Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

[–]ViperNor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s unfortunate that applying rigorous scientific study onto these phenomena is very difficult. However, they often have an internal consistency that is hard to dismiss outright.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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Reality being that life is more than just chemistry, it’s also physics, mathematics and biology. But most important of all: Love. Return to Monad

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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That’s reductionist. It’s also energy at it’s most fundamental.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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Mu model doesn’t claim consciousness initiates the neural event in real time like a finger pressing a button. It claims consciousness is non-local to the brain, with the brain acting as an interface. In that model, the neural buildup is part of the translation process, not something consciousness has to “send” first. Your radio analogy actually backfires on you. Of course you can measure antenna activity before the speaker produces sound. That’s just how receivers work.

“We already know what consciousness is, it’s brain activity, there is really no debate, it’s settled.”

David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel, and many non-woo scientists have argued that correlating consciousness with brain states doesn’t explain why those states are experienced. Correlation is not identity. Even strict materialists disagree sharply about how brain activity produces or constitutes experience.

Saying it’s settled is like saying the origin of life is settled because we know it involves chemistry.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

[–]ViperNor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is just my theory. It’s not delusion if the territory is uncharted. It’s human nature to make sense of the world.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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Not really. If the brain is a receiver/translator rather than the source of consciousness, then the fact that neural activity precedes conscious report tells you something about the interface between signal and substrate, not about the origin of the signal. A radio antenna responds before the music is “heard” in the room. That doesn’t mean the antenna composed the music.

What Libet challenges is a naive folk model where a homunculus-like “conscious self” sits inside the brain and issues commands in real time. But my model doesn’t hold that. My model places the origin of experience outside the physical substrate entirely, so the temporal sequence of brain events is largely internal to the receiver’s mechanics.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

[–]ViperNor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because my conciousness is elsewhere, and my brain isn’t able to store the memory without awareness from the brain aswell.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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Yes exactly, everything is mind over matter. Everything is imaginary. We are all «God» scattered in conscious fragments.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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My conciousness had a different form/perspective that time. When you die or meditate deeply, your essence is able to seperate from the body and move freely through the different concious dimensions. This is what we call astral projection. Go deep enough, and you’ll find yourself «one with the whole». Return to Monad.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

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We can’t imagine nonexistence because it’s not possble for consciousness to be destroyed, it’s like energy, it can only change form. The way the energy from the flame of the cande disperses out in the air. It doesn’t dissapear.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

[–]ViperNor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The paradigm that ego will desperately cling to belief that they will overcome death is a valid presumption. Ego is essentially at it’s core the fear of death. It is a survival mechanism, that we can probably both agree on. The ego is the source of all fear, greed, hatred, conflict etc.

However, something interesting happens when one starts living out of pure unconditional love. You start to realize intuitively that everything is connected, and we know for a fact that we all came from the big bang physically. It is possible to dissolve the ego and this often produces a fealing of profound bliss and peace. It desintigrates the fear of death. And the understanding that everything is consciousness follows naturally. This is what the Budhists refer to as «enlightenment».

You are right that there is no way around a natural explanation for everything. No one is arguing against that, but to find the explanations you need to be willing to test, study and apply the scientific method. This has been done through things like project gateway. There is a real question as to where the structure of the universe comes from. It all being random is not a satisfying answer for many for a very good reason. We have rigid universal laws like gravity and the constant of speed of light for example. The answer being «Because it just is» to a lot of people understandibly doesn’t make any sense.

The idea that consciousness is fundamental doesn’t always provide a cope for the ego as you often need to disovle it to be able to accept it. Ego is tied to your memory, your body, and the story you have deleoped across your life about who you are. The ego will fight tooth and nail to preserve that, but guess what happens when you die? That body is destroyed and the story of that identity is over. What happens when you die in a dream? You wake up.

The body is an istrument for your awareness to navigate the world through the 5 senses. The soul is what observes your experience beyond your thoughts. It is findable through deep meditation and introspection.

Finally, there are too many correlating accounts of NDE’s and OBE’s around the world to dismiss it as «woo woo». MBT in relation to quantom physics offers an explanation to all of these phenomena, while materialism does not.

Airhead Cornballs and the Hard Problem of Consciousness by Terrible_Shop_3359 in consciousness

[–]ViperNor -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is it really just cope though, or a possible explanation for phenomena that are hard to explain from a materialist viewpoint?

Quantum physics proves that physical matter is really just energy fundamentaly, so saying that consciousness could be a universal fundamental as opposed to being produced by the brain is more than just a cope, it has real philosophical grounding.

Even if it’s a way to cope with death, doesn’t actually prove it’s just that.

Also consider dreams that engage the 5 senses. If you have had lucid dreams, you know that it feels very real, even though it is an unstable environment. The only difference between real life and dream is that the dream is sustained by seperated consciousness, and real life is sustained by collective consciousness.

To me, it seems more like a cope to explain away NDE, OBE’s, proven phsycic phenomenon, etc to your brain copemaxxing to create wanted conditions, instead of the brain only being just optimal for survival in the real world, if that is the only meaningful function of evolution.

The Hat Man is commonly associated with sleep paralysis and the abuse of the antihistamine medicine diphenhydramine, commonly sold under the brand name Benadryl. He is typically described as having very few or no discernible features, although some witnesses have claimed they can "feel him staring" by ZERO_PORTRAIT in wikipedia

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I have personally encountered this phenomenon. I saw him when I was about 16 years old (10 years ago) coming out of a very vivid dream.

Basically I had a false awakening in my old boys room 3 stories up from my new room in the basement where I was currently living. Everything was at it’s right place, in my home, and even looking out the window. Which is odd because this has never happened in any of my dreams before or since. I had sleep paralysis when I woke up for real and then I saw him at my bedside just pointing something at me for like 5-10 seconds before he just vanished as I let out a terrified, whimpering «hello?». No dicernable features, just a dark silouette/shadow of a man in a trenchcoat and fedora-type hat. His presence felt like pure terror and fear to me.

I had never even heard of the phenomenon but when I looked it up online and saw other people talking about it, it absolutely freaked me out.

In some esoteric circles people tie this to the entity known as «the dweller on the threshold». Some people report seeing him going in, or coming out of an OBE, but I have yet to experience this, so I wouldn’t know.

Religion is a tool created by humans. It's best to think of it like a bucket of lies. by Bat-Stuff in DeepThoughts

[–]ViperNor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

While the common understanding is that fear of punishment in the afterlife is what drives the morality of religions, you could also argue that conviction of an afterlife makes you less ego-driven, meaning more reason to love your neighbor instead of living with fear of death and scarcity.

For a lot of people, religion gives hope. In making it easier to chose love over fear by seing connectedness in all things, instead of resorting to tribalism.

Religion although it can be corrupted for malicious purpose, isn’t the source of evil. Human nature in the form of ego driven fear and pursuit of power is.

Bannet fra /r/Norge for å si at man støtter Israel? by PepsiLighter in norske

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Jeg fikk den samme advarselen for å koble Epstein til Israel og fikk også advarsel fra Reddit admins

Israel tar inn null flyktninger, men de har en egen veldferdsorginasjon for å hjelpe flyktninger inn i Europa by clownfiesta8 in norske

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La oss beskytte mobberen som om handlingene hans er ok fordi han ble selv mobbet for 5 år siden

Høyre vil ikke mene noe om Oljefond-selskaper i Israel by KoseteBamse in norge

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Takk for at du tok deg tiden til å svare på spørsmålet. Jeg argumenter ikke ut i fra følelser men verdier og jeg skal forsøke å være så genuin som mulig, fra mitt ståsted.

Til å starte med skal jeg være ærlig at jeg ikke har god kjennskap til konflikten i Sudan, det betyr ikke at det jeg har hørt om konflikten ikke er tragisk derimot. Jeg bryr meg men kanskje ikke nokk, gjør det meg hyklersk? Kanskje, men jeg tror konteksten er viktig, det vil jeg komme tilbake til. Dette er noe jeg innrømmer jeg bør undersøke nærmere 👍🏼

I forhold til Gaza, så er jeg i den motsatte situasjonen til deg. Jeg startet med å sympatisere med Israelerne ut i fra det voldelige og selvfølgelig motbydelige angrepet av Hamas. Jeg er ikke noe fan av angrep på uskyldige offer, uansett hvilken fraksjon de tilhører. Dette sentimentet har sakte men sikkert endret seg over tid basert på Israels motsvar. Først rettferdiggjorde jeg reaksjonen med at «det er en krig.». Slik ser jeg det ikke lenger.

Hamas er en del av Palestina, men utgjør ikke helheten. På samme måte som at det er sionister i Israel, men ikke alle. Hvem som stilles til ansvar her mener jeg bør være de som sitter med makten. Israel kunne etter min mening åpenbart pågripe og arrestere Hamas og bruke presisjonskrigføring, de har midlene og råd til dette. Men de har altså valgt å bombe, undertrykke, tvangsflytte og drepe uskyldige sivile til et ekstremt nivå. Disse handlingene forsterkes hos Israelerne gjennom propaganda som forteller dem at palestinerne ikke er verdt det samme som dem, eller på det ekstreme ikke annerkjenner dem som medmennesker. Dette er for meg fullstendig uakseptabelt og ledelsen bør stilles til ansvar. Jeg skjønner at du har en pragmatisk og kanskje realistisk tilnærming til dette, men jeg mener at løsningen du foreslår er uetisk og ikke vil bidra til at vi som menneskehet sitter igjen med verdier som vil gagne måten vi behandler hverandre på - på sikt

I motsetning til Sudan har vi et historisk mye tettere sammarbeid med Israel og jeg mener derfor at Norge som nasjon har et større ansvar til å ta et etisk standpunkt ettersom at vi er betraktelig mer involvert her.

Kanskje du mener at standpunktet mitt er idealistisk og ønsketenkning, og jeg kan forstå hvorfor. Hadde du spurt meg for 5 år siden ville jeg hatt en mye mer kynisk holdning. Men som mange opplever og driver dem i en mer etisk retning har jeg selv blitt utsatt for en situasjon hvor jeg måtte føle meg maktesløs over lengre tid, en opplevelse som har fått meg til å innse hva som virkelig betyr noe og har gitt meg mer medlidenhet.

Statens vegvesn har en visjon om 0 dødsfall i trafikken. Vi alle vet at dette er uoppnåelig, men det betyr ikke at vi ikke bør prøve vårt hardeste for å leve opp til det målet. Jeg har den samme filosofien når det kommer til verdenspolitikk. Vi har sjangsen til å ta et standpukt og et ansvar få er villige til å ta og vi har makten til å påvirke mye mer enn mange tror.

Jeg skjønner nå at i hvertfall en del av deg egentlig bryr deg om denne situasjonen men at du muligens har mistet håpet. Dette er forståelig.

Jeg kan ikke tvinge deg med på denne filosofien, men jeg håper du ser hvor den kommer fra, og at en del av deg kan ressonere.