A very good question, I thought of it myself many suns ago. I felt a sense of pride rush through me at what was to me the profundity of this...er..."d...
Your entire argument hinges on this: absence of evidence is evidence of absence. I gave an appropriate response to that. True that I might not have un...
I watched the video and although much of it was above my paygrade, I could get some idea of what the speaker had to say. It seems that the Bell inequa...
Also, since you don't seem to appreciate my interpretation of the two ideas discussed in the OP, why don't you share your own thoughts on them? What's...
Your argument boils down to, absence of evidence is evidence of absence which, fortunately or not, is not as good as you seem to think it is. For inst...
Oh, so I didn't post in the wrong thread?! :lol: Numbers are abstractions of/patterns in the world at large is how I see it. I recall a video in which...
Oops! I posted in the wrong thread. Sorry! Anyway... Good point! However, the holy grail of number theory - understanding prime numbers - is, all said...
Since math began with numbers, that looks like a good place to start. Numbers are, whatever else they might be, patterns or abstractions. Being patter...
A novel approach to the subject of mind. You threw me off with that sentence but I suppose it was meant to evoke a zen moment. @"Banno" should've caug...
I would say that the curious mind isn't restricted as such to social animals. Many animals, solitary and social exhibit similar behavior. It boils dow...
In my humble opinion, a very deep question. First, what is a shadow? There are many ways to answer this question but that which seems to be of immedia...
Addendum: It appears that, from a certain perspective, the problem - is the brain/prefrontal cortex/consciousness the most or the least important - is...
:clap: :up: Fantabulous. You took the words right out of my mouth! The general sentiment expressed therein seems to be at the heart of what's offered ...
My thoughts exactly. I once opened a thread on Buddhism along those lines. How very comforting to know there are others who think like me. Do you thin...
I suppose you're right. Are you or any of your family suffering from any ailments? I could prescribe medication or even, if I feel like it, perform su...
I want to bounce a certain idea vis-à-vis reincarnation off you for feedback. Reincarnation is, all said and done, simply just a kind of causation, ri...
Credentials, if any? I happen to know something about physiology - took a course back in college quite a long time ago. Something, they say, is better...
It appears that there's a lot we don't know...a lot. Diametrically opposite hypotheses can be generated to explain a simple, observable, fact viz. los...
I'm aware of the fact/possibility that all the information I'm throwing out there for analysis could be extracted from animal models and that medical ...
For what it's worth... From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5454943/ It's interesting to consider the possibility that the redistribution...
Thank you for your concern. Frankly speaking, I should've given the matter more thought - the OP clearly isn't as good as I thought it was. Consider m...
The philosophical ideal, best-case scenario, would be to keep dogmatism (insisting what you say is the truth) at bay, engage in philosophical debate o...
@"Possibility"@"Amity"@"James Riley" If you're still in the game, meditate on the following: First off, I crosschecked my hypothesis by visiting the r...
Do you have a relevant point to make or are you just passing random comments? Plausible? Bacteria, yeast, and some worms too I suspect. Isn't necessar...
It really doesn't matter which organ shuts down when we're severely injured. All we need to know is consciousness, wherever it resides, is the first -...
All I can say is that we zonk out and to tell you the truth, it doesn't even matter which part of the body consciousness resides in; the point is cons...
Is there a difference between being asleep and awake? If there is and there is or seems to be and that difference is the essence of what consciousness...
State your norms of assertion. From what I know. By the way, since this is a possibility I have to consider, is it possible that you - Amity - won't f...
Keep an open mind on matters that are, by definition, not within either the grasp of language or within the domain of classical logic. That, for some ...
This is exactly the issue that I'm addressing. The best response against the claim of am omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient god is the kind of...
I've heard of such folks - survivalists, they're called I believe. However, where they made a mistake was in thinking the collapse of civilization as ...
The potential for transhumanist superhappiness is quite different from the actual suffering much of life had to endure for eons. I'm not quite certain...
I've heard that before, the so-called sixth extinction which, supposedly, the earth is going through as I write this. Count me as a believer too but, ...
We haven't reached the last page of this book yet. I have a feeling the author (mankind/god/random chance, take your pick) is a genius...expect an awe...
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