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Why do people always have to mix THIS particular interpretation of QM with THIS particular understanding/misunderstanding of information. Are you referring to my posts responding to a side issue regarding consciousness? If so, what is your concern? If not, maybe reference who or which posts you're ...

Edits complete. [WARNING]Wait. I reread what I wrote below and see errors in syntax and grammar that don't make sense. So while you can respond to this if you follow what I'm saying as is, but I will be editing it for better clarity. Thanks Will. The ' structure ' of some organ like the brain that ...

Assuming consciousness is emergent of brain function and did not exist prior to brains, is something aligned with belief rather than logic. How? FOr starters, ack of supporting evidence. What evidence there is, can also be disputed... I think you have a ack of supporting etters. Maybe your response...

I couldn't be bothered listening to him. What a load of frivolous bollocks. If you did 'bother', then you MIGHT SEE, as I dis, that that person is NOT 'trying to' "justify" NOR 'prove' ANY 'thing' but is JUST 'sharing a view', which, to me, has a fair amount of ACTUAL Truth in it. Obvious...

Are you pissed that I won't waste my time with your responses? You're very flippant when someone ignores you and PROJECTING it quite exemplary. Veritasium presented proof that it is an illusion that 'hard work' supercedes 'luck'. It wasn't a trivial opinion. He's a promoter of science, not religiou...

What are your thoughts? It has been known for---ever that the harder you work, the "luckier" you become.Think about this way... Let's say you own a home. Your house [like all houses] requires a certain amount of maintenance and upkeep. Joe really isn't too keen on doing such things [as he...

If you don't want my comments, stop throwing your collectivist political swill at me. There is no such thing as an honest politician (and I believe there is a mental defect in anyone who takes any aspect of politics seriously), especially when they cannot think of anything except in terms of politi...

... I recognized what you meant in general and was not presuming you didn't agree with me for the most part. My comments to that was limited to the quoted reference as it is and your blown up response is unnecessary given you assumed that I was somehow against your actual views as understood in con...

As an example of success, examine the professionals who practice medicine. There are at least two kinds of individuals who go into medicine for a living: those who intend to make a lot of money so that they can buy nice things; and those who intend to treat as many patients as they can in impoveris...

VVilliam wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 7:16 pm Assuming consciousness is emergent of brain function and did not exist prior to brains, is something aligned with belief rather than logic.

How?

Good point. It's not at all clear that just because somebody is in a "down" position relative to somebody else, that that makes them any morally "higher," anymore than it makes them morally "lower." It just makes them "in a different position." But I think th...

... Please see my article, " What I Don't Believe ," posted on PN just for folks like you who make judgments about my beliefs without having the slightest idea what they are. ... It's a good thing we have you to read minds and straighten everyone out about what their views are. Exactly wh...

To begin the discussion on the question: Is Success Luck or Hard Work? , which is actually an interesting question, philosophically relating several fundamental views regarding the nature of man (what is success for a human being and what is required to achieve it?) the nature of values (what deter...

I'll start with this: Are you not a dualist? To be a dualist is to assert that there are two separate substances, in this case mind and matter. Granted it is intuitively compelling, so when you ask: In other words, do you not see any appreciable difference between the living, self-aware "agent...

Please don’t bury me. John Prine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgYCI3OWw4&list=PLmwenebgo4Pt7k5JTWT4-Q2aIf_uGkC6B Woke up this morning Put on my slippers Walked in the kitchen and died And oh what a feeling When my soul went through the ceiling And on up into heaven I did ride When I got the...