• What is Information?
    concept such as informationPop

    "Information" is anything that helps the mind make its map of the territory.

    It's relative to what the mind needs. It has no actual existence.
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    Informing other people how stupid they areValentinus

    There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance.

    and a difference between knowledge and wisdom

    and a difference between wisdom and enlightenment
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    what's LT really like?T Clark

    You wouldn't like him. You're mind would find him too boring and silly.

    You would laugh at him.

    and without that laugh, it would not be the Tao.
  • What is Information?
    informational structurePop

    There is no information, only various amounts of complexity.
  • What is Information?
    Sounds like "form" to me.Pop

    The only thing that exists is patterns of substance.

    Humans don't exist.
  • What is Information?
    What are patterns?Pop

    Unique arrangements of substance.
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    It's self-indulgent.T Clark

    Maybe that's because I taught Lao Tzu everything he knows and everything he based his book on.
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    Most seem to believe that consciousness resides in the brainSam26

    That's the problem. People are too busy believing to look at the evidence.

    I don't claim any belief, I just describe the evidence as it actually is. Look for yourself.
  • What is Information?
    underlying mechanism that causes this to be so?Pop

    Patterns are eternal
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    the brain is in some way like the radioSam26

    The brain is a temporary aspect of consciousness,

    it appear and disappears in consciousness,

    and therefore cannot be receiving it
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    You should have never opened such dark gates. Now anxiety seems to be our lightest problem.dimosthenis9

    Dark Night of the Soul
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    On the contrary, it is expressed everywhere, as you suggested earlier.Valentinus

    It's expressed incorrectly most of the time.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    You will not call these anxietiesJoshs

    There is a subconscious fear level and a surface fear level.

    Neither are anxiety.

    Anxiety is deeper than both.
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    If the true Tao cannot be expressedValentinus

    Consciousness cannot be expressed.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Apparently somewhere in LeviticusJoshs

    I don't read books, I write them for others to read.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Vibrations would require the wall to be movable.Daniel

    No it's not movable, but it is made of smaller things, like everything in this universe.

    This smaller things dimension is what creates time and change.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    what happens if you have no anxietiesApollodorus

    Then you don't need this post.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    inevitably doubt or hate yourself.Joshs

    Then more fully realize what I said so all the traces will be permanently removed.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Where is the Physics in your post?Daniel

    What happens when an unstoppable force hits an immovable wall? It creates a vibration.

    This is fundamental to the nature of reality. An eternal balance of equally opposing forces underlined by vibration.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Well, all my anxieties have disappeared just by reading that.Apollodorus

    You're anxieties will disappear by learning how to apply it.

    would it be possible to know where you've read all this stuffApollodorus

    It's my own theory.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Self acceptance isnt easy. It is an endless process of development.Joshs

    Or maybe it's about realizing your creator is a billion times vaster than you are so you have no right to doubt or hate yourself.
  • Anxiety explained with physics


    Nobody worries about those things. They just think they do because they are ignorant of the real underlying source and cause of the worry. So they blame all sorts of other things and spend their lives chasing illusions. They try to use self-esteem to fix lack of self acceptance. And conditional self-esteem is always a shaky construction therefore prone to causing worry.
  • What is mysticism?
    and become more rigid in their beliefsT Clark

    Or maybe they became more firm in the truth.
  • Moods are neurotransmitter levels working in the brain.
    moods are effected by neurotransmitter levelsShawn

    Or maybe neurotransmitter levels are affected by moods.
  • Motivated Belief
    If you already know the true nature then you'd best share it with everyonePantagruel

    It was already shared by Lao Tzu 3000 years ago. Modern people are becoming more ignorant haha
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    That’s cause you Da ManJoshs

    Or maybe I just think longer and deeper.
  • Anxiety explained with physics


    Sure. The more perspectives and knowledge on the subject the better. But that does not invalidate mine.

    Also maybe mine is better, and all the others are coming form the very ignorance mine attempts to expose and remove.
  • Motivated Belief
    Thinking is always thinking "about" and the about is essentially some kind of beliefPantagruel

    Now your confusing belief and mind.

    So again, I repeat, learn all the distinct definitions so you can separate all the terms properly.
  • Motivated Belief
    Has nothing to do with my post about motivated belief.Pantagruel

    Sure, but belief and consciousness are two different things.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Fear involves the anticipation of imminent, serious harm or loss. Anxiety involves the anticipation of an event that may produce a less severe harm or lossJoshs

    The strength and duration of the fear doesn't change the fact that it is still fear and not anxiety.
  • Motivated Belief
    I am quite certain that I understand the different descriptive contexts.Pantagruel

    Then give a definition for each term that makes it unique from each other term.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    Sorry my friend but you sound like one of those life coaches, who are to philosophers what mall security guys are for actual police men.dimosthenis9

    Not everything has to be complicated to be true. Also deeper explanations can be requested and given.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    distinguish a neurotic from a. healthy anxiety.Joshs

    Fear and anxiety are two different things. Otherwise why have two different words?

    Fear is a natural response to prediction of external harm. Anxiety is something else.
  • Slaves & Robots
    good & bad aren't about gain/lossTheMadFool

    Right and wrong

    Good and bad

    Good and evil

    Are three totally different things. Although related.
  • Anxiety explained with physics
    What if most of your anxieties concern the welfare of those around you that you care about?Joshs

    That's fear not anxiety.

    Fear of loss, fear of harm, etc...

    Fear is helpful.

    Anxiety is caused by your irrational self doubt and self hate related to those things, triggered by those things, etc...
  • What is mysticism?
    Whatever you say...Noble Dust

    The more alike two beings are the easier communication will be.
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    Like a radio picking up sound waves and transmitting the sounds through its components.Sam26

    Radio doesn't pick up sound waves. It picks up patterns of electromagnetic radiation and converts them into sound waves. Neither of which are conscious.

    The ears pick up sound waves and convert them to electronic impulses in the brain. Again neither of which are conscious. And neither of which contain any music.
  • My favorite verses in the Tao Te Ching
    Or a good glass of sakejavi2541997

    Or maybe its nothing but a pointer to the true nature of consciousness.
  • Evidence of Consciousness Surviving the Body
    Your wording is a bit confusing.Sam26

    Is consciousness in the body?

    Or is the body in consciousness?
  • Motivated Belief
    Pretty sure that I was and am talking about consciousness.Pantagruel

    Perception, intelligence, mind, consciousness, conscience, senses, experience, beliefs, brain, are all different things. Don't mix them up.