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DRAFT — not final.

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What we're about

A philosophical and psychological research orientation for Adaptive Philosophy Foundation: building a simple picture of what's going on, tying philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and spirituality into something relevant to life and how to live it.

The bigger picture

An open orientation idea we're mulling over, not a settled position.

Each person is their own movie unfolding from the multiverse: a different story, a different history of the world, pulled out of what's possible. Nobody knows what the full soul of another person is making in their movie.

We only ever see a fraction of another person, the part that crosses into our bubble, filtered through our unconscious mind. Everything we experience is a reflection of our own brain and mind processing.

That's why the two great commandments are the whole map: love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself. If their movie is as real as ours, the least well-off are not a side quest but the center of it. We focus on everybody; nobody is separate from the whole.

We don't know if everybody is conscious; hopefully God has a way of guiding people through it in the best way for their story.

The name "orientation" is deliberate: it means fixing where you stand, your coordinate system of time and place, inside something much larger than your own little bubble.

The threads

  1. Infinity: mathematics, physics, philosophy, computation (Cantor, Zeno, Hilbert's hotel, Ross–Littlewood, the continuum hypothesis, Gödel). Infinity: Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy & Computation
  2. Quantum: holism, the quantum world, quantum neural networks. Quantum Logic & Quantum Proof Verification
  3. Consciousness: philosophy of mind and consciousness studies: Chalmers' hard problem, Dennett, Nagel, Churchland, Tononi, Seth's Bayesian brain. (thread not yet started)
  4. Identity: Ship of Theseus, Locke, Parfit; identity of consciousness itself. (thread not yet started)
  5. Reality: what it is, whether we can influence or evolve it. (thread not yet started)
  6. Myth & analytical psychology: Jung, archetypes and myth. Myth & Analytical Psychology (Jung)
  7. Medical hypnosis & mind-body healing: dissertation research. Dissertation research — medical hypnosis & mind-body healing
  8. The Bigger Picture — Why We Care: the lens that ties the other threads together; why we care. (thread not yet started) The Bigger Picture — Why We Care
  9. Animals: consciousness, welfare and rights: animal consciousness, welfare and rights; advocacy for animals, systems that help them, and charities we promote. (thread not yet started) Animals: Consciousness, Welfare & Rights