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Yes. First we all view from a particular perspective, based upon position and experience. Then we are viewing through different kinds. What we are exp...

The best that I can reply, is like a TV tuner, reception can be complete distorted (as in an advanced state of Alzheimer's or partially distorted. It ...

If the brain is reconstructing memory with a specific wave then damage to the brain caused by toxins which the brain becomes less and less capable of ...

No, thank you! I believe that a philosophical forum should be a place where minds young and old should feel at ease in expressing new ideas. Something...

I was careful to say academic philosophy for a reason. Certainly there are many ways to approach philosophy without concern to truths but rather with ...

So then question arises, what is the point? To learn means to be open to new ideas. Some will learn more than others in this lifetime and others may l...

I guess this is the crux of the question for anyone interested in exploring who they are. When I touch myself, I feel something solid. But physics tel...

Anyone wish to discuss their notion of a soul? Mine, simply put, is persistent memory, analogous too a hologram where the hologram represents the basi...

My reasoning is such: If persistence of a life is known via memory of oneself (as well as memory of others) over a duration, then similar persistent m...

I have evidence of persistent memory. Can you please have a heart to heart with your Laws of Nature and tell them that my Laws of Nature and suggest t...

The mind creates the body. It is one and the same. Please take up all of your criticisms with the Natural Laws (God) that is determining everything.

It is for me. Life with persistent memory. There is evidence of this.

[reply="Jempire;d1825" Sorry to hear about the difficult issues you are facing in your life. I would recommend involving yourself with some art or mar...

I agree. One shouldn't rely on consensus building in his/her own exploration in life. One explores and shares with the skills they were born with (mem...

That's how you become rich. You do what the money wants you to do and you don't lose your head doing it. Descartes walked the line quite nicely. It's ...

Certainly, Chomsky should be quite familiar with how academia, religion, and other economic forces sell to direct and enforce ideas for their own bene...

There is nothing random nor determined in our lives. It is probabilistic. We have memories (including habits) that affect our choices and there are ot...

Just pointing out how silly the dogma of Natural Laws and Illusions may be, which is just about all that science has to offer. As for myself, I am dis...

Yes, I would agree. We begin my observing some regularity or habitual event of some sort (the ALL) that has been: 1) Experienced by us and others. (Th...

No evidence? I have life and I have qualia (my inner experience if life) and I have memory and I have innate, inborn skills and traits. Now, given tha...

Since when? It is required for conversation with you. You cannot impose your own, freely chosen restrictions on thought on others. Thankfully, I've le...

Science measures. The world doesn't march to what science may or may not be able to measure. We already know that science cannot simultaneously define...

Will now you are beginning to get it. That thing you call life, some people call the soul, others may call it Prana, Qi, or Elan Vital.Now, if you wan...

The evidence is life. Have you experienced life? I suppose you are now going to tell everyone what is life?

No, you denied life. Life is the soul. You asked evidence, you got it. What the heck do b you think life is? Some illusion?

Science is unable to detect or measure any qualia - the inner experience of life. Should we deny that we can experience all of qualia and our whole in...

You are a hoot. Life is supernatural. OK.

Some religious people say God gave us life and other religious people say that the Big Bang/Laws of Nature have us life. My own preference is not too ...

Of course we all have. It is the life force within us all. What Bergson called the Elan vital. Without it, there is only a cadaver. The only question ...

Michael, I am not sure what mysteriously force is compelling you to write but can you have can heart to heart with it and tell it that there is no rea...

of course I use experience while navigating through life and then I make choices. Every time I paint I make tons of choices which of course are affect...

On course I am making choices, all of the time. I can choose vanilla or chocolate ice cream, or which side of the sidewalk to walk on, , or which pian...

For me it is less about the brain and more about the mind that creates and uses it.

Yes, I am saying that the process of creation is all around us, everywhere just as we are surrounded by TV broadcasting waves. The brain just tunes as...

This is where we immediately experience life differently. Having practiced the arts, dance, singing, sports, alternative health practices, and Eastern...

I recently read an interview where Sheldrake confirmed he was influenced by Bergson. Bergson's writings pre-dated holographic discoveries but his desc...

He has a website and there are many YouTube videos. The video that was banned by TED (even though a TED group created it) is quite interesting in a ge...

Sheldake terms it morphic resonance and morphic genesis. Very similar concepts to Bergson's Memory.

Sheldrake provides concrete lines of experimentation.

If one was interested in pursuing a line of investigation, this would be one avenue that can be pursued. Persistence of memory during one life and mul...

Exactly. Talents (memory of skills) that we are born with. This would be evidence of persistence of memory. This would be how memory across look lives...

For me, evidence of persistence of memory would give rise to the possibility of a continuation of self - possibly through multiple physical lives. Wha...

One way to imagine the emergence if the soul would be to imagine it as a state of sleep. Heraclitus mentions such an analogy as does Shakespeare in Ha...

Thanks. I will educate myself on his ideas.

What happens is that particular economic interests pick and choose and the promote ideas (religious, philosophical, fabricated scientific) that furthe...

My primary inspirations are Bergson, Sheldrake, Bohm, Daoists and Heraclitus. All were (are) keen observers of the world. However, I do find French ph...

Actually, it reminds me of basic college physics. Everything is made of the same stuff and quantum is entangled between observer and observed.

There is no magical force governing my behavior nor am I possessed by some demons that mysteriously take over all of my actions. My choices are influe...

Oh, it is definitely my experience. I am constantly making choices throughout my day and that religions and science can convince people that they are ...

Science had one and only one thing, the Schrodinger equation that provides a probabilistic prediction for the location of the "electron". All interpre...