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First Phase: A View of Reality as a Whole

On the Horizon
An Essay on Holistic Panenexperientialism
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Sartre's Being and Nothingness
A brief analysis
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Introduction
Welcome to The Magical Flower of Winter. This is an essay series exploring reality and our relationship to it by investigating topics in philosophy and…
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A View of Reality as a Whole
The first phase of this project draws to a close, and this essay will be an attempt to summarize the work so far, to give a tentative outline of a view…
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The Plurality of Experience
"Philosophy, according to this view, is indeed the love of wisdom but this love is never consummated; any consummation is just an illusion, a poor…
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Experience and Immersion
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw - The Conquest of Illusion
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World, Model and Mind
In the account of what science is in Science and Explanation I took as my starting point that "an essential part of experience is expectation, that an…
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The Theory of Relativity
In the previous essay I took a look at the break made with classical thinking and our experiential intuition by the quantum theory. Preceding the full…
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Quantum Theory
Many believe physics to be the only authority on what reality is. This belief can be coherent to the extent that by reality is meant a particular subset…
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Artificial Intelligence and Living Wisdom
The dominant approach to artificial intelligence, AI, not only by such institutions as OpenAI, Google and Meta, but seemingly by anyone working in the…
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World Views
I left off the previous piece having discussed an account of explanation and its limits, as well as an explication of scientific realism and…
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Science and Explanation
Science, as we should now have started to become familiar with, is many things, depending on perspective and context. It is a profession of vast…
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