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- "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...
April 16, 2022 at 14:43
- "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...
April 16, 2022 at 14:14
@"Jackson""Does a person with Dementia experience consciousness?" Butting in, I'd say yes. Some awareness of their environment and their own-self rema...
April 16, 2022 at 13:43
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...
April 16, 2022 at 13:27
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...
April 16, 2022 at 13:14
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...
April 15, 2022 at 22:53
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...
April 15, 2022 at 22:37
Lewin Genidentity -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genidentity
April 15, 2022 at 22:08
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...
April 15, 2022 at 21:40
Yes. I have written a blog devoted to philosophical psychology. https://philospsy.blogspot.com/ There are some good articles in there.
April 07, 2022 at 14:17
I think an understanding of personal meaning comes from deciding what One ought to do when thinking of reality/nature/economy/society.
March 22, 2022 at 02:26
"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 ...
February 08, 2022 at 10:18
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...
January 21, 2022 at 03:20
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...
January 21, 2022 at 03:17
Where can I find more examples as precise as this?
January 21, 2022 at 03:07
"Google Define Hyper-reality." Hyper reality is defined as an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the...
January 21, 2022 at 03:05
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...
January 21, 2022 at 02:53
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....
January 21, 2022 at 02:41
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...
January 21, 2022 at 02:35
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...
January 21, 2022 at 02:22
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...
January 07, 2022 at 12:55
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...
January 07, 2022 at 11:09
"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...
January 07, 2022 at 10:57
May I suggest the book, "Quarks to Cosmos: Linking All the Sciences and Humanities in a Creative Hierarchy Through Relationships" by J. Mailen Kootsey...
January 05, 2022 at 14:19
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. ...
January 05, 2022 at 14:15
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...
January 05, 2022 at 11:55
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...
January 01, 2022 at 13:54
Where there is phenomena there is the possibility for its -ology.
December 18, 2021 at 14:09
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...
December 18, 2021 at 14:08
In: Eternity  — view comment
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 ...
November 26, 2021 at 12:30
In: Eternity  — view comment
One way to think of eternity is through temporal dimensional consciousness. This is just a complicated way of saying "awareness of time." Anyone that ...
November 26, 2021 at 12:27
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 ...
October 15, 2021 at 12:08
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...
October 12, 2021 at 11:00
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...
October 12, 2021 at 10:32
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...
October 12, 2021 at 10:25
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...
October 12, 2021 at 10:19
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...
October 12, 2021 at 10:12
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 ...
October 10, 2021 at 20:32
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 ...
September 18, 2021 at 13:01
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...
September 18, 2021 at 12:58
"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...
September 03, 2021 at 13:47
"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...
September 03, 2021 at 13:20
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...
September 03, 2021 at 02:41
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 ...
September 03, 2021 at 02:15
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...
August 30, 2021 at 11:25
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...
August 30, 2021 at 11:12
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 ...
August 15, 2021 at 03:46
I could do some creative thinking on this myself, but I am here to get other input than my own rationale will avail.
August 15, 2021 at 03:31
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...
August 15, 2021 at 03:29
1. Layered Structures of Existence - http://lucidityhaslevels1.blogspot.com/ Also see: Hierarchy of the Sciences. 2. My work on progress and regress a...
August 10, 2021 at 16:38