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_______ QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT AND THE SPEED OF LIGHT. Looking back at my OP, it dawned on me that in the same way that quantum entanglement could be the underlying reason for an object’s weight with respect to the gravitational pull of a planet (see the OP), it could also be the reason why an object ...

I hope everyone will forgive me for constantly using the same visualization tools, but imagine the large bracket depicted below... Past <--------- [ ...as representing the inception point of the universe, and that each of the tiny dashes represent one billion years of time prior to that inception p...

[......] surreptitious57, before I address the substance of your reply, I am having trouble understanding how you can quote me (presumably using the site’s quote system) and suddenly all of my carefully placed commas, periods, dashes, apostrophes, arrows, and even some of my words, are missing. Wha...

_______ I suggest that the essence of life (the foundation of consciousness) is present within every fiber of the fabric of reality. And if one stitches the fibers together into just the right configuration (a brain, for example) it can prompt (trigger/induce) the essence of life into acquiring cons...

Because it seems quite obvious (to me, anyway) that the endless and boundless, omnidirectional nothingness that is constantly giving-way to the expansion of our little bubble of reality (again, as depicted in the illustration)... ...represents a clear and tangible visualization of what the word “in...

I guess the question then becomes – how do the more enlightened humans of the world convince others that their actions are immoral without coming off as trying to impose their own personal morals on the other? Just answer this question, then you will have THEE answer. How does one "convince" you th...

_______ (Continued from prior post) Don’t get me wrong here, bahman, because I am always deeply impressed by anyone who can converse in more than one language, but it appears as though English is not your native (first) language. Is that correct? If that is true, then it seems as though the way you ...

Could you please tell me that what mind is made of? If I had to speculate... (which, of course, is precisely what we are all doing here - speculating) ...then I would suggest that mind and matter are two complementary aspects of the same fundamental essence, with both working together in tandem to ...

I am not sure why you are telling me these things about you which are NOT really related to the actual questions that I am asking you I think the answers I gave are directly related to the questions you were asking so we have a difference of opinion here but this is fine The real question is why ar...

Furthermore, other than the mind’s** control over the body’s musculature and thus its movements... ...whatever changes that are taking place with respect to the physical body are under the purview and guidance of the programming implicit within the body’s DNA structures and have nothing to do with ...

To me a being is a set of interacting minds I cannot understand how a thing which has no structure can hold information A being only requires one mind not many [ do you know of anything that exists that actually has more than one mind ] Yes, human has many minds. Have you ever wondered that a mind ...

Fair point... but ... does the labelling of such acts as immoral actually benefit anyone? I think that it would, but only if the labeling is accompanied with a direct and forceful intervention to try and put a halt to it. And when I say forceful intervention, I mean that the perpetrators of this ba...

Anja Steinbauer says Don’t Trust the Ethicists (too much). https://philosophynow.org/issues/26/Ethics_versus_Morality The following is taken from the conclusion of the article: Constructing moral theories may be up to the philosophers, but assessing them, and rejecting or implementing them is up to...

Anja Steinbauer says Don’t Trust the Ethicists (too much). https://philosophynow.org/issues/26/Ethics_versus_Morality The following is taken from the conclusion of the article: Constructing moral theories may be up to the philosophers, but assessing them, and rejecting or implementing them is up to...

What if our hypothetically existent God was in possession of all of the structured knowledge necessary for fully and completely replicating itself? No. He cannot. Nonsense! Allegedly... (aside from not being able to create square circles or anything similar) ...there is absolutely nothing that the ...