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THIRD EYE DROPS

Mind Meld 92 | Wondrous Forms with Philosopher, Peter Sjöstedt

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Peter Sjöstedt is a philosopher of mind with a focus on panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter is the author of the book Noumenautics and his work was the inspiration behind the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

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0:00.0

Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults.

0:03.7

Now administering third eye drops. You did it again, you bid your consciousness to dive into the mind-hive of thoughts, musings,

0:31.4

existential riggles and inspiration, hopefully at least occasional inspiration, that

0:39.3

is this platform.

0:44.0

yet in terms of popular scientific and mainstream academic thought,

0:48.0

your individual qualia that is your subjective view of reality.

0:54.7

The very operating system you use to engage with us

0:58.4

and everything else for that matter is but an illusion. an epiphenomenon of what I usually call a high

1:07.6

horsepower piece of wetware. That's because according to evolution, physics, and really science at large, mind, quote unquote, is not a thing. a force that influences reality.

1:28.0

It's ironic really because everything we've ever done,

1:30.8

everything anyone has ever done in the entirety of the history of humanity has

1:38.6

done so from a subjective thinking conscious point of view, right?

1:44.8

And I get it, there's no, there's no stuff of the mind to measure.

1:51.0

So to an extent, our inquiry is crippled, we have to define reality in terms of

1:57.6

measurable stuff. The brain, its regions, neurotransmitters, hormones, these things are the closest we can get to describing consciousness.

2:10.0

And to be sure, they do have a profound impact on our subjective experience.

2:15.6

If you knock yourself over the head, you're not going to have a good time.

2:21.0

So at least as of now the discussion of mind divorced from the physical if you believe

2:28.7

there is such a thing is really not a whole lot different than it was hundreds of years ago,

2:35.0

maybe even thousands of years ago, because you have to explore it using logic

2:40.3

and rhetoric and subjective sciences,

2:43.0

sciences, you have to explore it via the lens of philosophy.

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