{∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} : Rage Against the Meat Grinder

After a second successful configure/build/compile of SageMath 9.2 from source files, I experienced enough temporary satisfaction to "allow" my "self" to continue reading Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics.   It is delightful to read someone who feels as though they have made a great discovery in finding Schopenhauer's works.  I remember that feeling well.  I appreciate his use of terms like "spacetime" (credit given to the Physicist Eggheads) since Schopenhauer had always been pointing out that energy and matter are two sides of the same coin, and that time does not exist without space.

I am happy for Arthur Schopenhauer, that he has been well-received by those who recognize his genius.   The breakthrough Schopenhauer made, as far as smashing through the glass ceiling of Kant's "limits of reason," was quite simple, really.  It is an insight which I have heard expressed in the streets by everyday people.   There are the Arthurs in various different families of diverse ethnicities who have made this leap, stating simply something such as, "One Love."

They get it that "what it is like to be the world-in-itself" can not be different from what it is like to be any one of us.

We all know what it is like to be alive, to experience existence, hence we do know the Thing-in-itself, if only in the raw experience of our animal existence.  The more we know about ourselves, the more we will know about the nature of all that is.

Around chapter 3 or 4 is where I left off at 3AM.

The rain is coming down hard here, and although a neighbor needs help moving out today (or tomorrow!), I do not see it happening (today).   I will peck away at some technical "tinkering" until the rain lets up, and I am summoned.

Thanks again, Holden, for pointing out this author.  He claims to not have read Schopenhauer before coming to the same conclusions, and I will give him the benefit of the doubt.   Schopenhauer's work is nothing less than the Upanishads interpreted to the Western psyche.   Just as Schpoenhauer might have streamlined those ancient texts in the context of Socrates and Kant (Greek philosophy spreading via slavery and Roman military conquest of "Germanic Barbarians" [NOT!]), so too this Bernardo Kastrup may be streamlining "The World as Will and Representation" in the context of Quantum Mechanics and Modern, even Classical, Physics.

It is mind-blowing to consider that the world-in-itself is a mental phenomenon, and that one might embrace at once both Subjective Idealism and Objective Idealism when it comes to the nature of this thing we call "our" Lifeworld (Lebenswelt).