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01-03-2018, 09:52 AM
The hard and simple truth is that you can simply put your body into a MRI Scan, You will easily observe
that all your thoughts are electrical brainwaves between your biological neurons.
That if you hit yourself hard in the head, or you go into deep sleep,
your conciousness will be turned off, because conciousness is a part of your biological brain.
And you can observe the direct and absolute relation between your thoughts and
the measurements of the brain waves in the MRI scan that they are.
Of course it is easier to philosophy anything that you want to hear, but reality does not change if you imagine that things are different than they really are.
And the beauty is that with a MRI scan you can verify exactly how biological your connections between your neurons really are,
they are called your thoughts
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01-05-2018, 02:53 AM
The daunting materialist conundrum.
Take information for instance. Is it real? Depends.
in terms of written words on a sheet of paper
in terms of colors contours that convey a meaning to the recipient.
Are numbers real?
it depends on how you see it.
the frequency of a light beam is a number. It conveys an message.
Thoughts?
It's subjective. It's as real as it is immaterialist.
Our thoughts are nothing more than electrical impulses jostling from node to node in a very sophisticated manner.
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01-05-2018, 02:54 AM
The daunting materialist conundrum.
Take information for instance. Is it real? Depends.
in terms of written words on a sheet of paper
in terms of colors contours that convey a meaning to the recipient.
Are numbers real?
it depends on how you see it.
the frequency of a light beam is a number. It conveys an message.
Thoughts?
It's subjective. It's as real as it is immaterialist.
Our thoughts are nothing more than electrical impulses jostling from node to node in a very sophisticated manner.
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01-05-2018, 11:33 AM
Is electricity not real then?
What is the lightning that strikes in a thunderstorm? Nothing more than charged ions and particles?
You see: everything can be reduced down to "nothing more." But everything comes from something.
And what gave you that spark of consciousness? Where does your mind come from?
Eternal order. The geometry of all existence has a heart and spirit. Look for it within you.
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01-05-2018, 02:10 PM
Thoughts are real because the brain is real, and they are a part of the workings of a human brain.
That simple OP.
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01-05-2018, 04:31 PM
@Super Fire. Something can come from nothing.
Quantum fluctuations lead to particles literally jumping out of nowhere to collide with each other.
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01-05-2018, 08:05 PM
Quote: (01-05-2018 04:50 PM)Hypno Wrote:
A related question is whether all of our reality is a simulation.
The problem with this theory is the Hawthorne Effect - once we become aware that we are part of an experiment we will change our behaviour simply because we know we are being studied.
Of course only a micro-percentage of the population will even consider the possibility...but would that be enough to invalidate the purpose of the simulation?
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01-06-2018, 10:31 AM
That "single point" is a fluctuation. Its constituent particles jump from nowhere and collide to form the "single point".