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A totally meaningless statement. The kind of linguistic parlor games that some philosophers enjoy playing. People make choices and then use energy to ...

A few quick ideas on the subject: 1) No one can say what is the nature of quanta and energy. It is all subject to interpretation and quanta phenomenon...

Making all of human experience an illusion is about all that science hads to offer which makes it about on par with Hinduism. As for my self, I'm maki...

It is not only not obvious, it is contrary to all of my experiences. Determinism it's a story fabricated and propagated by certain interests who wish ...

I am basically in agreement with you except for the emphasis on survival. While it is one aspect of the human experience, it is there to support the m...

We can add it this the states of day dreaming, meditation or quiet contemplation, focused concentration, etc. all of which are experiential in nature ...

This compounded by all the evidence that whatever is real and out there is continuously changing in some manner. Thus there is never a "state" but rat...

They are your facts, enjoy them. You have plenty of company.

Why should I have to disprove anything. If you have some proof for your facts then I would love to hear them. All life forms are experimenting all the...

Yes, I've read Sheldrake together with Bergson (Sheldrake's inspiration), Bohm, and Stephen Robbins. All have very interesting insights.

Yes.

Everyone wants as much freedom as they can get, but that has issues so we have laws and such which reduce freedom. And then you have those who want to...

Except in countries where they are pretty much going on a different direction. Take a look around this forum and observe how many members are absolute...

While we may enjoy the concept of choices, one person's choice is most likely going to interfere with another person's choice. It's tough finding a ba...

Not really. Just different. Anyway, there is no way to know one way or another unless humans define things in terms of putting themselves at the top o...

The issue here, I believe, is that the above two facts are just your personal beliefs. Facts are basically formed by creating a consensus around belie...

In some cases, such as twins, there are claims of shared thinking. For most others, the brain acts as a filter in a similar way that a TV filters diff...

Whoops, I forgot. You are just a Bitter Crank. Sorry. Do you suppose every one just spends their life being a Bitter Crank? I spent my life learning a...

I'm all over. Everything is learning and everything is evolving. Lots of this I experience while developing skills in the arts and sports as well as m...

It does once one becomes aware there are no boundaries - anywhere. I believe this Daoist-like idea was presented in another recent thread.

Well, I guess you can try out being a computer bot and see if that fits you better? As for myself, I (my mind) am definitely peering out and increasin...

Not really. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/ "A deeper understanding of this mass of neural tissue, filled with important ...

In the context I am using memory, I am referring to all memory including that which is recalled and that which might be have been perceived at one tim...

I was using the word conscious with a broader meaning not the psychological meaning. So, specifically I am speaking of mind that has memory and durati...

This is what the Daoists, who were skilled observers of nature, concluded. By spiraling into waves (duality, polarity), consciousness creates everythi...

I found this series of YouTube videos in which Stephen Robbins explains his views on Bergson's theory of perception and the nature of qualia and how q...

Agreed. Duration that we live in it's a process, and in this process we are constantly interacting with all that is around us and in this process crea...

It will be a very peculiar day when humans cannot tell the difference between some dumb tool that they created and their own creative minds that creat...

I believe that any description of life should give meaning to all of life, both stages in life and differentiated life. Life, that exists simply to pe...

Speech recognition is pretty much a joke as anyone who has to deal with such shoddy customer service software Will immediately recognize. As soon as I...

This is not what computers do. The algorithms do not mimic and what's more, ultimately a human must adjust the algorithms. All the computers do is bru...

It is a very open ended my metaphysics. If you can state and IF ... Then, then it is approved. Such a metaphysics will pretty much envelop all existin...

the whole that is the animal. Really Michael, your philosophy is simply an endless stream of IF statements, which are debatable, followed by even more...

Basically that is all that it is. You have your IF statements (and there are tons of them in your posts, as I said they are ceaseless), and then you h...

It is the obvious and most natural starting point. It is what we experience all the time.

Not according to this famous neuroscientist. It's "complicated" but they are most definitely "superhuman". Basically, all neuroscience is doing is ant...

For those who wish to get a very in-depth understanding of neuroscience's explanations of the brain, I invite you to watch the TV show Superhuman, in ...

Creative, learning, and evolving. You learn or are taught that you are an animal. Experientially, one just exists and is evolving by exploring and cre...

You have to begin by dropping the ideas that the brain is some sort of computer that is magically coming up with all of this stuff and you have to dro...

Happiness and unhappiness come and go in cycles. They just happen. Often, great happiness is followed by a great unhappiness. As for myself, I don't s...

The government first decides what we should buy (decided by the lobbyists for the medical who bribe to the hilt) and then the government tells us we h...

Not what I said or meant.

Some sort of spiritualism must re-enter into one's existence in order to feel meaning again. It is the life force within is that gives birth to our ab...

Some sort of spiritualism must re-enter into one's existence in order to feel meaning again. It is the life force within is that gives birth to our ab...

Here one must become spiritual. The Daoist simply say the beginning is the Dao that spirals (not circles) into a wave of creative energy. This would b...

There is something out there. We are entangled within it, just as TV set is entangled within TV transmissions. Our minds reveal what is out there, as ...

Motion is creation of something new.

Agree. The Big Bang, Natural Laws, Natural Selection are just words and phrases that are used to create a concept that replaces God. It is its own for...

This only describes one aspect of consciousness, the willful part. It does not describe the creative aspect (intuition) nor does it describe the habit...

The premise doesn't lead one anywhere and does not describe the lives of many who choose not to procreate (we have the choice). In my view we are here...