What confuses me though is how God can be a metaphor, that is, a literary device, not an actual "being", while simultaneously also the creator of...
The term "God" does not mean "the greatest most important thing". However it just so happens that religions argue that their God is equal to the...
And I don't need to be proselytized at when I'm at work or out in public, but it happens. It's called talking. And guess what; I'm polite about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryYETmi9lNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULvKtcmWgo I won't be taking away anyone's free speech or right to...
Can you see how your comments can be confusing when you reveal that what you are talking about is actually love, and not god? I think we need to...
So you believe that I wish to oppress people? Is this along the vein of when Chinacat says that I'm a dictator and want everyone to think exactly...
You're right, it's not. The issue is when people say "I think there is a god", and when you ask them to explain why, they say "well look at love,...
If god is love, why not call it love then? Why not talk about the importance of love and compassion in our lives? talking about some nebulous...
Why?
I am not arguing for the existence of a god. I have no need of such a hypothesis, nor do I find it a tenable one. You are assuming that the only...
You are still completely sidestepping my point :) Predictability has nothing to do with Determinism. One is about our ability to understand the...
Because whether or not your body acts in accordance with deterministic laws has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your consciousness is...
You're confusing our ability as humans to compute the outcomes of evidents, with those events actually having determined outcomes. Those are two...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect A metacognitive bias wherein individuals unskilled in a particular field are so...
Happy birthday!! Think of it with another analogy; imagine instead of discussing consciousness, we are discussing the works of Shakespeare....
I think a more elegant and parsimonious explanation of things like entanglement are that we are observing phenomena occuring in higher dimensions;...
Here's some questions to get you thinking about why this position might not be right: Are a 6 month old child and a 50 year old man the same...
"You also truly don't feel that magick is real and I'm here to show you that you're incorrect" Do you remember that time like 2 days ago when I...
The same way not playing sports is a sport.
Conversation between Max Tegmark and Sam Harris :) https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/the-multiverse-you-you-you-you
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