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It's all about developing skills. Think of yourself as a sailor. What would you do if you got turbulence? How skilled are you? Is there anyone who can...
February 08, 2018 at 18:47
We are mind.
February 08, 2018 at 17:14
In a way yes. As Shakespeare put it "This above all, to thine ownself be true". We are just Navigators in Life. There is not just one path. We are lea...
February 08, 2018 at 15:28
The real problem is with those who believe we are just like robots and not only act like such, but allow the government/industrial complex (particular...
February 08, 2018 at 14:26
There is no intellectual way that I know of. It's more about the feeling that it brings to you. Long periods of sadness are usually an indication that...
February 08, 2018 at 14:06
You mean like dreams, ideas, possible actions? It's not nothing. It's Mind. Try an experiment. Think about picking up something and then pick it up. T...
February 07, 2018 at 23:37
No, it is exactly as we experience it. No illusions.
February 07, 2018 at 23:34
What is inside mind? Take a look and tell me what you find. I think you might find it is endless in possibilities.
February 07, 2018 at 22:42
One and the same.
February 07, 2018 at 22:41
Yes, it is mind vibrating.
February 07, 2018 at 22:30
What do you think is the essence of quantum waves?
February 07, 2018 at 22:23
As an wave in an ocean. Differences and similarities.
February 07, 2018 at 22:12
From experience, I can relate to you it is diametrically opposite. It happens thus when each person seeks their own path.
February 07, 2018 at 22:08
Matter is energy which is non-substantive but we still feel something. It is like steam that condenses to b water that condenses to ice. Insubstantial...
February 07, 2018 at 21:40
It isn't. Life is a game without rules. We create them as we go along. People, cultures, religions, countries, ethic groups all create their own game....
February 07, 2018 at 21:28
Yes we feel the demarcation though microscopically it dissipates. Whole meditating, this delineation may disappear. It is essentially nothingness, but...
February 07, 2018 at 21:22
No. It is all the same - one - just moving in opposite directions. Life is organizing while matter is decaying. But they are the same stuff. I don't t...
February 07, 2018 at 21:13
A bigger problem for determinists would be, why would such a question would be asked in the first place. Do we have a Law of Nature that explains why ...
February 07, 2018 at 19:27
100%. Totally psychological. Nothing is "created" by the brain? The brain (actually the total nervous system) is merely a transmitter/receiver. Look a...
February 07, 2018 at 15:04
It appears to be quite different from statistical analysis. The mind is creating recognizing and observing new patterns and then from memory overlayin...
February 07, 2018 at 14:40
Well this is rather absurd. It's as if the producer of the documentary can't tell the difference between his wife/girlfriend and an Apple Computer. Re...
February 07, 2018 at 13:50
1) It is what is peering out through the eyes, learning, experimenting, creating and evolving. 2) It is what we experience when we are awake. 3) Uncon...
February 07, 2018 at 13:46
This is where pattern recognition in the form of finding differences in similarities and similarities within differences becomes the most helpful tool...
February 07, 2018 at 13:06
The "thing" is memory, and memory is persistent. It morphs but also retains.
February 07, 2018 at 01:51
By layering patterns upon patterns seeking similarities within differences and differences within similarities. This process should provide practical ...
February 07, 2018 at 00:40
If you consider quanta as being information or memory, then stuff is created at the microscopic level (such as gravity) by sharing information between...
February 06, 2018 at 20:03
Of course. I just posted a video where some physicists, because of all of the problems with b Relativity, are now positing the gravity is a function o...
February 06, 2018 at 18:55
We can't say anything it's "doing good" because short term and long term consequences are always uncertain (unintended consequences). In retrospect on...
February 06, 2018 at 17:07
Well someone can look at your facts, and say it ain't so, because consensus had not been formed. Try telling someone who never saw English that it is ...
February 06, 2018 at 04:25
Rather than being certain, we can say that those who know English have agreed upon this grammar and syntax as being English. It is helpful to understa...
February 06, 2018 at 03:43
I agree. Bohm wrote that we seek differences within similarities and similarities within differences.
February 06, 2018 at 01:26
And you know this how? Are you calling upon the famous "selfish gene"?
February 06, 2018 at 01:21
Yes.
February 06, 2018 at 01:17
There can be over signs. Certainly the people involve will know who is forcing the act. Admittedly, sometimes motive and actions are unclear to anyone...
February 06, 2018 at 01:15
There is repetition (habits) that are useful and there is novelty. Humans wake up after they sleep. Each person wakes up at approximately the same tim...
February 06, 2018 at 01:13
The mind is seeking to create. It uses its memory to direct actions in order to help achieve some future possibility. To understand the nature of the ...
February 05, 2018 at 19:27
Fine. Newton's requisition is a nice little equation, that can be used for certain types of problems for some practical purposes. Far, far, far from t...
February 05, 2018 at 19:23
Well, the Law may stay the same but had shown to no longer be anything except an approximation and superceded by GTR. So apparently Laws are any mathe...
February 05, 2018 at 18:55
Newton's "Law" it's a simple measurement within a very narrow scope over an extremely small amount of time that is an approximation. Laws of Nature be...
February 05, 2018 at 18:44
How could you possibly know this? Can you enumerate specifically the Laws you are talking about? Can you show they describe the future is like the pas...
February 05, 2018 at 18:00
If you are asking what they are doing, they are the transmission/receiving mechanism for the mind(s) that permeate the body. The nervous system is the...
February 05, 2018 at 15:15
So you consider ignoring your everyday experience as an approach to discovering the "truth"? If one wishes to understand the nature of nature, one nee...
February 05, 2018 at 15:01
If a person is resisting, which means the person's will is moving in a direction away from the button, then this would not be that person's action. Th...
February 05, 2018 at 14:43
It's not a strawman. It's right to the point. Your philosophical approach just ignores your everyday experience in favor of ....
February 05, 2018 at 14:32
So you are saying that every time I reach for a cup and actually get hold of a cup is just a coincidence?
February 05, 2018 at 14:17
The distinction should be between that which is living and that which is dead. The former bring that which is creating and organizing and the later be...
February 05, 2018 at 13:43
However one might define the "brain"(it is impossible), intelligence certainly permeates the whole body.
February 05, 2018 at 03:54
All of life is the result of the same creative process. There is no hierarchy. Just creation and experimentation. This is real Evolution. They are lot...
February 05, 2018 at 03:47
I mean, it is super obvious. There are objects because someone wanted to create them.
February 05, 2018 at 03:32
It actually is. To create meaning, to have meaning, one must create. No one will do it for you. No one can do it for you.
February 05, 2018 at 03:30