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- Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Dune & the Deeper Meaning of Sci Fi
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1389
Re: Dune & the Deeper Meaning of Sci Fi
Unfortunately, I don't currently have free time to watch this. Here's a recent question to ponder: what's the minimal set of sci-fi works in any medium that covers or accurately describes all relevant achievable technological inventions?
- Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Exercise Time (Thinking)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3125
Re: Exercise Time (Thinking)
Bernardo had a productive, responsible fling with psilocybin. With similar good intent (including set and setting), Delta-9-THC is nonaddictive and productive, post-psychedelics.
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: EEG spikes in humans and rats at end of life and what this means for the supposed 'evidence' for idealism
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4873
Re: EEG spikes in humans and rats at end of life and what this means for the supposed 'evidence' for idealism
Why do idealists with personal validation owe thinking to all physicalists with varying levels of intellectual honesty?
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Paradox of Death by Sam Harris
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1019
Re: Paradox of Death by Sam Harris
Sam's unsatisfaction with content distribution and self-created altruistic model is admirable.
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Atheism, the Bible and Doubt
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1261
Re: Atheism, the Bible and Doubt
Abrahamic monotheism is more complicated than the questionable primary sources and theologians describe. Creation lies outside of omnipotence due to infinite regress and the physical Universe is uncreated, which seems atheistic. However, there might be finite duration transcendent experiences betwee...
- Sun Oct 17, 2021 9:38 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: twin psychics
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6273
Re: twin psychics
Spiritual gifts can readily be used for personal gain without repercussion, and the easiest path to acquisition is wealth.
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:35 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Sam Harris
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1426
Re: Sam Harris
Sam's nonmetaphysical opinions are more valuable than his public metaphysical position. Him shilling ineffective spiritual practices for a legacy is ironic.
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 4:30 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Philosophy in the Matrix movies: what's the relationship (if any) with BK's Analytic Idealism and/or Consciousness?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1489
Re: Philosophy in the Matrix movies: what's the relationship (if any) with BK's Analytic Idealism and/or Consciousness?
Matrix 4? Hollywood is truly undead.
- Fri Oct 08, 2021 1:55 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: The brain as a portal to parallel worlds
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1308
Re: The brain as a portal to parallel worlds
What's the probability that someone could experience being a Boltzmann brain elsewhere in the cosmological multiverse?
- Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:16 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: How is there a world that remains when not being perceived?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4762
Re: How is there a world that remains when not being perceived?
Objective reality is a precomputed simulation. (Berkeley's) God has already observed everything until heat death.