Michele Pasin / Quotes

Love as the primary cosmic fact

Shortly after that momentous May morning in the Los Angeles hills, Aldous Huxley’s wife, Maria, had died of cancer. Huxley nursed her devotedly through her…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #love #psychedelics #religious-experience #universe

La separazione come illusione ottica della coscienza

L’essere umano è una parte del tutto chiamato universo, una parte limitata nello spazio e nel tempo. Fa esperienza di se stesso, dei suoi pensieri e…

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( ) #illusion #consciousness #universe #compassion #nature

Panpsychism: consciousness is everywhere

Pan-psychism is the view that consciousness is everywhere. This view is seldom stated explicitly, but it is implicit in several authors particularly among the…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #mystery #universe

Siamo l'immaginazione di noi stessi

" Tutta la materia è semplicemente energia condensata a lenta vibrazione ... Noi siamo tutti un'unica Coscienza che ha esperienza di sé soggettivamente ... La…

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( ) #consciousness #universe #death #dreams

Causal reduction without ontological reduction

On the dualist’s conception, consciousness is definitely something over and above its material substrate. Indeed the dualist supposes that the irreducibility…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #reductionism #ontology #consciousness #cause

Mind at Large and the reducing valve

Earlier in his essay he had referred to possibilities broached by the English philosopher C. D. Broad. The function of the brain and nervous system and sense…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #consciousness #brain #survival #perception