PoeticUniverse

Bible Lessons Continue (the previous was in another, similar thread.) Were the Homo series of near-men and proto-humans merely a lucky result of the e...

What would you say is the meaning of 'free' then? No. The less information the narrower and less useful the will.

I take it to mean that the will is free of something, maybe of some restriction, beyond the usual no coercion meaning.

Yes, for the public account can't show the private experience, this ability appearing to be impossible. We might work toward a consolation prize by tr...

I can smell the pork cooking, that I set out to have for dinner from the decision and its inputs that only my mind came up with by conscious figuring ...

You should have read Horace before Descartes, but that's not their order in the encyclopedia. I'm going to eat dinner, because my mind came up with it...

I have assisted your arguments concerning the indivisibility of the elementals and the unity of consciousness.

The same as he always get disputed about, that distinct realm can't interpenetrate, plus the energy transfer not conserving energy, plus the way I pla...

It's just that systems of any kind require parts, and that those parts came beforehand.

Generally, I'm helping. although in that attempt some reasonable doubt came in.

Res extensa and res cogitans as his way of saying it.

Sorry, wrong again; I could even read his latin. I won't hold it against you.

I'm helping your argument by expanding on it so maybe it can get into better form but still remain true to itself. The jury is still out, not just me,...

My good friend and interesting discusser and fast typer, you got it wrong, but you had to, so you are forgiven. No hard feelings.

No, full price, if that memory is still intact, otherwise…

He did great by what was known at the time.

He owes a lot more than that if he has no insurance. At first, another Ralph with one hemisphere of the brain taken out, has a disabled mind and body,...

That's an agreed on name for the contents of the mind.

I'd say he put the cart before the horse.

Yes, so it appears, but not all that happens gets into consciousness. OK, about the brain: we can poke at the brain and then the experience appears in...

To relieve severe epilepsy, the corpus callous is severed, effectively producing two consciousness, although there is still the brain stem area common...

I supported that the objects of consciousness, as qualia, are indeed unified.

I am helping premise 1. Nature has been shown to be discrete, by Quantum Mechanics, as in the smallest entities that can't be divided any more. Infini...

The argument needs some improvement: 1. If an object is material, then it is divisible into quanta; however, the Planck size is the absolute small siz...

Shame on those people insulting you. Seriously, the simplest are covariant quantum fields.

Worship 'God' over all else, all the time. That's why humans were created on Earth.

Best have that useless organ removed, for it uses most of the energy. I can see that your brain isn't doing anything. Enjoy the forum, and best wishes...

What a mean Guy; With 'friends' like Him, we hardly need the Devil.

Welcome. I have half a mind to tell you… oh, never mind but as such all matters;… Soul is theSpirit of Unconditional Love.

A very curious symmetry, these three stable particles and their antiparticles… as if there were only those number of ways to make them, which in this ...

Probably it is the brain's chosen form, as qualia, to broadcast globally to other brain areas and to put into memory.

Yes, so easy to erase. One can also say an act of contrition, avoiding the confessional and the hundred Hail Mary and Our Father prayers. And to think...

Faith only, without fact, is for ungrounded preachers just saying … like I heard once, "If you don't believe what we do, then I'm afraid to tell you w...

Except for the causeless bedrock that has to have random events.

To future columns, we stretch our present row, By a lifeline of tenuously spun vow. Oh, how soon the weighted web begins to fail; The only real time u...

Daydreams pierce the noise of consciousness, To reveal that which is best for us; yes, Mere aspiration halves realization; What we have now was once a...

Yes, as truth-claimers either way will always be asked to show/prove their declarations in such a sure and final way that the sensible listeners have ...

One tree of life for all creatures? That seems to be well known. That could be a thread that doesn't just ask a question but promotes a position. joke...

These are too easy targets, since each dishonestly claims truth for sure, 100%. To reclaim integrity, both would have to reduce to being agnostic. Per...

Making Game We are but chessmen, destined, it is plain, That great chess player, Heaven, to entertain; It moves us on life’s chess-board to and fro, A...

G’day, Bible Study Class We’ve located the Garden of Eden. It is now underwater, unfortunately, at the head of the Persian Gulf, near Bahrain. It was ...

The 30 Commandments From the 3 Tablets 1. Thou shalt have no strange gods or singing idols before Me, for I wilt be jealous of them. All of thous wert...

Edward FitzGerald and Omar Khayam — Synergy, Revelation, Investigation, Beauty, and Depth Omar had the deep and grand ideas, but it was FitzGerald as ...

I received your SOS; you are lost somewhere in time, around 1912. Alert: Do not board the Titanic!

So, to preserve integrity, both atheists and theists would have to become agnostic, meaning simply "I can't know for sure." Please come to our agnosti...

We could, but the believers might suggest that God and His realm are invisible, along with that God operates just as nature does, such that they can't...

Yes, as there is no "for sure". Both churches and anti-churches can be called on their dishonesty of claiming truth. Pastor Lou, at the Vineyard Churc...

Each are "maybe's" and neither can be honestly be taught as true. If one doesn't want to sit on a fence, philosophical probabilities can be employed t...

Presentism does not just amount to the assertion that only present events or entities exist, but also that the present undergoes a dynamical ‘updating...

And, afterward, from them, the preferred mode of time became to be the block universe of eternalism, in which past and future both exist, this opposin...