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Yes! That's why there are less and less monasteries. At the same time it could explain the mysterious sounds heard in the Himalayas once in a while...

I don't agree. The new imperative, categorically applied by the police and supported by the people of the city, is clear: "Kant stealing or murdering ...

I think so too. Is it the begin page or the end page? All theories have limitations on two sides. Only the fundamental theory has a one side limit.

That's because you're no chameleon.

Not intending to be cynosure but wouldn't chameleons flip out when the world was a chameleon,?

All theories have limitations. The fundamental theory might be gap-less, but its applicability is very limited. It might underlay and explain the fund...

I think the whole neocortical layer is added. That includes a semiosis that isn't fixed, like it is in large-brain mammals. The new cortical layer is ...

Different things. You can be aware of conscious experiences. This awareness is not a conscious experience. Awareness is conscious, but consciousness i...

:lol: Reality kicking in... Thoughts can't be prevented. Although... there seems to be a way. Concentrate on the red pearl. Thoughts might fade away, ...

That's a beautiful short story already! Too bad it's reality...

This state can be achieved by meditation, so it seems. Shut off thinking and focus on the central red pearl. Thinking fades. Sounds and visions fade. ...

Why not writing stories about daily life in Moscow? How the "special operation" affects the Russian people? Is that controlled by power? Can I even as...

Well, I'd rather say the body can express the soul, reach out to other souls, for whatever reason.The bodily form stands in unbreakable (?) contact wi...

The husked kernel-stuff is the latex glove? Are the latex gloves doing the yanking of the a-physical kernel stuff out of the shell it's contained in?

The body is the bridge between the outer part of matter and the inner, soul-like part.

Information just means in formation. A volume of space may contain a Bekenstein entropy, but this number doesn't show how the matter inside it is in f...

No, we don't. All gods are true gods. But if people wanna fight about it, it's up to them. The universe can't exist because of natural laws only. It m...

What a boring thread.

The epistemic cut is exactly where we are situated. The physical world is projected into our world of the brain, which analogously represents and acti...

It would be an empty meaningless universe without gods. Now that's proof.

That's what I mean. His truth. You really think our genes are up to something? We just employ them. They are completely altruistic... :razz:

How can materialism ever explain I see a world in colors while it looks like a dark world in which once in a while a ray of sunlight shows itself? A d...

He doesn't know the facts of nature for a starter. The facts of nature he perceives and thinks to be facts is what he advocates for and wants others t...

All the omnis of God contradict each other. His omnipotence contradicts his omnobenevolence. His omnipresence the likewise. His omniscience contradict...

Okay parrot boy

No. You can't. Same for God.

You might better rethink that. Your horse could get killed. Or is that not what you think?

God can't destroy the universe. He's not omnipotent. And even if he could (which would make him evil, cause omnibenevolent creatures can't do wrong), ...

Now I wanna know! Tell me! I won't get angry!

And more thoughts...

Thanks for the compliment! If he would destroy the universe he would be ultimately evil. So he can't destroy it because he's omnibenevolent. So he's n...

You just showed one.

No, he can't. His omnibenevolence forbids that. So he's not omnipotent.

But if a God can't show us his omnipotence, how can he be omnipotent?

Someone claiming that the ultimate truth is organisms being machines programmed to pass on genes or memes has a loose screw somewhere in his machinery...

What black hole entropy doesn't account for is what forms entered the hole. The entropy of a black hole formed out of a bike is the same as one formed...

Seemed. Indeed. But he didn't go further than telling memories are just integrated in brains, consciousness is material (hence his thread about the un...

The only thing I haven't figured out is why the universe doesn't run backwards.... Einstein said that if you can't explain your physical theory to a s...

That's the popular image yes. But you can consider it like this: Your image of the closed wiggly line is right. An uncoupled virtual photon. They are ...

I don't. But they do. I speak for those saying that personal evidence is proof. It's too easy. If they had better evidence than personal experience. I...

They would be out of a job!

Physics, metaphysics, ontology, religion, etc, they all belonged to philosophy.

Just left some context out... :smile:

Great imagery! Somewhat similar: https://youtu.be/r6sGWTCMz2k Epicycles spring to mind.

I couldn't agree less! That's why I find it rather strange that these concepts are seen as physical reality. :smile:

The story continues. Let me say this. In a Feynman diagram there is a virtual photon between two charged particles. A wiggly line taking care of both ...

Kis who?

Metaphysica. You can't discuss this on physics fora.

Yes. The description is allright. But the electron's charge is not pulled into a spherical form. That's why the hopping image is fine. The smeared out...

It can look smeared out if it hops like mad from one place to another. Prrrrrr.... hophophophophop..... If you imagine the s orbital, it's not everywh...