The Nature of Consciousness

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tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:23 am We all have a vision that we are ever looking at. You have a vision of the Undefiled Whole. Mine is so very different.
Yes, isn't that wonderful!
How boring would life be if everyone thought exactly the same way...
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If we are going to do physics, we have to make crap up. Hopefully, it will be beautiful crap, simple and elegant. We have no choice because the universe has conspired to keep knowledge of other worlds from us. We know that there is something missing from our formulations, but we cannot find out what it is. Making up crap is all we have left. Lovely crap. We will make the universe a work of Art.
Crap is crap, no matter how lovely. And, that's okay. If joe believes tiny pink unicorns collapse out of quantum unicorn wavelets when measured, that's fine by me.

But it is crap. And when crap gets popularized, common folks get to thinkin' man, the world is all weird and unicorny and mebbe what seems to be real isn't and mebbe I don't really love my wife cuz mebbe my brain is just a stable for quantum horses with horns gallopin' through my atoms which themselves are nuthin' but unicorns...fuck, mebbe it's unicorns all the way dooooown...

Like I say: I wish egg heads would shut up and keep lookin'.
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:10 am
If we are going to do physics, we have to make crap up. Hopefully, it will be beautiful crap, simple and elegant. We have no choice because the universe has conspired to keep knowledge of other worlds from us. We know that there is something missing from our formulations, but we cannot find out what it is. Making up crap is all we have left. Lovely crap. We will make the universe a work of Art.
Crap is crap, no matter how lovely. And, that's okay. If joe believes tiny pink unicorns collapse out of quantum unicorn wavelets when measured, that's fine by me.

But it is crap. And when crap gets popularized, common folks get to thinkin' man, the world is all weird and unicorny and mebbe what seems to be real isn't and mebbe I don't really love my wife cuz mebbe my brain is just a stable for quantum horses with horns gallopin' through my atoms which themselves are nuthin' but unicorns...fuck, mebbe it's unicorns all the way dooooown...

Like I say: I wish egg heads would shut up and keep lookin'.
I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
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I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
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AlexW wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:50 am
tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 12:23 am We all have a vision that we are ever looking at. You have a vision of the Undefiled Whole. Mine is so very different.
Yes, isn't that wonderful!
How boring would life be if everyone thought exactly the same way...
Ah, I have been dismissed so courteously.
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:29 am
I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
You do have great faith in human rationality. Good luck with that Faith is a tricky affair
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:29 am
I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
In The End Times it will be engineer-heads against the egg-heads
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tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:52 am
henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:29 am
I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
You do have great faith in human rationality. Good luck with that Faith is a tricky affair
No, I have a well-justified faith in the individual.
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tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:19 am
henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:29 am
I think we must all face up to the hard fact that we may be at the end of physics and it's pointless to keep lookin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPFJgLAzu4&t=25s
Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
In The End Times it will be engineer-heads against the egg-heads
No, in the End Times: the livin' will square off against zombies.
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henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:55 pm
tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:19 am
henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 2:29 am

Nah. Wait a bit. Our measurin' tools will catch up with our thinkin' gland and, WAM!, we'll be back in the saddle.


From the comments of your utube link...

how them scientists work.

Bob: Did the detector find anything new?

Steve: No.

Bob: Crank up the power and smash the particle twice as hard!


Persistence.
In The End Times it will be engineer-heads against the egg-heads
No, in the End Times: the livin' will square off against zombies.
You speak well for your tribe.
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Re: The Nature of Consciousness

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tapaticmadness wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:03 am
henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:55 pm
tapaticmadness wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:19 am

In The End Times it will be engineer-heads against the egg-heads
No, in the End Times: the livin' will square off against zombies.
You speak well for your tribe.
HA!

You know my tribe?

Please, direct me to 'em.

In my 57 years I've never met a'one.
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:09 am
tapaticmadness wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:03 am
henry quirk wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2020 3:55 pm

No, in the End Times: the livin' will square off against zombies.
You speak well for your tribe.
HA!

You know my tribe?

Please, direct me to 'em.

In my 57 years I've never met a'one.
I would say that at least 95% of the people on Quora are of your tribe.
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tapaticmadness wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:25 am
henry quirk wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:09 am
tapaticmadness wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 12:03 am

You speak well for your tribe.
HA!

You know my tribe?

Please, direct me to 'em.

In my 57 years I've never met a'one.
I would say that at least 95% of the people on Quora are of your tribe.
So Quora is full of atavists?

I'll have to check it out.
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henry quirk wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 1:15 am [

So Quora is full of atavists?

I'll have to check it out.
OMG, I made a mistake. For some reason I thought I was on Quora, but that can't be because I am currently banned from there because I say bad things about atheists and they report me to the principal. I argued that anti-theism is a cult. Anyway, yes, you might like Quora. What is an atavist? The people on Quora and this site are all moralists. I am not a moralist. I think violence, both physical and intellectual, is right at the heart of who and what we are and it cannot be erased.
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tapaticmadness wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 1:49 am
henry quirk wrote: Sat Feb 01, 2020 1:15 am [

So Quora is full of atavists?

I'll have to check it out.
OMG, I made a mistake. For some reason I thought I was on Quora, but that can't be because I am currently banned from there because I say bad things about atheists and they report me to the principal. I argued that anti-theism is a cult. Anyway, yes, you might like Quora. What is an atavist? The people on Quora and this site are all moralists. I am not a moralist. I think violence, both physical and intellectual, is right at the heart of who and what we are and it cannot be erased.
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