Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Fair luna bright, fair luna moon
it shines at night but fades too soon
fair luna moon, fair luna bright
forever we dance
we dance under starlight
I honour you as an aspect of myself..
You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..
Written by: Elemental666
The unconscious does all the automatic maintenance of the self, while the conscious draws its insticts from the unconsious.
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For example, at an early age I developed a measurable negative response to physical confrontation. I was a small, shy and intellegent child and the big dumb bullies loved me for this. I did stand up for myself only to find my self physically ill the next day.
To me this is the Higher Self telling my unconscious that physical confrontation never sovles anything and evoking a tru physical response.
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while I am now debt free and gainfully employeed in the tech industry. I work in an airconditioned office, make decent money and don't have any stress to bring home with me at the end ofthe day.
In this example the higher self guided my unconscious to mold my conscious self into working out my confrontation in a more productive way
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I think your definitions of Conscious, Unconscious and higher Self are a little askew
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
Written by: ben-ja-men
1. all human knowledge is based on observations which carries with it the possibility of human errors and assumptions
2. human perception is a limited range of all the information (ie infrared and ultraviolet light) that exists
3. the commonly accepted truth was once that the world was flat however this does not make it true
4. concepts are conveyed through language, language is based on an individuals life experiences as such meanings of words can vary from person to person
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
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7. the higher self is the part that communicates with the rest of the collective and regulates things like making your nails grow.
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
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1. Argues against any kind of a priori or intrinsic, existential or sub-egoistic knowledge, which many would disagree with
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2. Infrared and ultraviolet light isn't information, but after the process of perception it becomes noema, which is kind of mental inromation.. the moetic activity of the brain creates the noematic element (ie thought processes -> a thought/information)
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4. Some fundamental concepts cannot be transcribed into language, which I know doesn't mean much in terms of an internet message-board discussion, but nevertheless very important phenomenal elements cannot be described in words (ie The smell of a rose, the look of the colour red, the feel of feathers on your toes)
*butts out*
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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its not ment to say that all knowledge is wrong its ment to convey the idea that just because something has been shown experimentally doesnt mean that it makes it an unquestionable trueth
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if light isnt information (albeit in a different form from the way in which its used in the brain) then what is it?
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ive not heard the word moetic before and couldnt find it in the dictionary/google search didnt show an obvious meaning can you please define it for me
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this is something that i partially disagree with, i think that if you are conveying a concept to someone with similar set of physical inputs (ie isnt colour blind, deaf, dumb, etc) language can be used to convey the concept. so long as you both share a common experience base (not necessarily completely the same but overlapping in portions)
for example the colour red could be described as monochromatic light with a frequency of approximately 700 nm being projected onto a white screen, while this may not mean something to the person recieving the description it gives them enough information to be able to go and find out the what this colour red is. as for the smell of a rose i could try and describe it and someone may be able to correctly interpret my description it just depends on how much commonality in experience we share, if we dont have a broad knowledge base in smell it would be very hard however to a botenist i think it wouldnt be such a hard task
i think that as along as you have atleast two common senses its possible to communicate ideas via text. i think it would be possible for a robot with the same senses as a human raised like a child with suitable software to be able to learn all the same concepts as a human by relating different levels of corresponding stimulus to one and other. to do so sucessfully may require a better understanding of the mapping of the brain and how it processes the information but when you get down to it all the information that goes into the brain comes in as electrical impluses with different patterns corresponding to the smell of a rose or the smell of a lemon. different parts of language are linked to these electrical patterns so i think it can all be conveyed its just very hard with the state of existence we are in now but not impossible
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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i see the "higher self" as the part of exsistance that experiances life threw us, the way we experiance work threw our tools
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thats how our "higher sefl" learns and experiances life, indirectly threw our actions, and in turn it is affected as such. any positive or negative actions are imprinted on that "higher self." not as strong as they are on our consious self, so the affects are not as harsh, but over time can build up
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
"Ours is not to question The Head; it is enough to revel in the ubiquitous inanity of The Head, the unwanted proximity of The Head, the unrelenting HellPresence of The Head, indeed the very UNYIELDING IRRELEVANCE of The Head!" --Revelation X
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
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But this doesn't mean that all human knowledge is based on observation, which is the point I was making. I don't have knowledge of how to open my eyes based on observation, but I do have it - it is beneath the egoistic level, beneath the conscious.
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I don't know anything about physics but a stream of photons or something like that.. it's a physical thing, it's not like an "idea" which is being transmitted around and we're recieving.
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But here you're relying on a physicalist account of colour, which you were arguing against before.
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Also, if you say "red" then it's unlikely that I'll just think of the colour red. It's not something you can abstract - you might think of red on a white background, a red ball, a red car, etc etc - you can't pinpoint the fundamental "red" seperate from any concept of perception ie a red thing, as opposed to "a red". That doesn't exist and we cannot conceive of it.
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does it then follow that she knows everything there is to know about colour?
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Qualia are the qualitative elements of mental states, the “feeling” of having a feeling – the “something” Mary gains from direct experience of colour. Jackson claims that there is a certain quale attached to the experience of redness. Physicalism does not allow for qualia, instead arguing that what we might describe as qualia are in fact simple mental representations of the physical objects or properties they represent
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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Wow. I just can't help but run into this kind of information and speculation wherever the heck I go.
I'm in a very unpleasant point in my life, and I keep drawing BAD things to myself
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you have to wonder, does this mean children with terrible diseases really chose to go through that? How about war and famine and all that other horrible stuff? Does anyone deserve this crap?
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Also from what I've been exposed to.... reality is an agreed-upon thing... so, back when we thought the world was flat, for all intents and purposes, maybe it really WAS.
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ok question for you ben...........what part do you believe carries on after death, if any part at all?
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
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to believe one thing is to disbelieve the opposite, this limits your perception of the world, so please suspend your beleifs and disbeleifs to entertain the ideas that unfold within this thread
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2. human perception is a limited range of all the information (ie infrared and ultraviolet light) that exists
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the conscious mind goes through lots of different thoughts so you have to make it very clear to the higher self what you want
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So what you're arguing against here is induction, ie if such-and-such happens 10 times out of 10, this doesn't mean it will happen the 11th time. But this doesn't mean that all human knowledge is based on observation, which is the point I was making. I don't have knowledge of how to open my eyes based on observation, but I do have it - it is beneath the egoistic level, beneath the conscious
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if light isnt information (albeit in a different form from the way in which its used in the brain) then what is it?
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what part do you believe carries on after death
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time begins at the point which is first distinguishable from the state that occured before it, before that time does not exist
If I could be granted one wish I would ask for all the questions of the universe.
If I could be granted one wish I would ask for all the questions of the universe.
If I could be granted one wish I would ask for all the questions of the universe.
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my current thoughts on the working of time
1. time begins at the point which is first distinguishable from the state that occured before it, before that time does not exist
2. sometime after the beginning of time the big bang occured
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3. time after the big bang can be thought of as a multi faced pyramid
4. each step on the pyramid is an instant in time
5. with each instant in time new faces are created on the pyramid
6. each face on the pyramid corresponds to a different version of reality
7. as every living entity in existence exists we are all co choosing which face on the step gets experienced.
8. when we are living whatever it is that makes us us exists in a physical form and by being part of the collective that chooses which version of reality is co experienced is disconnected from viewing the all the previous steps beyond the physical forms experience
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points that im very unsure on
1. if the existence expands forever and the pyromid keeps getting bigger and bigger or if it all collapses in on itself and restarts somewhere different.
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2. how exactly existence gets kickstarted from nothingness to something.
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3. what the point to it all is apart from growth, as there seems to be some underlying architecture to all the rules
"Moo," said the happy cow.
Written by: Burning Brain
to believe one thing is to disbelieve the opposite, this limits your perception of the world, so please suspend your beleifs and disbeleifs to entertain the ideas that unfold within this thread
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im gonna have to say that energy is the only form of information. without energy there would be nothing to propel us through time and in turn allow us to think.
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if there are two universes, a subjective one and objective one, and the objective universe teaches the subjective one then the objective universe=the subjective universe based on the subjects experiance.
if infinity is added to one side of the equation (objective universe) the it must be added to the other in order for them to be equal. therefore the subjective universe must be infinate. take your own conclusions from that.
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V=L/t
where V=velocity of life
L=life defined by thougts.
t=time defined by a subjective understanding of time.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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Actually time started with the Big Bang. You can't think of time as separate from space and so before there was a Universe there was no such thing as time.
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Sounds vaguely like the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics. Not sure why you've decided on a pyramid though - any other reason than it's association with mysticism?
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Well currently the Universe seems like it will expand forever.
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2. how exactly existence gets kickstarted from nothingness to something.
Pure random chance seems to be a likely explaination
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That all of the Universe can have come to be as we see it today with no plan, no guiding hand, just a set of laws intricately balanced to produce all of this through chance!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
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Sounds vaguely like the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics. Not sure why you've decided on a pyramid though - any other reason than it's association with mysticism?
I had a dream that my friend had a
strong-bad pop up book,
it was the book of my dreams.
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would think that directions on how to get to the library is information but its not energy
If I could be granted one wish I would ask for all the questions of the universe.
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i have a little trouble understanding what caused the big bang to take place, if time began at the big bang then surely all the events prior to the big bang are identical hence no time, which to me seems like an unbalenced equation in that all this stuff was just always there, if that was the case and its all unchanging then why would it suddenly go bang, for it must be stable if its not changing and has always been there, possibly "god" set it off, but then u have two distinguishable events gods intervention and per gods intervention but then how did god get involved where did he come from etc etc
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Suppose I read an article about the science of firewalking,and the article used concepts like the specific heat capacity of a persons foot and the actual burning coals. If the article went on to explain about the insulating qualities of a thin layer of ash resulting when a foot meets a hot coal and concluded that anybody can walk on hot coals and that mind over matter has nothing to do with it.
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if i am simply a subject that perieves then i am what i think. learning takes time. so the V is just derived from the two things that i know must exist. i put it in a L/t form because it seems to fit with what i believe. when L=0 then V=0 (before birth) when t=0 V=undefined.
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i dont mean to shoot you down in the first paragraph but not everything in the universe is an 'if and only if' statement
subjectivly it is an infinate amount of things because there are an infinate amount of subjects.
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im gonna have to say that energy is the only form of information. without energy there would be nothing to propel us through time and in turn allow us to think
the thing (understood directions) is not energy, but the act of explaining where the library is is energy in the form of sound. its pretty much from what perspective you are percieving. everything you see is an action weather it be light bouncing off a mirror or a balls bouncing off the ground. its always an action. once you understand it it becomes part of you and a memory and therefore a thing (idea).
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maybe in an absolute sense this isn't possible, but on the other hand i have beliefs that i would consider to be (in working practice) right, i believe them. but onthe other hand i am open the the possibility that i am wrong, even though i behave according to my original belief, that doesn't mean i don't consider the other as well. does that make any sense?
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Everyone has that problem, but at the same time space and time are inseperably linked. Before there was space there could be no time as time would be meaningless - what is time if not the sequece of changes in space? So time could not have existed in any meaningful way (in any relevant or non-trivial way) before space.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourself, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous and talented? Who are you NOT to be?
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Written by: ben-ja-men
can you please expand on that, i would think that directions on how to get to the library is information but its not energy
Written by: ben-ja-men
its like saying
x=0.9999999 recuring
10x=9.9999999 (multiply both sides by 10)
9x=9 (take x from each side)
x=1 (divide both sides by 9)
on a number line 0.99999 recuring is next to 1 but 0.9999 recuring =1 therefore all numbers next to each other are the same number therefore there is only one number
"Moo," said the happy cow.
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