theRiddler

It's really nobody's business if people have faith in a creator. Just sayin.

To some extent, yeah. To combat the theistic implications of the fine-tuning of the universe, some people have created literally infinite entities out...

Social Darwinism is a thing, though. "Fittest" is a really loaded word. It's like a justification unto itself that those who survive were the most cap...

It does. You just aren't deep enough to get it. You're shallow and you talk a lot, and all of your discussions are predicated in nonsense drivel you p...

Just because something is fascinating doesn't mean it's fiction. Materialists would do well to recognize this. We can't even explore ideas, because ev...

It may be, bit it's a matter of how you react to life. Like, nothing is concrete, and would a mundane reality not be so temporal. How do we look at th...

*dismiss

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Yes, it's our responsibility to analyze speculative ideas, not outright dismissed them as flying spaghetti monsters. And by the way, the idea that rea...

This life may be pure fantasy. There is no evidence to the contrary.

Give me a break, dude. What I said is far more interesting than the pedantic. I'll forfeit discussing particles and waves since no living human can ad...

I think consciousness is just the natural self-identification that occurs when any particle is confronted with outside interference. An atom on its ow...

You think those brain states are ‘god’? Why? No, just that, in those situations, people have reported experiencing God. There is no absolute way to ve...

God hasn't made Itself readily apparent, so why would you think evidence comes to those who do not seek? Yet sometimes it does, through psychedelics o...

Well, God isn't an unfeasible hypothesis, tested through faith. IMO it can be a scientific endeavor, though I'm not sure any true evidence could ever ...

Mysticism is just the knowledge that none of you know what you're talking about.

Nah. Atheism is the belief in the disbelief of the existence of God. They believe it's the right mode of mind, just like the devout. And, by the way, ...

So explain how meat can interpret everything it encounters immediately? It prostitutes our conception of everything. Just look how we worship meat! Wh...

I think God can be excused if we're to label him a dictator, though I'm not too familiar with dictators that are omni-anything. God is everywhere, is ...

The world you ask for is dead at its heart. What alternative would we have but to believe in God, and then, why would we even bother? So, it is the be...

That consciousness is generated by the brain, though no one has explained how, is a premise of neuroscience? Why call it science, then, and not neuroi...

Does a car work without a conscious component? No, it doesn't.

Panpsychism isn't funny. Of COURSE electrons are self-aware. You just don't have the brain to figure how.

Does anyone know what's going on in this world anymore? And now that all the soldiers know the enemy, who wants to kill and die for warlords anymore. ...

We put chips in monkeys' brains and they died. That's how far along neuroscience is. Barbarism.

Who's insulting who? I don't even take this conversation seriously -- you've insulted half the people in it!

Of course the brain and the body are one: the brain is a part of the body. The body, even the brain, is not located "in the brain", though, and yet, w...

That's so ludicrous -- the idea that the rest of our bodies are all in service of the brain. How ridiculous. We are our whole bodies, including, but n...

How is one supposed to even argue with the backwards assumption that all we are is our brain. It's so patently false. Might as well argue with flat Ea...

There there, buddy, you lost. But there will be more mountains to climb. Take it easy.

Yes, you not knowing how the brain produces consciousness yet insisting everyone believe it does is a strawman.

No one knows how, but God forbid anyone disagree that it's been proven to.

I also feel all this has a lot more to do with the "woo" of electricity than physicalists tend to let on. Aren't we as much, if not more so, electrici...

It's quite possible, even probable, that there is a distinction between the physical moon, as processed internally, and what is actually out there.

I'm afraid that, until you can show how the brain produces consciousness, the question will always be up for debate. Some of you want to close the boo...

If I'm wrong, then, by all means, explain it. Explain how consciousness is produced.

Fact: Neuroscience has not explained consciousness. Period.

From what I can garner, not anything of substance.

What are you saying, exactly?

lol. Yeah, right. They have no clue.

The brain controls the heart; the heart controls the brain. Funny, the anus is the first thing to develop, so in a chicken or egg scenario. Sorry dude...

Cut out the heart and the brain dies. Therefore, we're just hearts. Yeah, neuroscience and sociopathy have got to be closely linked. It amounts to emo...

Neuroscience hasn't figured out how a conscious experience is produced. They somehow know...or I shouldn't say they, but sycophants like Garrett know ...

That isn't to say it would matter as to what consciousness is if the brain did produce it. Boeing makes airplanes.

What is consciousness? How does it work? What are it's qualities in relation to this dimension as well as all other hypothesized dimensions? How does ...

Any time you can prove the brain alone generates consciousness, I'm more than ready. You don't even know what that is, though, and yet you say there's...

You're gonna be dealing with it a while, at least until the in-depth analysis of how the brain produces awareness arrives. There's no such thing. You'...

There is no evidence pointing to the brain, and the brain alone, producing consciousness. If you disagree, pray tell, what is consciousness? I'm tired...

- Garrett Travers

It's not natural that honest, humble men should suffer so that Patty and her clinically obese step-triplets can each have five ice cream sandwiches fo...