GENIUS FORUMS

Quote:Quote:<hr>There is certainly the appearance of boundaries, which denote where things seem to begin and end. But as I explained in the book - using the example of a cloud in the sky - they are as much a creation of our perspective and conceptualizing minds as they are of the actual cloud in que...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>I've never said forms don't exist, only their boundaries. <br/> The form of an eddy continues to appear to our senses even after we perceive the truth that it has no boundaries.<hr>Well, an eddy is certainly an interesting example. At first it seems a poor one, as water is so flui...

<t>Ha,ha, you're missing my point, too. I am not jealous of machines. The machine-like qualities that life has are what makes cell biology so fascinating a study, the immune system in particular. We make machines that mimic life because we are copying it. You say there are emergent qualities, one of...

Is your life different than a car engine?

<t>There is no scientific explanation. I realize no one knows the answer, but I look for insights, intuitions, henids even. If love exists, why not life?<br/> <br/> Life is devoid of life if it arises out of the inanimate automatically when certain chemicals happen to get near each other. Like putti...

<t>Oh, Thomas! What I meant, was, what is it? Is it anything? How does it start? Did some chemicals just pop together and start moving? In other words, is life devoid of life? Or is there something unquenchable and timeless about life? Does only life beget life, or does it come from the inanimate, a...

<t>Anna: What do you think life is?<br/> <br/> Thomas: There are many possible answers to this question, but none of them would enhance your understanding if it is not already obvious you. <br/> <br/> It is not obvious at all. I am clueless. If you know several possible answers, then out with them. ...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>B: Why is life a product of non-life, and why is there no such thing? <br/> <br/> I went into all that in my book. <hr> Don't remember that. Will have to reread.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>That is why I say that you have not opened yourself up to the Infinite, which is beyond myst...

<t>quote]The attempt to more permanently dwell in the consciousness of such an altered state and transcend the habitual mode of consciousness, via control of the neural system, is the route to an altered mode of consciousness which becomes the habitual and most permanently dwelled in state.[/quote]<...

And what is an altered mode of consciousness?

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>In other words, life is necessarily a product of non-life.<hr><br/> <br/> Why is life a product of non-life, and why is there no such thing?<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>My observation has nothing to do with this. It's more to do with the fact that your words don't convey the transp...

<t>I'm particularly fond of that picture and keep in in my inbox.<br/> <br/> Man: austere, pure, simple, straightforward, cutting to the core, non-duplicitious. <br/> <br/> Woman: decorative, all over the place, conflicting desires and intentions, incoherent, never really achieves anything. <br/> <b...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>You're still approaching these issues in a limited dualistic manner, which is causing you to misunderstand "QRS thought" and indeed the nature of wisdom itself. The very idea that Nature (God) is either alive or dead is deluded. In truth, it is neither.<hr>Sometimes I can get beyo...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>If the Universe itself is the spiritual realm, Kevin would in fact be a spiritualist, and all those who posit a supernatural soul would be materialists.<hr>You are saying there is no division, which is good enough for me, but I call him, or QRS, materialist, because, as far as I u...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>I didn't say you don't know where to look for enlightenment. I said you don't know how to look for a spiritual realm. Although QRS mention a spiritual life, and it is after a fashion, they are (at least Solway is) pure materialists, so by definition they don't really believe in a ...

<t>The "eye of the needle" is actually the name of the narrowest gate into the city of Jerusalem, and was sometimes the last to close at night. So it was barely possible to push a camel through it. However, it was possible.<br/> <br/> Quote:Quote:<hr>Your "richness" is a result of you not knowing ho...

<t>Quote:Quote:<hr>but at this time I can say from what I have studied on the topic, that we are considerably less conscious and less spiritually evolved and aware than many tribes.<br/> -------------------------------------------------------<br/> Speak for yourself!<hr><br/> <br/> I was not speakin...

<t>++Rocks are fluid. It is our limited perception of them that sees them as static objects. Could the same be said about our impressions of life?<br/> <br/> **It could, but how so? I mean, what do you have in mind?<br/> ________________<br/> <br/> ++ Consciousness is the difference bird. We did get...

<t>++I mean that Rhett has been sunk by mob rule and can be helped by you even though you are an agnost like he is. <br/> <br/> ** I doubt I can help him. One has to want help, you know. Besides, you forget, I have only henids to offer.<br/> _________________<br/> <br/> Why do you call him an agnost...

There is no talking to you, Suergaz, if refuse to engage in conversation. You answered none of my points. Can it be you have no inkling about them, or have attention deficit disorder?

What is the essence of life?

<t>Birdy, how do you know the atheist position when you are not one?! <br/> \\\\<br/> Because I have thought about it. Rhett is right, blanket statements without logical (or otherwise) thought processes to back them up are a waste of time. Tell me how I am wrong, that's what I'm saying. The one ques...

<t>He means to say that intelligence is artificial because he thinks life is artificial. In other words, he does not actually believe that there is any sort of ineffable something called life. In other words, despite the massive complexity of life forms (but all is relative, and it is just an appear...

I think I am an amateur already, and I agree with all you say, but I sure do hope you got an editor when you wrote your book. I try to help people all the time, although Christians can be hard nuts to crack. Such a handicap.

If you think there is a problem in being indifferent to sex, what is it?

Might you be suffering from malnourishment?

Did you post your response to Weininger on the forum? Or is it in some way accessible? Only a little of it. It would be hard to find. Most of it I emailed to Kevin Solway.