universeness

Your projections have been the topic of many episodes of popular sci-fi series since the invention of TV and in earlier sci-fi literature. The idea th...

Ok :up: Btw, I love the music of Leonard Cohen. I also find Adam Sandler a bad actor and as funny as toothache. :halo:

I again find common ground with many of the words you type but I disagree with your future predictions of an infertile race of immortal or 'heading fo...

A very good question! It might be no more than human delusions of grandeur to suggest that the universe is dependent on lifeforms such as us to assign...

I appreciate your declaration of fatigue at the endless points, counterpoints made by both sides and I acknowledge the 'adjustments' that some (priest...

I remain with 'an eyebrow raise of interest/intrigue' towards panpsychism. I do think that consciousness is quantisable so it would follow that aspect...

I have read about some of the example cases you are referencing and cases where they have cut through the corpus callosum. One case involved a Russian...

Your note of caution is a fair one for all literature that is thesis-based. As you suggest, irrefutable evidence on the historical existence of the bi...

If you have the notion, I would recommend 'Caesar's Messiah,' by Joseph Atwill and 'Creating Christ,' by James Valliant and Warren Fahy. These two boo...

I think you are projecting the idea of humans working together in common cause towards a mystical merging of their individuality into a collective wit...

If I had a heart pacemaker keeping me alive, would 'I' be present within the mechanism of the pacemaker? Even if I give you omnipresent. I still don't...

Whose agenda would it suit most to create an antisemitic narrative after constantly fighting Jewish revolts since the days of the Maccabees? The Roman...

Watched the vid. I am familiar with the presenter. He presents many such youtube clips. I have watched and enjoyed many of them. He is careful to expl...

Well, I agree that it seems to be our main function is to ask questions and pursue answers. As the main representative of the cells and organs in my b...

I forgot to add that the brain cells image/artists impression is also a 'zoom' version of the galaxies image.

A sentence that seems right out of the 'big book of mystical woo woo,' do you wish to elaborate on it further? It doesn't! What is your source of thes...

I don't have much issue with most of what you typed but my 'spidey sense,' tells me you are trying to sneak some god posit in by stealth. What do you ...

You first! :smile:

I think we both know how the word 'faith' may be used. I am happy to connect it with and use it synonymously with words like 'hope,' trust' etc but it...

I appreciate that but I am suggesting that there is little need for us to try to connect logicality to biblical BS by making up bad interpretations of...

:up: Seeking new or confirmatory knowledge is always to be applauded. :clap:

Suggesting that AI will 'absorb' humanity implies AI will 'come out on top.' Would it not be better to suggest that the joining will be symbiotic and ...

I know it's not a science book, it's a storybook. Fables all contain allegories and metaphors. So a bad comparison then, written by people who could d...

Might be worth watching it then. The Cylons decide to wipe out their human creators because they believe that's what god commands them to do.

The one I like to 'mess with,' is 'alive' Vs 'consciousness.' The film 'awakenings' was a good exemplar. In a coma for X years. Alive but not consciou...

I think this was the main storyline for the humanoid Cylon models in the remake of Battlestar Galactica!

No logic in this biblical BS at all, is there? I don't think the science works either? If the Earth was without form and void then where were these wa...

The current weaknesses in the system you describe, is what must change! I would restrict all political campaigning to a single TV/Internet communicati...

Interesting that you have already chosen a gender for your imagined child and suggested a singular ownership rather than joint ownership with your ima...

How did we learn to avoid the mouldy lemons? Why was there a need to coin the word 'innocent?' How do you know what harm is? What harms you might have...

Yeah, all theists should take note of the points you make. The song is very LOOSELY BASED on real-life events. In my opinion, however, I believe there...

No, the measurement problem causes wave function collapse in the sense that a result will be gained from the act of measuring. No human or electronic ...

Good to know that behind your ill-chosen typings, (such as describing the democratic process as 'a weaselly fudge,') there is a person who can't think...

:scream: I wouldn't worry about it too much :cool: Almost every hand gesture you can make can be problematic. Even raising your hand to greet someone ...

Does the label matter? Aether or space or extent or even universal container? If QFT is correct then particles/waves are just excitations within a spa...

Just a 'quirky' aside. I think in places like Italy, the :ok: symbol is a compliment normally directed towards food. But, is it not places like Mexico...

:clap: Absafragginlutely! :death: :flower:

I understand many of the apathetic points you raise. You type with the same frustrations of many many others. You seem to be politically fatigued and ...

I am not an American but I think you are both soooooooooo correct here. Trump and the rest of those directly responsible for what happened on Jan 6th ...

But Lincoln was a republican president! The republican party was a new party in the run up to the American civil war. Lincoln started as a member of t...

I care about what you think and what you suggest, especially when it supports MY socialist/humanist agenda or when your thoughts/suggestions conflict ...

Your 'connection' suspicion was spot on. A google search confirms: "The Night Chicago Died" was Paper Lace's follow-up single to "Billy Don't Be a Her...

:grin: I hope you are predicting Scotland's future, as I think that would mean the end of our version of the American republican party, the Scottish t...

I was hoping you would ask that! The pub involved was called 'The Duke' so the jukebox was called the duke box. Even sectarian Glasgow pubs have their...

No my final question to you was not rhetorical. I am not uniquely able to define what is and is not part of the 'democratic process,' but I am able to...

Did you know: "Billy Don't Be a Hero" is a 1974 pop song that was first a UK hit for Paper Lace and then, some months later, a US hit for Bo Donaldson...

It's unwise to be derogatory towards that which you claim to not understand. Why are you asking me 'what it is exactly?' If you have already labelled ...

Well, You're here now! You might as well help try to improve things for others whilst recommending that life should fade away asap. You can advocate f...

I support democracy but I don't advocate for bloody revolution. I advocate for defense rather than attack but I also advocate for change through the d...

All your descriptions of 'currency' and the associated value placed on metals like silver and gold etc are mere human inventions. Humans can therefore...