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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousSubconscious
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i won't confuse personal experience or someone feeling compeled to try and contextualize views -inadequately i might add- with as many words as they can muster/
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Consciousnesswhat is free will?
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I tend to lean towards the opinion that human beings have no free will, or at the very least, an extremely restricted amount of it.
On a microscopic level, decisions that are made, thoughts that f... |
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How does the mind display itself to us?
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Thinking about your diagram idea reminded me of scientific research that displays brain activity in various parts of the brain when different actions were being performed is this sort of thing you mea... |
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Can I Think of Me?
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Can I Think of Me?
In his book 'The Birth of Meaning' Ernest Becker informs me that Kant informed the world two centuries ago that an infant 'becomes conscious of himself first as 'me', and then on... |
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Conscious and Sub-ConsciousConsciousness is just the tip of the iceberg
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How is the composition of the sub concious different from the conciousness. Good thing it is different, image the conscious mind being flooded with the deluge of stimuli of the unconsious mind . . . y... |
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Free Will
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the choices we make are based on how the brain has been wired. every choice is predictible(hypothetically), because the brain is a physical thing and made like a computer, and every action a computer... |
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Emotions & Feelingsare emotions what define human beings?
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Humans are conscious and have choice. A tadpole can't choose whether or not it wants to turn into a toad, it is just part of the natural evolution. If humans we more in touch with, and living our... |
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Society & SociologyThe Use of Insult
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I think if you are trying to carry on a logical, civil discussion with someone in the interest of attaining more truth about a subject, and they are consistantly trying to pass off illogical statement... |
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Intelligence, Memory & BrainInner Voice
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Well summit, that's what I was trying to go for in my earlier post. I was just looking at stuff angel had said.
Angel: no, that inner voice is not just your thoughts. That would be your consc... |
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I had an Idea about everything, I think.
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Protege: I agree with you that it is not a "will" as we see it but if some one was to observe osmosis and was ignorant of the cause, they may come to the conclusion that the water had a will... |
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Is Conditioning required for Decisions to be made…
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You could be reliant on a good conditioning system though... Yeah?...
I believe a moment of short-term conditioning takes place when we make a decision...
You can even condition yourself to trigger... |
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ChristianityHow the Catholic Church evolved.
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In the thread on atheist, I madea statement that I felt atheist didn't think of GOD. (They are without conscious awareness of God) Talking with an atheist, I asked him. He said [for him] this was... |
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LawAbortion
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A blob of cells is *not* a human being.
A human being is a a conscious entity with feeling and thought. A fetus has none of these. It is a blob of cells, no more.
It has no right to live until i... |
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Gender PsychologyI Hate Women
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It is not esoteric philosophy. It is highly pragmatic, though I apologize if my wording indicated otherwise.
When a person knows and loves themselves and is conscious of the knowledge and love they... |
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God in ReligionWhy Do You NOT Believe In God?
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here's a possibility about the bible. and of course on one knows for sure. the bible has been interpreted and re-interpreted. and it has been done so by man who may have a slanted view on what th... |
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Child & Family PsychologyRecapturing youth?
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Although one difference between me and you is that I have experienced being "the popular one". I had certain abilities such as the ability to dance and was also attractive when I was younger... |
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ConsciousnessUnconsicous Response to Issues...
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Was thinking about the Universal Unconscious, and came to the conclusion that there must be some interplay in the form of stimulus and response (as in a communicated response).
This response would ha... |
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Selflessness vs. Selfishness
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Is it more beneficial to be a selfless or a selfish being? What about the balance between these two?
If you wish to believe that you're the only conscious being in this entire universe, I woul... |
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DreamsWhat do you think of dreams?
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Nice to meet you Sammy K!
I definitely believe dreams have a use for us. I actually think we are our dream world. Everything that feels "different" or "separate" is really just... |
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Conscious and Sub-Consciousconsciousness - define it! Explain it! Any comments?
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Consciousness… Define it… Explain it…
Questions I would ask would be…
What kind of ‘it' is it?
What is an ‘it'?
What is ‘is' ?
How does it work?
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The Hardest Question?
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"Of course you can't have any concrete evidence regarding aGod, but then how can we sure even of gravity?"
You can never be completely sure of anything. But we can remove all but reaso... |
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People hate vegetarians
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I can see that I have a need to clarify what I mean by my useage of the word 'sentient' as it is so fundamental to my arguments. Hence, I went to an online dictionary (www.m-w.com) and asked... |
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ChristianityChristian Q&A
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Tough question & as I am not GOD, hard to answer. But one plausible reason may be that like the OT where Sara was baren till she was well beyond child bearing years, she indeed became with child.... |
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video games
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Final Fantasy, Zelda, Fatal Frame...
Art -
1. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
a. The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms... |
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Religion & HumanityThe Meaning of Living
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OH! I get what DT is saying, at least I think I do.
The universe is not a living thing or entitiy or something. It only exists. It is just that all it does is exist as planets and such floating aro... |
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