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That I agree. So we can do things without focus. You can focus on your internal world, what unconscious mind delivers, but that could be empty or full...
December 29, 2017 at 12:43
I think that thinking is an unconscious activity. We just become aware of thoughts when they completely formed. I am not sure what is the use of consc...
December 29, 2017 at 12:14
We don't have any sense to feel passage of time. Feeling passage of time is completely construct of brain activity. How it can be constructed. Just sl...
December 29, 2017 at 11:59
Because you need to reach from one point to another one and this should take a while otherwise everything elapses in an instant. What do you mean?
December 29, 2017 at 11:50
Let me ask you the question another way: Have you ever done anything unconsciously? Of course yes, deriving for example. We however sometimes do thing...
December 29, 2017 at 11:42
I said two state of system lie on two different points. Duration is not a feeling. It is time elapsed between two events without that we could not phy...
December 29, 2017 at 11:31
By Variable I meant something which is subject to change.
December 29, 2017 at 11:19
I like your post.
December 28, 2017 at 17:11
Empirical is the domain of experience, feeling, thought, belief, idea, etc. We use concept to share experience. In this regards, art and religion are ...
December 28, 2017 at 16:21
I didn't say so. I was not talking about psychological time.
December 28, 2017 at 16:06
I am a physicist but always loved philosophy. I highly hope that my contribution is useful. (L)
December 28, 2017 at 15:05
I moved around the world. I was born in Tehran and am living in Tehran right now.
December 28, 2017 at 14:46
I am from Iran. How about you?
December 28, 2017 at 14:33
I mean a irreducible thing is defined by its property. It is not a same thing when you change its property.
December 28, 2017 at 14:25
I am dealing with Devils and Angles too. :D It is a pleasure to meet you too. :)
December 28, 2017 at 14:20
Yes, I am. How about you?
December 28, 2017 at 13:58
I see. How about recalling and the fact that it is not second experience?
December 28, 2017 at 13:49
Can you tell us why awareness is needed?
December 28, 2017 at 13:47
You cannot change the property of a irreducible thing without changing it. You cannot change a irreducible thing since this requires a destruction and...
December 28, 2017 at 13:44
I am right and you are wrong! :D
December 27, 2017 at 19:06
I agree. I agree. I think you are contradicting yourself here. Do you mean that we can recall at the moment we experience something? So you consider m...
December 27, 2017 at 19:04
I see. That is a very interesting point that resolve the problem that I have with materialism. So we can never catch the moment and experience the sub...
December 27, 2017 at 16:34
I mean that we are able to focus on experience and be aware of it, in another word experience it.
December 27, 2017 at 16:21
Time is real and allows change. Consider a change in state of a system, X->Y. Two states cannot lay on each other since the state of affair becomes il...
December 27, 2017 at 15:45
Something which deterministic just has one outcome.
December 27, 2017 at 15:08
Physical is the stuff we experience and it ontologically exists. Experience is physical state and it ontologically doesn't exist.
December 27, 2017 at 14:31
How the subject of NDE could remember anything if the brain does not have any measurable activity?
December 27, 2017 at 14:09
Why it should come to the surface? As I mentioned we can do complex tasks without being aware of them.
December 27, 2017 at 14:07
No. We can communicate for a long time without being aware of the content, very similar to deriving. It seems that consciousness only comes into play ...
December 27, 2017 at 13:14
The number of physical states is enormous, superconductivity, Superfluidity, solid, gas, liquid, etc. Consciousness is similar to awareness. It is not...
December 27, 2017 at 12:37
We already discussed the case that soul is reducible. Soul to me is the "I" and indifferent among individuals. Yes, that is correct. This is off topic...
December 27, 2017 at 12:23
Brain is physical therefore brain state is physical state. That as I mentioned is related to hard problem of consciousness. It is not clear to philoso...
December 27, 2017 at 08:39
You are correct. I should have been more specific.
December 27, 2017 at 08:34
Ethical one.
December 27, 2017 at 08:15
A chain of causality cannot start from nothing. Thing is different if you have an agent with ability to decide.
December 26, 2017 at 21:16
Souls are same. Why? Because if you dig enough inside you find that there is only a person inside you and difference between you and other people are ...
December 26, 2017 at 21:10
Sorry for not being clear enough. The soul cannot be created if you agree with OP. I already argued that soul cannot be destroyed if it cannot be crea...
December 26, 2017 at 20:27
What you are supposed to design? The thing in your disposal is irreducible.
December 26, 2017 at 20:25
Yes. I already argue about the fact that soul cannot be created or destroyed whether accidentally or intentionally.
December 26, 2017 at 20:18
Irreducible parts of universe have existed since the beginning of time. We are talking about act (what you intend to do) and not event. Well, could yo...
December 26, 2017 at 20:03
No, reducible thing can be built. The creation is an act. You need knowledge to perform any act. This means that we need the knowledge of what we are ...
December 26, 2017 at 19:51
Why should they come into existence? They just simply exist.
December 26, 2017 at 19:42
I can show that things that can be created can be destroyed also. You just need to reverse time to see this. Now lets suppose that soul is uncreatable...
December 26, 2017 at 19:38
Yes. They are person dependent.
December 26, 2017 at 18:08
No. I just said that it cannot be created.
December 26, 2017 at 18:03
We have physical and each physical system is in a state. Physical state is different from physical. A state simply states what is the response of a sy...
December 26, 2017 at 17:59
He is not completely correct. We are rational beings and we consider many factors when we decide. We might give to much weight to our self interest wh...
December 26, 2017 at 14:20
So you disagree that you can experience experience? Are you aware of being able that can experience?
December 26, 2017 at 13:39
That is true. We need to switch.
December 26, 2017 at 13:36
This is hard to formulate verbally but I give it a shoot. The experience is a brain state. Brain can experience things/physicals and each experience r...
December 26, 2017 at 13:35