Benj96

And what such reality is that to which they are losing touch? Define "reality" in an impartial objective way removing all personal opinion. As far as ...

Well, within reason, yeah. I would simply ask you to qualify "what is the normal mind, the normal mental state?" I think anyone who claims they are co...

Energy as "change" or the "act of doing" is for sure inconceivable without time as to accomplish anything one needs time, however energy as "potential...

My question would be where do you draw the line between cause and effect and thus their equivalent energetic magnitudes. I would say you could equally...

"action" or "change" I would have said is the product of interplay between energy and time. No energy + all time = no change, and similarly all energy...

Some people are comforted by a sense of control or knowledge or purpose or identity, the list goes on... which is why death terrifies them because it ...

mo0d.

True this does make sense. I mean even I when I play videogames can get invested in the levels etc. So would you reckon being believable enough everyo...

This gave me shivers. Oh look here comes the observer (13.8 billion years of emergence and evolution later) ... humans/life.

Assuming that these boxes require individual space, that's to say that they arent able to overlap or exist simultaneously in the same location. Consid...

The sense of the sentence is determined by whom is saying it and the context. If I were to imply that MacIntosh was mocking Macgillycuddy by using quo...

I think if you take the fundamental tenet that God is an ideal state of being... then the consideration of whether you're submitting to slavery or not...

I recommend the documentary "The 13th" on Netflix/ online about the abolition of the thirteenth amendment and how racism changed over time. Very inter...

How are they not correlated? For example if you understand knowledge that links two individual thoughts for example "all bats are made of organic matt...

this was explained so well.

The defense accepts the verdict (despite the fact that genetically the two individuals cannot be identical if there is an age difference but anyways)

That depends of perspective. A failure is still valuable information for learning or approaching a state of control where luck or probability has less...

I'm not really christian but perhaps in a metaphorical sense the sin that would cause eternal damage is creation itself. Creation in the sense that wi...

I think "pain = punishment" only applies temporarily and perhaps not at all. There are some people who have their minds wired or trained to perceive p...

Define "material". Is this to say things made of "matter" or things that exist. If it is the first than it would be preposterous- clearly forces affec...

Did you just assume their gender? (/sexual orientation) Haha :p

I think if I hammered my TV is would be very painful for me. Haha. I would feel the negative impacts, hurt, anguish and frustration of having to go bu...

Well considering alpha- centauri is 4.36 light years from earth, in order to send information between these two machines by any "rays" of the electrom...

If I were to die - i am dead for an hour we'll say - due to severe hypothermia, my metabolism has shut down and an EEG shows no signs of brain activit...

What makes time discrete? In what sense? As in that it has a beginning and an end? If so how would you prove your reasoning? Especially if energy cann...

I think you would find our consciousness very much can be changed by altering our brain. Taking psychedelics -ie adding chemicals to the composition o...

Does the universe not have to be by logical implication a more complex system than the systems within it? (The brain) and therefore your reasoning wou...

I think this is a very reductive take on the relationship between consciousness and the brain. For example; define brain? Can a brain be artificial al...

I would argue that the installation of a concept of God into humanity is not by magic but rather necessity and furthermore does not strictly work unid...

Okay I appreciate the clarification. Thanks :)

Why is "believe" in quotation marks here? It's not exactly up for debate whether beliefs exist nor whether my belief is as permissible as anyone elses...

Wouldnt this mean the intensity of the pain would be extremely reduced... as your perception of the frequency (time dependent) of pain impulses that y...

wow i had no idea. Fascinating

Can a believer explain reality by referring to a basic tenet (such as God/Gods) that can be collectively shared and agreed upon - Yes. Can a scientist...

Thank you. Very interesting info. I'm going to look up this rat experiment

Time is information, the rate of which at any local point in space can be determined on a thermal spectrum from a state of solid stasis (absolute zero...

that's right... perhaps I should've have clarified better by using the term "mutual meaning" or "communicable meaning". It can defintely have individu...

I also agree. Especially if we considered this person invented a device like an primitive sound recorder instead of writing in order to document and r...

Except the point of my question was not whether this is the ideal place to search for accurate knowledge on "time". My question was about your opinion...

a superb demonstration of "later"

Is this to say that perception of past events are dictated by current mood, attitude or state of awareness? As in if I were to enjoy something in the ...

Communism contradicts itself by implementing its regime through a hierarchy. Capitalism works effectively because its ethos is in line with hierarchic...

I think we havent quite escaped natures self-regulatory processes. When we get over confident in our dominance nature has a tendency to say "eat shit"...

I see. Thank you for clarifying. So by this mechanism if self-harm has any genetic aspects they could remain in the gene pool so long as they didnt re...

Yes :D

"Evil" for me is "that which threatens the state of existence /stability of being of something which has been attributed a positive value. Evil is not...

A ghost is a concept. It hasn't been proven to be an objective thing and therefore resides as a recurrent idea or theme in the minds of people who cla...

Shared experience doenst entail shared location so yes a live video feed would be the equivalent of a photograph or bringing ther person to the place....

Words can have meaning to the user themselves of course. I could invent 40 words for snow that no one else uses. Many a child spends some time making ...

An extraterrestrial comes to investigate how our societies run. They say "give me the best object to explain how you organise your peoples on this pla...