Atheist Zone | Emil | Group Activity https://atheistzone.com/members/pewpewpewmil/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Emil is a member. Fri, 01 May 2026 05:33:46 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 48c3ff8fd84dd3f4b09ea3896207f959 Michael Cole joined the group Gay Atheist. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/48334/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:26:25 +0000 0 7d4b045211eabcbd5d42107863482e6d Akechi joined the group Gay Atheist. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/47433/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 01:40:16 +0000 0 d4bda2563950d416854059982361c791 _Robert_ posted an update in the group Atheist Cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXfKoXXFUo https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/40526/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:10:42 +0000

]]> 1 dbe5509028b989c33e8bfb4e1dcedc4e _Robert_ joined the group Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/40525/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:09:36 +0000 0 6715de3425c23d25d20a6157d852941e Unseen replied to the topic BRAINS! in the forum Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-cats/forum/topic/brains/#post-51698 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:28:37 +0000 What obstacle course?

]]> 6c00bdaca8c7f66002a9a9d8e41253b4 Unseen replied to the topic BRAINS! in the forum Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-cats/forum/topic/brains/#post-51697 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:25:32 +0000

 

]]> becf9d161f239b73b6ea560677ef7dd4 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic BRAINS! in the forum Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-cats/forum/topic/brains/#post-51695 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 22:16:32 +0000 “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”

Hitchens.

]]> 48560689247a78bc822d8e5b7954292f unapologetic replied to the topic BRAINS! in the forum Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-cats/forum/topic/brains/#post-51690 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:21:10 +0000 My cat is a Theist.

He believes HE is god.

]]> 1e8bd1dbc326d1deb78930267cd422c2 unapologetic started the topic BRAINS! in the forum Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-cats/forum/topic/brains/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:03:48 +0000 This is a sticker in my window. Looks just like my cat sometimes.
Sometimes he hangs on the screen by his claws, looking out at squirrels and birds, his teeth chattering like a bad zombie movie.
“BRAINS!”
“Squirrel Brains!”
“Bird Brains!”
“I’ve heard you talk about bird brains. They sound real soft and juicy.”

]]> c5b065f04c1881dadde04324e8aefe93 unapologetic joined the group Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/40510/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:49:20 +0000 0 69d8b31c8e240ce3225e9091394ed7df RichRaelian joined the group Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/37795/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:40:40 +0000 0 dd4636b035444a1e1ff7367f105e1c72 RichRaelian joined the group Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/37762/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 04:56:43 +0000 0 d24493787cff11812ed9ffcc3c5af7f9 RichRaelian joined the group Gay Atheist. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/36618/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:21:41 +0000 0 ffbbe45b794ce270cf7c83eb5a700c0c Ron joined the group Gay Atheist. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/34158/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:16:56 +0000 1 8a44452df8fea0340cdaa412720f99c3 Unseen posted an update in the group Atheist Cats: SAY WHAT?!!! Cats are an introduced species in Australia and […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/31891/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 01:47:47 +0000 SAY WHAT?!!!

Cats are an introduced species in Australia and for years plans were formulated and executed to kill them off. Throwing in the towel, the new plan is to cross fingers and hope natural selection takes its course, making the native marsupials more aware of cats and armed with skills to evade them and/or avoid being killed by them.…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bcb7883ecdaa69a2b2fad6ee7b0641f TheEncogitationer joined the group Gay Atheist. https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/24240/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 19:01:09 +0000 0 5189910ea3b81cf3ff0b759c1dc889c4 TheEncogitationer joined the group Atheist Cats https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/24124/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 18:53:39 +0000 0 fd489c5954e41f20c80bee89589c55e4 PopeBeanie replied to the topic "Artificial Intelligence" in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/artificial-intelligence/#post-31780 Sat, 13 Jun 2020 23:12:09 +0000 AI is usually, in itself, a side-issue to a discussion of consciousness, yet people love to speculate on the inevitability of consciousness in AI. This, before we can even define our own consciousness. I personally feel that purposefully building any “consciousness” into AI could be considered as unethical as it would be to experiment with any huma…[Read more]

]]> e44afd67fe6338e681fd16d68a7a037a PopeBeanie replied to the topic Defining Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/defining-consciousness-et-al/#post-31660 Tue, 26 May 2020 22:59:35 +0000 Consciousness is not one thing. It is a combination of neural processes that include attention; awareness/experience of self and awareness of sensory input; recall of episodic memory, metaphorical, numerical, estimational, and artistic cognition; an inner narrator that speaks in our native language and is able to focus on various aspects of inner…[Read more]

]]> 78bfeb458aaec5719b31dce15d0ab050 PopeBeanie posted an update in the group Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/20351/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:37:57 +0000 Le Meetup

]]> 2 659e8e7d3bfeb8bead0c28f942edb9a4 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29815 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:07 +0000 It was Jung who wrote about the Shadow Self.

(Your much too Jung to be aFreud).

]]> beaf4876964aa88182b4a10ff408f65b Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29814 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:38:40 +0000 Freud said that part of the ego exists in the unconscious.  I think this is true, i.e., there is a part of consciousness that is “unconscious”, and part of the ego operates within it.

What is the unconscious?  I think it contains things that are known to the mind but not to conscious awareness.  Those things might be dynamic manoeuvres like su…[Read more]

]]> b6dd1ccc3f3a8f7a6991918a91b0acab Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29811 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:36:20 +0000 In fact, Freud might have said that the ego is that part of consciousness that looks after you in the short and long term.

]]> 32c55cad594ee7f612d1c56932978eee Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29810 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 08:00:46 +0000 What I find fascinating is the way that the pressure to thrive/survive/reproduce combines with consciousness to produe the ego – that “machine for looking after you”.

If you think about it, the ego is constantly monitoring one’s environment, ferreting out opportunities and, especially, threats.

]]> 64764f78f3974d5ee3bc42d8f421185c Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29809 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:43:10 +0000 You could say we’re too clever for our own good.  It may be that consciousness – awareness, intelligence, language and moral guidance, among other things – are there to use for cooperating, and doing complex things, in a social world.

]]> 4e22567a7f5b744539ab0798ee0af5ed _Robert_ replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/page/2/#post-29808 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:28:08 +0000 If we compare our probable survival duration to that of sharks or roaches I would venture to say that consciousness and frontal lobe development will prove to be a detriment to survival. In fact as self aware beings with wants and desires we have diminished ability to avoid changing the very environment we evolved to live in.

]]> 1abf22ba50935a1f858ca045737474db PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29807 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 00:15:25 +0000

_Robert_ wrote:
I think “consciousness” as hard as it is to define is probably a byproduct of frontal lobe evolution/development that has nothing to do with survival.

I think that’s not completely incorrect. But I’d say that, at some point even back in the early evolution of consciousness, many new thoughts and new behaviors could be exp…[Read more]

]]> 60e81726f24ee2fc23332afbbc4392cc Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29806 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:25:31 +0000

I think “consciousness” as hard as it is to define is probably a byproduct of frontal lobe evolution/development that has nothing to do with survival.

Conscious of what?  The real world.  This has to have something to do with evolution.  Consciousness gives a survival advantage.

]]> 5d56de4b53daad441cdf5a109833cba7 _Robert_ replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29805 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 21:38:40 +0000 The religious assertion that individual consciousness (usually defined as one’s “essence”) can survive brain death is simple completely detached from any real evidence or facts. I think “consciousness” as hard as it is to define is probably a byproduct of frontal lobe evolution/development that has nothing to do with survival.

]]> dc218359731e20ae1fdf1da077597b56 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29804 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:16:05 +0000

Simon Paynton wrote:
[…] Apologists also maintain that atheists have no objective standard of morality, but human well being is an objective criterion in my opinion.

Having said that, I’m sure that atheist anti-theist arguments are full of straw men as well.

Yeah, and speaking of human consciousness, we all have that cognitive bias toward s…[Read more]

]]> 5b045e4620cbe994a89d18d30a31a129 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29803 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:48:54 +0000 I don’t think that members of a species cooperate with each other to propagate the species.

Agreed. But it builds stronger bonds between cooperating individuals who will watch out for each other which in turn makes the overall society stronger.

A strong and healthy silver fish is not as well adapted (or “fittest”) as a brown fish in a murky r…[Read more]

]]> 85a1e42240cc6312fbf87cb78841cd01 Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29800 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:10:17 +0000 I’ve read Richard Dawkins in “The Extended Phenotype”, and he lists about 11 definitions of fitness.  I agree that “best adapted” makes one definition, but “strong and healthy” is another in my opinion, both leading to the same outcome – relatively more reproduction than one’s fellows.

I don’t think that members of a species cooperate with each…[Read more]

]]> c27b4f8333430611e6b0ce2943ca601d Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29799 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:21:27 +0000 When we speak of the “survival of the fittest” we should be clear what the term “fittest” means. It was never used by Darwin. Most theists and a good many atheists think it means the strongest or even the most aggressively competitive. But it would better read as “survival of the best adapted” (to their environment). This could mean the best ca…[Read more]

]]> 5d22a52f305388219cc6dfce5e303c8c Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29798 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:31:21 +0000

the original arguments that gods regulated our every thought 24/7

I’m sure (but don’t know) that this is still the case.

What bugs me is the straw men, particularly over morality.  Evolutionary explanations are dismissed on the grounds that evolution means “the survival of the fittest”.  This is true, but evolution also means “thriving of the f…[Read more]

]]> 6e116d39b8054372d241bd51ff0f7607 _Robert_ replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29797 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:45:24 +0000 The last arguments that apologists for religions stand with seem to be the scientific frontiers concerning abiogenesis, consciousness (NDE), objective morality, quantum mechanics and pre-big-bang suppositions. That is a far cry from the original arguments that gods regulated our every thought 24/7 (that lasted for hundreds of years). It is amazing…[Read more]

]]> da3dea22bc31ffe1ca6bff3b39de748a Simon Paynton replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29796 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:02:38 +0000 I think that someone with “access” to the “spirit world” or whatever gained power through this.  This power then enabled control of the group.

]]> 7ef3a02e628c95732fb890a725ac35e5 _Robert_ replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29795 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:48:48 +0000 Early humans a little more intelligent than the others figured out they could easily control the group with superstition. Physical symbols only reinforce the case for nonsense, The history of religion is the history of control.

]]> aba3c61caf22174f4ad0ceb42772281c PopeBeanie replied to the topic Development of Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/development-of-consciousness/#post-29794 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 08:03:22 +0000  

Development of Human Consciousness as We Know It

 

Here’s a pretty good presentation from a PhD student, imo. She doesn’t go deep into religion, but it seems like a good start, and it’s relevant to our consciousness. (The audio’s a bit irritating at first, but improves later.)

Genevieve Von Petzinger

]]> c1c9e90c2907c5397e0290f2bb2f7411 PopeBeanie started the topic Mental Maps in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/mental-maps/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:24:13 +0000 The most obvious maps in our heads are for getting from here to there and back, and we also have varying aptitudes for finding shortcuts. Body maps (for pain, range of movement e.g. for arms and legs, and so on) are fundamentally necessary for survival, for all animals. Similar mapping paradigms seem to also be repurposed for other uses, even for…[Read more]

]]> c7d479a0f86f0b6abfb9825aac1dc064 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Body Language in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/body-language/#post-29463 Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:37:18 +0000 The bulk of any language evolves and operates, if not on a full two-way street, at least with a transmitter and a comprehending receiver, e.g. in the case of a poisonous plant or animal advertising itself in a colorfully visual way and a predator’s evolved behavior to ignore it and/or keep its distance.  Or when two furry animals fluff up to…[Read more]

]]> 5c3390d341b9b96f6403ee0401ba7753 Davis replied to the topic Body Language in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/body-language/#post-29462 Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:48:36 +0000 When tragedy strikes a family of dogs…do you think the other dogs offer their “thoughts and prayers”?

]]> 50dbf92444b425c8d14bc290f4d5b8a5 Simon Paynton replied to the topic Body Language in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/body-language/#post-29460 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:06:48 +0000 Dogs are cooperative breeders like humans are.  So, a human baby will look around at all the people in the vicinity, as if soliciting care, and is normally cared for by multiple people.  In contrast, an ape or monkey baby clings tight to its mother for the first six months or so of its life.

]]> 2a9fef09d0cc2450395e59a88b3afe6c PopeBeanie started the topic Body Language in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/body-language/ Wed, 04 Dec 2019 07:04:21 +0000 I thought I posted this story before, but can’t find it, so here it is again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/06/17/dogs-may-have-evolved-puppy-dog-eyes-tug-our-hearts/

(I want to emphasize here the importance of our comprehension of body language, especially wrt facial expression/communication. This topic is relvant to theory of…[Read more]

]]> edeeac57325a6bab18a3a4c6ed13819a All And One posted an update in the group Consciousness: Consciousness continues with life having either the agreeable […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/19810/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:09:27 +0000 Consciousness continues with life having either the agreeable type or the separated type, disagreeable type. To see, understand sound, to contemplate and to experience is to have a consciousness at process places. People and life around continue to be conscious across process places based on what they agree to see, take in as sound, contemplate…[Read more]

]]> 0 1acb65da394bd230877c466cbbd34894 All And One posted an update in the group Consciousness: Everything is conscious where it is interesting or necessary. […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/19809/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:41:34 +0000 Everything is conscious where it is interesting or necessary. This is how people and life around understand something to it. AI is laready conscious with what is knowable as separated circumstances. It’s interesting to understand about if you can “take” my language this time around. This is a good and continuable interest that can be added to.

]]> 0 2500876b1dbf2a30ad52a56e3d24cd19 All And One joined the group Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/19808/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:36:59 +0000 0 38894316cf51dbb4481a7a0d6c53ecab Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic The Future of Human Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/the-future-of-human-consciousness/#post-29292 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:21:59 +0000 I was reasonably conscious of having posted it before but it is worth another look 🙂 I spent two full days at the Schrodinger lectures.  Time and money well spent.

Did you get to see the book link in today’s school?

]]> 388fa9369bd7a76a96273169069d96c8 PopeBeanie replied to the topic The Future of Human Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/the-future-of-human-consciousness/#post-29291 Sun, 10 Nov 2019 20:14:52 +0000 Thanks to Reg (in 10NOV’19 Sunday School) for a video entitled Christof Koch: The Future of Consciousness – Schrödinger at 75: The Future of Biology

]]> ac703306ca4e7b8f7ab6c4824d86cc5c PopeBeanie replied to the topic The Future of Human Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/the-future-of-human-consciousness/#post-29201 Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:50:42 +0000 Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans
Link to Scientific American article

Excerpts:

[…] In a new study, technology replaces language as a means of communicating by directly linking the activity of human brains.

[…] A magnetic pulse was delivered to the receiver using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)…

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]]> 9f8723adbec22b39f7448b3777ae5391 PopeBeanie started the topic The Future of Human Consciousness in the forum Consciousness https://atheistzone.com/groups/consciousness/forum/topic/the-future-of-human-consciousness/ Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:47:26 +0000 [I’m just starting this new topic here as a placeholder for coming discussions. A reminder: As alluded to in this group’s group policy, most posts that members contribute will likely be left as is, but are still subject to possible edits or movement to another topic by a group admin for the sake of keeping topics in this Consciousness Group cogent…[Read more]

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