Of course I don't believe that! However, 1. NREM sleep -> Brain off/Mind off -> Sleep/Unconscious 2. REm sleep -> Brain on/Mind on -> Sleep/Conscious ...
The brain is very much off. Or you'd be awake. That's the point... Anyway, as @"180 Proof" likes to say, I'm paraphrasing, Death is the true religion ...
So, yeah, there are inorganic treatment modalities for psychiatric disorders like life experiences that have a lesson in them. Also, a bullseye regard...
Oh! I see what you mean. You're taking sleep as a case of brain on but mind off. Sleep isn't some kind of uniform state that we can talk about it as a...
Let me get this straight, what you're saying is the Mu state is identical to sleeping? Doesn't seem likely, Mu is a state of consciousness but sleep i...
Also note, an expression that has gained currency and traction in the fast-paced modern world of sensory overload, drugs, wild parties, overworked and...
@"Wayfarer" This is a critical point and coming from a scholar in Buddhism, makes that much more significant. Meaning, as I understand it, is apart fr...
:chin: Noble, nevertheless a lie Like I said, However, you've not said anything with regard to the deductive nature of my argument (OP) and the fact t...
All I can say is, it isn't deliberate. aka Hanlon's Razor Truth be told, Alzheimer's or any other organic brain disorder and their correlation with al...
Missed that part. Good point! Physical changes can affect the mind, to be precise its functions. There seems to be a correlation between brain plaques...
Please take a close look at the underlined bit above viz. "... electrochemical events..." Surely, if what I know about science is true, the "...electr...
:chin: Somehow, I can't say that I didn't see that coming. This is exactly what Wittgenstein was talking about. A brief glance of the Wikipedia entry ...
I agree, I couldn't parse it well. However, if there's any truth in what I said, you're changing the subject, deliberately or unwittingly dragging tha...
I think I get it now! At best this is a fairly good attempt at descrbing the process of thinking but it contains absolutely zero information about wha...
I did think along those lines but it doesn't make sense. Here's a more elaborate version of your analogy. 1. Blank paper (the mind) 2. Written on the ...
I've been pulling my hair out over this issue for a long time with little by way of progress. What does "lack of belief" mean? Well, theism is a belie...
Sextus Empiricus' death paradox vis-à-vis Socrates! Funny, how ideas can die multiple times, meaning if given the opportunity they come back to life. ...
:rofl: Last I checked, you had a sense of humor. So... On a more serious note, can you have a look at what I think is going on with the "to be is to b...
I thought as much! As you said, Why in God's name can't I hear the music? Any remedies that you might wanna recommend a good friend with this conditio...
Well, that sounds like fashionable nonsense à la postmodernism to me but good judgment has never been my forte (my strong suit). Care to expand and el...
Comparison (Grammar) "er" and "est" as in blacker and fastest. "more" and "less" for a word like "beautiful": more beautiful or less beautiful So long...
How do you justify this equivalence? Why is the "void" equated wih "randomness"? :up: Noted! The thing is, even if we made the switch from race as bio...
God Moves In A Mysterious Way This is the ace up the theist's sleeve but comes at a cost. With one simple sentence, "god moves in mysterious ways", th...
You mean to say, we just don't live long enough to notice it. Perhaps such events can be observed at a smaller scale at human-level time (5 - 10 years...
We need to understand one thing before we shoot our mouths off. We're talking about cosmic-level events. Time, to be precise duration, may need to be ...
So, a mutual pact then! Both Greek philosophy (at least Aristotle's & Plato's) and Christianity benefited from the relationship betwixt them - Aristot...
Did you click the link, Chaos (Cosmogony)? Some excerpts for your reading pleasure: Take a look at this :point: Tohu wa-bohu (Without form and void). ...
Religions, once they become dogmatic, become a pain in the neck - any difference in opinion immediately acquires a good vs evil quality. What could po...
Order is stages/phases in chaos but not the other way round. Why? In chaos, anything is possible and so, order is possible even if only momentarily. I...
The Greeks were more than familiar with the the cyclical nature of reality (Kyklos & Anacyclosis) although they seem to have studied it only in a poli...
Awesome! A different side to the issue, one I hadn't thought of. I was focusing on logic, the discipline itself, and lost sight of the bigger picture,...
Alludes to "other ways" of seeing the world. I thought you had something specific in mind, that's all. As for myself, I'm firing random shots, hoping ...
:ok: The other day, I was having a discussion with my niece on how the Greeks were the first philosophers insofar as Western civilization is concerned...
They should be, right? That's the whole point of Skepticism A skeptic can't be a skeptic if fae has something fae doesn't doubt. You've picked up the ...
Any system that assumes ideal humans will fail because ideal humans belong to the same category as unicorns, centaurs, fairies, and leprechauns - myth...
The students (philosophers) built their philosophies on the ruins of preexisting philosophies demolished by their teacher (anti-philosopher). So, yeah...
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