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It's quite simple, an absence of anything, everything. There are no bananas or thingamajig, it's quite simple. In fact it couldn't be simpler.

Does absolute none existence seem more appealing to you? Because if you're not alive, this is the alternative. If you're alive, you have at least two ...

Nice summary. I never understood all the confusion around CI, surely it's obvious that what will be observed is a facet determined by the capacities o...

Yes, it might also be implanted like a seed, which develops and grows through "right action".

Yes if it's cultivated perhaps. What I am referring to is not a heightened state, although that might accompany it. Rather it is a transformation in t...

Yes, it does come down to intuition and faith to a large degree, I think. And yes miracles, or signs would be more convincing. As I see it while the r...

Yes, I agree, while humanity remains in isolation. However if someone who knew the nature of reality came along and told us, I don't see any impedimen...

It "makes sense" because "someone" is, by definition, a creature developed to survive over time. Creatures or things which aren't developed to survive...

Interesting, actually I thought I was replying to mongrel, but I'll carry on with what I was thinking anyway. Yes it's a distortion of spacetime. I ha...

Yes, I know the rationale, I just don't buy it. Logic is a human invention. It works in reference to the world and the known and the known unknown, bu...

Yes I agree with your reading of Augustine and Aristotle. I have a way of thinking of time which might add another twist. It's around the idea of an o...

But why do you relegate God, or it's equivalent(which we can't conceive) to beyond existence? We can't make this presumption.

No, it happened. I wasn't expecting you to believe me though.

Yes, you are lifted out of your normal self and hosted by another being, thus being as you say gifted other capacities.

Yes, I agree, well apart from the assumption that god does not exist, for these reasons. We cannot say this, we just don't know. Also yes the atheists...

I understand your point, but what I am suggesting that it I didn't experience the content of the revelation, but witnessed it(which was bolded). I kno...

Yes I agree the Willow's point about the supernatural. The grey area here is in the word"natural", or nature. Nature can be a catch all phrase for the...

Did you enjoy A Steert Car Named Desire, or East Of Eden? They're all about the implosion of personality(ego).

Thanks, it's seems it was adopted by early Americans(U.S. citizens(God this is a minefied)). I always thought it was a Yorkshire dialect word, because...

I was shocked to see you use this word. Are you from that part of the world, or did you know someone from those parts? (I come from there and even I w...

Is that like abstract expressionism? Is it like we're discussing a Jackson Pollock? How deep does the humour run in the dribbles of paint on canvas?

He was playing the crowd.

Quite, there is no way to establish the presence of God even when you are the one experiencing the epiphany. However having experienced epiphany of va...

Quite, trickle down is a myth. The rich get richer and pull up the ladder behind them.

But the OP is asking about whether someone is alive, brain states are besides the point. The point is in reference to the state of being alive. I agre...

So if an identical brain state, of someone who is alive, developed somewhere else in the universe, or at a different time. That same person would expe...

My perception is that it's a fight back against the effects of globalisation. I don't know what he will do about that, protectionism perhaps.

Yes I found that it is better to work with aporia, rather than on them, by changes in one's perspective. Or to take a metaphorical microscope to it, a...

Yes, well I view this world of the soul as in this world, such that this world is all there is(locally at least), as it is the world of the soul which...

I do largely agree, but it occurs to me that I tend to think of our world as an artificial construct (including spacetime, matter etc) and reality is ...

Peace man, nice poetry.

Some people make the effort and enjoy lengthier discussions. Even try to reach out to the understanding of others, to exchange ideas. I have been look...

That's what I thought when I came across it. Someone who knows Buddhism better might be able to explain I'm no expert.

The trouble with this discussion is that if there is a God, the world would be identical in every way as it would if there is no God, namely as we fin...

It's called Punch, or should I say Punch and Judy.

Yes, what I was thinking of is that we experience a flow of time, with some width to it in our impression and interpretation of our experience of bein...

Thankyou for your considered reply, I am getting a handle on this now. The postmodern stuff is new to me, but I expected to come across it at some poi...

I hope I'm not butting in here(you did by the way steal my OP"the eternal moment". No worries, it's great to get back onto this subject). My angle was...

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Yes there is natural, innate wisdom in some selves and one could also interpret that every being is wise. My cat for example is a font of wisdom, she ...

I know it's difficult to articulate with the language we have. But I think we all know instinctively what you are thinking about and I have puzzled ov...

The only way we will be able to know if we will never be able to upload our consciousness into computers or robots is to try it by experiment. I see n...

This is a naive interpretation of wisdom. Wisdom is a simultaneous awareness and realisation of one's position in a real world, a known world, and an ...

I am talking around the subject of pragmatism because I am still familiarising myself with metaphysical debate. If for example you were to ask me how ...

Matter to what? And to what degree have you enquired? Are you sure you can see through the mist? This is your perception perhaps. I have not begun yet...

So is the self a mirror image of the different? Is the different a representation of the self reflected? I am unacquainted with your idea of meaning a...

Yes I see that but, we are blind to what we are in some sense. We need to be able to see through the veils, including the veil which is our thinking m...

I do see all as within the self in the world, to the extent that it is focussed equally in myself in the world as if I were being a solipsist. But als...

So we have a pragmatic metaphysics? I agree, but for me the pragmatism is a reading of nature from an alternative perspective. I build in insights fro...

It seems to me that it's implicit throughout the thread. I haven't read the whole thread though, so I don't know if it has been stated bluntly.