FROM THE FOOTNOTES2PLATO ARCHIVE
Tag: Consciousness
Explore the evolving conversation, or begin with a guide to its central questions.
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Reflections on “The Function of Reason” (1929) by Alfred North Whitehead
“The function of Reason,” says Whitehead, “is to promote the art of life” (4). Reason thereby becomes primarily an aesthetic concern, a matter of appetition, and of the appetition of…
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This Must Be Heaven : Sam Harris responds to Eben Alexander’s NDE
This Must Be Heaven : Sam Harris responds to Eben Alexander’s near death experience. I must admit that I was deeply moved the first time I heard Alexander recount his seizure…
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Cosmic Self: a Uni-Verse
It is with my own self-consciousness that I must begin… but I will confess, I am not yet certain of my own beginning, or even of my own uncertainty. Already…
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Margulis and the Psychedelic Eucharist
Here is Prof. Corey Anton lecturing on the recently deceased Lynn Margulis’ bio-philosophy. Towards the end of her book (co-authored with Dorian Sagan) What Is Life?, Margulis offers an analysis of…
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Neuroscientist Christoph Koch comes out as a panpsychist?
Now that I’m just about finished with my comprehensive exam, let’s see what interesting things are happening around the blogosphere… WOW! According to Michael Zimmerman, Christoph Koch has come out as…
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Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology
I’m in the middle of writing a long essay on Schelling and the resurgence of interest in his work of late, at least in the Anglophone world. I’ll be posting…
