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That's great once you know it's God but again how do you verify it's God? Which scriptures are acceptable to use for verification, and how do you veri...
September 25, 2023 at 23:26
How can one verify that the "truth" given by God is in fact true? Before answering that question; how does one verify that the entity providing this "...
September 25, 2023 at 21:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
September 23, 2023 at 17:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo Consider turning on captions.
September 21, 2023 at 12:44
Yes, you are correct. The image used in the experiment is arbitrary, they could have used Mickey Mouse or any other image. I think a Lambda symbol was...
September 14, 2023 at 12:11
When an object is touched, it does not mean that it occupies the same space as the other object. If that were the case, touching would be impossible. ...
September 01, 2023 at 05:35
In a society where governments try to control information, the probability of information being true may be lower than in a society with more transpar...
September 01, 2023 at 04:27
Being: An agent. A complex existent integrated enough to have acquired a concept of identity, self, and other. An entity capable of complex behavior i...
August 31, 2023 at 02:08
Yes, but one must also consider ones time horizon. The general heuristic that i usually try to apply is to first identify the possibilities in a speci...
August 21, 2023 at 21:28
All one can know is what one perceives, and what one perceives is real at some level in one way or another. Real is anything that has effects in the w...
August 20, 2023 at 05:36
Truth is a word that comes straight from the heart of logic. Truth is the result of a logical operation and symbolically represents the realized condi...
August 17, 2023 at 06:38
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Yes, and i do have a way of explaining it (theory under construction), but people don't like to discuss it since it involves something coming from not...
February 01, 2023 at 08:45
I had an experience in my younger years when i experimented with all kinds of drugs that made me forget an entire day, and didn't even know it. Briefl...
February 01, 2023 at 04:09
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There may be a way to reconcile the two concepts of analogue and digital in nature at a fundamental level. For me as i currently think about it; a tru...
January 31, 2023 at 20:07
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Just adding my two cents to the pot. :smile:
January 31, 2023 at 19:27
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If nature is analogue at the fundamental level then what causes 'difference'?. How does analogue acquire structure? Atoms are a form of digital organi...
January 31, 2023 at 19:11
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Thank You and good luck to you as well. May your journey take you home.
January 31, 2023 at 18:48
In: Emergence  — view comment
A digital system can appear from a distance as analog, but analog never appears digital at any scale. The nature of reality appears to me to be digita...
January 31, 2023 at 18:21
I think wheel theory can help turn the wheels a little in the light of what i'm trying to say, as well as modular arithmetic with an equivalence set o...
January 31, 2023 at 01:44
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When we test and verify we are using logic, we can't test or verify anything without it. This means that what logic suggests is that physical reality ...
January 30, 2023 at 21:32
Absolute nothingness is a transcendent concept in which everything and nothing is latent within. Absolute nothingness is not infinitely away, but the ...
January 30, 2023 at 20:49
You could say it like that.
January 30, 2023 at 06:18
:zip:
January 30, 2023 at 04:06
Solve et Coagula.
January 30, 2023 at 02:35
The opposite of "absolute nothingness" (0) is "absolute somethingness" (1). Between 0 and 1 there is infinity.
January 30, 2023 at 02:25
I agree, mathematics and logic is most fundamental, so naturally. :up:
January 29, 2023 at 23:28
Something i'm thinking about. Binary is the simplest number system, which is what i would expect at the simplest lowest level of the universe. look at...
January 29, 2023 at 22:42
No of course not, but that's not what i'm saying. Infinity can not be actualized.
January 29, 2023 at 22:28
Right but that's after potential creates time and space. Why time and why space, is there a logic as to why space and time? Before there is time there...
January 29, 2023 at 22:25
Also if let's say 1 existant exists already and lets say that it has a mass unit of 1, when it creates another existant now there is a mass of 2 in th...
January 29, 2023 at 21:36
That is precisely what i think, it has structure, but... That doesn't seem mysterious to you? that only an existant can create an existant. Where did ...
January 29, 2023 at 21:31
Yes, that's what i was thinking; a kind of fundamental pressure, but i'm trying to understand the nature of that pressure. It's hard to understand som...
January 29, 2023 at 21:17
In: Emergence  — view comment
I don't know exactly how they will go about it. Investigations into the corpus callosum, and GPT language model integration as a communications langua...
January 28, 2023 at 13:03
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Right, but instead of rejecting the insight for what is already familiar, should we let it actually inform our understanding in a new way? Sometimes i...
January 28, 2023 at 12:27
Who grades the test?
January 28, 2023 at 09:53
Thank you i understood, i just had to read it slowly a couple of times. I was trying to understand what you were saying while attempting to compare it...
January 28, 2023 at 00:38
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Don't forget to pour one out for the homies. :smile:
January 27, 2023 at 17:18
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All true, but one thing i know about autistics is that they have a high level sense of justice. I imagine that these kinds of problems will arise, but...
January 27, 2023 at 14:16
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I totally understand where you're coming from. I have that same impulse within me too. Sure but we really can't get away from representation anyway no...
January 27, 2023 at 13:20
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Autistic people have a tendency to be very highly specialized in their cognitive functions to the point of reduced functionality in other areas, somet...
January 27, 2023 at 10:56
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That may be true or not or only in part. I prefer to assume that every bath has a baby in it, and we should be careful when we discard the bath water....
January 27, 2023 at 10:19
who = specific person what = specific thing where = specific place when = specific time how = specific process or function why = specific logic Yes, o...
January 27, 2023 at 09:32
You make an important point about the who, what, where, when, how, and why questions, these are like the atoms of questions. I don't know how many peo...
January 27, 2023 at 08:54
I believe that philosophy, at least in the form we know it evolved from the ground of religion. I posted something speaking partly to this. I reproduc...
January 27, 2023 at 05:44
Hmm, coincidentally this video just came up on my YouTube feed. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - Why Is There Anything At All? https://www.youtube.com/wa...
January 27, 2023 at 05:21
:up: Two very intriguing notions (unstable nothing, and symmetries). I always find myself coming back to these ideas, pondering why and how. I love th...
January 27, 2023 at 04:49
Perhaps i have, what do you think it is?
January 27, 2023 at 04:19
Because of the nature of life and intelligence. The biological imperative is to survive and reproduce, and the evolutionary imperative is to complexif...
January 27, 2023 at 03:57
You're right, i considered all three possibilities, and there are potential solutions to all three different scenarios (open, closed, and steady). I s...
January 26, 2023 at 18:41
In: Emergence  — view comment
Yea sorry it's my fault, i'll try that. I just have difficulty with emoticons because i can't tell which one matches my emotional state, except for th...
January 26, 2023 at 17:44