neonspectraltoast

To me, it's just that one can't extrapolate anything from the qualia of the brain. It's fleshy; it's gray. But one isn't immediately struck: Hey, that...

Memories are stored outside of the brain in the events that transpired.

Well, you're right about one thing: reality is and shall remain a mystery. And if you can't give credence to an ineffable surface of things, your opin...

Thanks 180. You may not be a supporter of life sublime, but at least you're honest. If we don't acknowledge the living past, there will be no progress...

Things are ultimately their own finest definitions. If you're not speaking as an aside to the ineffable, you're confused and wrong. There simply canno...

The true issue is, how do you observe the human brain and invoke the totality of everything? There is no there there. Nothing about gray matter that i...

Humans aren't an exception. Were just abstract and bizarre as anything.

The universe actually is utterly bizarre. But you refuse to color outside the lines, and then feel entitled to proof of the abstract.

[reply="Tom Stmaturation. Oh, are we highly aware or our ignorance? Or do we have so much pride we can't believe we're asinine? I feel it's the latter...

The hard problem is just more masturbation.

Oh, really? Because I had my hopes on you being convinced. Let's face it: The only things you find convincing are mundanities.

It's more an issue of pride than reason. I fear most are partial to humanity. I have never been. Our pride should come from our ability to persevere. ...

I don't know if I'm smarter, but I am more privy to actual reality. And still too foolish to assert myself. I have seen many things. Things "smart" pe...

I'm not a nihilist. I'm just a realist. The facts of humanity just aren't that optimistic. We are so, so dumb. It's always the final paradigm.

You can make assertions about consciousness all day. The thing is, to know what is, one must be knowledgeable about the environment in which it exists...

Also, I'm not saying that because all events are essentially real that they're only real in essence. I'm saying anything that occurs is fixed as real....

How does saying "we" have no proof time isn't linear aid in obtaining proof that time isn't linear. "We" in quotes, because I have witnessed the proof...

I would think it common sense that the past doesn't exist apart from the essence of reality.

Once real, due to the quality of being real, forever factual. Linear time is irrelevant.

Time isn't linear. That's what I'm getting at. The knowledge that one is real can't be altered by anything, even death. And the parameters of reality ...

That's what I mean. A trait of being real, to truly define reality, is that it's a fact. Time and circumstance have no authority on the "realness" of ...

I don't know why you've addressed me with this question, but to be a fantasy in flux doesn't diminish the youness of you. You still don't exist exclus...

Isn't a quality of "realness" that it's immutably real, though. I would say so. Everything exists in and affects the present.

A person is a body, not a brain. Out in the universe, not in a prison of subjectivity. And the spirit of all things it has effected.

Just dicking around in contemporary pop reality, surrounded by atheist crybabies who substitute a lack of faith for an abundance of intellect.

Well, to be repulsively blunt, there has only ever been one now, and all moments are of the same now. This is a pure fact many are desperate to escape...

Everything is an example of this. There is a surface that defines itself perfectly accurately, yet doesn't explain itself. We get lost in each other's...

I'm just correct. It's gonna be years before people catch on, though. Such is the need for power.

We forget there's an ineffable surface to everything, and that we're always on the surface, which ultimately best describes itself.

The honest answer is that temporality comes with the territory of fantasy. There's a good reason we have conflicting physics, a good reason for princi...

The truly insurmountable problem is that one can't just magically endow consciousness with the ability to finally perceive itself as an object. It rea...

The human spirit is abjectly in opposition to fluke, unless life can happen any time, anywhere. Good luck to those who insist our whole realities are ...

Consciousness can't be understood from a conscious perspective without the assumption we are privy to reality.

A materialist source of awareness can't possibly be found. It is essentially pointing at this and claiming it seems like that. Can't be done. Not sayi...

The fact is that each and every one of us is precious.

Just like a faucet "creates" water.

It doesn't matter if consciousness is fundamental or not. It matters how it relates to reality and especially the dimension of time.

You can't come from the perspective of an observer and analyze what consciousness is unless you make the bold, glaring, and stupid assumption that you...

Of course they were going to find uncertainty at the quantum level. I don't trust anyone who doesn't realize the world, as man knows it, is a phantasm...

We don't know the first thing about reality.

Life is evidence of the divine. Nothing about the spark of life is reflected in atheism. It's just a dearth of rational thought masquerading as scienc...

It's totally intentional. You don't understand society if you think it's not. The poorer we are, the richer they feel. And they don't want to help: it...

There isn't class warfare only because of the hopelessness of the situation. The poor have foregone hope. No one should be poor in a nation this wealt...

I think it is, though it's typically done for less than noble reasons (apathy, laziness.) But it can be because one feels they can't, in good conscien...

I think everything is golden.

I wish I knew how to quote everything so I could answer more succinctly, but I don't (and these buttons are too small on my phone.) By linear progress...

This is pretty self-evident when you think about it. What's outlandish is the popular conception that each passing moment stands on the foundation of ...

I know that the past is alive, and so believe that life is something permanent, though I can't reckon with why we don't experience the past, present, ...

We're a bizarre abstraction of ultimate truth.

It's all just equally happening. Truths and falsehoods are real.