GENIUS FORUMS

Eliza, Well, anyone who can even hold his own in a quantum physics debate with me still really impresses me, and you and David H. have both taken it a notch above that. Thank you. :) Thank you. Are you playing with the quantum millennium problem at all? Yang-Mills is a bit over my head. By "a ...

Eliza,

What's your background in QM?

I grew up reading science books, and it's always baffled and fascinated me, but I'm simply a hobbyist like yourself. I'm certainly not an expert on the subject.

Eliza, Energy exists, as does time, and looking at it from a philosophical perspective, that is what we are. Mass and energy aren't the only properties that we talk of in QM. The point that I'm trying to make is that energy has a very specific meaning within science. It's the capacity for something...

If the link I posted was the cause of this, I apologize. I use a really high resolution, so it'd take a freakishly long url to cause the need for a scroll bar on my window. It completely slipped my mind that other folks could be running at lower resolutions.

Eliza, If we break everything down into the smallest sub-atomic particles we see that there is no matter – it is all energy. On that level, there is no real barrier between anything, so we are all one thing – so how can humans be alive but not a rock? I'm not sure what you mean by saying that e...

Eliza, Reason would not follow from randomness. It seems unlikely that order would emerge from a completely arbitrary system, save for the appearance of order every now and again, but it very much can come from a system that's grounded in probability distributions. I'm not even sure a perfectly det...

Eliza, It seems as if you aren't saying that Reality is essentially greater then reality, only that it refers to a subset of true propositions that can be referred to as "more real" meaning more-or-less "different". I thought you might have been suggesting an essential differenc...

Eliza, How can you non-arbitrarily define orders of magnitude about reality? If I see an apple sitting in front of me, I can say that it's a reality that an apple is sitting in front of me. I could also say that it's a reality that I see an apple in front of me, and that the idea of an actual noume...

Dan, I think this dialogue from Genius News is a pretty good examination of how "genius" is defined and perceived differently by "us" arrogant bastards and most people: I don't think that anyone here is more arrogant then the next guy. Anyone who's ever put finger to keyboard to...

Dan, That's not a very coherent observation. Your second statement contradicts your first. Make up you mind, man! Obviously "genius" is just a descriptor, a label, but if you can use it, there are undeniably geniuses. "Soul" is also a descriptive term. Given that we can use it -...

Nobodies a genius. Genius is just a term used to describe someone who did the right thing at the right time.

Brains seek other brains to make invisible sandcastles with in a virtual playground...

That's actually the smartest thing I've seen posted on this forum so far. Kudos.

Kow, Give a quote where 'kow' said that (the sentence in bold). You claimed that the ego could be "absent while the body is living." Why do you assume such a thing? The "experiencer" is the totality of that which is experienced. What else could it possibly be? If the "exper...

Kow, Alright. Lets look at one of your statements: The experiencer, the feeler etc. is an illusion. The illusion constantly reincarnating itself is the activity of thought as "me". That's you! You are that life of thought. You claim that the "experiencer" is an "illusion&qu...

What are you talking about? You haven't proven fuck all! I've provided arguments for my positions. If you think that I'm wrong, attack my arguments, rather then simply asserting an alternate view. If I were to suggest that the earth is flat because it appears to be, you wouldn't be facilitating dis...

Kow, You aren't providing any arguments to prove your points. Your simply asserting your own views without any explanation of why they should be accepted. You might think that they're so intuitive that they'll be automatically accepted when stated, but that obviously doesn't seem to be the case. Co...

Elizabeth, I think I misunderstood the post of yours that I replied to. I thought by describing consciousness as "awareness" you meant "wakefulness". After rereading your post it seems that you were actually describing phenomenal consciousness, which is the definition of the ter...

Consciousness is awareness (meaning perceptiveness of states and changes of states) plus knowledge of fundamental principles which are applicable to general states of affairs. The term "consciousness" has a lot meanings. You've outlined a couple of them, but the term can also be used to r...

They wanted freedom, but they got slavery, just like the men. They wanted to be like the boys so they imitiated them unconsciously believing they would achieve freedom. They wanted the freedom to choose their course in life, and that's what they got. You may be of the opinion that employment is sla...

I've only skimmed this thread, so if I repeat what other's have said, I apologize. With that said... Matter quite obviously isn't consciousness. The process' undergone by matter probably are consciousness though: meaning that neocortical process X is conscious experience Y. Why there seems to be a d...

So they lost their leisure and ‘master status’ of housewife, so that they could join their fellow men and feel equal to him, by working along side him doing the same miserable soul crushing jobs. I know plenty of women who abhor the very notion of being a housewife, and love their "miserab...

Kow, Well, there is a truth of the matter! A truth as to what a word means independent of context? No, there really isn't. Words only arrive at meaning through a shared understanding of what they point to or of their appropriate grammatical usage. Given that single words can take on multiple uses, ...

Diebert, Not sure if I understand your question. There are of course different types of neuron cells, for different functions and each type could be distributed in different ways at different locations to perform functions as a group. Yes, but the different types of neurons appear in both sexes. So...

No! The psychological phenom is an illusion. Illusion is a reality. Are you saying that illusions exist, and that the psychological phenom is one of them, or that the psychological phenom is a reality? Or both/neither? I'm a bit confused at what you're getting at. You feel like you exist, right? :)...

Diebert, Could you also try to include the name of the ones responding to in your quotes or otherwise? No problem. But you didn't cite or even implied any specific peer-reviewed research, or did I miss something? I never said I did. If I understood you correctly, you were implying that there could ...