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Time or more specifically duration is experienced as a flow of memory pressing into the present. That is what we feel as time. To make things a little...
October 09, 2017 at 01:11
Having a deeper understanding of life allows one to find a healthier and qualitatively more nourishing life with broad implications. It is analogous t...
October 09, 2017 at 00:12
You brought it up. Learning to observe has nothing to do with being smart. Learning to pause and ruminate has nothing to do with being smart. Learning...
October 08, 2017 at 22:59
In a way it is a game and in a way it isn't. They are doing what historians do. As a simple experiment, trying putting together what happened in your ...
October 08, 2017 at 17:15
I think most historians will say in their preface that they are presenting the situation as they understand it. They will footnote and refer to confli...
October 08, 2017 at 17:06
Yes. The materialist explanation is: "Don't ask how, it just happen(s)". That's it. The contortions in language that are used in the other similar thr...
October 08, 2017 at 17:01
We can't. We explore, compare and interpret notes and come up with something based upon all the of assumptions and biases. History is basically the st...
October 08, 2017 at 16:48
The are no facts about the past. Just what is remembered and shared in individual memories. They are certainly no facts or memory or anything else abo...
October 08, 2017 at 16:39
The problem of using discrete symbolism to express reality. The quantity wave is continuous and indivisible. Had anyone actually split a quantum want?...
October 08, 2017 at 16:30
There is no one smarter than anyone else. Philosophy is about developing the observational skills about nature and life, the life we are experiencing....
October 08, 2017 at 14:14
It depends upon each individual's sensitivity to change. Everyone is different and evolving differently. So I don't know what's you mean by "we". Ther...
October 08, 2017 at 14:01
Small problem. Nature turns out to be a continuous connected wave. The wave is real. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26893-wave-function-gets-r...
October 08, 2017 at 13:33
It's lazy. Philosophy needs patience and insatiable curiosity. Or the other way around. Storytelling is not a life time of exploration and observation...
October 08, 2017 at 05:33
Exploration is detective work. It's takes time and all kinds of experimentation. "It just happens", is not exploration. It is nothing.
October 08, 2017 at 05:17
There definitely is. Now to explore the is.
October 08, 2017 at 05:08
Exploring the observations of others and myself that reveal patterns in nature. I am an explorer of life and nature.
October 08, 2017 at 05:02
Not at all. It takes lots of time, patience, and development of keen observation. But who wants to spend their life exploring and discovering? Far eas...
October 08, 2017 at 04:53
It's not an explanation. It's a punt. Zero discovery because of zero effort. I guess with the time now available one can watch some TV. It's fine. Exp...
October 08, 2017 at 04:43
It is the same. All evidence of the past comes from the sense if memory in flux. How we acquire it is different and how we share it is variable, but i...
October 08, 2017 at 02:49
Bits and pieces, I guess depending upon the memory of each person. Mine is pretty cloudy. How else does one think? From what they told you? From what ...
October 08, 2017 at 02:22
Shared memories, learning.
October 08, 2017 at 00:27
Then what?
October 08, 2017 at 00:20
What we call the past is memory, and everyone had different memory.
October 07, 2017 at 22:43
Just underscoring that "It just happened" is no better or worse than "God did it". Neither have any evidence and both are a based upon a certain faith...
October 07, 2017 at 17:31
I know all about God.
October 07, 2017 at 06:43
Human nature shares faith.
October 07, 2017 at 06:32
There is no such thing as free will. There are only choices in direction. Duration unfolds as all is resolved.
October 07, 2017 at 06:29
We all have choices. I agree.
October 07, 2017 at 06:27
Now you are getting it. "It just happens". Remember this for all as scientific explanations for everything. Just remember to write a few hundred scien...
October 07, 2017 at 04:30
They are the Laws that are everywhere, unchanging and eyeball, know everything that is happening, and guide everything. They are your God. An adjusted...
October 07, 2017 at 04:25
Oh, don't tell me. You read about it? Maybe not? Maybe you actually know something about Daoism?
October 07, 2017 at 04:19
I don't read about Daoism. I've been practicing it for 30 years. Health practices, arts, meditation, everything. Your ideology is Daoism in a nutshell...
October 06, 2017 at 23:21
That is what it is Cosmic Intelligence. The Mind.
October 06, 2017 at 20:57
I'm not sure you need to, but that is what you are doing. Let's just say they prefer the word God, while the Determinatist pseudo-scientific preferenc...
October 06, 2017 at 20:56
Not really. The scientific gibberish masquerading for Daoism. The Daoists are able to say it simply and directly because they aren't trying to cover u...
October 06, 2017 at 20:50
My apologies.
October 06, 2017 at 17:13
I really don't need you pseudo-scientific gibberish. The heart of your ideology is pure Daoism. Deal with it.
October 06, 2017 at 16:52
I don't know, but that is pretty much what is going on, so I accept it. Everyone is making up stories to fit their goal. What's your favorite story ab...
October 06, 2017 at 13:51
In magic, such a illusion is called sleight of hand. Any Determinist should feel very comfortable in a Calvinist church as long as they substitute the...
October 06, 2017 at 13:49
Apokrisis has quite specifically advocated a Cosmic Goal manifesting as a Thermodynamics with Purpose. This would be Doaism in a nutshell. He just wan...
October 06, 2017 at 13:44
I'm only interested in understanding more about the nature of nature. If I want to play parlor games, it would be chess.
October 06, 2017 at 02:01
This is not determinism How do you perform this magic? Too much Dr. Who. Sure, if one can absorb themselves into this mathematical absurdity. Actually...
October 06, 2017 at 01:27
Mike, you can watch it on the tape as long as it works correctly. After that you are up the creek. It is all probabilistic. Take a deep breath and rea...
October 05, 2017 at 22:40
Mike this is my thinking as of now: 1) We have memory which shapes our actions and choices. 2) We make choices as to which direction we wish to go and...
October 05, 2017 at 22:24
What you have here Mike is a crater and you are filling it with every word and concept in the dictionary. It doesn't provide any understanding just to...
October 05, 2017 at 22:04
duplicate
October 05, 2017 at 16:42
Nice story. What a mess. "You created", choices, free will, determined". I don't think you left anything out. I suppose you could add all of the synon...
October 05, 2017 at 16:38
You can't. It's all part of the same dogma. Right. You can say anything you want. And Determinism as well as other religions say exactly the same thin...
October 05, 2017 at 16:37
Well anyone can call supernatural natural. In this manner God is quite natural since S/He is exactly equivalent to Natural Laws. It's all about the na...
October 05, 2017 at 16:33
They had extremely keen observational skills as did other ancients. But it is much easier teaching parlor games like logic than it is to teach observa...
October 05, 2017 at 01:10