TiredThinker

Anyone know if this is an old idea, or made up recently?

I think the research can use their own money if it was a topic of interest. I could probably do this type of research with very little money except wh...

I don't expect such research needs too much money for legit researchers to do it well on the side from their main research.

I think it falls into the realm of people shying away from topics that are probably of interest to nearly everyone. We mostly all want to know where i...

I am assuming we can't prove an afterlife. Therefore a loss of life is a loss of everything.

I am basically asking if we gain any real virtues with age that aren't the direct result of our own decline?

We do some good for each other, but rarely do we give it all. If a monkey eats poison berries it starts choking and the troop of monkies imitate that ...

We take risks with greater survival in mind. A mouse without dopamine in their brain won't feel motivated to eat food directly in front of them and di...

I think about legacy often enough. But statistically after 200 years no matter what we do there will be no record we ever existed. And even if we defi...

Are blackholes proven? I think Stephen Hawking concluded that there is no reason why they need to exist.

Well consider that different angles and faces and shapes have different emotional effects on us. For whatever reason the golden ratio is most desirabl...

Interesting. Didn't know Dr Jay Neitz talked about tetrachromic vision. I think he may have cured color blindness in squirrel monkeys though.

Tetrachromic people do not see more colors over all. They just have more distinctions around the middle of the spectrum. They can't see a factor of 10...

I know you can't "prove" that one person's red is the same as the next person's. But is it conceivable that the brain tries to keep sensory sensations...

Tetrachromic people have more distinction in the yellow/green parts of the spectrum. Like I said more color information can maybe lead to more exact i...

Animal eyes aside, assuming that ones vision quantitatively keep getting more information and we focus within the human wavelengths. I want to assume ...

What do you mean? I am referring to the concept and specific impression of the color red.

Cool thanks.

I agree that without the impression of "I" there would be no problem. But since there is, there must be a reason for it.

Memories seem to get updated and altered, but the brain is imperfect and perhaps a mind outside of the brain records everything perfectly as perhaps t...

What good is a sense of meaning that is deleted upon death? It was just a super sophisticated motivation to keep going. Evolution pushing us to serve ...

I referred to a fictional immortal being in reference to those concerned with boredom of an immortal existence. I don't believe bored would be a forgo...

Why does it matter how the universe, particles, and mud came from if it is unable to recognize its own existence. The mind is the only thing I want to...

I am not assuming anything about the duration of time or the finite or infinite nature of the universe.

My definition of meaning isn't about profit in a next life or ethereal afterlife. It is about being more than the matter I am made of. Being able to b...

I do recall an episode of Voyager in which one of the Qs (an immortal being) wanted to end his existence. Apparently he had done everything and seen e...

As far as I can tell we live and when we die our very mind ceases to exist. Even if we created a sense of meaning and purpose those lessons are not ap...

The afterlife is presumed to be everlasting. I wasn't assuming there was an after. But if existence is building blocks from what came before, and noth...