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No, they believe because they so much want it that they suspend other thinking, unknowingly, as a kind of being in denial. Every time they look to the...

So then, getting back to the OP, might it be that believers so much want their belief that it becomes to them as real?

More like randomness = harm (to the will).

And even this hope falls apart, for the uncaused has no information going into it, making it to be random, which also dooms 'God'. Justice of 'coercio...

Usually worst? The will is just as ‘free’ as random is. Though we’re determined to survive each quiz, A spanner sometimes gets thrown in the works, Pr...

FitzGerald the transmogrifier brought forth Omar's Arabic into Victorian English so exquisitely that most of the world had to obtain a copy of his ver...

Yes, random is the prime mover.

Maybe he knows about Quantum Mechanics randomness.

Finally, the dialog comes to an end: So, my friend, how is 'God' standing now? He is teetering on the edge of non-existence, given that complexity can...

I'll have to seize on the good, creative random deviation results when my will gets disrupted.

Even some well figured decision might fail, due to the damage from 'random'. Everything leaks! If only we had three brains we could let the majority r...

No, no stillness, for the base of reality would have no further input, making its outputs random—and this means motion, as ever, like in the quantum f...

No wonder the free-via-random will sometimes makes big mistakes, for its consistency gets harmed and thrown off. Well, we can't have everything go rig...

Yes, Einstein was against QM's randomness/uncertainty/probabilities, thinking that Nature wouldn't play dice (as random), and for hidden variables ind...

The bedrock of existence, having no input, whether 'God' or not, would have to play dice.

To some slight extent, we all travel into the future. When you do your time travel back into the past, can you arrange to get rid of mosquitos in such...

He might as well be living, per the believers' beliefs, and it's tough to replace dogma. Per the OP: We search for 'God', high and low, here and there...

Mid-Morning at the OK Club — Part 2a — Rubaiyat II My dream becomes to write a sequel to the Rubaiyat… Preface ????? The light of Omar Khayyam shines ...

Acceptance obtains if all can be shown have to be what it is, more or less.

Mid-Morning at the OK Club — Part 2 /uploads/resized/files/2o/gfighjww73rt3qb0.jpg My reverie took flight, with autumn’s sight, For I was abstracted, ...

Same as saying 'qualia', for the content is a product of a brain process with consciousness also being a step in the brain process, there being no nee...

So, how are those descriptions for getting the Biblicals to think deeper?

This is good, in that with no outside to Totality that could. have absolutes, all within would be relative. Rovelli's latest book is where he has cova...

So, then, as Cosmic and Biological evolution was not instant, but rather took such a long time, the supposed Deity or Theity couldn't create all at on...

We can know for sure that motion is ever, else all would have long since stopped in an impossible Stillness, indicating that something energetic is fu...

One need'nt feel shame and blame about mistakes, since they are past and we can't go back and they had to happen that way.

The brain/will collapses scenarios of consequences into a choice, in regular dimensions.

Covariant Quantum Fields exist by themselves (Rovelli).

How, then, is the supposed God Fundamental as a system of Mind and Emotion as a Person? Even a proton cannot be fundamental, for quarks are its parts....

So, then, what kind of a 'God' came forth in the imaginings of the ancients that became the dogma that our karma now runs over (as contradictions we'v...

Intelligence, study, imagination, genetics, nurture, experience and more can make one good at something. Issac Asimov was good at a lot, but he declin...

The sizing up of all possible world-lines unto all their ends to see what works the best, and then in 6D jump into the best one?

A sensation may be present, but who's to really say what is the basis of it. Also, thinking of something a lot can make it come to mind a lot more.

Hi Andrew, Qualia cannot be useless, or they wouldn't have evolved. Since the brain expresses results in its own symbol language of qualia, then it ha...

The brain would go on to attend to it and to act on it. I don't know why the brain does it this way, if so.

Any qualia would be the brain's way of broadcasting a product so that other brain areas could attend to the result.

I use paper plates, but, after a week, I have to take out the trash.

The ancients found themselves here and not there, Yet to fathom earth, fire, water, and air, Asking why life was not square, as unfair, So invented th...

Part 2 of a series… Willing the Will That Wills? What is the ‘secret’ of human behavior, One that’s really so much the savior That we may even keep it...

Mid-Morning at the OK Club Part 1 — The Smallest Book /uploads/resized/files/yt/fkjxdzmmvunqkxo2.gif (Click to play this GIF? Let me know.) In this co...

Yes, as in a post I put an article saying it would take forever, which means never. My list of impossibles: Stillness, Beginning, End, Infinite, Nothi...

One might likely suppose that the Earth got made by a larger version of us, since we make smaller things.

The first of a series, although rather basic… The Other Shoe Drops Determinism doesn’t sit well, at first; Its flavor does not quench the thirst, For ...

As you say, God cannot be witnessed, so, no one is aware even now, in any way that can be proved; so, then, even religions say that in lieu of fact, t...

Maybe 'AE' for God, but 'ae' elsewhere is some kind of a diphthong thing or something. We can't really show invisible realms being so or not so. This ...

The particular God definition, as a Christian-type God, didn't exist before it was defined, but that type of God might well exist before anyone define...

Live and let live, and even more so, if that's possible, because they have to do it, which fixed will understanding all the more lessons any possible ...

No, I'm not a Christian, but kind of an honorary one, since I take someone to the Vineyard Church and go to their events. I don't attend the services....

Many churches are changing, lest they keep on evaporating as the more strict believers die off. They are saying such as "It's not about religion, but ...

The OP videos are rather long, as setting the stage, but the great words, colorful art, animation, and music (even as quatrains sung) blend into a pha...