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Psychiatry is considered a branch of biological sciences, drugs and all.

Biological sciences are pretty much premised on this. Quantum physics is rather neutral, only acknowledging an "observer", but beyond this doesn't cha...

Well there is a lot here, and as I am not sure where you are headed, let's just begin by saying that the advantage of seeing a ship with greater clari...

Determinists believe it is simply an illusion, that is it has no purpose, ability, or intent. Everything is already baked in and fated by some mysteri...

Psychiatrists are called upon all the time to testify as to "state of mind". I've never heard a scientist called to testify that "there is no mind" an...

Forensic scientists are often called upon to explain intent on a manner that it is generally understood. For example, was the weapon used the one that...

There is an entirely different approach to disease which is much more effective but will not be researched until the money interests are expunged. FWI...

Well it could, but as a miracle it tops anything in the Bible by several thousands fold. Without some theory for morphogenesis or consciousness, evolu...

My feeling is that it had become exponentially worse in concert with the incremental infusion and control of big money. Concentration of wealth in a f...

There are several interpretations of the Schrodinger equation. The one that I prefer is Bohm's quantum mechanics which is causal (i.e. the quantum pot...

The whole raison d'etre for the stories (the claim is far more than descriptive) is to circumvent the notion of a mind. Yes, the mind can be viewed as...

If your curiosity ends at "It just happens", and you want to deny your own mind in favor of some constantly changing stories, (I imagine this is what ...

The spaghetti bowl essentially explains nothing. Wiping away all of the tomato sauce meatballs, parmesan cheese, and olives, what you have left are st...

Materialism does not allow for a mind. Only signals. Everything else is either an illusion or "just happens". The illusion just springs into existence...

of course there are signals, in TV sets, in computers, in brains, but it is the mind that forms the image. Without the mind there are just signals. Th...

There are on and off bits. How they are interpreted once they are projected into some output device, based upon some human developed program, is up to...

The computer sends some pixels to an output device that arranges the pixels in a manner that the programmer's mind chose. The observer's mind than loo...

It is the mind that forms the image. The computer like the TV set like the brain are receiving/transmission tools, but the brain is living and this ca...

All life can be considered a manifestation of this creative force and one can observe the expression of this creativity in its innumerable variations....

I had friends who will because they could no longer stomach it. Most of their time was devoted to developing marketing pitches for fundraising purpose...

There are no images in a computer anywhere. Just on-off states. In another thread I linked to various studies regarding plant sentience. Differences a...

I don't really bother with logic. I use observations of patterns to better understand life. If one asks me is there a reasonable way to explain how li...

The creative force? It's fundamental and irreducible.

The problem is that science had become goal seeking, that is anything but the mind. The Church Inquisitor use to use the same tactics in order to pres...

I tend to stay away from labels since labels tend to mean different things to different people. Suffice to say there is a creative force that has memo...

There are similarities in the differences and differences in the similarities. These are what we are observing. The mind travels many paths. Analogies...

Yes, they exist and they interact in a vast number of different ways, and they even act in a non-local manner in an unpredictable but probabilistic ma...

Just observe the vast varieties of an species - say dogs.

As far as animal minds are concerned, they are much different from human minds. They are evolving in different directions. Bats, whales, homing pigeon...

Well this is prima facie not the case since the materialist explanation, whatever it is, is changing all the time and is nothing more than a spaghetti...

That's all it is. The mind is creatively adapting to changing circumstances, the mind operating at all instances of life. There is nothing more to the...

The Elan vital (Bergson's terminology) is nothing more than the creative will that the mind exerts. This stands in contrast to the mind's memory. If y...

All minds are necessarily different and are on different paths. However, dog owners certainly feel very connected to them.

If one ruminates over this statement one might find that understanding evolution is all about understanding life. That is why "natural selection" is s...

Understanding life is not about proofs. Thousands of years of experience with this approach has gotten us no where. We can understand life by direct s...

Imbuing genes with all kinds of human characteristics such surviving, reproducing, fittest, traits, etc. simply shifts the actions of the mind to gene...

It is unfortunate, but creativity is suppressed both inside and outside of the educational system. Industry wants lemmings and the educational system ...

of course there is no such thing as absolute fitness. There are as many ways for life to adapt as a creative mind allows. The fitness theory quickly m...

A field that is being researched with interesting findings: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-green-mind/201412/are-plants-entering-the-realm-t...

That's it. It's detective work. The practical effects for yourself and your loved ones are enormous. It's called creative evolution.

Great philosophers are foremost curious, resorceful, and creative.

Or the tens of thousands other forms of life? Natural selection is a big fail which is why scientific evolutionary theory is a hodgepodge of theories ...

One other aspect of the science industry that is relevant to understand. The industry is self-selecting. There are dogmas, just as in religion (Sheldr...

A good experimenter will creatively design experiments that transcend human biases. Plants, for example, are sensitive. Bacteria, like cockroaches and...

I thought I did? In the future, I'll be more explicit.

This is how goal oriented science operates. First the desired conclusion and then "it happens" to fulfill the conclusion. Zero rigor. This is why we n...

Study the field and what is really going on vs. what you might have been taught. You are in for a big surprise. Prepare for illusions to be shattered....

Hardly. Science is no different than the financial industry. Money pollutes and attracts those who are willing to say and do anything for money. When ...

Science is a money making industry. There actually may be something interesting out there but no way is anyone going to hear about it. It will be BANN...

The point is scientists can be extremely creative when marketing new ideas for funding. They are great spinners of tales. Modern day troubadors. The i...