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Michael McMahon

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Our visual system is made by millions of photons. So even a vague mental image in our imagination might consist of thousands of phosphenes. We can't f...
January 12, 2023 at 16:47
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Maybe one reason we often don't appreciate reincarnation is out of mild amounts of xenophobia. It's natural that we're not fully grateful for the exis...
January 12, 2023 at 03:35
One way to infer a tachyonic presence is if an unemotional, non-rational animal or insect detected a change in light frequency more than what their vi...
January 05, 2023 at 03:48
A tachyon could be interpreted just like a normal photon except in an alternate timeline. So if multiple people view the same light beam perhaps they'...
January 05, 2023 at 03:23
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We know that medieval people were all so violent that it's hard to think that God gave them a formal judgement at death as if there were deceased judg...
January 01, 2023 at 04:19
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What would we think of the culpability of Hitler had he simply not being elected into power? So we wouldn't go back in time and kill him as a baby but...
December 26, 2022 at 15:26
A conscious being could be compared to a multitude of panspychist photons trapped between mirrors. The visual neurons in brain would essentialy functi...
December 19, 2022 at 20:37
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Perhaps Catholic heaven will be where everyone visits Mont St. Michel in France; the Disney Land of Catholicism! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Sa...
December 19, 2022 at 15:16
The traditional account for why the brain is split into two hemi-spheres is to increase thought efficiency. Yet it doesn't make too much computational...
December 18, 2022 at 11:53
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'Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”' Bible For all my talk about the risk of cynical post-dated apologies f...
December 15, 2022 at 13:16
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"Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were God. In Abrahamic religions idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone...
December 13, 2022 at 14:57
It might be possible to view the brain as correlative in a fundamental way. Perhaps each thinking neuron is chaotic in the sense of being non-repeatab...
December 12, 2022 at 05:56
Anti-realism might sound megalomaniacal from the standpoint of a materialism. Yet consciousness has been a mystery for so long that it might be tolera...
December 11, 2022 at 13:20
A material benefit of anti-realism could be an enhanced interpretation of art. So many people fail to appreciate modern art even though we often love ...
December 11, 2022 at 09:29
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If every Christian became a pantheist then Christianity itself would become a mystical folk religion! "Folk religion is the religion of the “folk” — r...
December 10, 2022 at 02:19
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Pantheism might become too self-critical and growth-oriented if we all got into the habit of thinking there'll be more of God in future generations th...
December 09, 2022 at 01:12
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An irony of being obsessed about dreaming and lucid dreaming is that it's sometimes possible to infer that someone else might have a dreamy appearence...
December 08, 2022 at 02:23
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What if Christianity became a victim of its own success by being burdened with such a large section of the globe? We don't tend to view Jesus as being...
December 07, 2022 at 20:48
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It might be possible to re-interpret God the Father in Christianity as God of the physical universe while Jesus would appear to be a relative God of h...
December 06, 2022 at 22:43
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Pantheism might be able to cater for war veterans who demand sadistic rewards in an afterlife only if they actually defend against an evil woman who s...
December 06, 2022 at 20:02
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A simple way to think of an afterlife is simply of a guided prayer showing the scenery of a religion rather than just the worshippers. So perhaps we'd...
December 06, 2022 at 18:59
It's hard to visualise another mind as physically existing in their brain with the same level of confidence as our sense of touch. Somehow we know tha...
December 06, 2022 at 17:58
Anti-realism isn't at a stage to compete with science. Yet if anti-realism were collectively adopted in some form by a large group of people then anti...
December 06, 2022 at 09:21
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If people truly adored the concept of oblivion after death where they didn't want to reincarnate for a 100 years then it's possible that the physical ...
December 06, 2022 at 03:49
The mildest version of scientific anti-realism is that parrallax is a metaphorical basis of consciousness. So we could say that the basic movement of ...
December 05, 2022 at 01:24
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Even if divine judgement didn't exist we'd still need to control some of our angry thoughts. Personally I don't try to stop all of my flimsy aggressiv...
December 04, 2022 at 21:56
Interpreting our visual perception as being at the back of our brain in the visual cortex might be too counterintuitive for reconciling it with our ta...
December 03, 2022 at 14:52
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Revisualising your country as a larger group might have serious consequences for how we view God as existing in the material world. For example if a t...
December 03, 2022 at 02:17
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It might sound very difficult for a man to reincarnate as a woman or vice versa! It's easy for a pantheist to rationalise off the existence of other c...
December 02, 2022 at 14:39
It's a miracle I put the past 3 posts in the anti-realism thread accidentally as they were too extreme for the pantheism thread!
December 02, 2022 at 05:14
If we removed hell from the equation then the only consolation of divine judgement would be if you were informed why you were declined from heaven as ...
December 02, 2022 at 05:10
"Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, means you cannot recognise people's faces. Face blindness often affects people from birth and is usually...
December 02, 2022 at 05:07
If we tried to form a purely materialistic version of Christianity we could say that the faith worked through perverted natural evil in terms of overp...
December 02, 2022 at 04:03
Asian people don't report perceptual differences to Europeans when it comes to dreaming and perception. Yet it's possible that they're much better abl...
December 02, 2022 at 00:25
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Being religious and subscribing to evolutionary theory could be very challenging because they're the moral inverse of each other. In some sense not on...
November 30, 2022 at 23:54
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The most hysterical, megalomaniacal way possible to perceive God as fully existing in the material world is if everyone viewed themselves as being bot...
November 30, 2022 at 20:40
If we were anatomists handling a dead person's removed brain then our sense of touch of their neurons on our hands are internal to ourselves. As such ...
November 29, 2022 at 17:14
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If we don't take our life too seriously then it might be easier to deal with death. Yet to do that means we couldn't be very loving to our friends and...
November 27, 2022 at 17:00
One way to think of your vision as existing in your brain is like a rainbow. A rainbow refracts white light into the coloured spectrum. However it pri...
November 26, 2022 at 00:44
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Anyone worried about death can rehearse with Sean Bean; the self-righteous actor everyone wants to kill! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnzk5qAaNLkSean...
November 25, 2022 at 20:25
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Most people these days probably woudn't consider being dragged by a horse-drawn chariot along a tranquil Mediterranean beach to be a shameful funeral....
November 25, 2022 at 19:53
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If there is an afterlife my initial guess would be as a shared mental realm where every soul would be dreamy. Some people believe in a more physical v...
November 24, 2022 at 19:07
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One way to view a prophet like Jesus or Buddha is that they were democratically elected as God. For example early Christians voted for Jesus simply by...
November 24, 2022 at 01:10
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A secular interpretation of religion is as a realpolitik version of spirituality. So people with unique metaphysical beliefs can compromise some of th...
November 22, 2022 at 22:58
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If you didn't believe in a shared afterlife then perhaps it's still possible to hope for a memory reel of your past life at death. Or perhaps if your ...
November 20, 2022 at 16:45
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A physicalist interpretation of the Christian doctrine of total forgiveness is that in forgiving a repentant person you're also helping to reassure th...
November 17, 2022 at 22:29
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We could say that poor people who are under far more pressure than middle-class people can be viewed as more virtuous simply be resisting the temptati...
November 16, 2022 at 15:36
An alternative way to view dualism is that our skeletal system is unfeeling and that our sense of body exists only in the muscles. This bodily dualism...
November 16, 2022 at 00:22
One way to view lucid dreaming is that the light we see during the day has slowed down considerable. Then our mind moves faster than a slowed down spe...
November 15, 2022 at 23:51
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If Christians were duty bound to forgive others in the afterlife then the primary countermeasure against evil might be vigilance in the material world...
November 15, 2022 at 22:05