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Evidence forces change. Quantum model of physics was forced because the old model was no longer adequate. It won't work to try to fit NDE into the exi...

The evidence is there in many disciplines. Now the model had to be rethought for many reasons in many disciplines. Biological science had to much at s...

Yes. As evidence accumulates, more and more research and thought both in philosophy and science as well other disciplines is being turned to rethinkin...

Time as we experience only exists as an experience of the past moving into the present, continuously. No one experiences the future. What we do experi...

In order to provide some model of consciousness that may explain these experiences it is necessary to think of memory and observation in a different m...

I don't know of any evidence of any kind about the nature of consciousness other than we experience it.

This is the point. I once bumped into such people. I don't know what to make of their testimony which was similar yet different. It appears to me that...

Got it. You don't have the foggiest idea. The thread was rather long but I enjoyed it. Can we invite Dennet to the forum to explain the selfish gene? ...

Hardly. One can say that Mind exists, and that's that. And Mind feels and that's that. But not the physicalist! No they are categorically claiming tha...

I am wondering, that in order to contribute to the metaphorical body of knowledge, it is necessary to be able to say "I don't have the foggiest idea" ...

Is this the mystical Cosmic Purpose? Precisely, how is "It just happened" useful in any fashion other than to continue the mythology that science has ...

Actually it's intuition. Now you are really showing your true colors.

You would do best to set aside anything that biological science has to say about the nature of life. I believe the best and only path is direct observ...

Never mind. Our discussion is over. Thank you.

Stephen Robbins has the most comprehensive discussion on the subject, but it is taxing on one's duration. He has numerous YouTube videos and a compreh...

This would be another way of saying the same thing. There is a standard which is used for measuring simultaneity with some event (with the standard) a...

Your experiences and what you can and will observe, depends upon sensitivity and intuition. This is a skill that takes time to nurture. My favorite me...

If mind permeates the body, then the cellular mind continues while the larger, imaginative mind moves through started of consciousness, dream, dream-l...

Duration (real time) from a Bergsonion perspective, would be actual evolution as experienced. It is not transcendental, but rather the actual. It is c...

From Peirce's Law of the Mind: "I have begun by showing that tychism must give birth to an evolu- tionary cosmology, in which all the regularities of ...

If I may be so bold, I think I understand the theory. A thinking, breathing, living cosmos with purpose, infused itself into chemicals via thermodynam...

Scientists will give any one an A for any story as long as they use the words they want to hear repeated: brain, neurons, DNA, genetics, chemicals, ro...

There is zero evidence for anything you have stated, and yet you immediately place yourself under the umbrella of science for safety purposes. This is...

I am hoping that someone can summarize this theory of life emerging from non-life so I can bookmark it for future reference in other threads. The high...

The OP was fine, and it seems like we are all rapidly converging upon an agreement that there is cosmic purpose. How do you feel about this as a funda...

I'm the audience merely observing the sleight of hand, the latest being holistically fusing cosmic purpose into everything including thermodynamics. S...

I didn't know your theory included cosmic propose.

Catching the sleight of hand in this trick was way too easy. It appears the story has now been extended to include God.

Better yet, stop thinking, period. That is the only way the trick works. Apparently, the answer to the OP is to give up on the idea that there is life...

In this regard, philosophy had a very substantial role to play in the course of human development and explain. As academic science, outside of some re...

Ultimately either the intelligence (e.g. reading signs, and much, much more) is either ascribed to Natural Laws (aka God) or the chemicals themselves....

This would go under the title of "What is memory". My view it's that it is energetic and not chemical, and it is not located in the brain. But for thi...

It does appear to be what one might call "temporary amnesia", since observation of memory is not there. There can be disagreement if what is memory, b...

This requires a very precise understanding of mind, since the mind does reawaken. There is continuity of some sort as memory is recalled and intention...

Of, course. Any naturalist theory is simply the process of ascribing some traits of the mind to a chemical, whether it be a "selfish gene" or a "infor...

Bottom line: If scientists can get away with the completely fabricated story of abiogenesis, they can get away with saying anything. Propagandists ref...

I would characterize what I have are concerns. Economic motives are always present in any discipline. One side trying to characterize people as comput...

I came away with a different idea. It pretty much explains the hierarchy of life. They is not one body. The human form is comprised of a multitude of ...

Shekdrske's Morphic Resonance for field theory may provide some insight into this question.

I would say it is an ocean with waves.

You have to keep observing. The world is a wild West show. The best place to get a bird's eye view of human nature is Central Park on a Saturday after...

Difference in substantially is a continuum of energy starting with quantum and moving up the ladder to diamonds. There Mind creates substantiality. Th...

Logic is just another game that leads no where. You set up a premise. You argue to a conclusion, and then the fun begins: everyone disagrees with the ...

Of course, there is substantiality that we "feel". Remember, we are basically empty but we feel substantiality. Two painters sharing a canvas doesn't ...

If one doesn't care about experimenting with what happens after their Queen is v eaten. Most players would consider such an experiment as a poor exper...

If you study the arts, sports, music, health practices, etc, you will find there is no discontinuity between your mind and the canvas. It is literally...

If you play chess, you will understand that a player does not calculate each possible move in some equal manner. Based upon experience and intuition o...

I would say my best description would be that it would be exactly the same as anything else but reconstructed with a different frequency thus only acc...

I thought so. I believe it is like this for many others as well. I actually have so many other things I am doing and would like to do in my life, that...

1) i wouldn't say in front of us. I would say we are immersed in it. One way to visualize it wouldn't be to make a plain observation (without any prec...