Otmar, I don't intend to be indelicate, but the comments you make below are seemingly unavailavle to public discourse. In other words, how/why is it others...
John, I think its just a matter of differences in semantics, or possibly one's native language. I never imagined the *sound* of clapping to be limited only to...
chris kramer wrote:> ... somehow interacts with the physical? Can I re-phrase that question? How do others accept any notion of a self that is not physical,...
Just to add my two cents... Hoping to clarify this issue of what is the "soul" or higher conscious mind -- and why there may be good reason to believe it might...
Calming your thoughts through mindfulness Our worries. They're crescendoing like the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth": Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression. ...
Originally published in Science Express on 4 September 2008 Science 3 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5898, pp. 96 - 101 DOI: 10.1126/science.1164685 Internally...
Direct Recording Shows Brain Signal Persists Even In Dreamless Sleep ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2008) - Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine...
Just when the going gets tough you pull out Robert. What gives? You mention that this discussion is too time-consuming for you. Fair enough it seems. But it's...
Hi Barron, ... My knowledge is slowly growing. I have recently acquired a good philosopher of physics as a thesis supervisor. Let me have another crack at...
Hi Alfredo, ... The requirement of necessity is not stronger. That is because sentence X necessitates sentence Y if and only if X logically entails Y (there is...
Kelvin: Just when the going gets tough you pull out Robert. What gives? You mention that this discussion is too time-consuming for you. Fair enough it seems....
Hi Brent, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately, after reading your post, and your link several times, I have not been able to make sense of what you are...
Ladies and Gentlemen, However you feel about this is what we are seeking to concisely state and quantitatively measure and what we need to know. I think it...
Kelvin, I believe BB quoted this from you: "The hard problem…is the question of how physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience." I...
Angell, I clicked, 'saw' it, it is still too long and complicated to comment. (for me of course). JohnM ... From: Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra, Esq. To:...
Leon, so let me rephrase in favor of your clap<G>> The koan speaks about " __ ONE HAND __ " , no matter if it is YOUR hand or anybody else's - IN SINGULAR...
John, Well, one man's clap is another man's slap. And, that can only be done with one hand -- no matter how many highly esteemed Zenists figure out the answer...
... Absolutely correct... If, and only IF the "self" (or the subjective awareness of our INDIVIDUAL existence) is considered as ONLY the objective physical...
... Hello Kelvin, Thank you for your reply. If you let me have your email address, I will send you a zip file that contains the whole of my book (1000 KB...
RKS, very 'scientific' methodology. "The brain calculates". It could be made even more complicated. A simpler way may be to assign an analogue understanding...
Gentleladies and Men, I don't feel ready to participate in Brent's expert crowd, just want to warn against some 'democratic'-looking solution in scientific...
Leon, I find an essential word in your explanatory (argumentative?) last par.: --- "I F" ---. If not, not. Then again who was gossiping to you about -...
... entails ... necessity). Alfredo: And then Fundamentalism = (Logical) Reductionism?? ... our ... could ... Alfredo: Why couldn´t the fundamental level be...
Food for thought -- regulating energy supply to the brain during fasting If the current financial climate has taught us anything, it's that a system where...
, Please circulate amongst your members. Thank you Colin Schmidt ps: take the pictures out if it is too heavy. ctaS The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual ...
Please circulate amongst your colleagues. Thank you Colin Schmidt The Philosophy of Identity in the Virtual Symposium 6, April 23, 9-12 AM / 2-5 PM Site: ...
Michael Cecil: According to the theory of evolution, there was a gradual progression in biological complexity-over a period of, perhaps, a few billion...
By Steven Wiley ... Waiting for Einstein The dawn of a unified theory of biology may finally be upon us. ... Will there ever be a theoretical biology that is...
