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…
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 reason, will provide all that we need to learn about…
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 mental and the physical at its foundational level. This neutral…
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 beyond previously normal states, that entails a new level of…
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 phenomenal expression. It is no small wonder that we have…
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 consciousness. Philosopher, David Chalmers calls for a new Hegelian synthesis…