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Thread: Question for Muslims
Post: RE: Question for Muslims
| (May 22, 2014 at 1:41 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I put An Abridged Koran by Bill Warner on my reading list. Is that the best one for a mainstream, "moderate" commentary?
That's the first time I hear a... |
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May 26, 2014 at 9:38 pm |
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Thread: Question for Muslims
Post: RE: Question for Muslims
| (May 19, 2014 at 6:41 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: What's the best English translation of the Quran WITH commentary available?
Considering the commentary, it all depends, whose Islam you are interested ... |
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May 21, 2014 at 5:11 am |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 19, 2014 at 5:45 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I guess we both agree that the theory needs to mature a bit more until it's to be taken seriously... so I'll reply only to a few things.
Ok. Let me just try... |
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May 21, 2014 at 4:22 am |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 17, 2014 at 2:26 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh, now you change the terms to mean something else... ok.
You can have the cake...
No I did not. Those problems are fundametnally metaphysical, totally dep... |
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May 19, 2014 at 4:49 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 17, 2014 at 2:57 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I read their brief summary of the theory as part of a wider range of contributions in the excellent book "Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem" b... |
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May 17, 2014 at 5:30 am |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 16, 2014 at 11:27 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Belonging to a minority religious belief is apt to subject you to a lot of extra stress, if not outright abuse and persecution. So, yeah, not... |
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May 17, 2014 at 1:16 am |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 16, 2014 at 7:21 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Yeah, some people do have a legitimate benefit of the mental placebo effect. It also has ruined countless lives, both in the direct fashion of... |
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May 16, 2014 at 7:41 pm |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 16, 2014 at 7:04 pm)Chuck Wrote: So, on communal level, does ignorance or pretending to know when one can be seen to not know, increase the fitness of a society?.
Well you can say, yes, or: the... |
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May 16, 2014 at 7:31 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 16, 2014 at 6:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: yeah, must be the second one...
I am afraid it's both of them.
Quote: Philosophy of physics... what an oxymoron...
Yeah ... it's also called the problem ... |
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May 16, 2014 at 7:13 pm |
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Thread: I am curious about islam
Post: RE: I am curious about islam
| (May 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (May 15, 2014 at 6:33 pm)Hegel Wrote: The result: Islam ... is clearly the stupidest of all great world religions.
I personally think Scientology beats... |
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May 16, 2014 at 6:34 pm |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 16, 2014 at 4:33 am)Zidneya Wrote: And if you hadn't started to defend your point instead of hearing what atheists have to say and learn from it I would believed you.
So I should not defend my... |
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May 16, 2014 at 5:57 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 16, 2014 at 10:04 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Other than misdirection, I'm not clear why people keep bringing physics in to this. Consciousness has only ever been observed/measured/recorded in living c... |
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May 16, 2014 at 5:36 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| You read half of an article on topic you've never heard of (although the theory is well known, has adherents and Penrose is as famous as Stephen Hawkins in circles who follow science), which deals wi... |
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May 16, 2014 at 5:22 pm |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 16, 2014 at 12:55 am)Zidneya Wrote: What do you want from us do you want us to memorize every passage from the bible and tell you why we don't accept it? Because I know atheists who do that.
De... |
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May 16, 2014 at 1:49 am |
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Thread: I am curious about islam
Post: RE: I am curious about islam
| I used to think that people are just prejudiced towards Islam, but I actually made a lot of effort and studied the issue. Even read good part of Quran.
I read books, both by scholars with positive ... |
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May 15, 2014 at 6:33 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 15, 2014 at 4:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: This Penrose fellow is a mathematical physicist, so deals mostly with theoretical physics and quantum is everywhere for him... So it makes sense that he'd c... |
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May 15, 2014 at 6:09 pm |
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Thread: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
Post: RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
| (May 15, 2014 at 11:40 am)Chuck Wrote: (April 5, 2014 at 8:08 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: RE: Panpsychism is not as crazy as it sounds.
I am not sure how crazy it sounds to you, but it sounds just as... |
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May 15, 2014 at 6:02 pm |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 15, 2014 at 4:56 pm)Faith No More Wrote: (May 15, 2014 at 4:01 pm)Hegel Wrote: Not directly, but that's simply a logical consequence of the hypothesis. Your argument is of the same type that ... |
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May 15, 2014 at 5:53 pm |
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Thread: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Post: RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Cons...
| (May 14, 2014 at 12:45 pm)Cato Wrote: This is a fucking joke right? Unless you ascribe to some form of dualism, consciousness is an emergent property of the brain by definition.
That is simply as fa... |
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May 15, 2014 at 4:32 pm |
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Thread: What is the function of religion?
Post: RE: What is the function of religion?
| (May 15, 2014 at 3:51 pm)Cato Wrote: Hegel,
I don't need the idea of a god, a creed, or assholes in funny hats asking me for money to remind me of my mortality or fragile existence in the face of na... |
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May 15, 2014 at 4:01 pm |
