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We walk the Razors Edge of Creation in every moment. There is nothing to understand, nothing to practice, nothing to be. Being needs nothing, being wants nothing. Wanting and Needing can only pertain to the sense of a 'sepearate self'. In reality, this sensing is unknowable, it is one with the know...

If you sit in a quiet room without doing or thinking anything (if the body is "you" and the thoughts in your consciousness are "yours", then one would assume that you would be able to control the movements of the body and the mind) you will see: A: You will not be able to stop t...

There is a lot of confusion regarding the term "I". When someone refers to "I", they could mean any number of things. So, if someone wants to discuss the nature of "I", they really need to define what exactly they mean by the term beforehand. And it will often be the c...

I suppose in some sense I seem to be located in my body. If my body is not near the computer, then I am not near the computer. Suppose I am now looking at my computer screen. If I get up and walk away from the computer screen, into the kitchen, I am no longer near it. I would then be looking at the...

Well, it's a bit like vampires, but exactly opposite. They can only go through a door you don't invite them to use. Yes, I can see that is just how a fly would think. That's excellent, uwot, I wish I'd thought of it. :) U have no idea what a fly is mate! In Osstraaaalllliiiaaaa you have to surrende...

Yes. Emergence is choosing a new metaphor for a higher complexity understanding. The process works in any direction, such as getting wetness from water molecules, mind from brain, or figuring out how to divide quarks. It's part of expanding our known "reality" into the unknown Actuality. ...

While at the cinema gazing at the big wide empty blank screen full of moving images of sound and light. You are watching LOVE STORY starring Ryan O'Neal..and Ali MacGraw...Think about it, You know the images are not real people, you know the sound that is heard as words are just emanating from out ...

What I dislike about Bahman’s example of a free choice is it actually removes any possibility of responsibility. If you make a choice completely at random, that is without any prior motivation, you cannot be held responsible. There was nothing you could have done to make a better choice given the sa...

We literally live in the past. Everything we sense has already happened before we sensed it. Everything we experience is the tail end of a casual chain already allocated to future obscurity. The delay is minuscule, barely detectable, only when testing your reaction time, it seems the perception gap...

So, after going through the compatibilist thread for a while (like 12 pages), something Immanuel Can wrote made me ask this question. Let’s suspend our judgement and just assume that free will Is true. Let us also assume there is a God which knows the physical state of the world, which also includes...

The consideration that nothing is created and nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed, seems to be well established. However, this idea implies that there is a substance that transforms itself. But this substance necessarily stands behind every transformation without ever showing itself...

Let's assume that something can be created (this is a process and let's call it A). Let's assume that something can be destroyed (this is a process and let's call it B). B can happen because of A. Why? Because the reverse process of A is also a possible process and this process is B. Is something t...

Let's assume that something can be created (this is a process and let's call it A). Let's assume that something can be destroyed (this is a process and let's call it B). B can happen because of A. Why? Because the reverse process of A is also a possible process and this process is B. Is something t...

Therefore, Something that cannot be destroyed cannot be created. A thing is known in the exact same instance of knowing. Knowing can neither be created nor destroyed, without first knowing the concepts, and concepts know nothing of their creation or destruction, because they are insearable from the...

You seem to have a version of the Turing Test here. I might ask the computer if it’s a computer. Unless it’s been programmed to lie, that would be the end of the matter. Is intentionally failing sentience tests a sign of sentience? Interesting thought. I think if you could prove that there was some...