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| Mysticism: A. Mysticism is a spiritual practice seeking direct experience of the divine, often through meditation, contemplation, or altered states of consciousness, emphasizing a personal connection beyond religious doctrine or intellectual understanding. See also Religion, Religios belief, Transcendentals. - B. Mysticism is an intentional or unintentional obscuration of scientifically researched relationships. See also Misinformation, Social media._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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R. Nozick on Mysticism - Dictionary of Arguments
II 660 Astral body/mysticism/Nozick: Suppose we have a theory that in a dream a body leaves the sleeping body. Problem: if one dreams of others, must there astral bodies also arrive there? Problem: if many dream of Marilyn Monroe, but she does not dream of so many. II 157 Mysticism/Nozick: mystical experiences might as well be more superficial. - They do not show that they are "deeper". >"Ivresse des grands profondeurs", >Description levels, >Levels/order. II 154 People have always difficulty to describe it - but sounds and colors are not hard to describe - Incorrect use of "indescribable". >Description, >Colors, >Knowledge, >Phenomena, >Qualia. II 158 If the reality is as the mystic says, but the knowledge of it brings no evolutionary advantage, we should not expect that brain states were selected to display the reality as it is (namely, as the mystics experienced). >Selection, >Evolution, >Brain states. Meditation/"as few thoughts as possible": should we believe that there is something that corresponds to this experience? - That depends on what we believe, what meditation creates, if there were no such underlying reality. - E.g. what would the amplifier amplify if we take out the CD? - To adopt an unusual reality, would be a mistake. >Reality, >Regularity, >World. If a particular experience adjusts each time in the procedure (meditation), it is an artifact. >Artifacts. Rigid coupling shows nothing. >Covariance, >Rigidity. II 160 The mystical experience does not show why it is there. Mysticism/Nozick: I take it seriously - if not, you should justify this. >Experiences, >Justification._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
No I R. Nozick Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981 No II R., Nozick The Nature of Rationality 1994 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19