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Reg:

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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Just some heart-warming news to be aware or not…

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884443

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884437

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 mole…[Read more]

Reg:

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]

Reg:

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]

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week everyone!

It only took one monkey to create the entire works of Shakespeare. His first name was William. (rtff)

-9F….wow…stay safe and keep warm!!

The lights may be dimmed as the worst storm ever is forecast.

So severe it may snap the ship in two!

You should get to see the Northern Lights this time around – tonight in much of the USA.

jakelafort wrote:
I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?

I think that mass becomes infinite as it approaches the speed of light through space, not time.

Simon,”

It occurs to me we have no clue. And the ones who are educated only slightly greater enlightenment…maybe…

I thought as mass approaches speed of light it becomes infinite?

jakelafort wrote:
And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?

It’s a shape.  I can’t visualise something in 4D, but I presume we have length, breadth, height, and time.  Eventually, if there’s heat death, then events stop happening and time runs out.

Inside the shape, local events exist a…[Read more]

Simon,

If the universe is a block that does not register local events then why would the big bang be an exception?

And if big bang is a beginning at what point does blocking become the nature of the thing as a whole?

jakelafort wrote:
Does it follow that the universe is eternal?

You’re talking about a finite 4-dimensional block.  It must have edges.  At one edge is the Big Bang.  At the other end is heat death, or whatever its terminating fate is.  In between, is the history of the universe and all its internal events.

Just reread Reg’penultimate entry & it makes sense to me except that i don’t think it follows that humans experience something that is subjective in our perception of time. Einstein allowed us to revolutionize our understanding of time. And yet that does not alter the reality of physical laws of time and the physical evidence that seems to be…[Read more]

If fossils from age of dinos appear near the surface of earth and recent fossils below and without intervention or natural explanations then i will consider the notion time aint nothing. There is order precisely because there is time. The endless concatenation of events, of cause and effect, are consistent with linear notion of time that we…[Read more]

Jake:

One would hope there is more going with apes than that, and with us. Otherwise, neither will be going concerns.

Waiting, anticipating…

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-884010

Enco,

It is all recorded in the book of life.

Imagine day after day this white apparation of an English woman harassing a troop of chimps in Tanzania. Yeah they were annoyed but like clockwork she approached and gradually reduced distance between observer and observed. At long last she was tolerated until they were on level of acquantainces in…[Read more]