CasKev

What do you think about the possibility of everyone's consciousness continuing indefinitely once it has been awakened? Each conscious entity has its o...

Have you read The Simplest-Case Scenario by Karl Coryat? I'd be interested to hear whether his theories on information being fundamental fit with idea...

Oh, he knows his holes, especially black ones...

Bionic AI cockroaches

And no way to prove anyone but me is self-aware...

What makes it even funnier is that the deck was from a magic trick set! :D

Freaked myself out yesterday... Thought I would play a little game. Randomly decided on a playing card while sitting at work, and tried to see if it w...

"For example, did dinosaurs actually exist, or was that 'memory' just part of the story consciousness created to explain our existence in the present ...

So that is to say it occurs, but has no observable explanation as of yet?

So the issue of quantum entanglement remains unexplained? There is no known cause for the "spooky action at a distance"?

Where what seemed obvious?

I'm pretty sure this experiment shows true retroactivity ...

Also, Bohmian Mechanics doesn't seem compatible with what Stephen Hawkings writes in 'The Grand Design'. Am I right? "The usual assumption in cosmolog...

@"Rich" Instantaneous behavior doesn't explain retroactive behavior though, does it?

@"Rich" Does Bohmian Mechanics explain the quantum experiments where a particle's behavior is affected retroactively based on a choice made in the pre...

Getting back to this... Assuming quantum behavior at a macro level, what seems more likely? That once observers collapse probability waves, they are p...

But of course you would be 'programmed' to behave in certain ways consistent with my first-person experience, so as to appear self-aware. There's no w...

That's something I'm currently stuck on... It's hard to imagine me being the sole source of consciousness, somehow creating all that exists (including...

The ideas I'm currently contemplating are whether: a) i) I would be the only self-aware, conscious creator in my perceived reality; or ii) Reality wou...

Lately, I'm leaning toward Robert Lanza's theory of biocentrism, which as I understand it (not so well just yet) relies on consciousness, wherever or ...

I would say consciousness. As intelligently as you could ever program AI to be, you still have to tell it how to react to stimuli. Even if you program...

It still begs the question why there do not exist non-living carbon-based structures that combine to serve a greater function. It appears as though on...

Can you restate this in simpler terms, perhaps using an analogy?

I just can't believe that cells made of particles somehow just randomly created entire biological systems. Particles of metal don't randomly organize ...

@"Rich" But getting back to the issue of intelligent design, how could atoms and molecules have such complex behavior patterns in the absence of any s...

To me, invoking 'laws of nature' like @"TheMadFool" has done equates to subatomic particles behaving in certain ways just because. Panpsychism, as I u...

At the risk of sounding like @"Rich" ( ;) ), how could these 'laws of nature' simply arise? It still makes no sense that quarks, atoms, molecules, et ...

Yes, but why would an organism sprout wings in the first place, pig or otherwise? How would they get from randomly produced stubs to fully functioning...

No one chooses mental illness. What would be the aim? The trouble with depression is that people lack the motivation or will to do the things needed t...

Perhaps our creation was of a quantum nature, where a number of possibilities existed, which started being 'collapsed' by this awakening creative cons...

That's why I like the idea of a semi-aware consciousness, that is only now becoming aware of what it really is, and what it is truly capable of doing....

I've nearly died twice. Both times, I simply lost consciousness, and regained consciousness not too long thereafter. No lights, no experiences, nothin...

Sounds a bit like what Jim Carrey said: "We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused." Or, like I said ea...

Because nothingness wouldn't require all of the perfect variables that make our existence possible. Because there would be no paradoxes to explain awa...

Right, it would make much more sense if nothing had ever existed... but here we are! Knowing that there are currently unexplainable paradoxes (e.g. in...

Could it be said that science's inability to explain the reason for the seemingly intelligent behavior of subatomic particles and the nature of consci...

You do know that you are stuck to a giant spinning round rock that is flying around a big ball of fire, right? X-)

Is this the answer? I've never heard of this guy before... Did this article only appear because I went 'looking' for it? This seems to point to Questi...

So a bunch of people sitting around painting pictures and playing music would be somehow more meaningful? To what end?

@"Rich" Finally we agree on something! X-)

Given that we exist, it seems impossible for nothing to have existed at any point. Is it possible that consciousness persists, and that it is as thoug...

@"VagabondSpectre" How can you wring something out when it's not there to begin with? What grand meaning is there to life, aside from what has been bi...

Don't worry, depression is all in your head. I'm sure anxiety is too... Click here for idiotic rant

It seems to me that this may be true when trying to measure time. To me, it still makes sense to say some sort of unmeasured absolute time passes at t...

I think the one on evil was deleted because I referred to my ex-wife as being proof of evil. As evil as she is, she probably saw it and had it removed...

Interesting. To me, it would make way more sense for nothing to have ever existed. But here we are...

But that would mean that nothingness could not have existed in between the two events, as the end of the reverse big bang would be instantly followed ...

I think time can measure how long something stays the same too. Imagine the entire universe perished into nothingness, in some sort of reverse big ban...

Agreed. Timelessness doesn't make sense. For something to happen, something has to undergo change during a progression of time. In fact, time would co...

I think it would be amiss to say there are cases where cause does not exist, at least to some extent. Even if we introduce probabilities, cause is sti...