Category: idea

Solipsism

Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?
The philosophical point of view that one’s own existence and mind is the only existence that can be verified. In other words, everyone else might be an illusion, a figment of your imagination. They might be very real, too – you just have no certain way of knowing either way since all your consciousness is necessarily ego-centric.

TL;DR: “I think therefore I am” is about as far as you’re gonna get.

Mereological Nihilism

Parts vs. Wholes

The point of view that objects that can be understood as being composed of parts (basically anything that’s not an indivisible particle) do not exist. It’s not an object, just a collection of parts grouped in a metaphysical relationship which we happen to perceive as a whole object.

I dunno; ask Plato.

Wikipedia

See also: DMT

Anti-natalism

In life:-

  • Suffering is guaranteed – all lives involve suffering to some degree and avoiding suffering takes constant effort.
  • Pleasure is not guaranteed – again, securing the pleasure that makes our lives worth living takes effort and will not naturally come to us, in the same way suffering will.
  • It is desirable to minimise suffering.
  • Therefore, we should take the course of action that minimises suffering; we should stop creating life.

 

 

Pleroma

By Valentin ([1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
A Greek word that can be translated as fullness, totality or completion. The antithesis of deficiency.
To the Gnostics, the Pleroma is the complete and perfect coming together of God’s various attributes, a perfection unattainable in our imperfect and corrupt material realm.

[Some] confess that the Father of all contains all things, and that there is nothing whatever outside of the Pleroma (for it is an absolute necessity that, [if there be anything outside of it,] it should be bounded and circumscribed by something greater than itself), and that they speak of what is without and what within in reference to knowledge and ignorance, and not with respect to local distance; but that, in the Pleroma, or in those things which are contained by the Father, the whole creation which we know to have been formed, having been made by the Demiurge, or by the angels, is contained by the unspeakable greatness, as the centre is in a circle, or as a spot is in a garment . . . .

— Iren. II. iv. 2

Quantum Suicide and Immortality

“[…]the only practical experiment capable of distinguishing between the two leading interpretations of quantum mechanics: the Copenhagen (and a host of similar interpretations) and the Many-Worlds interpretations. The distinction is accomplished by means of a variation on Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, this time from the cat’s point of view.” –https://thoughtexperiments.net/quantum-suicide/