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Thread: Necessary Thing
Post: RE: Necessary Thing
| cannot NOT exist
(April 15, 2016 at 4:05 pm)Ignorant Wrote: Does anything exist necessarily? In other words, is there anything that simply cannot NOT exist?
You've basically open up a war of semanti... |
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April 17, 2016 at 9:46 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (April 5, 2016 at 1:27 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (April 5, 2016 at 8:07 am)Rhythm Wrote: Is this how you handle every competing proposition to your own notion of matter-mind? I'm starting to see how you... |
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April 5, 2016 at 5:10 pm |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (April 4, 2016 at 8:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (April 4, 2016 at 7:58 pm)little_monkey Wrote: True, but computers don't compare to a human mind as the latter took 5 billion years to evolve to what it i... |
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April 5, 2016 at 10:56 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (April 4, 2016 at 11:52 am)bennyboy Wrote: (April 4, 2016 at 11:36 am)little_monkey Wrote: All of that stuff is part of the computer, but without the software, all of that stuff isn't a computer. ... |
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April 4, 2016 at 7:58 pm |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (April 4, 2016 at 8:14 am)bennyboy Wrote: Look, you are deliberately avoiding answering the salient point: what, exactly is needed for your comp mind? What part of the computer, what part of the br... |
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April 4, 2016 at 11:36 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (April 2, 2016 at 7:44 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (April 2, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Rhythm Wrote: OFC computation is part of the myriad interactions going on all over the universe...not even wrong...but still ins... |
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April 3, 2016 at 7:03 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 30, 2016 at 8:00 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (March 30, 2016 at 11:33 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: I think the consensus that the mind is the brain is more of a pragmatic result than a theoretical one. We... |
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April 1, 2016 at 1:18 pm |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 23, 2016 at 6:42 am)bennyboy Wrote: (March 23, 2016 at 4:37 am)little_monkey Wrote: So it seems you're basically saying what I'm saying with different words. Remind me why we disagree? :)I ... |
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March 29, 2016 at 5:56 pm |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 24, 2016 at 9:41 am)Harris Wrote: (March 24, 2016 at 8:52 am)little_monkey Wrote: The problem is you think everyone who disagree with you is a fool, while Feynman's quote applies to you. Bu... |
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March 24, 2016 at 3:30 pm |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 24, 2016 at 7:41 am)Harris Wrote: (March 23, 2016 at 4:58 am)little_monkey Wrote: No, that is the historical reality. There were two periods when the scientific method was discovered - firs... |
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March 24, 2016 at 8:52 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 23, 2016 at 6:42 am)bennyboy Wrote: (March 23, 2016 at 4:37 am)little_monkey Wrote: So it seems you're basically saying what I'm saying with different words. Remind me why we disagree? :)I ... |
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March 23, 2016 at 1:16 pm |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 22, 2016 at 11:48 pm)Harris Wrote: (March 22, 2016 at 7:38 am)little_monkey Wrote: 500 years of science.
What you are saying is before 500 years of science great nations were living without... |
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March 23, 2016 at 4:58 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 22, 2016 at 8:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (March 22, 2016 at 2:28 pm)little_monkey Wrote: *** my boldening
But are you really that sure?
For instance, I can point to you to a tree, and say it's... |
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March 23, 2016 at 4:37 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 22, 2016 at 12:12 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (March 22, 2016 at 8:47 am)little_monkey Wrote: But you have no guarantee that ALL ducks experience exactly the same. One duck might see a piece of brea... |
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March 22, 2016 at 2:28 pm |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 22, 2016 at 7:46 am)Mathilda Wrote: (March 22, 2016 at 7:42 am)little_monkey Wrote: The inbuilt mechanism comes from having empirical evidence supporting the theory. Any theory that is supp... |
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March 22, 2016 at 10:17 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 20, 2016 at 7:45 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Not really, because the truth is embedded in the semantics. If a duck is a thing which experiences, then by definition you can be guaranteed that a duck e... |
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March 22, 2016 at 8:47 am |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 22, 2016 at 3:25 am)Mathilda Wrote: (March 21, 2016 at 11:36 pm)Harris Wrote: May I have your empirical evidence and jackpot theory on “inbuilt mechanism of self-correction?”
Where are you... |
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March 22, 2016 at 7:42 am |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 21, 2016 at 11:36 pm)Harris Wrote: (March 21, 2016 at 11:08 am)little_monkey Wrote: You've failed to provide empirical evidence. So I have no choice but to label your statement: "The belief... |
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March 22, 2016 at 7:38 am |
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Thread: Natural Order and Science
Post: RE: Natural Order and Science
| (March 21, 2016 at 2:54 am)Harris Wrote: (March 20, 2016 at 12:18 pm)little_monkey Wrote: YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG ON THIS ISSUE.
If that was the case then every crackpot theory would be valid be... |
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March 21, 2016 at 11:08 am |
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Thread: Mind is the brain?
Post: RE: Mind is the brain?
| (March 19, 2016 at 10:18 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I don't think you can say that reporting OF subjective experiences is sufficient to establish that there are in fact subjective mental events. In living ... |
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March 20, 2016 at 5:07 pm |
