The Landscape of Consciousness

I think you’re gonna like this, or at least … I’d be pretty damn perplexed about how you couldn’t.

Let’s start here.
(Half an hour’s worth of the basics, a PBS production.)
Thus:

Materialism: most of the Science/tists and the professional/managerial/academic class.

Dualism: most of the Faithful and the regular folks, and historically ‘the church’.

Idealism: broadly speaking, where I sit, and in a less clarified way, where I’ve sat.

These of course are not the only options, just the ones that matter most to the nominal ‘us’.
(I do really love Alex Gomez-Marin and his refusal to commit to anything beyond ‘intellectual pluralism’ at the seventeen-minute mark. You may prefer the split-the-difference panpsychism of Galen Strawson, near minute 23.)

And next, instead of drilling down, let’s broaden out first.

All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video
(A three-hour commitment, sorry, darlings; in which the interviewer from the first video becomes the interviewed, by our friend Hans from an earlier post.)

This is a snapshot from the 325+ video.

But if you’re even still with me, and in for that penny, I’m afraid there’s a pound yet to come.

This is a partial snapshot of the current iteration of the mapping tool (https://loc.closertotruth.com/map) about a year later, as of today.

And, for further detail, here is the same basic information presented in a multi-page grid:
https://loc.closertotruth.com/consciousness-theories

Yet another (and also more complex) variation on the theme:
https://loc.closertotruth.com/all-consciousness-categories-subcategories-and-theories

And, if that’s not quite enough for you, a meta-analysis of the map that seeks to evaluate it in terms like scale, rigor, and complexity:
https://loc.closertotruth.com/interactive

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For myself, I’ll be proceeding from the Idealism tab of the grid view, which … is still not nearly as far along as I’d prefer to be …

Fortunately, all I need to know about the Western philosophical POV on this is …

Plato — The Allegory of the Cave
Kant — Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel — Phenomenology of Spirit
Emerson — Essays & Lectures
Schopenhauer — The World as Will and Representation
and, in the latest flavor variation on Idealisms that are said to be Objective, the collected works of Bernardo Kastrup

Setting all that dusty shit aside …
… frees me to directly experiment with the Eastern experiential tools like meditation and self-inquiry once more.

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That last part is relatively irrelevant, to you.

What matters to you is what you choose to do with this gorgeous map that is, even so, not the territory.

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