Capt-RogerOver

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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Are you a neuroscientist?
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
The notion that determinism leads to seeing the world in terms of simple predictable clockwork universe is obsolete. Look up "chaos theory". It describes how even very few deterministic rules applied to a vast number of elements
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
If you will keep meditating and will discover more about your mind, you will find that almost none of the thoughts that pop into our minds are random. They are all processes that have quite specific purposes. A lot of it comes from suppress
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Intuition is subjective. A long time ago it was very un-intuitive that the earth was spherical. For many people the physical description of the brain does actually have free will. The point is to change people's intuition about free wi
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
How does seeing a human as "neural activities which in turn are caused by sensory input and noise" contradict an idea of free will? The neural activity is obviously so complicated that it can make "sense" of the sensory
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
"timeless" is a very good word for describing all phenomena that could be connected to the experience of a "soul". There is no evidence, nor really even clues to the soul being infinite, continuously going on to eternity
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Aren't you doing the same mistake now? "Egocentrism" which you see in the core of these attempts to prolong life - that's just a "new strategy". It has has obviously survived in humans through the billions of y
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
There is another aspect for which the longetivity could be selected by the evolution, besides passing on the genes: it's passing on the knowledge. As a social species, in the development of humans it's not only the biological stru
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
Let's say that you believe (or know) that. What difference does it make? You still have no access to the base reality, and you still have to make your life around the rules of this one. In fact, how does it change a single thing and&#x
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
If you are speaking in terms of spiritual experiences, you can of course be having any kind of those and nothing can really be argued about it, because they are subjective. If, however, you are making an objective claim about "past liv
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
+1 on "You should seek help.". If that is your current experience - that's not the natural mode for a human being. That's not something everyone automatically arrives at by just going through life. That's just your
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by Capt-RogerOver 10y ago
It is more common because that problem is much more widespread and ultimately much more dangerous for the health of the victims.
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by Capt-RogerOver 11y ago
> But whether it's the source is really a question outside science. For example, it's role could also be analogous to a radio. What happens when the science will eventually come up with technology to recreate (by all external
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by Capt-RogerOver 11y ago
> If there's no alternative it means the hypothesis is not falsifiable, right? Well, not really. For example, we don't understand how some brain function works. For some reason we might get a hypothesis that it is governed by a
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by Capt-RogerOver 11y ago
Yes. Do physical damage to the brain and the abstract thinking (along with other kinds) dissapears.
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by Capt-RogerOver 11y ago
Science is not about proving, it's about disproving hypothesis. If we can disprove it, this gives us a lot of certain knowledge about the world, and expands our thinking to new hypothesis. If we can't disprove it yet, we just use