Chasing the fundamental nature of reality

The power of psychedelics is gaining increasing interest in several fields of science. Some professional philosophers are attracted to the impact of psychedelics on philosophical thinking, particularly on metaphysics, which is the science of the most fundamental questions of knowledge. In the TED speech below Peter Sjöstedt-H digs up the “psychedelic history” of philosophy and

Philosophy freaks

Despite the differences, Alan Watts (1915 – 1973) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) were very close in their thoughts and how they tried to make sense of the human world. Both men dealt with difficult problems of worldview and finally ended up in the paradoxes of language! Both men had the reputation of a

Universe is smarter than we are – Alan Watts

“Our difficulty is that we have lamentable one-track minds in an infinitely many tracked universe. We may have to come to the alarming conclusion that the universe is smarter than we are.” —Alan Watts Alan Watts (1915-73) was an Americanised British and a disseminator of Oriental thinking in the West. In a film shot in

What does tool making imply in terms of human evolution?

Again, this is a minor detail, but anyhow a good argument for the hypothesis of the hereditary defect of the human psyche. It is obvious that stone tool making tells quite directly about a very old, more than 2 million year old genetic defect that became much later the core of all humanity. The pivotal

The hard problem

Well, David Chalmers is right. There is a hard problem in science, but the hard problem is not the object of research, but science itself and researchers with their anthropocentric worldviews and attitudes. Arguments about the mystery of consciousness and the “hard problems” associated with it are exaggerated in this presentation below (What is consciousness).

Richard Dawkins and the nuisance of religion

Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist known for launching the concept of meme which can be understood as unit of cultural information spread by imitation, seems to criticise religion and belief because these are based on mass hysteria and the use of fear as a political tool. Science seems to work in another way: science is

The two key milestones in the making of the human mind in a nutshell

1) The mental growth disorder: The gradual spread of the mental growth disorder among homo species began possibly as long as 3,2 million years ago, but at least 2,5 million years ago. It began as a recessive trait, meaning it was rare and carried only by few individuals. The first stone tools that appeared at

What is understanding and what is experiencing?

The figure above confirmed my idea that there is some mechanism in our human psyche that must limit and modify our sensory perceptions so that they can be handled with very simple and idiot-proof tools. These idiot-proof instruments, like cognition, create a conceptually-focused world of classes and types that we call human reality. It is

Genetic problems

As we know, genetic defects can be found everywhere, but especially where man decides the fates of various species. There are also genetic defects in the psyche. This breeding began when early human influenced the fate of his own species about 120,000 years ago. At that time, so called normal individuals of our species were

The logic behind psychedelic experiences

Basically, psychedelics can be treated in two different ways. They can be seen as distorting or revealing reality. If they are considered distorting, or as hallucinogens, there is no point in looking for their logic. Substances that distort reality have nothing to do with understanding reality. They should only be studied if they are not considered hallucinogens.