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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoReg:
Another thing about food recommendations:
The committee saw a number of papers in Hispanic, Black, and Asian communities where dairy wasn’t a prevalent part of the diet, whether due to lactose intolerance or cultural food preferences. DGAC suggested changing the language to make dairy an optional, not integral, part of a good dietary…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months ago
I am not “me”, an unchanging physical entity. I am a sequence of highly similar spacetime regions whose internal structure overlaps. I once described myself as a “constantly merging shadow copy”. That is I am the person I was yesterday plus some incremental changes. Keep that idea going and each day (or minute, hour) I am a different person.…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoReg:
Panpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled. In the same way that water mol…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months ago
Question for block universe supporters. That is definitely me 🙂
We don’t experience “motion through time.” We accumulate records and memories and have stable correlations between them. My brain at one spacetime location contains records of other locations. (The “block” is the four-dimensional spacetime structure). Nothing in block univers…[Read more]
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jakelafort replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoJust some heart-warming news to be aware or not…
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoPanpsychism is an attempt to avoid “consciousness from nothing” by baking mind-like properties into the foundations of physics. That is almost like an argument for Creationism. For me, consciousness is an emergent property, not a fundamental physical property. It is not present in parts that can be assembled. In the same way that water mole…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic You don't need determinism… in the forum Small Talk 5 months ago
Question for block universe supporters. If moving forward through time is an illusion, why can’t we have the illusion of moving backward through time? It should make no difference, right?
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months agoReg:
RFK Jr. on the Food Pyramid and Tylenol.
Will everybody stop with the talk about Ultra-Processed Foods!
Nobody has yet given a coherent, sensible definition of what Ultra-Processed Food is, and as is the case with our favorite Omnific Being, if you can’t say what it is, you can’t say that it is.
And where in the U.S. Constitution is…[Read more]
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TheEncogitationer replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoReg:
Is Panpsychism just Snake Oil?
The article didn’t fully define what Panpsychism was, (fundamental property of what?) so already there is at least one entity in the Natural Universe that isn’t fully conscious, and certainly not Omniscient.
Wikipedia as usual is more specific, precise, and…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 25th 2026 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 1 week agoThanks Reg!
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