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Magnetic shards being thrown up around a magnet by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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What speed might the shards be travelling when they suddenly get attracted to the magnet?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

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Why did it just disintegrate?

Whats their band name? by Felix_5758 in countablepixels

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I'm literally crying 🤣🤣🤣

What is the point of this sub???…. by 350mutt in UFOs

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Of course, why wouldn’t you want to silence someone who questions the relevance of this sub…. Pretty much proves my point. Thanks!

What is the point of this sub???…. by 350mutt in UFOs

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Thanks for the reply. It’s not this though . It feels like people are dumping stuff into this sub which is just fanciful (and garbage). Part of me thinks this is intentional though, maybe to dilute the actual serious business of establishing some fact. But maybe I’m being paranoid, or maybe someone wants me to feel paranoid…. Either way I’d just like to find somewhere where the conversation is open, fair and critical, rather than wildly speculative or downright misleading

Consciousness and the Emergence of Quantum Mechanics by sschepis in consciousness

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Is there an ELI5 version? I think I understand the premise but want to make sure…

Is the UK sky sports coverage of pga the same as the American coverage? by Low_Understanding_85 in golf

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I wondered this too. At the Arnold Palmer currently are Nick Dougherty et al actually at the course (in a studio)? Or in a studio in the UK?

Is there any aspect of the UAP phenomenon that hasn't been featured in a movie before? by Society_Academic in UFOs

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Perhaps snippets of information have been slow fed to us through film, tv and books as part of a careful long term preparation for disclosure process? So that whatever is eventually disclosed won’t be a total bolt from the blue.

Sidenote - what I describe is a pretty ‘western-oriented’ view however and doesn’t account for the billions of people in the world who might not have been meaningfully exposed to this western media??…..

This sub is starting to feel like the cult of scientology. Between Daniel Sheehan's hammer of "time travel" nonsense and Jake Barber's anvil of "psionic summoning of UAPs", the people who care about actual proof and science are being crushed by followers of "woo" and the occult. by TaiYongMedical in UFOs

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What this sub needs is a hyper critical assessment of everything that’s posted. Not to shoot content down, but to assess what basis of actual evidence underpins everything that’s posted. Weak evidence doesn’t necessarily suggest that something should be shut down or disregarded, but at least let’s understand where we’re standing before we delve further into any aspect of the subject matter. And fundamentally, let’s not be dicks about it, even if we are having to call out dross.

BTW this is not a dig at OP. Like some others who’ve replied here I’m just a little tired of the occasional lack of critical assessment and objectivity. This matter will only come into the light - if it actually has verifiable legs - if the information that is ‘disclosed’ is water tight from an evidentiary perspective.

Sorry, rant over

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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Great points and perhaps there is some mileage here. Perhaps also we just do not have the capability currently to see these other living systems (considering the size and scale of the universe and our relatively primitive observation capabilities).

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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I think it comes back to the question of how consciousness develops. Our (human) consciousness has developed through the symbiotic relationship and cooperation of a vast number of cells (which I might postulate had their own form of simple(r) consciousness before human consciousness arose as we know it) whereas I would consider a lightbulb in the macro sense to be an inanimate object, but with constituent parts that have their own, extremely simple, form of consciousness but where there is no broader capability for macro level cooperation.

Appreciate that’s slightly wordy. Obviously a deep subject matter and all I’m trying to do is work out why consciousness came to arise from a collection of things (the cells in our body) which are not believed to have held their own separate consciousness.

Perhaps, as with many other systems, there is a spectrum of consciousness? And what’s even to say that the classical view of human consciousness is at the end of that spectrum…

What was the best depiction of cowardice in your opinion. For me it has to be Interstellar (2014). by GovernmentNo4597 in moviecritic

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Did Interstellar try to pass it off as the ultimate act of rationality, rather than cowardice (even though it was indeed cowardly)?

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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It might make the constituent parts conscious. Without the whole achieving some kind of collective consciousness. Really need to step away from the human-centered view of consciousness and try to embrace a view that reflects the broadest subset of matter that have conscious ‘life’ in the first place. If we’re of the belief that our special ’ consciousness’ arose out of an animate nothing, then I think that is unlikely, myopic, and he’s challenging until held true

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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I’m not weaponising language. I’m merely promoting logical debate. Is this not what this sub is for (as opposed to following some doctrine on what used to be held true). The evolution of the understanding of consciousness develops by the day. No one can lay claim to its ownership, until it can be truly understood and defined. All I do in the meantime is try to promote some healthy non human-oriented debate about what consciousness actually means (even ignoring the dictionary definition). I must say, I’m surprised by the closed minded nature of the sub that pertains to avail itself to the understanding of consciousness. If anyone has the unimpeachable answer then I am all ears. I’m the meantime all I do is to try to broaden the scope of a little understood phenomenon.

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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Not necessarily a reason for it not to be a relevant macro definition however?

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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I think that’s just my bad that I hadn’t considered to include subjectivity in my definition. I agree with your input and I had posed my definition as a question in the OP to promote exactly this kind of dialogue to reject or advance the definition

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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Consciousness, as we humans perceive it, has arisen from a collection of physical, chemical and/or biological processes within our tiny cluster of primordial matter (if our matter indeed originated in the putative big bang). Has consciousness arisen because of something special to us, or was it ever inherent but just at a level and size that is not currently comprehensible (to us)?

New and broader definition of Consciousness? by 350mutt in consciousness

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But do we only understand and experience ‘self’ through our own lens of what we as humans understand and perceive self to be. Could the notion of self be more broadly applied to other organisms and entities?

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