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I didn't say they are perfect, I asked what do you think evidence of that would look like.

There's a crucial bit in your reasoning, the assumption that the mind is a result of the brain. Your entire argument rests on this fulcrum. All the questions you pose do carry the …

Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, The Dark Forest is the 2nd book.

If there were highly advanced beings that constructed the universe, and designed it to obfuscate that very fact, what would evidence of that look like?

Considering that I used to experience that dread, and how I used to think, and the patterns I see in your speech -- I'd say that dread is not a response to the concept, but due to …

> I think any view of life consistent with its emergence by evolution isn't consistent with reincarnation, Why?

Some substances can get you there.

> Um, obviously? What distinguishes a person from a braindead patient is that one of the two has a mind. Are you saying that the fact that you talk to a person and have them recall…

Where are the gravity particles? Gravity is a fundamental process, yet the graviton remains hypothetical. > It also seems odd that a mind independent of a brain has never been obse…

As best exemplified by your conflation of faith and superstition.

You're fine to view it that way, it's a reasonable view. My point is to highlight that there's other views. What I mean is that mind is to consciousness what matter is to the brain…

Trust is what makes you believe your friend is not lying , it's cast upon them specifically, it is related to their history and integrity. Faith is believing that all the other con…

Cars exist because the need for faster and better movement exists. The process of movement created the need for the invention of the car. > Talking about consciousness interacting …

Sure but a cat would probably have the same reaction if an arrow behaved like that irl, it's not the same as recognizing something as a living being due to how it moves.

Faith does not mean superstition. I swear youtube atheism debates have confused many to knee jerk react to specific words. Faith can operate on low levels such as: You arrange to m…

> If the brain is not the seat of consciousness and the self is instead the result of some metaphysical process that's external to the body, This seems backwards to me. It is the s…

I think if you view the pyramid as blocks you're being a bit simplistic. All aspects of the pyramid are present at all levels, what the pyramid represents is what you have to free …

There's no immutable aspects of you. Everything is constant change. The illusion, the impossibility that you speak of, is this belief in immutability and the craving for it.

Technology, materialism, science. The currents of thought that move us based on perceived value and belief, and where myths and assumptions stem from. A popular creation myth at th…

I'd disagree a bit. Family and friends are centered around a self. There's millions of people who are super generous towards their circle yet assholes towards strangers. I think se…

There is one device which fits PDFs well, an ipad. It can be fairly awkward on laptops and deskptops as well. > view in landscape or pan and zoom. This is awkward, that's the issue…

This is an odd comment to me. It's like saying "people have been painting realistic portraits of women for centuries, Leonardo, and this one doesn't add anything or illuminate the …

The observable non-reaction was true, what was not true was the cause, which is the low frame rate. This is the problem with this kind of thing so often, people observe something a…

> Don't mix eating with philosophy, I think this is kind of a trap. It assumes that there is a default mode under which we're operating, and that something like IF is straying from…

right, this goes against what you said about rendering well everywhere, given how you mentioned your ipad. In any other device you will likely need to zoom and scroll constantly. T…