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This is good...except for the "endangered planet" hypothesis, and spewing of the obligatory Doom Narrative, wherein we are "depleting" the Earth's resources. I doubt the survivability of the human species far more than I doubt the survivability of the planet. The real threat is our addiction to the materialist, mechanistic command & control model of human society via coercive political states-the myth that the solution to every problem is another political law. If we wipe ourselves out, the planet will shake it off and go on just fine without us.
For those whose concept of communication is a game of one-upsmanship -- using skepticism for skepticism's sake masquerading as a demand for evidentiary "objective truth" -- the minimum criterion for what they will agree constitutes "evidence" is a moving target. They minimize, deprecate, or simply reject anything that they're unwilling to recognize. Their purpose in communicating is not to understand; rather, it is to win arguments. They're certain they're not confused or mistaken. "But here is this fact...", you say. Nope...that's not a fact, that's a "subjective opinion" -- their pseudo-civilized version of an _ad hominen_ attack. It's a tactic that handily sidesteps the truth that *_all_* facts -- indeed, everything we call _knowledge_ -- is ultimately subjective. Nothing can be known without a knower; nothing can be perceived without a perceiver; nothing can be observed without an observer. Apparently, they hope no one will notice that intellectual sleight of hand. Then they turn around and deny the very objectivity they were demanding by flip-flopping into an absurdity like, "You can't prove that I exist." Right. But that blows your demand for some kind of "objective proof " out of the water. You can't prove that I exist either, so why are you so adamant about arguing with someone you just made up? If you don't want to continue the discussion because either one or both of us might be a fiction we've made up, you only have to say so, and I'll talk to someone else who's interested in actually communicating. When I encounter such people, I save myself the trouble of trying to explain. You cannot communicate with people who insist on placing the discussion within a framework in which they are the sole arbiters of truth. It's a game in which mutual respect is not a rule of engagement, and mutual understanding is not a goal, much less a preferred outcome. It is inconceivable to them that there is anything they could be missing, or any prejudice in their presumption of intellectual superiority. Such arrogance is impenetrable. You can't communicate with someone who doesn't want to understand.
The point is that we SEEM to experience the SAME OBJECTIVE REALITY. But we actually DON'T! What we do is share commonalities in overall terms; time space colour we accept the contextual belief setting, but individual reality still applies. There is surely no FIXED external reality. That is merely a perceptual illusion or useful agreement..
This is not even pseudo-science, but just plain gibberish. Don't be fooled by this nonsense. It's true: science cannot rule it out, but neither can it rule out that invisible unicorns exist. I myself suspect that it is not the soul of the person leaving the body, but that it's the soul of the invisible unicorn that each of us possesses. This is just a plausibility argument.
Thank you so much for this presentation. It resonates with me. As a dance teacher I work constantly with people's understanding of the link between body and music. This has given me a new insight. Blessings.
It's becoming clear that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first.
Did the Buddha deny an ultimate? - "There is, monks, an unborn - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated. If there were not that unborn - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated, there would not be the case that emancipation from the born - become - made - fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn - unbecome - unmade - unfabricated, emancipation from the born - become - made - fabricated is discerned." - Udana 8.3 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jOhmbkIxFFw.html
Came here reading her book molecule of emotion.. then learnt she has passed on..pioneering research .. total paradigm shift. World could have learnt so much more had she been alive..RIP
Stolen from India ofcourse.. A wannabe Chinese emperor... And his story... And thus jackass has tye audacity to lecture... 🖕🏽... Colored finger for you.. 🤣
A woman who has made her mark, not only as a neuroscientist-researcher, but as an inspiration to thousands of men and women around the world ! Until you return again.......
The danish 5-kroner-coin symbolizes our Eternal Life- and Consciousness-structure. (The Eternal World Picture) it is basically very simple. What would You do without Memory ? (nothing) > What would You do without Instinct ? (nothing) What would You do without Gravity ? (nothing) what would You do without Feeling ? (nothing) What would You do without Intelligence ? (nothing) What would You do without Intuition ? (nothing) What would You do without Memory ? (nothing) > What would You do without Instinct ? (nothing) These Basic-Abilities shows a Circuit, a Developing-Circuit, end of a Circuit, is the beginning of a new, and higher, in the Developing-Spiral, Intuition is Not at all commonly understod, but the other You all know very well, so well, that it is just granted, but if You seriously think this after, You'll realize how importend they are for our Consciousness to function. the three first is the Stuff-bearing basic-energies Instinct/automatic, Gravity/Heat and Feeling/Cold. the condition of all and any Stuff, is a combination of Heat and Cold, keept in (a eternal) balance by the Instinct. (the Stuff-side) The Consciousness-bearing basic-energies/abilities, is Intelligence, Intuition and Memory, (Life-side) but all as is, every thought, are a certain combination of all of them, they all have a Stuff-side (Motion-Ocean) and a life-side Consciousnness - (Wisdom-Ocean) Feeling can be physical as well as psychic. If the Eternal Life didn have the ability to Feel, there would never had been any one feeling anything. If Life were not able to renew it self, there would never have been any Life, Life and Consciousness can Not be created, consciousness can Only be re-newed and developed. The Life-Desire is the MOTOR of Life, in direct extension We have the Will, (Life-Side) and Gravity (Stuff-side) - With the Will, We do balance Gravity of Earth, with our own, when We lift the cup. Hunger- and Satisfaction- Principle is the COMPASS.
" Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamentally. It cannot be account for in terms of anything else " - *Erwin Shrondinger* Quoted in: Walter Moore. A life of Erwin Shrondinger " I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about , everything that we regard as existing, postulate consciousness " -*Max Planck* Book: The Observer " The failure of materialism leads to a kind of dualism: there are both physical and non-physical features of the world. " -*David J Chalmers* Book: The Conscious Mind. Page:124 " One minority of point of view is there must be ' Cosmic Consciousness' reading the universe. Objects spring into being when measurements are made, and measurements are made by conscious beings. Hence there must be a cosmic consciousness that prevades the universe determining which state we are in. Some, like nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, argued that this proves the existance of God or some Cosmic Consciousness." -*Michio kaku* Book: Physics of the impossible, Page 243
Oh dude you did not just call a 'sikh sevadar' a "cook" and no he does not taste the langar, nor did he use the langar 'system' to control anyone...he is providing a service (no pay) for his community, you lacklustre tit for tat.
