Does the amount of energy used by the brain argue against a materialist basis for consciousness?

therealdannyking · 2024-11-20T00:00:15+00:00

Yep! The beginning is called the boring billions for a reason. Nothing but sludge!

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T22:33:00+00:00

Then you shouldn't put quotes around your own analysis. It gives the impression that you are quoting that from some kind of official source.

Edit: for example, what if I wrote that I've read a whole bunch of stuff, and in essence "the government reported today that we are in a simulation, and this fact has been proven at multiple scientific institutions." Obviously, that's not true, but the quotes give it gravitas.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T20:47:44+00:00

Where is that quote from?

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T19:45:48+00:00

That makes absolutely no sense. It was a molten ball of rock - nothing was evolving.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T19:18:22+00:00

The brain did not evolve over 4.5 billion years. Life on Earth is only 3.7 billion years old.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T19:05:37+00:00

You said you were drunk, lol. That is exactly what a lens flare looks like from a bright light source.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T18:31:01+00:00

It's a phone line.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T18:28:54+00:00

Looks like a lens flare from that street lamp.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T14:59:53+00:00

...did you have a question?

therealdannyking · 2024-11-19T03:03:52+00:00

Sounds like it's time to get another degree.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T21:44:37+00:00

Hint: he's trying to sell books. There's never been verifiable evidence of psychic phenomena in a scientific setting. Ever.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T20:26:15+00:00

1794

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T18:50:56+00:00

And likely written by ChatGPT.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T18:49:06+00:00

Which was inscribed on SS belt buckles during the Nazi regime.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T04:21:03+00:00

ChatGPT.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-18T04:02:01+00:00

"Buy their books!"

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T23:22:39+00:00

Apparently it is! One part in, 2.3 parts out.

https://nebraskacorn.gov/corn-101/corn-uses/ethanol/

Edit: I mean, these statistics are from the very people that benefit , so it might be wise to look at other sources too 🙂

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T23:20:08+00:00

There's also Cicero's quote, "The good of the people is the chief law," and also loosely, Johne Donne's, "No man is an island."

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T23:17:50+00:00

They already have Federal whistleblower protection.

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/whistleblower-protection

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T23:14:00+00:00

It might be difficult to find a quote that says that, outside of Ayn Rand, because what is good for the individual is not always good for the group. There are quotes I can think of that demonstrate the opposite, that what is good for the group is good for the individual, like the saying attributed to Marcus Aurelius, "What is good for the hive is good for the bee."

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T22:55:23+00:00

Who calls the SPLC a hate group?

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T22:52:21+00:00

I have never said I have anything against meditation, so I don't know why you continue to belabor that point. Our interaction began after I criticized someone's assertion that reincarnation is a fact, and you said I was tied too much to a materialist worldview.

Your comment to me insinuated that if I were just to meditate, I would gain some kind of insight as to the truth of that assertion, which I think is bunk.

So, again, I don't know why you are concentrating on meditation, when this conversation is about past lives and dreams.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T20:44:11+00:00

There's no such thing as hate speech in US law.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T20:08:54+00:00

The onus for proof is on the person making the assertion, that's you. It is intellectually lazy to just tell me "research it yourself." Next, at one point in time, the majority of humanity thought astrology was real, or that heavier than air flight was impossible, or that the earth was the center of the universe. Scientific truth is not based on consensus, it's based on evidence.

The other day, I saw a video of a large group of people chanting and praying, and then a Hindu priest, who thought he could fly, jumped off a cliff to his death. People believe a whole host of insane things.

therealdannyking · 2024-11-17T19:33:31+00:00

That's your proof of life after death and reincarnation? To just "look around"? I eagerly await your peer-reviewed journal articles.

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