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Thanks foo. As I search the Internet, I find many people with strong misgivings with the concept that oscillations in space determine the nature of ho...
February 17, 2018 at 01:23
These are good points. John Bell considered it extravagant. Have you attempted to imagine how many worlds are being created each moment as decisions a...
February 16, 2018 at 23:31
Since outcomes are always unpredictable, I don't seek or expect control. I treat life more like a sailor might treat a voyage, in that I have moderate...
February 16, 2018 at 23:07
While watching this video on quantum entanglement and gravity I came across this comment which I have taken the liberty to highlight key points. Basic...
February 16, 2018 at 22:34
Nice to see the objections to the intentional and artificially designed deterministic construct of space-time. It brings a smile to me. People are sti...
February 16, 2018 at 21:39
Science is definitely useful. The question at hand is whether its methods and necessary biases preclude it from ever formulating a reasonable theory a...
February 16, 2018 at 21:34
Logic is only limited by imagination. This is an a debatable concept. Mathematicians do it all the time. Concepts are created to address new problems....
February 16, 2018 at 20:45
There are as many rules as one wishes to make, and outside of God I know if no arbiter. As I read @Joshs approach, he is simply open to more "clues". ...
February 16, 2018 at 20:30
Whether or not @Joshs perspective coincides with yours or mine or anyone else, I believe his approach to the question is quite reasonable.
February 16, 2018 at 20:21
Here we must be careful. "Reality" is a fabric in which everything lies in a quantum information state. The Mind is embedded in this fabric and percei...
February 16, 2018 at 20:06
Not necessarily. We have a glimpse of this state when we are dreaming, when there is no sense of body and time/duration abruptly changes state of feel...
February 16, 2018 at 19:57
A little background on Bergson: "Bergson inclined to convert to Catholicism, writing in his will on 7 February 1937: My thinking has always brought me...
February 16, 2018 at 16:27
Yes, I agree. Paine later moved to France. That he was a profound writer with his own motivations, does not imply that the cause and the money behind ...
February 16, 2018 at 14:42
There is no terse response to your questions (I prefer terse and to the point), so I am struggling to understand the precise concept that you are atte...
February 16, 2018 at 14:38
Real time, the time of life experience, cannot be measured. It is a feeling. When we are asleep, we dream. There is no space, but there are images. We...
February 16, 2018 at 14:24
Historically, one can view the Declaration of Independence as a marketing document (it was meant to be read and posted throughout the colonies) to jus...
February 16, 2018 at 14:10
This is Henri Bergson: http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-there-is-no-greater-joy-than-that-of-feeling-oneself-a-creator-the-triumph-of-life-is...
February 16, 2018 at 13:39
And the theory for this phenomenon? Why does dead matter long to survive? For what purpose? With what intent? Why does dead matter create forums to di...
February 16, 2018 at 13:10
Some experiments don't end well.
February 16, 2018 at 13:03
The rock is not in your mind. It is a real quantum system wave pattern.
February 16, 2018 at 12:59
I always felt that artists are in the closest touch with life.
February 16, 2018 at 05:50
Silly pandering which is exactly what your cowardly buddy is doing. You figure he knows all about Bergson because he insulted me? Did he get into your...
February 16, 2018 at 05:40
Nothing in the article about "a human could observe another person's time slowing relative to his own." As you said, it is incoherent.
February 16, 2018 at 05:35
No one has ever observed another person's life slowing. The sense of time is an internal feeling of time passing. Read Thomas Mann or Virginia Woolf. ...
February 16, 2018 at 05:24
You have nothing more to offer than your revisionism for your own pathetic reasons. Here is P.AY. Gunter's non-revisionist account of the Élan vital, ...
February 16, 2018 at 05:19
Oh, the revisionist comes out of the woodwork, and stakes the higher ground by cleansing the narrative for his own pathetic reasons. You want to stay ...
February 16, 2018 at 04:29
No, what has been shown is that periodicity of movement is affected by matter. Science, by virtue of its incredible bias toward dead matter, just choo...
February 16, 2018 at 04:24
Our lives. This is what we do every day in our life. Create, learn, experiment, and evolve. That is why people come to forums and why they go to museu...
February 16, 2018 at 02:41
Élan vital manifests time as the process of creation. That is why we are here. To create and evolve in the process of learning. This is the real proce...
February 16, 2018 at 02:38
What part? The dehumanization of people, which you so beautifully articulated (it took only one simple sentence), or how pathetic, disgraceful, and di...
February 16, 2018 at 02:32
This is what buried Bergson. The academic warfare on life and meaning wholely and gleefully supported by commercial industry which prefers the term co...
February 16, 2018 at 02:16
This is an excellent outline of Bergson's theory of perception in a holographic universe. The video contrasts Pibram's theory of the hologram inside o...
February 16, 2018 at 01:55
Bergson had enormous influence on Whitehead, Deleuze, and modem French philosophy. https://www.scribd.com/document/255911421/Experience-vs-Concept-The...
February 16, 2018 at 01:09
And here is what Louis De Broglie, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, who certainly was well aware of Relativity, had to say, "it should be rec...
February 16, 2018 at 00:28
We know gravities affect clocks. Not at all surprising. We know nothing about human experience and the affect of gravity on it, other than what we fee...
February 16, 2018 at 00:04
Yes. I agree. You will find that there is much marketing in many traditions nowadays so there are lots of what write which you will not find in practi...
February 15, 2018 at 18:08
Yes, there are many paths, so what I look for are central themes. There are always course directions. Thanks for the link? I'll check it out?
February 15, 2018 at 17:34
The distinction is very subtle. One doesn't "surrender". One just does (in my case the Tai Chi form). After thousands of times if practice, the "shift...
February 15, 2018 at 17:29
Every single "story" that denies conscious either hides it somewhere, renames it, or ignores it. Why? Because that is the intent. To eliminate conscio...
February 15, 2018 at 16:51
Well this gets tricky, because it depends upon perspective. What each of us is creating and perceiving it's real - but different. The fabric that we a...
February 15, 2018 at 16:46
Sure I do. You think that writing paragraphs upon paragraphs about stuff hides the fact that there is still no theory of how Mind/Consciousness arises...
February 15, 2018 at 16:38
A holographic perspective accounts for this, since the holographic wave formation spreads in all all directions. A holographic image can be reconstruc...
February 15, 2018 at 16:31
Ultimately all philosophical and scientific perspectives must merge because they are attempting to describe the same thing. There are two things that ...
February 15, 2018 at 16:29
Only in all other interpretations other that Bohmian. In Bohmian, it is a fundamental aspect. Bohmian Mechanics was Bell's inspiration. I cannot under...
February 15, 2018 at 15:38
I agree that meditation is a quieting of the will. In Daoist philosophy this would be called quieting of the Zhi (Daoism it's very specific in need re...
February 15, 2018 at 15:16
The problem is not definition, it is conceptualization. I cannot teach you how to conceptualize a problem. Unfortunately, there is no training for suc...
February 15, 2018 at 14:49
You are just START/STOP which is the nature of the Paradox and my very first question to you. Do you believe feel like your life is coming stopping an...
February 15, 2018 at 13:25
Memory of the possibilities. The mind perceives a history and possibilities blended together, such as picking up a utensil. It conceives of the possib...
February 15, 2018 at 04:43
It's possibilities. On this we stake action using will. While there are those who claim to be able to see in the future, and I accept the possibility ...
February 15, 2018 at 04:24