Sun 29 Jan, 2017 04:19 am - You seem to be assuming that the brain is the seat of consciousness.
What if the brain has nothing to do with consciousness? After all, studies seem to indicate that plants, which do not have... (view)
Mon 27 Oct, 2014 06:44 pm - What about war between humans? Even today there are religious groups who believe their moral, and their right to enforce it, comes from God. They murder people for not sharing their beliefs.... (view)
Mon 27 Oct, 2014 04:42 pm - [quote]But if I don't believe that morality is defined by groups, and my group is bigger than your group, where does that leave us?[/quote]
There must be war! God wills it!
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Mon 27 Oct, 2014 11:10 am - Yes. Do you disagree that this particular situation has a great deal to do with how humans relate to the concept of time? (view)
Sat 25 Oct, 2014 05:11 pm - I do appreciate the analogies of water to illustrate time. But I think that they aim to describe our psychological experience of time. But this experience happens in it's entirety in the... (view)
Sat 20 Sep, 2014 03:07 am - My use of the word "information" is not in accordance with the definition "that which informs a choice between alternatives". That is not to say that my perspective at the... (view)
Fri 19 Sep, 2014 01:54 pm - [quote]Yes, your word "depth" might need a little exploration.[/quote]
Say a cat and a human looks at a newspaper. There is presumably more depth to human perception, and though the... (view)
Fri 19 Sep, 2014 08:11 am - I guess. We certainly follow patterns in our mapping of all relationships we perceive.
But now I am wondering where the 'intelligence' comes in. Is it in the pattern, or in the... (view)