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Jan Sand

['Member']Joined: December 02, 2017 at 10:50Last active: December 31, 2018 at 16:19None discussions14 comments

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In: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Climate Change  — view comment
Apparently nobody here has read or heard about the latest report at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed...
October 15, 2018 at 16:52
In: Pascal's Wager  — view comment
That was not an Irishman, it was Voltaire
September 30, 2018 at 12:02
In: Pascal's Wager  — view comment
For Pascal's conclusion to have any value certain assumptions must be accepted. One must assume a God can be fooled by a human mind making an assertio...
September 30, 2018 at 10:56
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
There is no implication in my description of the mechanics of evolution favoring the creation of any species but successful ones in regard to the envi...
December 06, 2017 at 08:49
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
The process of environmental selection and automatic elimination of creatures who cannot survive is an undeniable design process.When successful survi...
December 06, 2017 at 04:47
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
Something designed is put together with intent to serve a purpose. Evolution is an automatic process with a purpose to survive and proliferate. If an ...
December 05, 2017 at 09:54
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
Peoplereply="ProbablyTrue;130224"] People who describe God do it in terms wherein its powers and intellect are unlimited, On that basis it is not poss...
December 05, 2017 at 07:37
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
The automatic processes of trial and error and building on successes typical of the dynamics of natural evolution where the only agendas are survival ...
December 04, 2017 at 18:53
In: Why would anybody want to think of him/herself as "designed"?  — view comment
As someone trained and professionally operative as a designer I am aware what the word means. It means to produce something that functions properly in...
December 04, 2017 at 14:33
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
One of the puzzles about the nature of reality as presented by an Einsteinian view of this universe of three space dimensions and one of time was the ...
December 04, 2017 at 13:12
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
Although I have indicated in a general sense how I structure my understanding of my consciousness and how it relates to what I call external reality a...
December 03, 2017 at 11:57
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
I hesitate to poke my nose into this argument but each of us has personal outlooks that may disagree with what billions of others my believe. Sites de...
December 03, 2017 at 05:18
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
Just to give you some idea about my work in the areas I mentioned here is a link to my blog. https://jansandhere.wordpress.com/
December 02, 2017 at 19:26
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
I'm not sure by what you mean as mindless. I see myself as a kind of surface effect of the huge ocean of intellect of the unconsciousness that feeds w...
December 02, 2017 at 18:15
In: The experience of awareness  — view comment
I just entered this site about half an hour ago and am delighted with the articulate level of the contributions. I have been aware a rather long time ...
December 02, 2017 at 12:47
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