GENIUS FORUMS

This tickled me.

I see your point, though my experience involves me seeing stuff, not being capable of overcoming strong feelings. I'm somewhat if not greatly hyper-sensitive in addition to other traits, so when my LoveShy tendencies stop me from doing the most important 'thing' for me ultimately, (literally the avo...

I'm not human.

For time, time must sit on the laws it eludes to.

Thoughts?

The claim that causality can emerge from nothing seems to rely on a conception of objective time. Withouime there can be no emergence of phenomena. For change to exist, time must exist . You're left then with causality emerging from something other than nothing, because true nothing could have no p...

Mathematical truths exist, they can be discovered, they do not depend upon any mind. Before Pythagoras was the square of a hypotenuse not the sum of the squares of the other two sides? So you're claiming that the Babylonians couldn't have done anything else but "finding" the geometry and ...

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Plus, the feeling of randomness I get from some of your posts makes more sense now that Dan pointed that out. How much of your thought content circulated through the web before it landed in your lap and got rebranded as 'my' thought? All of it? I request the three of you stop this train of thought ...

MV, That's more or less it, yes. John has a beard, John is beardy. direct experience. how? causes/conditions. other than that, it spins off into, is the beard a political statement, what is the aesthetics of beardedness, is it ethical all sorts of mental junk. Mental gold. Be exemplar not templar.

Diebert van Rhijn wrote:

mental vagrant wrote: Ah yes, i very much like the wording here, and tend to agree strongly with your analysis.

Good to hear, vagrant. Still wandering? :)

From place to place. :)

Quote: I don't adhere to materialism, I think a more useful way of describing the world we see is as an isomorphic graphing of underlying mathematics. Something is useful only in the context of something that has to be achieved. Utility can only be measured by stating the goal first. The goal here ...

Within an informational singularity the phenomenology of mind (which includes concepts) can be described outside of material functionalism. In this way conceptual devices may not be viewed as a property of nature, insofar as nature refers to a material universe. Mind seen as property of nature migh...

Mental Vagrant, can you help me understand how my reasoning is circular? The attempt at understanding singularity from the "outside" creates a perspective, and therefore creates a differentiated reality. Nevertheless, my understanding of the singularity in itself is pure infinity. It has ...

protesting 'circular reasoning' becomes circular reasoning. self validating. circular reasoning is invalid because circular reasoning is invalid. The reason circular reasoning is frowned on by people who concern themselves with logic, is because circular reasoning doesn’t get you anywhere. for exam...

Mostly other peoples foot prints muddy they dirt, walk alone and you can stick to the relevant data, rather than other peoples insanity, like mine for example.

As i sensed early on, you seem far more interested in the psychological implications than 'the foundations' of reality. Your initial thought was understandable but like i said is of a circular form, self validating. It though wants to step outside of linear reason to assert that such is just an illu...

The "radical interpretation" meant neither in my view. It's about the assumption that there is already a relation between words and worlds, an assumption underlying all attempts at even trying to interpret the slightest bit. There is the "commonality" which starts with an idea, ...

Sid wrote:I seek personal growth and experience. I seek enlightenment. I don't believe myself ready for truth.

Then find yourself, nobody can offer you that. No that wasn't a contradiction.

There is no somewhere in the totality, location only exists through perception. But do your parents exist? Yes, in the sense that all the informational constituents of their perception are just as part of the Totality now- from your perspective, as they were when they were alive- from your perspect...

All being exists undifferentiated, no aspect of being causes or originates another aspect. What exactly do you mean here? So my parents who died, (disappeared from my reality) still exist somewhere in the Totality and furthermore I was never actually born to them, (caused) but always existed? Reall...

Creatures react to pain by avoiding it's cause. They survive longer probably. As a creature, talking to creatures, i have a sense of gravity relating to the turnings of our washing machines. From this base, pain is associated naturally, stupidly, to states of being that must be analysed in bounds ou...

I'd say the "alien" of any origin is symbolism, and the origin itself makes it compounded. For the most part, I doubt they realize they are talking in code. As such, their message is going to be nonsensical, even under the most careful cipher. still though, I will believe them if they giv...

I would define an Emotion as a bodily reaction to an object or situation. If you're a cheating, wife beating, pyromaniac, white supremacist, I would say you've let your emotions get the best of you. Emotions to me are 'good' or bad' depending on the results they obtain. One mother may nurture her b...

It's important to define what one believes emotions to be, and then in my opinion disect them empircally to comprehend sets of realistic survival behaviours which we can attribute to said emotions then form a construct model with interchangable intermediary value potentials that draw an overall stat...

My logic regarding a “leaving a mark” regardless of physical or non-physical awareness is based on the reality of its definition to the one who is aware of “leaving a mark.” I am THAT is an unchanging principle of spirit. in the end there are no marks of anything left so the marks we leave are neve...