TiredThinker

I am only asking which of two types of experiences is more plausible. Common among many people, or totally different. I'm not asking what is evidence....

So you say complete death is needed before concluding anything about an experience that is marked by the temporary stoppage of brain activity? Complet...

https://www.livescience.com/66071-human-animal-hybrid-embryos.html This is what I was referring to. And why not add intelligence to other creatures? W...

I hope the mind is both ethereal and of the brain since my mother's stroke 15 years ago. I would hate to think we've been caring for a completely diff...

So the concensus is our mind invented an afterlife and it was never the result of evidence? Just straight fear of the mind ceasing as the Buddhists ma...

I just hope that if there is an afterlife that we have genders even without procreation. So the virtues we bestow on the sexes mean something and wome...

Sorry. Some phrases allude me. I read into them too much. https://www.theidioms.com/a/ One of my favorite sites.

I hear that, but I mean more than perception but measurable differences.

This remark is reported to have been said by Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. The occasion was Johnson's hearing of a m...

Isn't a wormhole a gravity well?

what does that mean?

If attachment is what causes suffering than would only objects that can never be taken away be the only way to desire that doesn't lead to attachment ...

I guess we might need to add time to infinity if there is a process by which an infinite ocean refills itself? Or perhaps virtual particles that are t...

With my original question I didn't think too hard on the point that if one did take a drop of water from an infinite ocean they would have no place to...

It isn't entirely arbitrary. We know enough about nutrition to know what a body needs to be its best, and the healthcare and shelter needed to keep a ...

I am just wondering if my logic isn't too full of confirmation bias. If those that make a livable minimum wage are few than it is a small price to pay...

Yes homeless people do live, until they don't. But that is no standard to set for ones lowest economic group? And generally they do rely on social pro...

Why can't one go further on this topic? Haven't there been multiple definitions of infinity,

I had none of these issues 7 years ago, and felt overall better 20 years ago. I could go longer without sleep and got so much more from sleep when I d...

Well I have bone spurs in my neck so my sleep is constantly being disrupted by pain and my balance is off and I feel weakness in my arms sometimes. My...

I know we have what have been called "mirror neurons" to aide in empathy. For example when I get punched in the shoulder it may actually hurt me, but ...

Other than shifts in day to day perceptions, are higher realities imaginable? It is quite easy to imagine we fall very short of seeing most in our env...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kT0HJkr1jj4 This video covers the topic pretty well. But to your point it usually is pretty easy to tell if someone is a...

Not sure. Einstein did joke that the moon doesn't need to exist when we aren't looking towards where it should be. Would the idea of infinity be like ...

Near death experiences aside though.

I certainly prefer direct language from people. I just kind of want confirmation that she actually has no interest in me at all. If she does start dat...

If Cartman devolved into a dog the dog trainer could discipline him.

Getting back to altered states. What was the final conclusion he made?

The conversation ends here?

I wasn't sure if the conclusion of Altered States was that existence after death or between lives is one of uncontrollable change and entropy or whate...

Brainstorm was a good one.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/ian-stevensone28099s-case-for-the-afterlife-are-we-e28098skepticse28099-really-just-cynics/ Found ...

If someone died and that person's loved ones see the body and confer with the doctor and confirm that they are dead and proceed to cremate them. But l...

There is some study of "near death lucidity" which can be interesting. It is when a person with dementia or other mental handicap speak or behave clea...

It would be good to have proof that all people, not just skeptics, could rely on as an alternative to blind faith.

Who's "them"? Multiple people corroborating evidence is the nature of science. If it wasn't necessary than my own subjective experience would be plent...

Most religions believe in continued existence. It largely hasn't been cause of suicides compared to other reasons.

Maybe we could also ask what counts as proof or good evidence. This topic is certainly more flighty and hard to pin down versus quantum research of ve...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17234565/ I found this study interesting although I feel too much psychic research is done at University at Arizona to...

When I said proof I certainly wasn't referring to first person accounts. That isn't even reliable enough when observing stars in the sky. But yes I am...

Got it.

I just hope they succeed with a vaccine for all coronaviruses and other viruses that are otherwise particularly good at entering cells and using our h...

I'm not sure if I understand. Putting aside whether or not there is a God from whom the "gift" of life is given. Shouldn't all accounting of things ha...

I just remember I think it was Buzz Aldren said the surface of the moon was the least hospitable place he had ever seen. Just cold ridge rock formatio...

Art is beautiful because the concepts of it entertains the mind, but if we saw too well we would see every brush stroke and it might eventually seem n...

What I find weird is the ability of a person to be intelligent enough to possibly know when someone else is more intelligent than they are without wor...

I am assuming you're talking about Palestine and Israel. I think it might come down to the nature of the claim to the land. Personally I think nobody ...

Interesting. Would you say the awake mind and the asleep mind would be separate from a mind that is separate from the body? Being awake or asleep of c...

Our population has only increased so I am not particularly worried although I think China's one child rule actually backfired this time and they start...

I don't assume many religions to use expensive scientific equipment to try to measure the truth of things, but in religion there is some philosophical...