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I'm just wondering when I'm going to explode from expanding? Or am I exempt from the Big Bang?

I suppose c one can go through life pretending one doesn't have a mind. It must feel rather wired though. Minds playing a game, just like the game tha...

What is silly is denying one's own mind in favor of some mystical Laws of Nature that determine our lives. Totally absurd on so many levels.

Of course. All created by Mind. As the Mind evolves so does the patterns it creates, hence Google Maps.

I just said it. It is a direct manifestation of patterns discerned by the mind and etched into the universe.

Well, it is difficult to draw a hard line between what the Mind creates and the Mind itself. A novel, for example, is a reflection of the author and a...

Google Maps is a creation of Mind. So is Google. All patterns.

The mind creates new patterns based upon what it observes, some more novel than others. Yes, the Mind is observing the Mind. It is reflecting and evol...

I would say that the Mind is the observer that learns (memory) and created new patterns from what it learns.

This is precisely what the mind does and only the mind. Tools are simply that. No more. There are many ways to convey the observations of one's mind. ...

A strong believer in perpetuating nonsense.

I l particularly love the .4 uncertainty part of it. I suppose everyone is suppose to kowtow to this nonsense. That is how it is perpetuated. That it ...

I like good yarns, just don't care calling them science with the purpose of creating some high ground. A good yarn is just that. We'll call this the v...

You sound like the parent trying to convince someone that Santa Clause is real. I suppose loop quantum gravity is suppose to give it the air of gravit...

Exactly. Just story telling, subject to revision if someone around the camp fire asks a question. Spinning tales. And people get paid good money for c...

And you know this how? This is what I mean, science has become simple story telling. Just make things up as required. Single point. Volume of points (...

My take, is that this type of Sci Fi is only mildly entertaining at best and doesn't even come close to the real thing, like The Twilight Zone. But it...

It is exactly as you described. It brings pleasure to some people and probably doesn't to others, pleasure being a feeling in response to something be...

Sort of. There are no two things that are equal, so the equation doesn't represent anything we observe. It's a practical symbolic representation of an...

Formulating a new idea requires building new patterns. Language it images are forms of communication if these new ideas. Logic is can straight-jacket....

There is something real which the Mind observes. Each Mind will necessarily see something different since all is in continuous flux (evolving as durat...

As some sort of pedogogical training tool, logic is OK. But the longest standing tradition is direct observation of patterns in nature which goes back...

This is a symbolic convention. It is not logic. As a an aside, there are no two things that are exactly alike so we are doing arithmetic everything ou...

Who says? Your Logic course professor? Logic is a game, not philosophy. In any case, Mind is infinitely more real than "The Laws of Nature" or "Emerge...

The reason I embrace Mind as First Cause it's because it is right there, within everyone. There is no need to develop or appeal to outside causes such...

Yes, I agree that it is of the same stuff.

Inanimate objects are debris of the mind. Life is gone. Possibly just a bit left which would be the decay half-life. Life can recycle February by cons...

There are other options. I, for example, don't believe in gods but rather the creative impulse of the human mind, the physical being but a manifestati...

A reasonable and practical way of understanding science is to recognize it as a giant industry being driven by desire for money where most participant...

I would say mind is the organism appearing in different subtle form. It is continuous from the most ethereal to the most solid and extends out without...

Right off the bat, just observe how the mind moves the physical body when issuing intent (movement in a direction) when it has made a choice. But, it ...

This would be highly speculative to the nth degree, but given that we are c attempting to understand the Universal Mind, it could be anything, anywher...

I agree with you about the roles of gods. The speaker may pick and choose but it's of no matter. You aren't listening for indoctrination but rather to...

I would call this jumping to conclusions. I read the synopsis quite differently. It sounds interesting and explorative in nature, inquiring into the s...

We are Mind/Memory. And we are evolving. Machines aren't mind. They are tools created by our Minds. We even create myths that we are machines. Imagina...

Of course people can hold whatever beliefs they have, and even burning at the stake may not change them (apparently). But if one wishes to learn more ...

How does one examine without bias? Did you recognize your own in your OP? Observing patterns allows for new insights into the nature of nature. We all...

People in their life may seek First Cause in order to better understand life. Belief in a First Cause can take many forms, e.g. God, Big Bang, the Dao...

Nice game.

Sentience is us. We are Evolving Minds that create and learn. This is Evolution.

There is no such thing as rationale thought. It's whatever. Thought without language is most certainly possible. Artists, for example, think in terms ...

I believe the c way to study philosophy is to have a Question that you want answered and then do inquiry into all fields looking for answers. It is on...

To a very large extent Western academic philosophy is more of a game than an inquiry into nature the nature. Course work mundane relying mostly on stu...

I wonder how it must feel to really believe that their own thoughts and actions are totally determined. To be just a puppet of some mystical Laws of N...

There are many forms of exaggeration (even in the pop books) and most everyone just goes along with it because why put their neck out on the line. Any...

Of course I can. They are subject to greed and over self-aggrandizing like any other human, maybe even more because the stakes are higher. It's not as...

Right. Trust them scientists ... to exaggerate all claims.

My guess is that the scientists are suffering from determined illusion.

All you are doing is stating a belief which is what logic is all about. Stating a belief and then stating some observation as ever evidence of the bel...

Without a belief it is just stuff we are observing which ultimately may form a pattern to create a belief.