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What is a dream but a simulated reality experience? There is a difference between a simulated reality and a dream. A simulation could be consciously created, as for example a computer simulation. A dream is not a simulation of any particular reality, it is its own reality. Our minds are not expansi...

What is a dream but a simulated reality experience. There is a difference between a simulated reality and a dream. A simulation could be consciously created, as for example a computer simulation. A dream is not a simulation of any particular reality, it is its own reality. Our minds are not expansi...

Are we agreeing? Disagreeing? We are agreeing that the universe “does not loop around eternally.” We experience day and night as 24 hours. The precession of the equinoxes has been calculated to be 24,000 years. The universal cycle has been calculated to be 4,300, 560,000 years in extent (based on t...

“Looping around eternally” is a different issue. It is unlikely that the universe does, there is nothing in nature to suggest it. As all in nature appears to follow a similar pattern, its following or adhering to a pattern would be more likely. As there is night and day, the universe having a simil...

Physicists are been saying now that Spacetime is Doomed because the math shows that the universe is not fundamental unto itself. This leads to the hard problem of finding out what is fundamental to the existence of the universe, and some are wondering if the two hard problems are related. Therefore...

Physicists are been saying now that Spacetime is Doomed because the math shows that the universe is not fundamental unto itself. This leads to the hard problem of finding out what is fundamental to the existence of the universe, and some are wondering if the two hard problems are related. Therefore...

This ancient conversation about motion took place before “In the beginning was the and the Word was with God and the Word was God.” In light of this new insight, if infinity, a part of which vibrates creating sound, which creates waves which are vibrating fields, it is only that which vibrates that ...

Are you here suggesting that some one posted some things that were not relative to the article mentioned above? If yes, and if you would like to continue this discussion, then who were they, EXACTLY, and what were they talking about EXACTLY? And, does what you just posted here really have ANY thing...

LOL Even when people are ON each "others side" like "dubious is, or was, the "other" STILL can MISINTERPRET, and become "obnoxious", as CLEARLY SHOWN here above. Instead of a discussion on the merits, or demerits, of the article in question ‘Humans the Believing A...

I understand that! I was explicitly pointing out it didn't need to happen! Whether or not it needs to happen, it still happens. That's my point. Why let an idiot ruin a good thread? Why let idiots ruin anything that they ruin? :lol: Sometimes people prefer to walk away from things instead of trying...

I agree with your assessment summed up in your last paragraph. And it has already been proven that closed systems do not survive. I recall reading about a biosphere experiment done, it may have been in the 1960s or 70s. The biosphere did not survive. Yet, as evidenced in the article under discussio...

Aristotle “The highest form of life for humans who have rational souls is contemplation.” In the above article ‘Humans, the Believing Animals’ Aristotle’s comment is misunderstood and the author has the audacity to think Aristotle is wrong and he, the author, is right. The author confuses contemplat...

Correction ‘addiction situation’ not ‘addition.’ Although the latter could have some applicability where maths is challenging, but it is not the topic here.

Owl of Minerva response to Popeye 1945: I would not disagree with the possibility, a concept of the whole, that there is no independent existence. Or that this view would do away with the concept of duality, which is after all just a concept, a way of perceiving based on what is presented to us as ...

WOW, delightful post! Perhaps as Jung entertained the collective subconscious, all these elements you underline belong to a collective consciousness; all part of one condition or one field. This is what perhaps you are taking for granted, yes? It is my thought that there is no such thing as human a...