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  • Category: Existentialism
  • Founded: Apr 16, 1999
  • Language: English
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58904 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 3, 2013
7:34 pm
(1) "Ask any person who is subject to anxiety or panic triggers whether specific chemicals produce anxious and/or paranoid thoughts and feelings." I don't...
58905 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 3, 2013
7:49 pm
eduard, Well argued and presented. You emphasize the brain (science) and I the larger system of thought (philosophy) or how to apply what we think we know...
58906 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 3, 2013
10:09 pm
I would suggest that you ARE your brain. And your brain IS you. All of your characteristics and behaviours are learned by your brain over time and it/you...
58907 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 3, 2013
11:06 pm
All the talk of spirit comes from religion. Eduards idea that we are our brain discounts spirit or soul and that is fine with me. I have alway seen man as...
58908 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 4, 2013
12:53 am
But I don't limit the domain of the brain. It's everything. I find myself asking of someone ... what script is he/she running? And in a way the corollary of...
58909 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 4, 2013
1:39 am
Study the kidney , It is a dual organ responsible for excretion. The tissue itself is very complex with anatomical structures that rival the brain or...
58910 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 4, 2013
4:23 pm
I think it's immensely helpful if one uses the term 'mental scripts' rather than 'bad habits,' and recognizes the brain has a quality of plasticity which...
58911 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 4, 2013
4:38 pm
Regard for the system rather than its specific parts is a philosophical perspective, I think. A philosophical quandary might come into play while determining...
58912 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
12:06 am
To be extreme about it, we are no different from a worm .... only in degree. The worm likely has a few neurons that keep it going in the earth ... we have a...
58913 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
12:12 am
It might rival the brain [which I doubt], but the kidney doesn't think. I am Jack's failing kidney. I kill Jack. eduardathome ... From: William Sent: Thursday,...
58914 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
12:22 am
'sustained incoherence&#39; Tyler Durden: Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say...
58915 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
1:17 am
"System" is also an engineering perspective. You can't design an airplane that is heavier than the withstand capability of runway on which it is to land. ...
58916 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
3:05 am
Who designs an ecosystem?...
58917 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
3:05 pm
Does a system design itself? Is each part intelligent? Does a brain merely perceive systems or does it influence them, and does the system influence the brain?...
58918 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
4:42 pm
If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the power of love and intelligence as the defining attributes of the new...
58919 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
5:41 pm
58920 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
5:56 pm
58921 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
8:16 pm
Depends upon what you mean by an ecosystem. If you mean a system to get rid of waste in an ecological appropriate fashion ... instead of throwing stuff into...
58922 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
8:35 pm
Yes, my point exactly, and big brains have yet to improve on it, only recklessly exploit it....
58923 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
8:37 pm
In nature, systems evolve or follow basic laws like a galaxy system. A natural system might be considered intelligent in the sense that it decides what will...
58924 Dick.
somerset_2 Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
8:51 pm
If Dick can communicate? [ In existlist@yahoogroups.com, "Mary" wrote: If Dick is able to communicate through the web after he passes, will he have proved the...
58925 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
10:04 pm
A deeper understanding of various individual systems can lead to a wider understanding of the cosmic system.My Ecology professor was a botanist but knew...
58926 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 5, 2013
10:24 pm
It doesn't mean agreement is necessary, inevitable, or desirable....
58927 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
12:24 am
58928 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
12:43 am
58929 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
1:15 am
Mary, Sorry, this one went to my junk mail and I only found it today. Algorithms are mental scripts. They play out in a fashion to give a result. It may well...
58930 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
1:19 am
I seriously doubt that the functioning of the kidney can rival that of the brain. Yes a dead kidney leads to a dead brain, but then so will a scratch on your...
58931 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
1:35 am
There is a Chinese magician or is it a magician who was doing a trick in China .. can't recall. He had this trick of passing a $10 bill through a window. I...
58932 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
2:41 am
58933 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 6, 2013
5:46 pm
In January the house and senate will be in session five days,in February they will meet eleven days. White House sources say the administration will probably...
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