Evangelos' Philosophical Seeds

Seed notes on philosophical questions I have been curious about.

Some of them might have been discussed for millennia, some of them not.

Can be expanded into human discussions, used as meditations or given as LLM prompts.

On the limits of our mind

There are many existential questions that probably cannot be answered inside our frame of reference.

epistemologyconsciousness

Divine play and alignment

What could the divine play be? Is there any way to get a glimpse of what it is or at least what it is not?

theologyexistence

The second type of emotion

It seems that there are two types of emotions. The first category includes the regular everyday emotions of joy, sadness...

emotionconsciousness

On the origin of potentiality

If we suppose that there exists: pure potentiality, pure actuality, pure necessity, as many philosophical and spiritual ...

potentialitymetaphysics

Time perception paradox. The distant future

When you look at the distant past and future, for example thinking about:

timeconsciousness

Attention-wise similarity of sounds and thoughts

We notice that we are able(a capacity that is innate and can be cultivated through practice) to not pay attention to tho...

consciousnessperception

Content with being discontent

Someone needs to be content with being discontent.

ethicspsychology

Pure potential trapped inside pure necessity

Maybe this is why we have the feeling of free will. As pure beings, we feel that this existence is our playground, and a...

potentialityfreedom

Information storage

Before or when everything was created, both from a physics (e.g. the big bang) and a metaphysics (e.g. the first moving ...

metaphysics

On the goggles that filter reality

It has been pointed out by various philosophers that we shape a view of the world through our mental faculties. These in...

perceptionepistemology

The space is nowhere

If someone imagines the 3-D space as “concrete in-itself”, it needs to be contained somewhere, as material things occupy...

metaphysicscosmology

Consciousness prior to will

After reading Schopenhauer’s works, despite agreeing with most of his metaphysics, I have to object on the following: Wi...

consciousnessmetaphysics

Existence as possibility

This is a thought I had since a very young age.

potentialitymetaphysics

Existential entropy-energy-economy

Is existence for free? Is it like an eternal gift? Do we owe something back?

metaphysicscosmologyexistence

Finding truth as negative untruth

Regarding metaphysical inquiries, it seems that we can’t touch the truth but we can only take steps toward concluding wh...

epistemologymetaphysics

It is and it is not

This non-classical logic statement can be applied across many different domains (Language definitions). Apart from its a...

epistemologymetaphysics

On existence as a quiz-movie-game

Existence shares some characteristics with things we created to entertain ourselves.

existencefreedom

On the root of existence

All observations and thoughts point to the following results:

existencemetaphysics

The Light and the Logos

It is understood, both by reasoning and insight, that the eternal essence of things has a dualistic character. Dualism i...

metaphysicsconsciousness

The opposite of mathematics

If everything has its opposite, as most things seem to have, what is the opposite of mathematics and its cold calculatio...

consciousnessemotion

The pixel entity (or the why as purpose)

What is the root purpose of existence? Is everything based on chance? Is there a plan? Is it a game?

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