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Life is not a thing and it certaily isn't energy. When fairly recent discoveries in cosmology have the physicists admitting that they don't know what 95% of the universe is composed of, referring to it as "dark" energy and "dark" matter ,... ...then perhaps you shouldn't be so c...

...It just seems to me to be the case that memory is not permanent as evidenced by people who reach very old age and have severe memory deficits and that the senses are fed by what eyes, ears, etc take in and if we don't have eyes, ears, etc. then we won't be seeing or hearing anything. When you en...

I believe in the eternal now, so I believe there is life after death, but not life as we know it as differentiated persons. I can imagine that the eternal now contains also differentiated experiences like what we have in this life, but how the switch-over from eternal now to relative time might hap...

Now I'm not suggesting that I can't be wrong, but, just out of curiosity, what aspect of my speculative (quantum-based) explanation of Deja vu (here: https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?p=496110#p496110) made no sense to you? What you are saying is that there is implicit order in which th...

Time is a substance so it does not vanquish. I was told that you can have access to your past life through meditation. That is a feasible scenario to me all our experiences reside inside our minds. The future is a little tricky. But have you ever had a Dejavu? Again, bahman (as mentioned in an alte...

...There is no more an actual thing, "space time," than there was, "luminiferous aether." "Space-time," is only a model, an elaborate metaphorical description that helps to picture or illustrate how actual physical existents behave relative to each other, but there is ...

Time travel is science fiction. You cannot travel to the past because the past no longer exists. It's gone. Also you cannot travel to the future because it doesn't exist yet. One cannot go somewhere that does not exist. The grandfather paradox can be solved by the creation of an alternative reality...

What Is Spacetime Really Made Of? Well, if it is possible that the Berkeleyan vision of reality is true and the universe is the mind of a higher consciousness, then that would mean that "spacetime" is made of "mind stuff." In other words, if you look into the inner-dimension of ...

Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? As I have suggested many times before,... ...what quantum mechanics reveals is that the fundamental substance that composes the phenomenal features of the universe seems to resemble the fundamental substance that composes our thoughts and dreams. And tha...

It is based on my intelligence, rationality and wisdom that I will not want to play the above nonsensical games. Well then, if such is the case, then you are demonstrating that you aren't the slightest bit interested in exploring the world-changing effect that... "...verifiable and justifiable...

Whilst I agree to the above 'scientific proven' point, based on my current state, I will not accept option 1.... ...Btw, I am just playing your big IF game which I believe is non-sensical to start with. Come on now V, just play along with me a little longer. You can't base your decision on your &qu...

IF , science discovered direct (and irrefutable) proof that your life (your mind and consciousness) will continue on after [physical] death in a higher form in a higher and more desirable context of reality,... note [physical death] and if the above is accepted with consensus by all scientists rela...

_______ Veritas Aequitas wrote [bracketed interjection mine]: Given the above, thus there is a very strong doubt [in my mind] whether God really exists as real. To clear such strong doubts one will have to provide verifiable and justifiable direct empirical evidences that God exists as real within t...

Think of strong liberated women as honorary men,. The entity (or "agent") that sits at the throne of consciousness in the human mind - has no gender. Gender is simply a momentary illusion that one experiences due to the pure (dice-like) randomness of being born with a body that sports eit...

Can you prove what you experienced has nothing to do with some elements of a mental issue [mild, serious or one-off]? No, I cannot "prove" such a thing. On the other hand, can you "prove" that your obsession with the writings of Kant isn't born of some mental issue (some "e...