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The Possibility of Consciousness
and the Consciousness of Possibility

May 1, 2023

Consciousness remains a mystery, physics remains incomplete, and science requires a paradigmatic revolution to sufficiently explain how consciousness manifests within the world in the first place or at all. But science’s unrelenting concentration upon only that which is manifest will never yield this explanation because the very possibility of consciousness—moreover, the possibility of existence itself—begins prior to what is manifested within the actualized world and realized experience. Rather, it emerges from the radically preconditional realm of existentially exhaustive Possibility simpliciter.…

consciousness hard problem metaphysics ontic modalism
The Cruciality of Consciousness

I do not believe that I am a disembodied spirit, somehow magically tied to this body. What I do believe is that this existence, in and of itself, along with our innate power of…

June 28, 2019
consciousness hard problem metaphysics ontic modalism panprotopsychism panpsychism
(Re)Introducing Neutral Monism

Neutral monism is the position that everything that exists is all of a single ontologically fundamental type. There is just one fundamental type of thing in all existence; and that thing either includes the…

June 25, 2019
consciousness ethics morality
Get Woke! Stay Woke! The Imperative of Active Consciousness

There is a hashtag in social media that describes a recent, though hardly novel concept: #WOKE. In this current context, being “woke” is a description of a politically charged state of consciousness, above and…

March 6, 2018
consciousness hard problem
Explaining Experience and The Hard Problem of Consciousness

The Ocean of Experience As conscious beings, we are ever swimming in a sea of mind, continuously saturated by the tidal ebb and flow of sense data from rich, complex, and accessible floods of…

January 17, 2018
consciousness metaphysics panprotopsychism panpsychism panqualityism
Abstract of Closing the Experiential Gap of Consciousness: An Introduction to Relational Qualityism

Perhaps all of the metaphysical models of consciousness from mainstream western philosophy have failed to satisfactorily close the substance dualism gap; but certainly all of them have failed to close the experiential gap of…

November 14, 2017
ethics morality service
Of Service and Love: Sharing Ourselves Through Serving Others

By Brian Scott Archibald Originally Published June 30, 2015 Service, in its deepest sense, is an act of love. By serving others, I am sharing myself. I am giving something very personal to those…

June 30, 2015
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The Three Virtues of Service: More Than Just Doing What You Love

Being of service is empowering to each and every one of us. The more we are of service; the better we become at being of service; the better we feel about ourselves; the better…

June 2, 2015
ethics morality service
The Genesis of Our Moral Duty to Serve

We did not ask to be here. Our existence is a brute fact, over which we had no control and about which no deciding voice. We were literally dragged kicking and screaming into this…

May 28, 2015
ethics morality service
Why We Fight: Finding the Core of Our Humanity to Avoid Cultural Conflict and Embrace Our Call to Service

Our world is full of competing and conflicting ideas about what to believe and how to behave. We argue about what is right and what is wrong, about what is best for ourselves and…

May 22, 2015
ethics morality service
Through mutual service, we can build a better society, grow a sustainable and thriving economy, and develop and nurture happier, more fulfilled people.

Morality, as it turns out, is an effective survival strategy, not simply the right thing to do. Morality is, at its core, essentially practical. While also being a spiritually fulfilling aspect of human life,…

May 21, 2015
ethics morality service
Moral Action in an Inequitable Economy: How Service Can Resolve Our Socioeconomic Inequality Crisis

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves…. It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even…

March 19, 2015

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