- "Matter contains something non-material." Can you say what that something is, other than that it is immaterial? And how is one to extract informatio...
- "Conscious dreaming? Are you asking if the dream-world is conscious? Are you implying that consciousness is the soul? Do the two inter-relate, in yo...
@"Jackson""Does a person with Dementia experience consciousness?" Butting in, I'd say yes. Some awareness of their environment and their own-self rema...
One of my ventures in life is the "search for spirit." I ask myself, is this a physical, brain function, or is it some kind of "soul" that is doing it...
Existence is energy and its modes of being. The more scientific question is not where did existence come from, but where did the constitutions of ener...
Here ( https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3496762-josh-alfred ) are my first number of books I read from about 2007-2010 on goodreads.com. I didn't p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_the_sciences Would you care to try to conceptualize how the "cubic advantage" takes place within Holistic S...
I have yet to read a book in my Kindle Library called, "Transfer." It deals with such imagined technology and philosophy. There is, however, real prog...
"General human intelligence is declining." That's the thesis here. I haven't read any proof. Anyone with common sense could compare our current level ...
Whose to say if we won't discover a class of physics (mathematics) for what the mind is doing when it generates images, as a result of this amazing te...
Simply, there I mean one of the most fundamental equations in physics that google has here (let me get that) "To solve for time use the formula for ti...
"Google Define Hyper-reality." Hyper reality is defined as an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the...
This is the inception of hyper-reality. It blows my mind. Automatically generating virtual realities through the use of this technology will be a majo...
I tried reading the book, but it was mostly fluff, and the rest was non-sense. I did this years and years ago, when it first was on my library shelfs....
I bumped up against a theory called "Constructor Theory". In essence everything must be explained in 0's and 1's, ons and offs. It looks to show promi...
Dear rabbit, I have personally written a blog or two and collected and published data on the topic (non-being) of nothing. You may also find L.M. Krau...
Hm."...anymore than an amoeba can study humans." Great use of analogy. "...who knows what is being transferred through culture?" I think Jung really w...
The study of "spiritual entities" is part of a pseudo-science, like parapsychology. From my take there are possibly 1) Spiritual entities, or "other r...
"are there possibly other levels?" Not certain. Single celled organism do not have a neuronal structure (No CNS). They DO participate in "life" and re...
May I suggest the book, "Quarks to Cosmos: Linking All the Sciences and Humanities in a Creative Hierarchy Through Relationships" by J. Mailen Kootsey...
The fields are held in lock by the biological circuity of the brain. Just in the same way an electric circuit holds the current of an electric field. ...
I have been thinking about consciousness and how it might be explained using atomics. Consider the A) fact the the universe's visible energy is made u...
I have been trying to observe the world and its contents through the lenses of material continuity as of lately. Asking myself: What lasts the longest...
Its a principle that is applicable or manifested in most every level of the universe/existence. From the symmetry of electrons and protons (ratios) to...
Oh yeah, there's all sorts of work done by philosophers on the topic of "The Present." One I would suggest, that amuses me, is George Carlin's bit on ...
One way to think of eternity is through temporal dimensional consciousness. This is just a complicated way of saying "awareness of time." Anyone that ...
I don't think one person can make everyone humanistic (that is having a fundamental notion of existence as a human), but it never hurts to spread the ...
I am remind of a similar instance in history where millions of Indian people died off (in the Bengal famine of 1943) because the U.K. (specifically Ch...
If you would have asked that to me when I was a teenager, I would have said that I thought that. So YES I have thought that and taken it literally. No...
Man, we don't know when our "world" will come to an end. I doubt any mythology really is problematic for fore-seeing such. Science offers us all sorts...
There is some kind of break and convergence between A) Being able to translate languages B) Understanding languages. I am not sure what those differen...
A) Artificial intelligence can utilize any sensory device and use it to compute. If you understand this you can also compare it to human sensory exper...
When you have reached a point where the both philosophies of life are crossed, it is up to your freedom of choice which you will apply. The option is ...
I mean, I don't see anything replacing it anytime soon. We might be over-run by some primitive teachings, but that's a low probability. Science is as ...
I am somewhat supportive of transhumanism. I think there are extremes that could be considered outside of my support, similar to how I think of religi...
"I think we can measure the utility of an idea considering of how effective it is to both parts: the one who developed the idea and then the other who...
"Since, as per Wittgenstein, we can have our way with words, there's no point measuring utility - every word (idea) would be of equal utility, only th...
I would like to see (or be referenced to) cross-culture studies of NDEs? What are the common denominators among cultures? I found some of poetic unive...
I think madfool provided some examples, and at the same time pushed us into bewilderment by noting "some series of variables can always repeat but we ...
I am not a computer scientist but I would think that what is behind pattern recognition is to be considered a hardware problem, i.e. pattern recogniti...
Meditation doesn't stop human need. Any knowledge that is practical is applicable to fulfilling the rational needs of people. Both can be bizarrely ir...
Good and evil, like most other things, are potentials. When a being is developed with conditioning that make him good he is good, when conditioned to ...
You can represent the whole of reality as "the total" reality, but you can't express such a reality in a representation that has all elements of itsel...
1. Layered Structures of Existence - http://lucidityhaslevels1.blogspot.com/ Also see: Hierarchy of the Sciences. 2. My work on progress and regress a...
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