Price tag can be very high. But your choice of course. — Hippyhead
Honestly, what scares me is that I try to time my departure too closely, and blow it. And then spend the next 12 years staring at the ceiling unable to move. 12 years that will feel like 2,000. My sister doing this right now. No end in sight. Could be 20 more years to come before it's over. Can you tell I'm terrified? — Hippyhead
I had an uncle who was mowing the grass on a hot 4th of July and had a heart attack. They said he was dead before he hit the ground. Now that's the way to go about things. — Hippyhead
Yes, my grandfather had Parkinson's and increasingly severe dementia over a period of 15 years — jamalrob
I hope you find a way to deal with it, even if it involves defining waves out of existence. — jamalrob
I hope you find a way to deal with it, even if it involves defining waves out of existence.
— jamalrob
Thank you, same to ya! We shall see. — Hippyhead
In 2008, we co-sponsored a MAPS-led trial, conducted by Dr Peter Gasser, which was the first study to use LSD in patients since prohibition. As the first LSD study approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 40 years, it put the drug’s medical potential back in the spotlight. The study demonstrated that LSD paired with psychotherapy alleviated end-of-life anxiety in patients suffering from terminal illnesses. In each study session, patients were assisted by therapists, who walked them through their psychedelic experience. Patients reported no prolonged negative effects of the drug, and the 200 ug dose was associated with profound positive effects in alleviating anxiety. At 1-year follow-up, patients reported that their reduced anxiety levels were maintained, and identified no harmful side-effects. — Beckley Foundation
Patterns are real, but they don't meet our definition of existence. Thus, they can't really die, because they never actually existed in the first place. — Hippyhead
This is because you are caught up in naive realism — FrancisRay
We do not experience extension. We are always here and now — FrancisRay
It's not a difficult ideas intellectually, but conceptually challenging in the extreme. — FrancisRay
Agreed. In our world extension is the flip side of experience (this does not mean it is in any way fundamental).We do not experience extension. We are always here and now. This is well discussed by the physicist and mathematician Hermann Weyl in his writings on the continuum. Extension is a theory, not an experience.
I can buy that, but my explanation is probably quite different to yours.According to the theory, you can not be destroyed because, as a pattern, you don't exist.
It is my mission to explain how profoundly simple metaphysics is — FrancisRay
think we can interpret this as saying that it's precisely the patterns that can be said to significantly exist, rather than matter without form. — jamalrob
According to the theory, you can not be destroyed because, as a pattern, you don't exist.
I can buy that, but my explanation is probably quite different to yours. — Punshhh
That the material we find ourselves in is a construct, an artificial substrate, or vehicle enabling the appearance/experience of a being/s. Being artificial, their existence is artificial and when they cease to be, what ceases to be was not real, but a construct.I would be interested in your explanation?
That the material we find ourselves in is a construct, an artificial substrate, or vehicle enabling the appearance/experience of a being/s. Being artificial, their existence is artificial and when they cease to be, what ceases to be was not real, but a construct.
Likewise this is also the case for the soul (for want of a better word), but in a more subtle way. This is a simplified version of the idea. — Punshhh
You can never die. Because you never existed in the first place. — Hippyhead
Thus Hippyhead's patterns do not really exist. — FrancisRay
Thus Hippyhead's patterns do not really exist — FrancisRay
Get involved in philosophical discussions about knowledge, truth, language, consciousness, science, politics, religion, logic and mathematics, art, history, and lots more. No ads, no clutter, and very little agreement — just fascinating conversations.