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Haha! Guess we share a secret diary... Like all of us. :smile:
January 13, 2022 at 11:15
High ten, Dasixsevenone! Let's call the ego real as well as illusionary. Real in the sense it interacts with other egos, creating a sense of community...
January 13, 2022 at 10:56
Yes, indeed. Just like unbridled collectivism. Attention to the individual might blind us for other people and can lead to nasty behavior towards othe...
January 13, 2022 at 09:56
I see what you mean. No one is unique, contrary to what commercials show you. In that sense the ego is illusionary. Only isolated egos are unique.
January 13, 2022 at 08:42
Nobody is fundamental. We are all children of the universe, created by the eternal beings. If you want to make an illusion out of that, no problem. :w...
January 13, 2022 at 07:24
This is the root of the identity crisis. Who am I? Every time you think you have found yourself, it slips away. Why can't you zero in in on yourself? ...
January 13, 2022 at 07:16
Then who wrote these words, if it wasn't you? Or is "you" equally illusionary? The illusion seems pretty real. I think the ego is called an illusion t...
January 13, 2022 at 07:09
Thats true.
January 13, 2022 at 06:59
If the ego talks to itself, who does the talking or who does it talk to? Who is it even? The root of identity crisis. Who am I? What's ego? The body. ...
January 13, 2022 at 06:53
A black hole has a perfect cylindrical symmetry. It exists in the real world.
January 13, 2022 at 06:32
Exactly! It's your body. You walk and talk between the world and your brain.
January 13, 2022 at 06:25
Just like it is utterly blatant, and seriously grave nonsense if you say mind is a thing. It's not an activity either. A volcano is a thing. It erupti...
January 13, 2022 at 06:21
That's what you think. Not all words in English language refer to things though. That's your limited interpretation. How would changing language chang...
January 13, 2022 at 06:01
The straight line of time becomes a curved one too. If space is curved, so does time. Curvature can be defined only for the space between two differen...
January 12, 2022 at 22:08
Dunno. This directs attention away from the matter itself. And, so I think, that's exactly the stuff conscious resides in. You can consider the consci...
January 12, 2022 at 19:07
There you go. Time as the variable t is an illusion. Light doesn't travel in time, and it's finite speed in space prevents things from happening at on...
January 12, 2022 at 18:05
Of course I am. But I leave the gods to their own devices. Who else can have created the universe? Thanatos and Hypnos were once reality. These days t...
January 12, 2022 at 17:21
Yes. They look like torus shapes. I don't think they are torus shaped. The accretion disc and particles shot out might be a sign the black hole rotate...
January 12, 2022 at 16:57
The clock is not what the ruler is to distance. An odometer would be more appropriate to compare the clock with. The numbers on the clock represent th...
January 12, 2022 at 16:17
Information is a material notion. It describes the spatial relationships between particles. I agree that if there is information in motion, like there...
January 12, 2022 at 15:30
To be superseded by new monsters? So called objective monsters? Logos was invented to make a connection of the forms Plato thought existed in the meta...
January 12, 2022 at 14:59
I wholeheartedly agree! It appears to be the primordial form that even survived to these days and a world of life without them (or bacteria, which hav...
January 12, 2022 at 12:05
My point is that R doesn't know how to tell a story about reality. He just freezes a visible aspect of it, and implicitly tells us it was all about eg...
January 12, 2022 at 10:41
The strange thing with words is that they talk to us. You can consider them as objects on their own, as drawings, but then they cease to talk. You nee...
January 12, 2022 at 10:30
The more I think about it it the more I like it! It (CR), at least, doesn't have that pompous intention most standard interpretations have! And becaus...
January 12, 2022 at 10:03
Off course. But you say also. Why should a work with humor be bad (or good)?
January 12, 2022 at 09:49
The qualities you mention don't constitute a basis for the quality of art. They say if your qualities can be found in it. Or are they a base for good ...
January 12, 2022 at 09:42
Indeed. Whoever told you that doesn't understand that all languages can be translated into one another. All languages are spoken by people and no lang...
January 12, 2022 at 09:36
People are viruses in disguise. That's why viruses have a will, a conscious (not a consciousness), a longing, a drift, and they even bring new life in...
January 12, 2022 at 09:23
It definitely, absolutely, irrevocably, seriously, and objectively is a worse pain(t)ing than the projection of Warhol. The Nachtwacht is a dull 2d fi...
January 12, 2022 at 09:22
The truth sets free. It's pretty clear to me what happened back then. But maybe that's all happening inside a quark, who knows. Don't we ask questions...
January 12, 2022 at 07:15
Now that's a good question! And the answer is no. The clock is only a device we invented and use in relation to irreversible processes. If an irrevers...
January 12, 2022 at 07:03
Luckily, physicists can have wrong stories. There are different views on the big bang and it depends on your view on big and bang where you place the ...
January 12, 2022 at 06:48
Hawking radiation does imply that particles just outside the horizon are entangled with the particles inside and take away the frozen information insi...
January 11, 2022 at 22:39
And yet... The second law of thermodynamics says that if order in a closed system is created, like is done globally on a massive scale and an exponent...
January 11, 2022 at 21:53
Ain't the belief in one god a doctrine? Like the belief in one physical reality in science? I don't think doctrines have an inherent value. A ham sand...
January 11, 2022 at 20:48
What's the difference between a unitarian and a catholic? Brings the catholic three times as much disaster? I can't quite spot the difference, apart f...
January 11, 2022 at 20:37
That I call Enlightenment with a true capital P! It even brings a tear to the edge of my eye! But I'm too damned proud to let it flow... :smile:
January 11, 2022 at 20:28
And not only for religions...
January 11, 2022 at 19:39
Christ was just hanging around on Earth playing the radio of God. God is the DJ, the Holy Spirit His radio waves, and God the receiver and loudspeaker...
January 11, 2022 at 19:38
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:lol: If I were your mum, I would scream to get your ass out of the closet!
January 11, 2022 at 19:03
According to the uncertainty relations if you make dx smaller and smaller dp becomes bigger and bigger. At the small distances, a black hole appears w...
January 11, 2022 at 17:55
Cheers Mason! Enjoy the fantastic journey of life, and all the epiphanies still to come! :smile:
January 11, 2022 at 17:35
Following your advice, refraining from procreation, would end all human existence in 150 years. If no one gets telomerized, that is, which is highly u...
January 11, 2022 at 17:30
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Dunno... Doesn't God, in the pantheisthic world (different from the polytheistic world), become the universe? Thereby continuing their attributes? We ...
January 11, 2022 at 15:56
How can you proof time wrong? Construct an hypothesis of time. Observe. If time is found, hypothesis correct. If not, look further. If still not found...
January 11, 2022 at 15:16
The mind exists objectively in the brain. The mind, the noun, is in motion, verbally. Therefore it's a verbal noun. The mind can be seen as that what'...
January 11, 2022 at 14:58
call Like I wrote. A taboo. Not in my eyes. That is how it calls itself. And the ignorant haven't seen the light. If "Enlightened" thinking didn't exi...
January 11, 2022 at 14:40
Stating time is real and trying to proof it, will be an attempt in vain eternally. No true clock will be found in reality, so time is not real, restri...
January 11, 2022 at 12:09
Assuming it to be true and trying to proof it implies a way to look for it and compare it with your assumption. If the proof is a reductio ad absurdum...
January 11, 2022 at 11:57