Philosophy discussion

Michael wrote: "Hello dear Members.

I would like to introduce to the group this fascinating philosophical book authored by Anton Sammut ..."

Hi Michael

"Anton Sammut presents a comprehensive and coherent account of how Consciousness or the Cosmic Mind emerges from the interaction of the mind, brain, body, and the environment, and how it shapes our experience of reality. "

Sammut is clearly not a fan of the Perennial teachings on consciousness and reality. I wonder why he rejects them. It baffles my why most academics ignore mysticism, since the mystic does little else but investigate consciousness. To me it seems an unscientific and unscholarly approach.

I prefer the explanation given by Eckhart, Plotinus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu and so forth, but won't go there unless you want to discuss such things.
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Many possible responses (to the emergence of yet another title like this) but I'll limit my contribution to just one mild remark:

how does one eliminate bias in this type of a project (?)

Said another way: there's really no rules at all, right? Rather a "dealer's choice" type of book?

Suggestion: introduce the work to the gang over at LibraryThing. They have a vociferous little debating society for such subjects

Michael wrote:"

Hi Michael

I may have misunderstood the book you're describing. I was thrown by this sentence:

"a comprehensive and coherent account of how Consciousness or the Cosmic Mind emerges from the interaction of the mind, brain, body, and the environment, and how it shapes our experience of reality."

The idea that consciousness is emergent is not the Perennial philosophy. Presumably these are not Sammut's words, but I read them as such the first time around and gained an incorrect impression. I think perhaps this sentence is worth an edit.

Thanks for the mention of his book on 'The Philosophy of..." I plan to have a look at it.

Cheers

PS. I've now had a look. It's only on Kindle and I don't like reading off screen, so I may not read it. It looks good, but I find it odd that it is self-published and has no reviews on Amazon. Normally I would be suspicious, but perhaps this is unfair for this author.

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