I think this is part of the fake package religion tries to peddle. They try to convince folks that their particular flavour/variety of deity, is the o...
Personal identity is a very complex area in general. I am not the same person as I was as a teenager or as a twenty something etc. But the proposed '7...
The USA was born with a great number of disabilities that it inherited from it's many global parents. Irrational theism, embedded racism, angry refuge...
True, I was born in the 20th century, but how can we learn the mistakes of history if we keep blowing fresh air, on the residual embers of vile system...
Yes but such a proposed 'social dimension,' does not provide any significant evidence for such posits as panpsychism. If some kind of 'natural telepat...
Well a 'socialist monarchist,' just makes no sense to me at all Vera. Monarchy and aristocracy is a really old, really stupid concept. It needs to be ...
I think the distinction between data and information, becomes paramount here. Information being data with an associated meaning. We know that meaning,...
Then how can there be any consciousness in the body, if we can remove so much of it, without becoming a less conscious creature? The heart is just a b...
Yeah, but even if all that Sheldrake claims, eventually turns out to be true, how much would that increase the personal credence level YOU assign to s...
:grin: This caused three faces to pop up again, in my head. Three of the socialist hero's of my youth. Two 'red Clydesiders,' Manny Shinwell and Jimmy...
Over the years, Sheldrake has amassed a lot of data based on his own work and the work of others, with observing rat behaviour in mazes. The most basi...
If we talk to/observe, a human with no legs, would we find some difference in their 'level of consciousness' compared to people with legs? We can cons...
My problem here Vera is that you kind of shut my type down, in your OP with: As a socialist, I don't have much to offer regarding my true opinion of c...
I entered the above into chat GBT for an AI answer, and got: "Conservative values" are principles and beliefs that emphasize traditional social, cultu...
Thank you, and I return the compliment regarding your voice on the forum. I prefer that we cause sparks, when we debate compared to the possibility th...
Like you Mr Clark, I defend my own keep. But I very rarely hold any grudge. I have no significant issue with you. We mostly disagree with each other's...
So you like to misquote AI systems, as well as favour misquotes of Churchill. I begin to understand why you defend those who love biblical satire. You...
I asked chat GBT the following question: What side would you vote for in the Star Trek the next generation episode 'The measure of a man.' Do you thin...
Yep, I agree, a great episode. Perhaps your last sentence above is all that will really matter in the end, especially if the majority of sentient stak...
How unconscionable of you! :scream: :grin: Perhaps not exclusively but it's the over-arching criterion for me. I am open to arguments such as all natu...
Do you agree that it is illogical for a solipsist to reference the word 'they?' On Star Trek TNG's holodeck, the virtual reality is only rendered, as ...
If you were part of the 'jury' deciding on whether or not the 'android' character of 'Data' on Star Trek was conscious and deserved the same 'rights' ...
Yeah, I think it was an example of his conscious, demonstrating it's prowess, from a neuroscientific standpoint. Churchill was indeed a wordsmith, but...
Churchill was a butcher, and a vile human being, but even he doesn't deserve his words to be mutilated by an obvious moron like Mr O'Donaghue. Churchi...
Do you consider dark energy, physical? Or, immaterial? Dark energy is just a 'rushed' probably poorly conceived, placeholder label, but it's existence...
So does that not mean that your proposal is not EVEN at the level of pseudo-science? You have hand-waved away Dr Rupert Sheldrakes efforts, at what yo...
When you say non-physical, are you also invoking 'immaterial?' and if so, do you associate the word immaterial, with science or pseudo-science? If you...
No, your response was one of stealth, and I stand by my accusation. I am not surprised that you would respond with indignance however, as you have als...
Why not say that you are not familiar with Sheldrakes work, in your first response to me after I mentioned it? Would have saved some time. If you want...
If you are not willing to comment on 'theories,' that may evidence aspects of consciousness that exist outside of the physical borderlines of the huma...
If you are not willing to offer useful answers, to my main questions then there is nowhere to take this exchange between us. Thanks for the small insi...
Rupert Sheldrake is a scientist. and he claims to have scientific evidence of 'telepathy' in humans and animals via morphic resonance and morphic fiel...
Ok, that's fine, so we now need very strong evidence, that more than the brain is involved. As Carl Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordi...
So, if you agree the brain is 'involved' then what do you find objectionable, when I claim that it's therefore valid and appropriate to use the label ...
This might be a naive question, but from a solipsistic standpoint, how do you account for the 'number of parallel events' that occur every second in t...
Except in reflection! Thankfully, those involved in REAL scientific research, tend to do exactly as you suggest and leave the 'why' aspect of any of t...
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