neonspectraltoast

Is there more than one present? Because in the past we always knew it to be the present.

I question whether anyone really changes. I think there is a subconscious part of us, our disposition, that remains the same. Yeah, I suppose you're r...

Why? I don't understand. I'm not saying my body isn't eternal.

I think a person just has a character that is the soul. I don't really distinguish it from the body, though consciousness is non-local.

Would you call consciousness divine if it was something that existed somehow beyond time? By its nature it may seem somehow divine, but that doesn't m...

Understanding the world isn't the same as being cognizant that it exists. So no, awareness itself doesn't really come in degrees. And even if it did, ...

So reproduction just naturally led to consciousness? I guess that's what we have to explain. How? There is no build-up to awareness. You're either awa...

Had we evolved very differently, and not so self-aware, would it make any difference? We could all be protozoa, or a virus, and reproduce exponentiall...

I agree a lot with your line of thinking, except I'm not too keen on the multiverse. That's just a way to conveniently explain away fine-tuning. I don...

Wouldn't it be preferable not to know anything and be a p zombie than to have to face your own mortality?

Why is it useful to any creature to be a person when it will die? Seems like there's a conundrum there to me.

All you can reasonably do is try and eat everyone in the world's brain.

I tend to disagree. I believe there is an entire subconscious that is wholly a part of our lives that we aren't aware we're aware of. Waking life isn'...

As a person, one's sentience seems permanent. Yet, we know the identity we take on has a limit. It is a real cognitive dissonance rather than a desire...

So awareness is being judged by consciousness' seeming premonitory ability to react to a threat?

How does one fuck off a hole?

I'm not clicking that. So you realize you neither know what time or, therefore, consciousness are. Good.

I have no idea what to do.

If that's what you need to believe, and your entire philosophy rests upon, be my guest. You understand the true nature of time and consciousness. Righ...

No, they don't. And it isn't me. It's a working theory of time, which is unexplained, and if you can't explain, haven't explained consciousness. Sorry...

Entropy and the anthropic principle have nothing to do with it. Regards.

And it's still helpful. What wouldn't be helpful is to just go along with everyone else and act like there's no such thing.

Don't be so sure of that.

I can't explain. It diminishes the fact. Anyone who has an eye for truth can see the plain truth of it. Or you can go the way of the OP and insist eve...

Everything is golden and eternal. It does matter. You just don't want to believe it matters.

And I believe this is true, because I've seen evidence.

The theory is that all times coexist simultaneously and our perception of linear time is an illusion.

So you're going to act like time is a well-understood phenomena? It's been posited by no less than Albert Einstein that it's a fourth dimension, and t...

If you haven't explained how consciousness relates to time, you haven't explained consciousness.

Yes, I do.

I honestly don't see how some people don't reason that life is ultimately mysterious. Some people simultaneously have certainty while they're trying t...

Things seem much different when you realize your consciousness in the present can interact with people in the past.

Mysticism to me is just the difference between the abstract and the mundane. One really can't say which is which when it comes to the essential nature...

Awareness isn't a sensation.

You are your cells and atoms. How are you constricted by you?

You all seem to gloss over the notion of identity. It's a real thing. You don't choose it, but it is you. It isn't determined, either.

The body isn't encapsulated in the brain.

It's obvious that brain states aren't the same as experiences, for the sheer fact that we are more than our brains.

I'm too old to be childishly terrified of death, yes.

Yabba dabba doo!

Wonder is too young to understand. Wasted words.

Psychism is just what happens when anything encounters a foreign environment. The subtle distinction between what you are and the information that is ...

I just find it kind of asinine to claim you're being perfectly objective despite the fact that you're experiencing things no one will ever understand....

It's okay to not be an asshole. Try it sometime.

She was old, and you're a goddamned fool.

You seem determined to die, so I'm not going to waste my time.

Honestly, we have no conception of the shape of the universe, and we're all seriously putting the cart before the horse. But if it were a ball, and we...

No, I don't miss her. She was/is a reality. A fact. So are you. So am I. Facts are beyond time.

Once alive, always alive. The universe can't dispute this.

I dispute that the naming of things is being fully objective about them.