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If one had unlimited power couldn't they granted themselves unlimited knowledge so they understood what they are in power of? Otherwise it would have ...
December 06, 2021 at 05:43
So than why isn't emotion considered apart of thoughts? We can't actually know the moment a thought starts or is complete and ready for publishing. So...
December 05, 2021 at 15:45
That's exactly my point. Without emotions we die. Sentimentality asides.
December 05, 2021 at 03:59
It can cut both ways, but if it doesn't cut at least one way we'd die.
December 04, 2021 at 19:09
Can we do anything without emotion? We certainly wouldn't feel motivation. So if we would otherwise die without one aspect of the mind, why seperate e...
December 01, 2021 at 06:03
Ok doky.
November 29, 2021 at 23:01
We have evolved already though. I am forward thinking here. Age researchers think we may someday slow or reverse many aspects of aging so it isn't as ...
November 22, 2021 at 21:17
If we were immortal we wouldn't need to choose as carefully what gives us a strong dopamine dense experience. Sure things would be repeated many times...
November 22, 2021 at 01:03
My concern of a life of roughly known duration can be cut into sections by society by what we should be doing when in order to be productive for socie...
November 21, 2021 at 04:00
Always a scary thought to lose memories. 90 year olds often forget ever having had parents which is utterly crazy. Lets just assume memories aren't lo...
November 21, 2021 at 03:57
I think sky diving can still be a powerful experience even if we were immortal. The force of the wind and being in a sky that is larger than even the ...
November 21, 2021 at 03:50
So one could live forever (assuming they don't trip into a bus) and have a life full of value and joy? If the concern of some is that infinite life ca...
November 20, 2021 at 01:36
What is the significance of the double slit experiment if a human observation isn't needed to collapse the wave function? Does that only show that the...
November 19, 2021 at 02:29
So a person's fear of say spiders can be the result of hereditary epigenetics of living in a jungle as well as first hand confrontation with dangerous...
November 16, 2021 at 05:54
Yes I was asking if the human mind is special in relation to the physical world. When I first heard about the double slit experiment it gave me hope t...
November 16, 2021 at 03:23
I was just being lazy. I just meant to talk about human science only. Not like chemistry and physics which try to stay independent of psyche. I was cu...
November 16, 2021 at 02:19
A friend told me about "dark empaths" which are basically people who can read other people's emotions very well, so not a sociopath, however they use ...
November 16, 2021 at 02:14
But as it was described in the text his behaviors were considered subpar. Not just my modern observation. Until he met that other dude he was kind of ...
November 13, 2021 at 16:09
I was thinking once. If light speed is the fastest speed we can measure, and everything we measure seems relative to it. What if there was a higher en...
November 12, 2021 at 00:37
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/hints-of-the-4th-dimension-have-been-detected-by-physicists/ Well here's one thing.
November 11, 2021 at 02:49
Some physicists suggest that time might be 2 dimensional which may allow time travel. And not everyone can agree on 10 dimensions. Some say fewer, som...
November 11, 2021 at 02:46
Yeah, not sure when that starts. Lol.
November 09, 2021 at 05:44
Coincidence that the music guy describing 10 dimensions based on string theory only described 10 dimensions?
November 09, 2021 at 05:36
What is the dichotomy between selfish and selfless? Behaviors have many outcomes. Our intentions might be singularly focused around our needs, but som...
November 05, 2021 at 18:49
After I turned 28 I also felt a downturn in my life. But I think that is biological and energies and function isn't really the same anymore. So adapta...
November 05, 2021 at 04:20
George Washington vaccinated his troops so a virus wouldn't kill them first. Vaccines are very safe. Particularly compared to things people often use ...
November 04, 2021 at 04:40
Do we currently have an answer to what gives life meaning that we can be sure would be lost if we were immortal? I also mean eternal health so maybe a...
October 24, 2021 at 23:47
Nobody said we need to make a deal with a Greek deity who are known for their plays on words. Certainly a life of rolling a bolder isn't terribly mean...
October 21, 2021 at 04:15
I know I called this inbetween a "simulation" right off the bat, but that is only because it doesn't drive our experience. The real reality in the bac...
October 20, 2021 at 04:24
What various definitions of consciousness are there? Are all animals conscious? Trees? Cities? The moon?
October 15, 2021 at 19:04
That is a matter of a proper statement. I am assuming asking the right question is always the issue. A 6 and a 9 are the same shape so if the statemen...
October 09, 2021 at 05:44
When I was asking about true or false, true and false, and neither true nor false I was referring to statements. Things that are objective and not opi...
October 06, 2021 at 19:10
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fXW-QjBsruE Made me think of the latest vsauce video when you mentioned that paradox.
October 06, 2021 at 18:44
This post in general is about any confidence that gets into the realm of absolute. But in terms of a handful of women that think their beauty is certa...
September 22, 2021 at 21:23
People also say a person is beautiful inside and out when both apply but never say they are beautiful on the inside (in a public manner anyway) when o...
September 22, 2021 at 03:52
Surely there are women or men that think they are qualified for say a sales job because they are attractive even if they know this isn't a skill set. ...
September 21, 2021 at 04:50
I don't require gratefulness for a compliment. My point is some people think their beauty is factual in all circumstances. And as far as complimenting...
September 21, 2021 at 04:37
It doesn't threaten me. I just think people shouldn't blind themselves with things that are empty and aren't accomplishments.
September 21, 2021 at 04:34
I just assumed since the movies address reality itself and how the mind can be fooled that it was a philosophical topic. I am not asking about estheti...
September 13, 2021 at 19:23
I don't suppose the full cast is official yet? I hope Hugo, Lawrence, and Helmut Bakaitis can still be in this. Doogie Houser can't be a big part of t...
September 12, 2021 at 05:32
So was the first film intellectually good or was it too just novalty?
September 12, 2021 at 00:13
Can anything ever be real without sensory feedback? I see videos about people who have been blind their whole lives and it's obvious they lack more th...
September 07, 2021 at 20:15
No, prison is pretty apt. Particularly for people with brain damage that can't really live or die.
September 06, 2021 at 19:12
Which begs the question of how we end up in this so called prison to begin with. As far as erotic asphyxiation I hope David Carradine is in a better p...
September 05, 2021 at 23:38
I read the first page of your post. If the next 23 pages contain little more evidence of conscious existence after death than I'm honestly not convinc...
September 05, 2021 at 00:33
I am reading that thread currently. It appears to be 24+ pages so bare with me. Lol. Can I DM you afterwards?
September 03, 2021 at 01:47
You are the first person to actually address the original question.
September 02, 2021 at 22:17
Lol. Well done.
August 31, 2021 at 20:35
I am only referring to situations when the brain has no measurable activity.
August 31, 2021 at 20:35
I've had sleep paralysis, but never an OBE. Just felt stuck in a body that won't move. You know there is testimony of people claiming to have floated ...
August 31, 2021 at 20:34