Maybe we have a "Divine Sense" but it is not "new" as much as you have recently discovered it. One might identify this sense as an inner light; one might also identify it as the loving presence of Jesus or the Holy Spirit, or an inner illumination. Various terms in various traditions. — Bitter Crank
It's all very well defining good and bad. But what are the implications here?. If your life is good in any given moment, then it can only be good in that given moment. It's as simple as that. — TranscendedRealms
. Lastly, for a person who obtains positive emotions from harming others, he would be a new age hedonist. But he would be misusing the power of the light for wrongdoing. — TranscendedRealms
This is because emotions are forms of motivation that make things matter to us. — TranscendedRealms
Is there an aspect(s) of the conscious experience that we are not automatically aware of, or that our culture suppresses? — Crane
For consciousness, maybe this is necessary .......Does the computer the simulation runs on matter? — Marchesk
the size of the observable universe." — Michael
Sure, but we don't. — Michael
Given the above, I don't think so. We only have reason to believe that we are not in an inconsistent Boltzmann brain scenario. — Michael
Any thoughts — Michael
I can only see two aspects of consciousness: sensory and cognitive.. — Crane
I think this was the premise behind the Selfish Gene book by Richard Dawkins. I believe his contention was that altruistic actions serve to promote the survival of the species and are therefore ultimately selfish, with self defined at that population. — MikeL
do we prefer having nightmares and or bad dreams over not dreaming? — XanderTheGrey
Can a polygamous/polyandrous society provide stable families and safe, healthy children? — T Clark
I'm just wondering whether scientists are holding the wrong side of the bat. Have they even tried something as simple as I've suggested viz. connecting together a bunch of wires with some fixed set of protocols as to how a signal traverses the network and then connect an output device to the network to see what happens? This doesn't sound too expensive to me. — TheMadFool
He might realize that many others aren't happy...If the wise man isn't happy, what's so great about wisdom? — 0af
The lower the expectations of life, the higher the probability that you will find happiness. — szardosszemagad
I can't believe what passes for philosophy around here. — szardosszemagad
Motion doesn't make sense without space and time, and space and time don't make sense without motion. — apokrisis
If you are interested in a deeper level explanation of inertial motion, then the standard physics route is spelt out by Noether's theorem. — apokrisis
it should be possible to determine which object has the highest velocity relative to the other, which one is moving away the fastest.
If this is possible, it should be also be possible to create a hierarchy of energy states for identical objects and perhaps even come out with a baseline energy configuration (lowest mass), therefore grounding relativity at reference point — MikeL
I still think you don't need a point to live. You will provide a point or an alleged point when forced, or questioned, but that is not a "need" per se. — szardosszemagad
we would need a time value on our input boxes, say 20000 joules over 5 seconds. — MikeL
If we start with the premise that you can type an energy field and direction into an object and have it spring into acceleration - is that a feasible premise irrespective of time? — MikeL