Rich

And what makes the brain so special? Neurons? Neurons just transmit. It is a relay center. The Mind permeates the body. https://www.scientificamerican...

I like the way we are all discussing rationality with the fundamental element being that we are all making choices.

One never knows outcomes before actions. We make choices based upon some inner feeling. How it all turns out? Know I've knows. Maybe OK for some, not ...

Captain Kirk use to rail against it all the time.

Real time is not relative. Freddy is dead. Measurement is relative because it depends upon the speed of light.. Unfortunately the myth persists that r...

That can't be quite right. If the train hits poor Freddy, Freddy is dead and there was a simultaneous event at a given location. What may differ are t...

I have no idea what it means to think rationally. I'm quite sure, as with everything else in life, one's rational thinking is someone else's irrationa...

Yes. but the subtleness if what you are suggesting will not be grasped on one reading. It is the essence of understanding the fundamental issue that a...

Well, we do have a problem here in defining "consistent behavior" in the microscopic world, in which nothing repeats. Everything is evolving.

Try it and LEARN about Life. This is real Evolution. Scientific dehumanization stagnates Life and creates meaningless, depression, bad health, and wor...

Meaningless religion being pushed as science in academia for dehumanization and economic gains. I hope people ignore the Bot-ization of Life and find ...

Totally agree with your description of yourself.

bye bye

Not reading any further. Read about the enteric brain. Then spend your life understanding your body And have done. Bye bye.

This is where introspection of one's own spirituality path enters.

They are not different "conditions". They stem from exactly the same source, only one more extreme than the other. Usually occurring when one does not...

Finally, someone on this forum who gets it.

Just pointing out the similarity between gods and it's modern construct, the Laws of Nature. The gods had a sense of humor as does the Laws of Nature....

[replyp Did you decide to write this or was it the Laws of Nature that decided to exhibit humor. Like Greek Gods, the Laws of Nature mimic everything ...

This may will be the case. Ancient cultures pretty much all agree that the Heart is the seat of Life being that the beat of the heart provides the imp...

Entanglement is fundamental to quantum mechanics. The observer is entangled as is everything else. As I said elsewhere, there is no separation anywher...

Google it. It is fundamental.

It affects emotions. Everyone is different.

Read up in quantum mechanics. There is no separation in any system between the observer and the observed. It is all entangled. I'm always OK when it i...

Ultimately it's all Mind, but the type of food one eats is as much of an intake as the things we see, the smells we smell, the tastes we tastes, the n...

There is no "with". The Mind is evolving. The two are inseparable.

It means the Mind is constantly learning. Maybe some people stop learning and stop evolving? There is never a gap in thinking. Thinking is continuous,...

If one views life as an evolving Mind there are all kinds of sources for prejudice, mostly related to economics. However, if everything is Determined,...

Too bad some good ideas are lost in the chaotic presentation. Still, she presents magic bullets and there are none. Everyone is different as are the a...

I don't know. Maybe they got a degree in programming and decided everything has to be programmed. Gods are like people, they like to imagine things.

The whole body experiences anxiety. The modern infatuation with the brain (as an idol of some sort) would be comical if it wasn't so harmful - as all ...

Anxiety has nothing to do with the brain. It is all in the gut - what is now called the enteric mind but had been known for thousands of years as the ...

If everything is fated then life does become meaningless. At least the Calvinists have a Heaven to look forward to. Determinists seemed determined to ...

Not in my experience. I find it parenthetical. Observational skills are most helpful.

Buddhism is a fundamental philosophy of how excessive desires creates unhealthy spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical lives. It is simple and str...

It is a problem with nomenclature. It is clear we are not "free" to do anything we wish to do. The nature of human nature is that we (our minds) imagi...

No. I like pointing out that the Emperor looks silly naked.

Probably by gods.

This is specific enough. That you wish to stuff your mind into neurons is not my problem.

It's what is peering out of your eyes and asking questions.

The creative, explorative, evolutionary aspects of the Mind brings meaning to life. Arguing about Free Will vs. Determinism, or whether God is logical...

Can please think your questions through?

I don't know how many times I've repeated on this forum that NOTHING IS FREE. Such a stance is as far from life experience as is Determinism. Both ide...

Practice. Philosophy is not arguing about what someone read in a book. Philosophy is experiencing life in all forms, having patience, and practicing. ...

Will is an energetic force just like any other force in nature. The Mind produces and stores it in the body by normal process of eating, drinking, and...

Immediate consequences are always uncertain, though some more probable than others.

I think I said Mind. Quantum fluctuations are Mind.

They all do including the enteric mind.

Really? I am afraid your own illusions have caught up with you. Everything you claim about illusions is still illusion - unless you have somehow self-...

Don't sell yourself short. Despite the best efforts if these (presumably) illusionary particles and equally illusionary Laws of Nature (everything is ...