Richard Robertson

Robert_ wrote:
Never did answer a question directly but then again, how could he?

Haha, well put. I wouldn’t say he was always respectful, because in fact he was so evasive, so often pretending he didn’t understand what was said to him. But evasive in an intelligent way, if not downright misleading at times, or even trollish on a bad day.

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[…] The consciousness podcast… https://theconsciousnesspodcast.com/

He is on episode 13 but all the episodes are interesting

I was going to mention Chopra too, as he is also “on the forefront”, or should we say “leading the fringe”.

I’ll look into the podcast you suggest, and I’ll suggest some as well. Might I suggest, if any these put you to…[Read more]

Polymythism, as old as human language.

Special pleading with special “secret” shared closely among glossy-eyed tribal members. Oh, and if only you would join us, you’d feel it, too!

@davis but don’t forget to factor in the kerb of the road where deadly traffic could swerve and catch you unawares as you swerve to avoid the ladder

The content of the bible has nothing to do with serious attempts to record events at the time they took place, and everything to do with Paul creating a religion for political purposes.  It’s nothing freaky. The Mormon religion has the same development history. Again a made up tale of magic and empty promises. I can’t trivialize the contents of h…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Perhaps the real you no longer exists at all, then, which is simply another way of being dead, isn’t it?

LOL, I detect “tongue-in-cheek” on that comment, but it can still make people think.

Naw, besides, we’ve been completely ignoring the probabilistic effects of quantum entanglement between these supposed perfect copies of each other.

Hi Kenneth, welcome to Atheist Zone!

As for duplicating consciousnesses, there’s still plenty of opportunity to learn how identical twins share the same kinds of thoughts and feelings. Even if their consciousnesses could be made and said to be exactly the same, we still know they’re two different people, right?!

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So let’s say one may experience life someday “exactly” like a butterfly. Apart from the problem of knowing when one has actually achieved the goal, would you, returned back to your human consciousness, really be able to remember exactly what it was like? I’m thinking we’d first have to experiment with simulations. And then it can only be up to wh…[Read more]

mike wrote:
My model suggest countless levels that go back to the original quantum particles that we are evolved from…and comes directly from states of awareness I recognize in myself, and these states are observable in other organisms. Can you deny that our white blood cell are not aware of the bacteria they engulf? How about the heart knowing w…

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@davis I think urban legends are probably closest to a modern day equivalent

@gerardwood I like that.  I think it gets easier to put aside negative things as you get older.  I can’t remember the last time I was consumed with anger.

_Robert_ wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Inalienable rights are a little like life after death. It’d be great if we had them but basically you can’t have them without something like a deity. And I don’t believe in deities so…

It may be even more intertwined than that… the promise of life after death is sold as the great equalizer when those denied th…

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