaling TSC2018 The Hard Problem of Signaling is the notion that it is not only the connection between brain and mind which suffer from an Explanatory Gap, but...
View ArticleThe Universe Has No Purpose?
The physical universe appears purposeless because it’s only a stage upon which experiences play out. The rest of the universe is not made of forms and functions and driven by entropy, but rather made...
View ArticleAbout that first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave
This article that went around last year is misleading on several levels. 1. It’s not a photograph, it’s a synthetic/graphic image generated by calculated statistics. 2. It’s a composite of many...
View ArticleA Couple of Scientific Conversations
Quantum and the Bell EM Imagine I set up Schroedinger’s cat and a machine that will open the box after 10 seconds and ring a bell if the cat is alive. I set it up, and wait 10 seconds, and don’t hear...
View ArticleMetaphysical vs Metaphenomenal
One of the most contentious areas in philosophy revolves around what I consider to be a misconception about the relation between the physical and phenomenal. In particular, the term ‘metaphysical’...
View ArticleThere is no Objective Color thread
That’s really interesting, too much for me to all read but I appreciate the effort put into this. I do disagree on your first point though. There is such a thing as objective color. Photons have...
View ArticlePerspectives on Gravity
“The universe is shaped exactly like the Earth, If you go straight long enough you’ll end up where you were.” – Modest Mouse Science Newton conceived of universal gravitation as a ratio of mass to...
View ArticleAbsolute View vs Western View: Comparing Supreme Ultimate Diagrams
Contrasting two models of consciousness: The Multisense Realism model above uses an Absolute view, which accounts for all known phenomena, subjective and objective. Postulating a root “Qua” (aka, the...
View ArticleThe Doctor Prescribes Brian Eno – Blog of the Long Now
The Doctor Prescribes Brian Eno – Blog of the Long Now In the video, Brian Eno brings up two points which relate to the last posts about intelligence, wisdom, and their relation to entropy. “I think...
View ArticleAfter Einstein’s Mollusk
I’m beginning to realize that Multisense Realism is an extension to the absolute of the approach that Einstein took in developing General Relativity. In doubting the existence of gravity as a product...
View ArticleCritique of Lanza’s Biocentricism Principles
take-contr0l: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An “external” reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless,...
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