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  2. ! Moderator Note It looks like that the thread has run its course and if desired, the spin-offs could be discussed in a new thread. Locked.
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  4. Ironic, considering "them" was originally used properly in context until you broadened the definition to include the us/them divide, then denounced it as divisive. It's insidious how you weaponized a pronoun.
  5. Missed this one! For memory, I offer the flatworm experiment and organ transplant references. For emotion, I offer the microbiome and two way conversation via the vagus nerve. "We know that in animals the gut microbiome can affect emotional behaviour via the vagus nerve." https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2022/05/stimulating-the-gut-brain-nerve-can-influence-emotion "This narrative review summarizes key aspects of vagus nerve function as a main player in the microbiota-gut-brain axis in depression" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666915323001464 3.For cognition, speculation with a touch of research on cells and thinking. "Do cells think" "A microorganism has to adapt to changing environmental conditions in order to survive. Cells could follow one of two basic strategies to address such environmental fluctuations. On the one hand, cells could anticipate a fluctuating environment by spontaneously generating a phenotypically diverse population of cells, with each subpopulation exhibiting different capacities to flourish in the different conditions. Alternatively, cells could sense changes in the surrounding conditions - such as temperature, nutritional availability or the presence of other individuals - and modify their behavior to provide an appropriate response to that information. As we describe, examples of both strategies abound among different microorganisms. Moreover, successful application of either strategy requires a level of memory and information processing that has not been normally associated with single cells, suggesting that such organisms do in fact have the capacity to 'think'." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17530173/
  6. You do a 'Too long didn't read' then. I just read the Thread OP 1st post just now and I can't make head to tail of it.
  7. My mistake, he did discard the head part, but the point remains that the tail part grew a head and remembered the task, so where was memory stored before a new head was regenerated. The head part of the worm would have remembered the task, because heads store memory. Are you clicking on the links and nothing happens or are you cliking, they open and you expect highlighted text? If its the former, please click on the boxes provided below the post for access and if is the latter, I have not highlighted anything, because it is a quick read. There are clear indications that thinking and memory storage happens in the brain. However, I would venture only at this point that collective consciousness proponents would say otherwise or indicate that it is both as mind and brain form a whole. Like brain appearing to form a whole with the body, except that in the case of mind outside of brain, its a physical entity forming a whole with a non-physical one. A radio without a signal. The only observations hinting at it for me are episodes when a malfunctioning brain is able to spit out any kind of thinking when that should not be the case. Notwithstanding, I believe that there is no proof per say that this hypothesis is even worth bearing in mind. I offered it for discussion, because it is one of many being considered. Again, my position is not that we should be pursuing this or any other model, but that there is something wrong with our current picture of how mind works in the brain. I will get more info on the mind through brain hypothesis and get back to you. Din't catch that one and good one sayiing that the brain has a hard time adapting to death Wow! The Who! Like that one! And body and cells appear to adapt to circumstance to stay alive and do the business that they have to do! And remember that the pinball wizard was "in a quiet vibration land"; so maybe it is also the case for mind!
  8. Not really. Them = used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily identified. "I watched the kids and read them stories" "I picked up some rocks and threw them in the river" Except there I was not talking about people I was talking about concepts. Also you literally weren't able to make your point, without using the word "them" in the same way except you were referring to people. I also didn't call anyone an asshole that was just an example to try to illustrate to you that your language policing just does not make sense here. Them is not a dirty word and my usage of it in no way speaks to any hidden ill will I have towards anyone.
  9. Try to wrap your study on the difference between an invariant vs a variant measurement. The former all observers agree on literally all observers. That's is what's used to calculate the expansion and age of the universe etc. The commoving observer is used to establish that needed invariance
  10. I feel your pain. Perhaps you should stop dating tennis players, Moon. Love means nothing to them.
  11. What caused the bridge disaster? The fact that a SINGLE support was so vulnerable to large container ships. After giant container ships started going under that bridge, they should have built up a concrete island around the single support so that if a ship crashes into the support, it will crash into concrete surrounding the single support. Pile up concrete blocks all around the single support, and pour concrete on top of it so there is a smooth, gentle slope, that will stop the giant ship before it can reach that single support. Thank you. Great, you noticed the structural deficiency. No mention in ANY news about this that I've heard. I posted before I read what you wrote. Thank you.
  12. That reminds me, are you interested in joining my professional hide-and-seek team. Turns out, good players are hard to find.
  13. Give me some time. I will try to study first GTR better. Later I will answer when I understand it better.
  14. Useful as an exercise, perhaps, but it’s not the universe we live in. Your opinions mean little; in science it’s the evidence you have to support a falsifiable idea Can we stick to the topic? You keep avoiding addressing the question of the connection of relativity to the expansion of the universe
  15. "That death dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean pinball". The brain adapts to whatever body it has, if we could cut the head off and keep the brain alive it would adapt to that too.
  16. It wasn't a criticism it was an observation, but however you spin it them = people. Because it's subconsciously dividing people, it's not about how you talk about them, we can all hide our feelings when them is bigger than us, it's about how we think about other people; it's easy to call them assholes, when everyone else does. Like I said it's an insidious word/concept.
  17. Psychedelics show that brain activity reduces, the more intense the psychedelic experience. See the research of Robin Carhart Harris of Imperial College London of the brain on psilocybin. (magic mushrooms). see here: Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin | PNAS The remarkable effect was: the more intense the experience, the less brain activity was seen. A negative correlation between consciousness and the amount of brain activity. This, and many other phenomena, confirm the 'filter theory' of consciousness, where at a certain point, we get access to Mind at Large or 'the block universe' or 'the universe as a whole'. This is the unity experience of mystics where there is no time. This correlates with a bad working brain, with no or less oxygen indeed. The more damaged the brain is, the more people experience Mind at Large and 'all events simultaneously'. This is a hypothesis, but this 'no time experience is another piece of the puzzle to see that time is an illusion of a mind connected to a body. Or to an observer in time and space.
  18. I found the Dali's electrical problems kind of surreal. (too soon?)
  19. A brain death event within us mostly hairless apes, a lack of cortical oxygen leading to the sensation of dissociative consciousness, is not the same thing as "no time" or "time doesn't exist." Time is just another word for length. Length clearly exists as a formal context of study, even though you cannot touch or smell it. Your philosophical position here is self-evidently absurd to the point of laughable.
  20. A I believe the timing is off a bit. The Japanese emperor sent a private message to Stalin before the Potsdam conference (in July) asking him to act as intermediary. I.e. these attempts pre-dated the bomb, which is one of the arguments of historians who argue against the traditional narrative regarding the bomb.
  21. Imagine a world without observers. Even you, observing your own body in time are not attached to this body anymore. Everything exists simultaneously (Einstein) in the block universe. We know from NDE-ers who ar not attached to their body anymore that they can confirm that they experience 'everything at once'. They experience no time. A place where everything is accessible in the present. There is no time. Many observers who are not attached to their bodies during a near-death experience can confirm this. They experience the block universe as it is in itself, without them observing it attached to a body in time and space.
  22. Nobody need care about your opinion since it's so clearly unblemished by enlightenment or understanding.
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