broscillator

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by broscillator 2y ago
I didn't say they are perfect, I asked what do you think evidence of that would look like.
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by broscillator 2y ago
There's a crucial bit in your reasoning, the assumption that the mind is a result of the brain. Your entire argument rests on this fulcrum. All the questions you pose do carry the intention you mean IF you abide by that assumption. Tha
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by broscillator 2y ago
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, The Dark Forest is the 2nd book.
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by broscillator 2y ago
If there were highly advanced beings that constructed the universe, and designed it to obfuscate that very fact, what would evidence of that look like?
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by broscillator 2y ago
Considering that I used to experience that dread, and how I used to think, and the patterns I see in your speech -- I'd say that dread is not a response to the concept, but due to over intellectualizing. The dread is precisely the inte
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by broscillator 2y ago
> I think any view of life consistent with its emergence by evolution isn't consistent with reincarnation, Why?
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by broscillator 2y ago
Some substances can get you there.
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by broscillator 3y ago
> Um, obviously? What distinguishes a person from a braindead patient is that one of the two has a mind. Are you saying that the fact that you talk to a person and have them recall facts is not enough to say that they have a mind? Also,
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by broscillator 3y ago
Where are the gravity particles? Gravity is a fundamental process, yet the graviton remains hypothetical. > It also seems odd that a mind independent of a brain has never been observed. Has a mind dependent of a brain been observed? You
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by broscillator 3y ago
As best exemplified by your conflation of faith and superstition.
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by broscillator 3y ago
You're fine to view it that way, it's a reasonable view. My point is to highlight that there's other views. What I mean is that mind is to consciousness what matter is to the brain. It is a property of the universe, that mani
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by broscillator 3y ago
Trust is what makes you believe your friend is not lying , it's cast upon them specifically, it is related to their history and integrity. Faith is believing that all the other conditions, the ones that we do not think about, will a
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by broscillator 3y ago
Cars exist because the need for faster and better movement exists. The process of movement created the need for the invention of the car. > Talking about consciousness interacting with the brain makes as much sense as talking about movem
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by broscillator 3y ago
Sure but a cat would probably have the same reaction if an arrow behaved like that irl, it's not the same as recognizing something as a living being due to how it moves.
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by broscillator 3y ago
Faith does not mean superstition. I swear youtube atheism debates have confused many to knee jerk react to specific words. Faith can operate on low levels such as: You arrange to meet with a friend at the park tomorrow. You don't know
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by broscillator 3y ago
> If the brain is not the seat of consciousness and the self is instead the result of some metaphysical process that's external to the body, This seems backwards to me. It is the self that is the result of processes from the intera
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by broscillator 3y ago
I think if you view the pyramid as blocks you're being a bit simplistic. All aspects of the pyramid are present at all levels, what the pyramid represents is what you have to free yourself of in order to truly and wholly endeavor in ea
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by broscillator 3y ago
There's no immutable aspects of you. Everything is constant change. The illusion, the impossibility that you speak of, is this belief in immutability and the craving for it.
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by broscillator 3y ago
Technology, materialism, science. The currents of thought that move us based on perceived value and belief, and where myths and assumptions stem from. A popular creation myth at the moment is simulation theory. Reducing consciousness to mat
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by broscillator 3y ago
I'd disagree a bit. Family and friends are centered around a self. There's millions of people who are super generous towards their circle yet assholes towards strangers. I think seeing strangers with more generosity is transcenden
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by broscillator 3y ago
There is one device which fits PDFs well, an ipad. It can be fairly awkward on laptops and deskptops as well. > view in landscape or pan and zoom. This is awkward, that's the issue I mentioned above, how annoying is to have to do th
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by broscillator 3y ago
This is an odd comment to me. It's like saying "people have been painting realistic portraits of women for centuries, Leonardo, and this one doesn't add anything or illuminate the subject of portrait-taking further. Still, I
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by broscillator 3y ago
The observable non-reaction was true, what was not true was the cause, which is the low frame rate. This is the problem with this kind of thing so often, people observe something and an explanation that sounds completely logical gets spread
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by broscillator 3y ago
> Don't mix eating with philosophy, I think this is kind of a trap. It assumes that there is a default mode under which we're operating, and that something like IF is straying from a natural order. But you're already obe
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by broscillator 3y ago
right, this goes against what you said about rendering well everywhere, given how you mentioned your ipad. In any other device you will likely need to zoom and scroll constantly. Tables and charts are also a specific use case. There's
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by broscillator 3y ago
That kind of highlights how non-versatile PDF is despite some comments. However it does sound handy, I kinda want a dedicated tablet for sheet music.
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by broscillator 3y ago
Elaborate? Link some research?
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by broscillator 3y ago
> PDF documents on the other hands... they render just right, everywhere. I have to zoom and scroll, To me it feels the other way around, if I have to zoom and scroll, they render just almost right. And that almost is extremely importa
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by broscillator 3y ago
I find reading PDFs on my phone and even on my kindle really uncomfortable. On my phone I have to either zoom in or turn on landscape mode (which usually means turn it on globally, I can't do it just for the reader app). On kindle, a
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by broscillator 3y ago
If nazis aren't evil, then what is evil?

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