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One is simply conscious of alternative possibilities. I look in a refrigerator. I see several foods that creates an image. I then might gradually widd...
December 31, 2017 at 18:24
Personally, I would not want to speculate on how rocks may experience time. However, from direct experience, I understand how I experience time. Admit...
December 31, 2017 at 18:11
There is an apparent difference between living and not living. But if one wishes to argue that there is no difference in the ability to experience dur...
December 31, 2017 at 04:41
I don't have to communicate but that is because In am Mind, however, if I'm claiming that it is possible to n experience duration without a Mind then ...
December 31, 2017 at 04:31
Only the mind can experience duration, unless you have communicated with a rock who told you otherwise.
December 31, 2017 at 01:26
Objectively yes. Subjectively is all we have and it is filled with all kinds of problems.
December 30, 2017 at 02:09
Scientists love to congratulate themselves for corrupting food and health. Helps keep the money coming in.
December 29, 2017 at 18:25
This what I call idolization. Waves in the universe are ubiquitous. They are literally everywhere. So some scientists got a ton of money from the gove...
December 29, 2017 at 18:05
I don't know anyone who cannot close their eyes and feel time passing.
December 29, 2017 at 16:49
Within very narrow span of universal events, science can make some approximate predictions simply because the universe does develop habits. People ten...
December 29, 2017 at 16:47
It's not really an illusion. It is simple a renaming of God. Says nothing. Means nothing. But with this little problem taken care of, science can go o...
December 29, 2017 at 04:02
Philosophers of all types consider the repercussions of the human tendency to consume more and more. Why this propensity toward still-destruction? It ...
December 29, 2017 at 03:57
Science reports on what is happening, philosophy tries to explore why it is happening.
December 29, 2017 at 03:18
You can observe things change but that is not real time, duration. We feel time passing even if we are not observing anything but we still feel it pas...
December 29, 2017 at 01:36
. Actually you did. Read your presentation. You are defining duration as lying between two points. Exactly b what lies between two points? Real time i...
December 29, 2017 at 01:31
One can never know the short term consequences if any action or long term, which is an important idea that scientists totally ignore, particularly tho...
December 29, 2017 at 01:26
I imagine life and death cycles are similar sleep and awake cycles. Interestingly Hamlet alludes to this analogy in his famous soliloquy.
December 28, 2017 at 15:18
Time does not lie on a point. It is a psychological feeling imbued in the mind. We feel time pass we do not see it pass and we associate this passage ...
December 28, 2017 at 15:13
We c are just two souls who are evolving by learning and creating. Whether we consider each other friends, foes or otherwise is a changeable state of ...
December 28, 2017 at 15:11
Unfortunately your casual example was incomplete which led to a incomplete have. Had you noticed that a traffic light event had totally unpredictable ...
December 26, 2017 at 21:30
I answered to OP. I was merely pointing out that your observation about traffic lights was at best incomplete which then leads to further incomplete o...
December 26, 2017 at 21:25
The point is too observe if one really wants to understand Nature. Nature doesn't behave like as answer to multiple choice questions.
December 26, 2017 at 21:08
It's a simple observation which may or may not cause a reaction. Forget the Truth things.
December 26, 2017 at 21:05
Realistically?
December 26, 2017 at 20:54
Only a person who has never driven a car in their life believes that a traffic light can only be red, green, or yellow. I'm not going to think for you...
December 26, 2017 at 03:57
Think about all possibilities.
December 26, 2017 at 01:25
I'm talking about the fantastical story called MWI, a desperate attempt to save determinism. Does the story appeal to you? I mean an infinite number o...
December 26, 2017 at 00:32
These are not all possibilities. There are literally an infinite possibilities. When describing the nature of the universe over must be very precise a...
December 26, 2017 at 00:27
It is an observation that is all. Everyone may and probably will react differently.
December 25, 2017 at 14:10
No, it just displays how far into the fantastical science will go in order to satisfy its Desiree for a deterministic world. I mean what can be more i...
December 25, 2017 at 14:08
You are speaking of the super-fantastical Many-Worlds interpretation which indisputably reveals how far into the super-natural world science willingly...
December 25, 2017 at 05:50
On to the extent that it is determined that everything happens. Now, such a philosophy truly sits between the absurd and the worthless. Welcome to sci...
December 25, 2017 at 03:21
Suit yourself, but the greatest philosophies are all about nature and life.
December 25, 2017 at 03:13
Patterns develop which provide insight, but the Universe is constantly evolving so there will always be something new. No need to feel bored. :-)
December 24, 2017 at 22:53
Memory is fundamentally everything that is learned by some observation. It defines our being.
December 24, 2017 at 22:30
Most academic/written philosophy is repetitive and very limited. For the most part, geared for those who believe one can understand nature by reading ...
December 24, 2017 at 22:26
There is no such thing and it doesn't matter. If one is interested in understanding the nature of nature, everything becomes an integral observation. ...
December 24, 2017 at 19:35
It is the result of universal creative activity of different sorts. All science is doing is observing the activities and giving it different names.
December 24, 2017 at 19:31
Perception of actions both internal (imagination) and external (will).
December 24, 2017 at 19:28
Separating memory from consciousness would be a neat trick. When you sleep or in other states time changes because the nature of memory changes. Scien...
December 24, 2017 at 03:47
I would say, "What is it that is creating and evolving?". With a notion of this, further questions can be formulated.
December 24, 2017 at 02:01
That is the rub. Memory persists, it doesn't cease, nothing ever ceases, which is the answer to the OP's question of the origin of perspective.
December 22, 2017 at 18:57
Yes. And memory has persistence though it is evolving. A straightforward observation. It's the other way around. Memory is fundamental and persists wi...
December 22, 2017 at 18:55
Thanks. Unfortunately the .2 deduction stands. It was a judgement call.
December 22, 2017 at 18:24
it is relevant, since the question is where does perspective come from. Basically it is acquired memory which is the core of consciousness along with ...
December 22, 2017 at 18:10
The Universe is fundamentally memory that is in constant flow due to Creative action. We see this memory as habitual movement with slight, continuous ...
December 22, 2017 at 17:46
.2 deduction for Fallacy of Ad hominem. An unfortunate stumble which probably eliminates you from gold medal chances.
December 22, 2017 at 17:40
I just observe the discussions on the forum. Sometimes observation provides a better understanding of life than cookbook textbooks.
December 22, 2017 at 17:38
That would be a different the of competition, i.e. who had the greater Truth. Now it becomes more religious in nature and people compete for the King ...
December 22, 2017 at 16:42
Perspective can be viewed as memory that transcends physical lives. Memory never ceases as it is embedded in the fabric of the universe.
December 22, 2017 at 16:11