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- Thu Oct 06, 2022 11:35 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The myth of spiritual meditation practice.
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8401
Re: The myth of spiritual meditation practice.
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...
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:03 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Experiment to show your state of delusion
- Replies: 123
- Views: 21823
Re: Experiment to show your state of delusion
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...
- Fri Sep 02, 2022 10:12 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Exactly Where Am I?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6600
Re: Exactly Where Am I?
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...
- Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:18 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Exactly Where Am I?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 6600
Re: Exactly Where Am I?
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...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:57 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: What's going on with flies?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6088
Re: What's going on with flies?
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...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 11:53 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Can consciousness be explained by “emergence”?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 17064
Re: Can consciousness be explained by “emergence”?
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. ...
- Sun Jul 24, 2022 12:21 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: What is the image of You?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3722
Re: What is the image of You?
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 ...
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:46 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Free will
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5393
Re: Free will
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...
- Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: living in the past
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1053
Re: living in the past
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...
- Fri Jul 01, 2022 12:39 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Allowing free will, does God know our future actions?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 566
Allowing free will, does God know our future actions?
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...
- Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:18 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2711
Re: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
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...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 9:21 pm
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2711
Re: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
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...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 11:14 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2711
Re: Something that can be created can also be destroyed
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...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:59 am
- Forum: Metaphysics
- Topic: Something that cannot be destroyed cannot be created
- Replies: 2
- Views: 625
Re: Something that cannot be destroyed cannot be created
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...
- Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:43 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: Is Google’s LaMDA “sentient”? And if not, could we tell the difference?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4724
Re: Is Google’s LaMDA “sentient”? And if not, could we tell the difference?
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...