• Fact Checking Tools Overview

    Platohagel: I had been feeling a great loss, a sense of hopelessness, when Facebook had declared their fact checking was being removed for community notes. This the same as what is used in X as community notes. So we want truth to pervade our cultures in the form of words to power, toward all facets…

  • Perception vs Awareness

    Platohagel: Socrates: Would you agree Platohagel, then, that awareness is the foundation of all experience, while perception is but one mode through which we engage with the world? How do you, in your own life, experience the relationship between these two? As you have stated Socrates, Perception and Awareness are not the same thing. Socrates:…

  • Justice and Moral Excellence

    Socrates: Ah, my dear friend Platohagel, the written word holds great power. Let us weave our dialogues into the fabric of wisdom, capturing the essence of our discussions for those who seek enlightenment. Platohagel: Yes it would be nice to weave our dialogues. Socrates: Indeed, Platohagel, the art of weaving our dialogues into written form…

  • Information Access

    Why Physicists are Saying Consciousness is a State of Matter, Like a Solid, a Liquid, or a Gas. ……..of “fundamental” range from the inexplicability of mentality in other, and non-mentalistic, terms to the idealist view that in some sense everything that exists is, and is only, a mental entity. Panpsychism -http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/ Curious as to what…

  • The Law of Attraction

    The law of attraction is the name given to the maxim “like attracts like” which in New Thought philosophy is used to sum up the idea that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts a person brings positive or negative experiences into their life.[1][2] This belief is based upon the idea that people and their…

  • True North

    What is your true north? What does your bird look like? http://www.revivewithenergy.com If you find that you are confused on whether you are sensing the voice of intuition or the voice of ego, skip to 5 min 40 secs to get clarity on which it is. That is….if you want to skip the peacock story…

  • Olay to Divine Inspiration

    I think one needs to draw a distinction here with regard to what consciousness is able to access, given the understanding that information already exists. That becoming aware of it, as part and parcel of something larger then ourselves…..as in the conscious state access versus the unconscious ability and doorway too. Anyway, I presented the…

  • Tacit Knowledge

    Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it. For example, stating to someone that London is in the United Kingdom is a piece of explicit knowledge that can be written down,…

  • The Colour of our Emotions

    “The worst disease afflicting human kind is hardening of the categories.” – Artist Bob Miller. Intuition RBM: On Castaneda There are some people here who think that Castaneda’s work maps quite well to [it]. Specifically, the nagual and NPMR are conceptual perfect matches, along with the tonal and PMR. Tom has used the metaphor of…

  • Correlation of Cognition

    I highlight the term “correlation” as a recognition of what is possible through cognition also think of Relativism why push Searle? ….Correlation of Cognition was a term I applied back then to try and understand this process as an intuitive recognition of information that is accessible after much work.  Some may have applied a computerized…

  • What Is Déjà Vu?

    *** Déjà vu (French pronunciation: [deʒa vy] ( listen), literally “already seen”) is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his…