If God gave Hitler a choice of being mercilessly killed thousands of times in future of lives or else to endure thousands of years in a hellish dungeon, there might well be a high likelihood that Hitler would choose the latter. So Hell could be viewed as voluntary even if it entails an element of external pressure. We also need to remember that Hitler didn't personally kill anyone; rather he ordered others to carry out the genocide on his behalf. So the idea that only eternal hell would be sufficient as punishment isn't proportionate. To elaborate on the Holocaust analogy there were a lot of other nazis that helped Hitler and in doing so absolved him of total 100% responsibility for the genocide. So if God handed out millions of years of jail then it'd be spread out among all culprits even though Hitler would obviously get the highest number of years.

The Devil is often portrayed as extremely violent which leads some religious people to reject the very existence of hell. It's becoming more common to believe only in heaven where evil souls simply disappear or reincarnate into their next life. Perhaps hell is deemed so abysmal that even a temporary stay would be deemed grossly disproportionate. Imbuing the Devil with one or two redeeming qualities like sarcasm and self-deprecation might make hell more tolerable for those who are punished in a supernatural version of jail! Hell doesn't have to entail torture where secular ideals of confinement as punishment could be thought about! For all we know hell could entail break periods much like how good behaviour is rewarded in modern prisons. Maybe hell could be interpreted as rehabilitation before the evil is cleansed from the penalised person. This might allow them to enter heaven afterwards or reincarnate with a clear conscience. If a criminal freely chose to atone for some of their sins in hell then perhaps they'd be less at risk of bad karma in their next life. Bad souls could be deceived through their own perversion and self-indulgence into choosing hell without requiring the use of force. The separation of powers is a useful concept for divine judgement. Could there be a scientific way to determine whether or not someone goes to hell? For example if we view happiness as a conserved quantity in a person's life, then the hedonism of evil might have the capacity to diminish their happiness reserves for the afterlife.

Hercules... James Woods/Hades/Susan Egan/Megara/Pain/

Fruit Art - Web Search

When we buy meat in the shop it becomes tolerable to dissociate the food with the animal that was killed to produce it. Thankfully we don't have to witness the slaughter first hand. Most of us don't have to hunt for our dinner! I'm not vegetarian and never bother to think of the poor chickens. Although the rare time that I order duck at a fancy restaurant I can't help but visualise the poor creatures minding their own business in the lake! Fruit and vegetables aren't alive in a conscious sense and so we never have to worry about the ethics of eating them. However it's not just the ethics but also the vitalistic connotations that are important. I don't pick the potatoes from beneath the earth and so I seldom think of nature and fields when I cook them. Perhaps I might think of gravy or tomato ketchup but not of the mysticism of homeostasis and rebirth in the food of the Earth. Sometimes with extended attention on fruit art it's possible to see how bizarre the food we eat really is in the whole scheme of the environment.

"Whether created to express bountiful harvests, to boast the artist’s talent, or to communicate an opinion, food in art is still very prevalent today. . . and no doubt it will remain so as long as both art and food exist in the world."
https://emptyeasel.com/2009/04/16/the-long-history-of-food-in-art/

Vegetable anthropomorphism:
Mandrake Potting | Harry Potter
Professor Pomona Sprout teaches her second-year Herbology students how to pot young Mandrakes.

"Most sodomy, most anal intercourse takes place between men and women."
"I'm not interested in sodomy and buggery, I am not interested, so forget about it... Under the cloak of caring, you have designated homosexuality to be a vicious, perverted disease."
- Peter Fry

I support the LGBT community and am very libertarian in my outlook towards the personal relationships of others. I'd support gay adoption rights and the whole shebang. Nonetheless I'm also somewhat of a pragmatist when it comes to international affairs. If conservatively religious countries have not yet embraced the LGBT movement then I view it as unlikely that they'd change their stance within the next two or three decades. After all the first Pride Parade was over 50 years ago and yet homosexual welfare has actually declined in certain countries. A possible compromise in extremely strict countries might be allowing public displays of affection like holding hands, hugging and kissing but banning cohabitation. This way there'd be no way homophobic people could distort homosexuality into an obsession about sodomy. Needless to say I wouldn't agree with such a ban but it may be the lesser of two evils when we consider the horrific death penalties that have occurred in countries like Iran.

Pantheism is just an idea, it doesn't seem to be a hypothesis. What's divine about Hitler? — Agent Smith

This reminds me of those time travelling questions about the ethics of killing baby Hitler. It seems like a gruesome question because all babies are born with a speckle of the divine but it's clear that Hitler rejected his capacity to do good. All I can say is if he isn't in hell then he'll suffer karma to the highest extent.

Mostly they mean with omnimpotent more potent than what a single human being could do on his own. — Tomseltje

In physics there is a perennial debate between the quantum mechanics of atoms and the gravity of planets. The two best theories don't interact well with each other in trying to discover quantum gravity. The same could also be said between science and religion. Our two best theories of reality are struggling to reconcile and create religious science. Radical theories are often speculated for quantum gravity given the intensity of the problem. Likewise far out ideas like Pantheism or Deism might help combine science and religion that bit better.

Objectification: "the action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object eg. the objectification of women in popular entertainment."

If determinism is true then to some extent we're all "objectified". Maybe romantic people would find it easier to accept their deterministic nature! Likewise if we love ourselves in our current state of mind then we don't need free will to change our destiny! You're free until you choose to love someone! No wonder people say they met their true love and spouse through fate! PS Hopefully their true love and spouse are the same person!

Vanilla Sky - Intro Scene

I read that it cost a million dollars for the producers to empty Times Square for the recording. So if you wake up to an empty city, maybe someone is simply playing a million dollar prank on you! Otherwise you could walk through a quiet street late at night for a similar juxtaposition of city life and desolation. A risky thoughtline with false awakenings is if this conscious reality is merely a dream, then do you've yet to wake up in the real world? This might lead to reckless behaviour in order to leave the so-called dream and attempt to enter a non-existent real world. Or is the real world itself a communal dream? The latter option forces you to reconcile reality with non-reality!

"Cameron Crowe struck a deal with the NYPD to close off the area between 5AM and 8AM on a Sunday in November 2000. The result was a spectacular sequence with a spectacular price tag: over $1 million for 30 seconds of footage. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Combining Cruise's enigmatic star power with the desolate backdrop helps to create a poignancy..."
- Looper

Is the brain's visual system like a mirror or a camera? I recently took a target practice video where the camera's menu screen was pointing towards the floor and the lens was facing me. When I watched the recording I was trying to work out which direction was correct. Yet both sides seemed to make sense.

If my right hand was on the rightwards side of the screen, then it would appear that the same hand would be on the left side of the screen if I were to turn my feet around 180°. This interpretation is valid since I'd be facing towards the camera as if the camera were recording horizontally at head-height where the right-left directions are reversed.

If I flipped the recording electronically then my right hand would start out at the left side of the screen. If I visualised myself turning my body around in the video then my right hand would be on the rightwards side of the screen. This works because the back of my head would be directed towards the camera where the right and left directions are preserved.

Thus the direction of the different parts of the ceiling or sky on the recording can be re-ordered top-to-bottom without affecting the left-to-right legitimacy of the video. The camera stores the video in one direction in it's memory where turning the camera upside-down will rotate the presentation of the video. By contrast a mirror passively reflects the light where rotating the surface of a spherical mirror wouldn't affect the viewer's perspective.

Let's imagine your eyes replaced the recording screen as you lay in bed. Then you alternated your lying position from the usual way to where your feet are now at the pillow section. So does the brain interpret this movement like a camera or a mirror? Is it possible to ever imagine your right hand as somehow being on the same side as the left eye? It is if you viewed the bed as being internal to your mind where your eyes don't switch order left-to-right as your body your body rotates 180°. Your eyes would be like two TV screens that don't turn around where only the image turns.

Is there an argument that elements of cosmopolitanism can be non-real? I once heard the Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle joke that the average person in the world speaks Chinese. We're subconsciously biased to view the culture of our own country as most relevant to our lives. This is simplistically true but we shouldn't mix up a personal relevance of domestic affairs with importance in an international context. Even though most first world people can travel abroad on holiday, there are still fierce limitations in whether we can reach another continent. Only rich people can travel all across the world and even then they're still limited by time. It's one thing visting a country on a weekend break and quite another to fully assimilate the ethos of the country over a 6-month stay. The national news is nearly always geared to countries with a similar worldview. This is why European countries tend to hear far more about America than China. A country like Turkey or Japan isn't reliant on your consciousness for their existence! Nonetheless visiting realms that are alien to your own local community can open up your sense of self in the world. After all no country can truly claim to be at the centre of the world map because we can change the order of the continents. For example America could have a map where Europe and Asia are on both sides of it while Europe can place America at the edge of the map. If we took the doctrine of reincarnation to be completely egalitarian then we've as much chance of being reborn in Africa or South America than we do in a wealthier European nation. This might inspire us to give more towards international charity. The way that some countries will be forever hidden from our cultural awareness is almost like they don't fully exist in your life and only in your next life!

What might be some non-real solutions to the arrow paradox? Perhaps the background moves backwards such that a still object would appear to move forwards through relative motion. This would be like the visual scenery behind the arrow would dilate ever so slightly in the mind of the observer. Another way to think about it would be that apparently still objects are actually vibrating back and forth atomically such that everything is always in a state of motion. Then the problem would be reversed in trying to understand the illusion of motionlessness. Or else it could be speculated that only the one moving object in your vision can be said to subjectively exist. This would resemble the background blurring out of existence to some extent during the moments that you're watching the arrow relocate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#:~:text=In%20the%20arrow%20paradox%2C%20Zeno,to%20where%20it%20is%20not.

Does the Hindu belief in karma and a cycle of ribirth require divine intervention to punish the souls of evil individuals? We don't attribute much agency to insects and so their carniverous behaviour isn't interpreted as evil. Yet if we took seriously their habit of killing other species then we'd be left to conclude that many insects have a genocidal mindset. So maybe a human serial killer might inadvertently assimilate the evil desires of non-human species. Thus they might actually get their wish and voluntarily reincarnate themselves in animal form! In other words there might be some sort of post-death justice even if there wasn't a God.



A Bug's Life Clip: Scene of the secret base of the grasshoppers

"A handful of scientists are testing a controversial practice of using virtual reality to diagnose pedophilia in men in hopes of helping them manage their sexual desires before they act on them."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/scientists-test-use-virtual-reality-diagnose-pedophilia

Could a possible God know whether we've done good or committed evil in our lives? Would the souls of murder victims stand in a holy court as witnesses? Perhaps divine judges wouldn't be constrained by our earthly ideals of remaining innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. How do we know there wouldn't be sting operations to catch out malevolent souls in the afterlife? Sexual lie detectors are the last thing we'd be expecting at the gates of heaven! Pinocchio!

"In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime. A typical sting will have an undercover law enforcement officer, detective, or co-operative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather evidence of the suspect's wrongdoing." Wiki

I've had temporary and unsettled feelings in my past that were a bit weird. They started off as very mild thought-lines that gradually evolved into unique emotional sensations. At the time I didn't really recognise them as unusual ways of being because my mind was interpreting it more as a bout of stress. The slightly negative feeling meant I didn't dwell on the emotions once they had passed. Yet it's only in hindsight when I can think of the experience without the stress I'd felt at the time that I can recognise the period as a different spiritual outlook. I recently listened to music that I also listened to back then and this reminded me of how alien my state of mind was. The mental tangent began when I was walking around a shopping centre on the outskirts of a city. It was several years ago and the artificial lighting was more noticeable to me than usual. I remember getting a coffee and it was dawning on me that I knew nothing of the mindset or background of the people serving me. Much like the mind-body problem I was focusing on the mysterious consciousness of those around me. We don't think about such philosophical conundrums in our daily interactions because we tend to interpret the questions abstractly rather than socially. We don't generally treat the mind-body problem with the same level of mysticism as life after death even though from a scientific standpoint both are equally unknowable to some extent. My mind however appeared frustrated at the lack of a concrete answer after such a long time musing about it.

The resulting vagueness was preoccupying me and a new stimulus presented itself from my subconscious. I was walking up and down the busy shopping centre and I had a Halloween vibe in the back of my mind. It emphasised just how different other people were from me. It was as if the problem was so insurmountable and my knowledge so inadequate that I might as well have been a young preschool child trying to work it out. It was like I needed to be a complete blank slate to investigate it and somehow this evoked juvenile qualities like I were a child going for trick-or-treat. By the time I got a lift back it was night-time which prolonged the Halloween analogy that was forming inside me. Perhaps it'd be like I was observing people whose timelines had already elapsed and whose bodies were conveying the vestiges of minds. No; I'm not trying to make fun of the vibrancy of Limerick City! If the face is like a mask then the body is like a costume. How do you know the other person hasn't already lived and died within their own experience of consciousness by the time your mind can interact with their body? If we're not experiencing time simultaneously then what limits how divergent each of our temporal perceptions can become? So it was like I was out trick-or-treating where no one was fully knowable. I can't accurately describe the thoughts I was having because it was more of a gut instinct rather than a logical analysis. A lot of young children are much more driven by emotions than by their thoughts in terms of their intentionality which contrasts with many adults. In one sense this makes them more in tune with the irrational and chaotic nature of consciousness. Ironically their immature subconscious minds might be so content with the existence of other minds and mental states that they don't even need to worry about it or name it! After all I was never bogged down with existential angst when I was aged 9 for instance! I comment on it solely because the strangeness of the memory almost makes me feel like I was different person. An economic explanation of my angst might have been that Irish citizens are neither socially collective like Mediterranean countries nor individualistic like America. Hence each county in Ireland can diverge greatly in their vibe as if everyone’s timeline was imaginary to one another.

Saying that the mind moves the body by magic might seem like a perfect non-explanation. We might think of a spell by a wizard's wand to be random. Indeed it is arbitrary in a physical sense but not necessarily a logical sense. That is to say a spell can be deterministic even if it defies materialistic causality. For example flicking a wand to levitate an object will create a temporal relationship between cause and effect despite the lack of a physical mediator. Sorcery wouldn't be like the anarchy of quantum mechanics!

Very rarely I've experienced weird sensations that I can't fully describe but they still leave a brief impact on my subconscious. Perhaps it's that my thoughts beforehand are unusual and this feeds back into my perception. For example in early 2021 I was going for a walk by the lake and started thinking about the ground being inclined upwards so as to produce gravity. I then relaxed and bought an ice-cream in a shop. But as I walked back I suddenly began to focus on the walking postures of people nearby. The way they swung their arms suddenly looked extremely complicated. In fact it seemed so fine-tuned that an apparent mismatch began to appear with their ordinary level of mental focus and they were almost walking robotically. It was as if they were using their arms to glide up and down. I felt this unsettled and kind of mystical sensation in the back of my mind. I managed to wait it out and overcome it by continuing on my stroll and changing my thought line. It was as if my subconscious was experimenting with a different interpretation of my perception.

Misotheism: "a hatred of God."

It's possible to distort any worldview which includes pantheism but nonetheless pantheism can offer another antidote to misotheism. Hating God under pantheism would be an equivocation since it'd essentially be equivalent to hating every other person along with yourself. In a pantheistic framework a misotheist would therefore be closely related to a misanthropist. Misotheism has always been a risk when people feel betrayed by life circumstances. It applies on a collective level too such as how Germany with such a rich Christian history still managed to instigate two world wars. It shows that introducing a personal God into the equation runs the risk of creating a love/hate relationship for those who are uncertain in their faith. A contradiction for any evil people who distort misotheism into misanthropy is that such an "evil God" wouldn't care about the victims. As such committing crimes is never a logical form of revenge against God.

It might be ironic but a possible benefit of anti-realism is hyper-materialism. Anti-realism and materialism are often opposites but sometimes they might concur. For example anti-realism is capable of objectifying the brain simply because such a standpoint isn't reliant on the neurons to produce consciousness. Certain versions of anti-realism can view light as being conscious instead and so it can interpret the brain as a physical object by means of metaphysical dissociation. This would be handy not only for spiritual and philosophical reasons but also for neuro-scientific and psychological purposes. Viewing the brain as a telephone would be a form of temporal dualism where the spatial realm is the same but the timelines are different. It'd mean we could pursue research in neuroscience wholeheartedly without being hesitant about how neurons produce mental experiences. Anti-realism and materialism clashes when it comes to perception where a materialist would say our perception is physical. Yet the inherent strangeness of anti-realism could benefit our capacity to use quantum physics because we'd no longer have to be bogged down by questions of how random atoms combine to form the classical world. In other words anti-realism isn't reliant on the universe making sense in the same way that a dream can be irrational. Some people can have amazing feats of photographic memory and this might be genetic or learned but it could also be a metaphysical ability to dissociate yourself from your memory and view yourself more deterministically. An anti-realist is capable of bouts of super determinism simply because free will can be interpreted as a temporary phenomenon when viewed through the anarchy of sleep. So short spells of determinism doesn't necessarily contradict anti-realism and so anti-realism could enhance our ability to maximise empathy and memory. Overall antirealism offers us alternatives such that we'd have the spiritual independence to pursue physicalist logic to an extreme.

If my mind is equivalent to the light I see and your mind is equivalent to the light you see where our colour perceptions are separate, then it'd be like your mind is traveling faster than the light I see. I can only detect light in my direction and the light another person sees is always in a different direction to my locus of consciousness. Even if we swapped places and I were to assume the same visual position you had a minute ago we'd still be seeing distinct colours. Maybe photons don't have relative speeds to other photons but if my mind is made of photons then the collections of photons can move relative to the collection of photons that would comprise your mind. So the red that you see would be like a tachyon to the red that I see. In other words I'd never see the same light you see.


https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/light-in-opposite-directions.67852/
"In every inertial reference frame, each photon's velocity is exactly c. Photons do not have their own rest frame (any attempt to create one would violate the postulate that the laws of physics should work the same way in all inertial reference frames), so asking what the velocity of the photons is "relative to each other" is not physically meaningful--asking what B's velocity is relative to A is just another way of asking what the velocity of B is in A's rest frame. You can ask how fast the distance between them is increasing in a particular inertial reference frame, and the answer will indeed be that it's increasing at 2c, but the light-speed limit only applies to things like particles and information, it doesn't apply to concepts like "the distance between two objects"."

Perhaps our minds each have a different "rest frame" to allow for free will.

Iron Giant fight scene

We say that extreme complexity is correlated with consciousness but it's not immediately apparent how turning a human-sized robot into a giant would ever affect its insentience despite an increase in complexity.

Simply walking around or moving our torso can create enough relative motions in our vision to work out how size varies with depth.

One challenge for anti-realism how to reconcile an immense sight like a mountain range as being visually internal. We usually don't have any problem with looking at a photo of New York's skyline and interpreting the image as a 2D screen. It'd be slightly trickier to view the skyscrapers in real life and think of all of the phosphenes as belonging to a flat screen in the brain. Philosophers have no problem with viewing the rooms they're in as non-real but it's a different story trying to "internalise" a mighty building. We're so used to dissociating ourselves from what we see that it'd be socially awkward to reinterpret your perception. You'd be absorbing your surroundings in a literal sense! Sometimes it takes a non-real interpretation a few weeks to spiral into your awareness. For example I find myself thinking more instinctively about apparent floor height after casually remarking on it a few months ago.

The orbit of an asteroid around the Sun is circular and so the upward or downward components would also be circular. We could use an analogy of a roller-coaster where a person on a train going around a tight, inward, semi-circular, concave, horizontal bend could throw a ball at the beginning of the bend and catch it on the other side of the bend. This would still require a lot of skill and lucky timing on the part of the thrower!

Euler Force Examples:

Let's go back to the analogy of the rotating asteroid. For the sake of simplicity we'll just assume that it had a rectangular cuboid shape where it was rotating clockwise about a point. The length and breadth of the asteroid were large but the height from the top surface to the bottom surface was thin. We'll also ignore the orbit of the asteroid around the Sun. An astronaut not too far away from the top left edge of the asteroid who throws a rock sideways further to the left near the cliff beneath them will see the rock appear to fall diagonally downwards relative to their sightline. This is due to the rising centripetal acceleration of the radius where the speed of the asteroid's superficial plane is varied with the outer circumferences moving faster than the inner circumferences. Centripetal force is perpendicular to circular motion and so the rock won't preserve all of the rotational momentum of the asteroid. The slower the overall asteroid rotates, the milder the downward angle will be where it will have a stronger sideways vector from the force of your throw. The faster the outer edges of the asteroid rotates, the steeper the rock will fall to the ground because the centripetal speed of the asteroid's floor will increasingly outweigh the sideways vector from your throw. If the asteroid rotated at an extreme speed then the sideways vector will be negligible in comparison where it'd seem to drop vertically downwards.


Let's asteroid-hop to one with a small oval shape that's also moving clockwise. This time you were standing on the underside of the asteroid. You were placed towards the left again except now you're only half-way to the steep outer edge. So when you throw a rock further to the left in a horizontal direction we'll need something else to happen since both you and the floor would be moving away from the rock with the rock possibly appearing to go higher and higher into outer space. However there's a steep incline on the plane with an average downward chord of -30 degrees returning rightwards to the centre point owing to the oval shape. Thus when you throw the ball to the left, the ground behind you to the right will be higher than your position if your vision reorients itself to see the light reflected off the bottom of the asteroid as being upwards*. For the sake of argument, let's further assume that the asteroid is in an orbit around the Sun such that entire asteroid is still moving leftwards while it also rotates clockwise about a point. The trajectory of the thrown rock is now considered in absolute space with the Solar System instead of it being relative to the surface of the asteroid alone. Owing to the leftwards orbit around the Sun, the higher ground behind you which is also moving leftwards will move even faster when both velocities are combined. However the same ground in front of you (radial length of the asteroid in a 7 o'clock angle) that already appears to be sloping (due to the oval shape) diagonally downhill will slowly begin to move in unison vertically downwards (reversed vision where it'd be upwards for an outside observer) as it crosses (with the rest of the radius) over the x-axis (9 o'clock position) where the clockwise motion of the asteroid will then be going in the opposite direction (upwards and rightwards from 10 to 11 o'clock) compared to its leftwards orbit around the Sun. This time the two velocities oppose each other resulting in a smaller net velocity. Therefore the ground behind you will actually be moving mostly horizontally forwards more than the height direction in absolute space and whack into the thrown rock. The faster the oval asteroid rotates around the Sun, the greater the degree to which the rock will fall straight backwards which is rightwards relative to the asteroid's midpoint even if your initial throw was leftwards. The slower the asteroid orbits the Sun, the longer it will take for the rock to hit the floor. In this scenario the same leftward clockwise motion (7 o'clock position) might seem to have slightly increased relative to the speed of the leftward orbit in the Solar System. Moreover the ground in front of you is objectively moving faster only in terms of the clockwise rotation due to the increased length of the radius. The rock might remain travelling in the leftwards trajectory after you throw it and land diagonally downwards if the orbit of the asteroid around the Sun has a slight upwards vector in addition to its predominantly leftwards orbit. In other words the asteroid could pivot downwards and upwards around the thrown rock with the rock appearing to move in a semi-circular path to the ground in front of you. If there's no upward trajectory on the asteroid's orbit around the Sun, then the rock throw which was originally attempted to be leftwards at slow speed will visibly keep going diagonally backwards and upwards until it eventually crashes really far back rightwards towards the midpoint or even near the right edge on the opposite end. (Anyone who's confused could instead imagine the diametrical opposite with you on the top surface of an asteroid balanced in a 1 o'clock position moving downwards to 4 o'clock as rotates about the midpoint where the asteroid also assumes a rightwards and downwards orbit around the Sun. If you're also puzzled by the inverted vision example then you could think of a ball machine throwing the ball where you're standing the right way up on a nearby spaceship.)



* "Under normal circumstances, an inverted image is formed on the retina of the eye. With the help of upside down goggles, the image on the retina of the observer's eyes is turned back (straightened) and thus the space around the observer looks upside down."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_down_goggles


I think I'm owed an award of some kind:

Father Ted Acceptance speech

A possible counter-argument to gravity as a Euler force is that satellites remain in orbit even though there's no atmosphere to affect it and there couldn't be perpetual motion acting on such a short-lived device. One could argue that a satellite is held in place by the initial conditions of the launch. Perhaps the rotating surface of the Earth during lift-off and the wind resistance throughout its ascent until it reaches outer space conspire to add a hidden sideways component to its velocity. According to Newtons first law the satellite will remain at constant velocity whereby it'd maintain its trajectory even without an active force.

Dualism doesn't always have to include the brain being conscious. For example we could rephrase the mind-body problem as the mind-matter problem. If we left out the brain as being non-sentient and robotic then we could focus on other physical substances like photons and chemicals to see how they impact our out-of-body conscious perception.

So I'll ask you again, what exactly is the point of all this? It sounds like mental masturbation and nothing more. — Darkneos

If we were to forget about gravity then your natural tendency would be to stay still since there's no external force according to Newton's first law. You wouldn't fall down into empty space. Therefore we could interpret gravity to be like the surface of the Earth dragging you along with it.

If planets were kept in place by perpetual motion whereby loose asteroids passively escaped the solar system then it wouldn't matter that stars in the out parts of the galaxies are travelling faster than expected. Thus it wouldn't require as much "Dark Matter" to account for the extra energy.

Newton solved gravity by uniting the force on Earth with the force between planets in the solar system. We were then left with hundreds of years trying to reconcile gravity with electromagnetism. Perhaps going back to basics and analysing what would happen if the force between planets and the force attaching us to the ground might actually be separate in nature; perpetual motion and a Euler force respectively.

We've to remember that according to Einstein space is relative and so the up and down directions don't exist without presupposing gravity is already in operation. Therefore it wouldn't matter what direction the Earth was rotating in so as to tie you down. Viewing gravity as a Euler force would mean that action at a distance wouldn't be required as a causal mechanism for gravity.

Imagining gravity as a Euler force would be like the ground literally met the sky at the horizon.

I once experimented with altering the velocity formulas where I measured seconds per metre rather than the usual metres per second. In this case length would be unchanging and somehow all objects would move by time contraction or dilation. Trying to use acceleration as seconds squared per metre utterly dazed me. I kind of inverted everything but it became too confusing for me because it'd require that all physical objects have separate timelines.

"(For) uniform acceleration we have three equations: v = u + at, s = ut + 1/2 at2, v2 = u2 + 2as".
https://owlcation.com/stem/Force-Weight-Newtons-Velocity-and-Mass

Sadomasochism: "the derivation of sexual gratification from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation either on another person or on oneself".

Is it possible that an evil person might freely choose to live in hell after death without being forced to by God if the punishment wasn't everlasting? Performing evil actions on others objectifies not only the victims but also the perpetrators to some extent. Evil violates the qualities of humanness. If heaven and hell are believed to exist then its inhabitants will be much older than the oldest people alive on Earth. Therefore their subconscious will be much wiser and stronger than it was during life. The unconscious minds of evil individuals might hold them to task for their own desires. Free of the symbolism of social status and power hierarchies in our mundane world it might be possible that evil spirits will embrace masochism as much as sadism in a dissociated state of consciousness after death. The notions of heaven and hell have been imprinted on our neurological genetics since the creations of the oldest religions thousands of years ago. Thus even an evil individual might not be able to 100% eradicate their unconscious beliefs in spiritual justice. In other words their own unconscious might retain traces of divine punishment for bad behaviour even if they consciously rebel against it during their earthly life.

"(A) debate is happening between those who believe in an afterlife of torment and those who believe the souls of those who do not enter Heaven will be destroyed."
https://the1a.org/segments/2019-01-08-hell-and-how-we-think-of-it/
To what extent is eternal oblivion less vengeful of a punishment than a temporary stay in hell?

Take the musical instruments a musician is familiar with. They often can hear things in a song the average person who doesn't play those instruments is unaware of. — Marchesk

A dream could function just like the way music rejigs our time perception. Each instrument has a different flow of time. The emotional tone of a dream can be played at a different rate to the thoughts behind a dream. We continuously forget what we intended to do where our dream character moves around and is forced to create new intentions based on the changing locations of the dream. For example a dream character might go to the shop to buy a specific item but it will be forgotten by the time he arrives. Then the dream character must form a new plan based on his current surroundings in the shop. Perhaps he might decide to explore outside. So new plans would be created impromptu. We aren't making new decisions from scratch but instead we're basing them on the changing scenery around us. In a dream we're amnesiac not only about our past selves but also our past ambitions. This is what contributes to effortless story-making. Amnesia in real-life might cause apathy, blankness, confusion or meditation on the present moment whereas amnesia in a dream somehow results in chaotic narratives. One way to explain the mismatch is that we're selectively amnesiac in a dream where our thoughts and emotions diverge. Specific thoughts are erased from a dream character's memory. We're partially amnesiac in a dream rather than being completely memoryless and so the amnesia in a dream is more multi-layered than medical amnesia.

"The spatial and temporal dimensions of music are actually quite separate from the space and time as we encounter them in normal experience. So it's a curious thing that you can write music out and then when pitch goes up you write the notes going up and down and so on. But in fact of course the notes being written are spatially going up and down but the musical notes are not. The tones are not. One way of putting this to say music has its own space and similarly with time. You take a piece of music and you start at 10 a.m - let's say you finish it at 10:15 - and then you think oh I really like that so you play it again. You started at 10:20. Now the start of it in the world of experience is a different time but the start of the piece is the start of the piece. So the temporal relations - start middle finish - and so on plus more sophisticated things like reprise and recapitulation and variations these are all within music" (4:29-5:42)

Gordon Graham - What is Philosophy of Art? - Closer To Truth

"Author defined time as an objective time of the musical composition and the subjective time as psychological experience. Accordingly, absolute time is organized within the composition – it is objective and defined, thus can be expressed in size by the properties, values and symbols of musical elements, notation and timing. Musical time as the psychological phenomena is relative referring to the organization of time in performer's mind, as well as how the performance is perceived and experienced by listeners. The nature of organization of elements of musical time in the performer's mind lies in the conception of the structure of the temporal organization generated by the performer's subjective expression, knowledge of the musical form, and motor/kinesthetic ability. Furthermore, the idea of the temporal structure also incorporates experience and practice, as well as intuition and aesthetic valuations. Thus, the structure of time is not independent – it interacts and relies upon other structures, building performer's conception of the whole."
https://accelerandobjmd.weebly.com/issue3/the-perception-and-organization-of-time-in-music

I often find dreams with a theme of outer space to be really mystical. For example someone could have a dream where they're floating between stars. Then when you awaken it almost feels like your perception of the night sky is internal.

If every neuron has been damaged at least once throughout the entire history and catalogue of brain injuries, then consciousness can't be dependent on any solitary neuron.

If consciousness is fundamental then it might be computationally simpler for evolution to create a conscious being rather than a philosophical zombie. Evolution will choose the most efficient operating system so to speak. However we know that the brain is one of the most convoluted computers in the universe which would appear to serve as contradictory evidence. Perhaps we could say that if consciousness were a total mystery then there might be ways that the mind is actually easier to construct for a biological organism if only we had a more complete theory of computation. For example a new maths chapter always looks intimidatingly complicated but when you study it then it becomes quite intuitive. Perhaps future generations might be able to say the same about the brain once they get their heads around the hard problem of consciousness. The complexity of the brain would then be an illusion akin to the chaotic residue of conscious decision-making. If a computer could find a way to tap into conscious energy then maybe the development of a conscious being might be quite straightforward. For instance the brain becomes more complex when a child grows into an adult. However it doesn't change into a drastically unrecognisable form even though the mindset of an adult is unrecognisable to the mind of a child. In other words the mind changes more than the brain when we grow older. By contrast a computer might have to totally reconfigure the hardware in order to double the capacity of the software.

"90% of Brain Growth Happens Before Kindergarten"
https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/early-childhood-matters/brain-development/

https://www.closertotruth.com/series/consciousness-fundamental

I sometimes make these embarrassing arithmetic mistakes where I don't know whether to include the first or last item. For instance I was on an internet thread where my first post was 127 and then there were two other posters. Therefore I momentarily thought my second post would be number 129 since 7+2=9. However to my surprise it was post 130. This is because it's the third post after when you exclude my first post. Or else how 6+4 is 10 even though 6 to 10 contains 5 separate numbers when you include the number 6. I often made the same mistake when I used the printer where I'd try to predict the pages only to find that I'd come out wrong. There can be a slight discrepancy when we translate pure maths into real life intuition! The equations are watertight but it's up to us to first form those equations! For example it’s counterintuitive how the 18th century is for the 1700s and not the 1800s!

Numb - OFFICIAL TRAILER

An interesting movie about feeling detached from life. When we're knocked off our intended path or fail certain ambitions in life and are left confused about our future then it's probably possible to feel separated from any aspect of ourselves; be it our past memories, our awareness of other people, our own emotions or even our time perception.

Yet another version of anti-realism could be that empty space is 3D and objects are 2D. In this frame of mind objects in our vision would be separated from each other by real space, floor depth and air even though the objects themselves would have no internal depth. Therefore perspective of faraway objects could be reduced in that a reduction in surface area would be offset by the lack of internal volume. A simile for this idea would be that light moves like it were traversing through three dimensions while each solid object we see is like a separate 2D hologram. Our consciousness would extend outwards ever so slightly in our visual perception to create a hollow sense of depth.