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What is knowledge, belief, or anything, if everything is determined and there are no choices? Knowledge disintegrates into a totally meaningless conce...

We do the best we can. I have diverse interests that allow me to learn more about myself and life, always in moderation with no expectations other tha...

Yes, people are what they are and it is not up to us to expect them to be otherwise. We can only be ourselves and share what we wish to share.

To be alive is all there is. Buddhism doesn't speak to ego, it is a Westernized concept. Buddhism speaks to moderation in life.Everyone is different. ...

Yes, this would be the mind or Bergson's Élan Vital. Yes, this would be the holographic universe. So you have the holographic universe which is just e...

I've mentioned Bergson quite often so I figure if someone is interested they will read him directly, which is the only way to learn and develop one's ...

What Robbins described was the brain creating a holographic image via a reconstructive wave pattern. The singular universal hologram can create as man...

Yes, there is also will and the ability to imagine a future possibility which is definitely an aspect of existence, but if you observe what is definin...

It has to be the Mind, our minds. The Dao De Jing pretty much nailed it. The Tao begot one. (Mind begins to move) One begot two. (Yin/Yang, positive/n...

One has to consider the medium consciousness (mind) itself establishing itself as memory. Observe who you are. You are memory. You feel existence as p...

Forces are ultimately consciousness applying will or entangled (e.g. gravity, weak force, etc.) It's not a lot of forces just popping out of no where ...

Wrong. Robbins got it spot on and you are confused about what he has written. But this thread seems to be reserved for only those who agree with fdrak...

Precisely.

Even Everett viewed mathematical model as a fiction of the mind. It is a strange ontology that views symbols (mathematical, linguistical, or otherwise...

The surface is mind/memory (information) unfolding as duration. Our minds translate the waves of information into a projection that feels like space. ...

There are similarities in differences and differences in similarities as there are between vapor and ice. The experiencer and subject are the eyes loo...

https://youtu.be/RtuxTXEhj3A Are you familiar with how a hologram works? If so, I have found no better explanation than Stephen Robbins videos. The fi...

Bohm was off the mark but moving in the right track trajectory. What I've done is combine Bergson/Robbins (Robbins is phenomenal in presenting Bergson...

All of this wavers very closely to Bergson's view of time, which in turn is in close proximity to new efforts to define gravity and quantum informatio...

If free will and self are illusory, so are all scientists and everything they comment on.

They are equivalent, just different in vibrations. Remember energy and matter are equivalent. We know this empirically.

It is clear from Everett's own writings that he considers mathematical models fiction of the mind. He says so, in the text I referenced above. He did ...

Yep, that is what it is all about. Creates a very interesting and diverse life. The more one exercises ones creative ability the more interesting life...

My favorite source is direct observation and study of that which I experience. I then search of the beaten track whether it be the library, the Web, Y...

They are fundamentally different vibrations that we are experiencing. Each with its own form and intensity that it's embedded in the fabric of the (ho...

Keep at it. Also observe what others write. Creating something new is all about observation. You are doing it for yourself and no others. All of your ...

You just created. It is you. It defines who you are. Read your post and learn about yourself. This is how we evolve.

To create that which our spirit urges us create. To thine own self be true.

It has a vibrational essence. Exactly as described by quantum physics. Yes, mind has the ability to create direction via will. It chooses the directio...

Simply put, it is that which is creating. Another way to understand it, it is that which is peering through the eyes.

No. Mind in movement creates.

I believe it is the other way around.

This is the inevitable problem with any philosophy that attempts to make evolution mechanical in nature. They call upon people to act against the inev...

Absolutely. It's defining precisely what those interactions are that create an ontology.

Which is what we perceive. Just an endless series of forms being created in the universe. Some forms having more persistence because of habitual learn...

One can look at it as one process or many. It is a matter of perspective. One can say I see many processes (the heart beating, the blood flowing, the ...

The problem with this "thing" is that the ontology of life becomes unknowable and unintelligible. As does determinism, it makes rubbish out of the mea...

So that fdrake's preposterous ontology does not become codified in this thread: 1) There is a unique ordering of events in experienced time, the time ...

To describe MWI as simply one universe, masks entirely the sheer audacity of the model. The paper I referenced actually goes through the trouble of tr...

The quantum potential had possibilities? That it's all. Ontologically one can say that the human mind considers possibilities but only one is actually...

I finally found someone who had gone through the calculation of how many universes exist based upon the MWI. Making Sense of the Many Worlds Interpret...

It's not scientific realism, since Bohmian Mechanics does that. It is determinism without the observer that is draw. As I mentioned in my other post, ...

That you are observing something that you are not accounting for means you are missing something. A good metaphysics accounts for everything, no Illus...

If you say there are no waves you are missing a lot. I believe most people will see waves.

Look at an ocean and then try to find a line of demarcation between the ocean and the waves.

If you try to create lines of demarcation between the ocean and the waves, you will be frustrated. Oceans and waves are continuous?

So the question is whether the ocean is made of waves or very the waves create the ocean? I see no difference.

in way yes, because it can be considered all one process. But consider this. You observe a football team acting out a play in unison or an orchestra c...

I gave you the consequences of trying to preserve the block universe. You can't without ignoring quantum theory. Ellis's attempts are more in track, b...

Everett's equations (interpretation) is the only one that is fully deterministic because everything that the universal wave function describes actuall...