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Out of curiosity what is your obstacle to happily being a philosophical theist? I have known so many people who believe in God, some sort of final accountability, an afterlife, etc, but who have always considered any organized religion to be over imagination (a belief in the natural theology...

It seems like too many oversimplified conclusions in here where people wanna conflate stories where Joe Smith saw E.T. in the shed in his backyard with stories where objects have multiple lines of evidence such as caught on radar, verified by multiple independent witnesses in different...

Now that’s what life should be like! 90 solid years, healthy and mobile till the end! Great actor My earliest memories as a kid were Roger Moore so for me it always felt like he’s the real James Bond. I was several years older when I first saw Sean in a Bond movie and my initial reaction...

Yeah I was figuring it would vary greatly from person to person on how far you could go. I have had many lucid dreams but I know that they are something different, and I know that they weren’t real. I’m not going to claim that if you didn’t objectively verify anything then it was fake (at...

Were you ever able to see something that you did not know about during the astral travel, and then verify that it really was a real object in the material world after you returned to your body? How far could you go, were you able to leave the dentist office and see things outside too? How...

Nope. The idea that Republicans are religious, and that Democrats care about the little people is just how the game is played, the only goal is to maximize gaining those votes. Indirectly however that could still be a real reason to vote one way or the other, policy is policy regardless of...

What is evolutionary pressure? Isn’t is just that mutations are totally random, and whichever random mutations do well in a certain environment it will simply be a numbers game, the better mutations will live, and therefore procreate better than the poorer mutations? “Evolutionary pressure“...

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What exactly did you say that got you banned!? ...(Philo repeats it and gets tossed out for another month :D)

So it also goes back to what you said about the chess program right, that given enough time and the right people who know what to look for they can unpack every single thing that the program did?

This is a great point. It makes the SciFi lover in me get excited to think about how the body could be an upgrade, it’s not hard at all to imagine an upgrade to our current bodies. One thing I think about is possible body transfer, based on thinking about it from a Biblical angle due to some...

Man you really need to learn what real music is! If you wanna talk about Perfect Strangers & music in the same thought then at least treat us to a song that REALLY rocks;

I agree. It’s just a word that gets sprinkled on top of things that means “We have no idea how that happened.” Chemistry and biology have no means to explain it, the very rules of chemistry & biology don’t even allow for such an explanation to be given. But the very act of believing in a...

I had a feeling that it was a bad example. And maybe I’m just wrong, all I’m going by is that I vaguely recall hearing that programmers have now lost the ability to keep track of what their own programs do. Maybe it was just misinformation that I heard. Feel free to straighten me out on...

Are you talking about experiments that show that our brains create shortcuts to details sometimes? I don’t think that the physical universe covers all of the bases of explaining what the whole universe is, minds are just as much a part of the universe as wood, and also the word Emergence is...

I think that choice itself is just one of those non-empirical phenomena that is written into the fabric of reality, which is only available to certain entities of a certain complexity and above (I’m not trying to fall into a materialism debate, but materialism needs to be true to phrase certain...

Email to future self “If you are still using the Covid closure of the gym as an excuse to be an out of shape bum please proceed to punch yourself in the face 25 times, hard!”

I didn’t know that when you said participation by a mind it was speaking of entanglement. I suck with understanding entanglement, I know that it has to do with two particles that can be 10 light years apart where if you alter one of them the other one will simultaneously change too, but I...

It’s actually my belief in evolution that causes me to dismiss it. From the moment that the Earth was no longer molten and rocks cooled down enough we have proof of fossilized life. It then took billions of years of evolution to finally reach the point where self awareness emerged in the...