You are viewing the historical archive of The Philosophy Forum.
For current discussions, visit the live forum.
Go to live forum

Rotorblade

['Member']Joined: December 16, 2020 at 17:04Last active: January 20, 2021 at 19:512 discussions14 comments

Discussions (2)

Comments

It’s very interesting studying people with DID. They can offer many clues about consciousness. Normally a brain creates a single thread with the consc...
December 23, 2020 at 23:49
Regardless it is absolute or relative time is a dimension where the energy is conserved. For example you could have a one dimensional universe plus ti...
December 23, 2020 at 22:29
There is a concept of a 5minute universe where it is hypothesized that the universe appeared 5 minutes ago with everything there is in it, all memorie...
December 23, 2020 at 19:30
the memories are in your brain. It keeps all these memories. But each conscious moment the brain generates based on those memories is unique and has a...
December 23, 2020 at 19:15
My claim is that the persistence of identity is an illusion. You, right now, experience the world and your brain contains all the memories of the prev...
December 22, 2020 at 20:23
The brain has its activity and it changes its state. It enters a new state every iteration. Each state generates a conscious experience. Without a bra...
December 22, 2020 at 19:33
So you mean the brain as a machine creates the thoughts but then these thoughts can cause nature to veer off it’s normal course? It seems a better def...
December 20, 2020 at 23:10
Maybe you want a definition by which free will is possible but you can see that even from a definition free will is not possible. Anyway my definition...
December 20, 2020 at 22:52
In some cases death could be preferable instead of hard torture, it’s hard to tell or to generalise.
December 17, 2020 at 19:27
To me a contradiction worse than an unproved assumption. It simply shows something is not right, whereas with the assumption everything works well but...
December 17, 2020 at 18:20
To me free will is the claimed ability to take a decision without this decision being the result of the interactions between the fundamental constitue...
December 17, 2020 at 15:37
The dissociative identity disorder may be an example where multiple regions of the brain generate separate identities while sharing or exchanging info...
December 17, 2020 at 15:01
The way the universe works is similar to an abstract way of domino effect. This abstract definition would be like starting from a state in which we ha...
December 17, 2020 at 08:43
Past experience means you remember what to expect if the conditions are similar and you remember how to react. If you are satisfied with the previous ...
December 16, 2020 at 23:29
Can you explain how do you imagine consciousness outside of a brain? While we are conscious the brain receives information from the eyes, ears, touch,...
December 16, 2020 at 23:12
The quantum mechanics describes reality using quantized elements so it doesn’t lead to singularities or infinities afaik. But the theory of gravity do...
December 16, 2020 at 21:22
I think it’s quite the opposite. After the discovery of quantum mechanics scientist started to distinguish better between philosophy and scientific me...
December 16, 2020 at 20:48