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58967 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 10, 2013
5:34 pm
eduard, But your perspective may lead to unethical tinkering with the brains of others we deem unfit. It is a psychological and cybernetic approach, not at all...
58968 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 10, 2013
6:38 pm
... Right now neanderthal genetic mapping is being completed and with that concrete knowledge a reappraisal of the neanderthal mind set is taking place....
58969 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 10, 2013
7:59 pm
Bill, Before I consider your other post, I feel the need to address this. Yes, your privacy concerns are valid, and it doesn't require yet another 'footprint&#39;...
58970 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 11, 2013
12:19 am
But we do that already. Consider all the people who were given lobotomies with the assumption that it could affect their thinking. And then there is the use...
58971 Dick.
somerset_2 Send Email
Jan 11, 2013
8:25 pm
The last thing to go? [ I read many near death experiences because I had one myself many years ago. On reading them I found that many people claimed that sound...
58972 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 11, 2013
9:23 pm
Eduards comment about the harm done by religion makes me think about the relative sparcity of religion we are beginning to enjoy here in the west. Bush...
58973 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 11, 2013
9:33 pm
Ideas and information may be stored in individual brains but they also exist as shared, however that process occurs. Interrelatedness, connection, etc. does...
58974 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 11, 2013
9:54 pm
I'm always happy to learn that simple acts like signing petitions and raising awareness are effective in alleviating suffering. I can't afford to feed anyone...
58975 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 12, 2013
12:04 am
The importance is the realisation that it's the brain which thinks. It is very difficult to get that point across. One might say that Philosophy is the...
58976 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 12, 2013
3:11 am
Yesterday I saw the NRA President say that assault style weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines are non-negotiable. The NRA plans to focus on mental...
58977 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 12, 2013
5:10 pm
eduard, I think most modern peoples understand their brain is doing the thinking, and secular thought has been around since at least Aristotle and Plato. The...
58978 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 12, 2013
10:58 pm
I think Biden and Obama can steamroller an assualt weapons ban . I do not know if they can do it by executive order and the house does not want to go against...
58979 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
12:23 am
I doubt the factoid that the brain is what thinks has been around since Aristotle and Plato. Some Greeks may have given some mention to it, but the general...
58980 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
5:57 pm
I am watching the talk shows and find my state marching away from the nation as a whole. The govenor is a thwow back republican conservative. There is a...
58981 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
7:56 pm
Bill, I'm reminded of the adage that when good men do nothing evil triumphs. People who want compromise, which I assume is a majority of Americans, have to...
58982 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
9:35 pm
Here all seemed in order with a well vetted Democratic gouvenor winning a solid victory. He did nothing for his constituancy. He ignored the unions and just...
58983 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
10:46 pm
Dr Snaja Gupta is running a series on neuroscience and it affirms your sayings about the brain.They are using cockroaches to demonstrate a loop from a neuron...
58984 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 13, 2013
11:39 pm
You misread me, eduard. I didn't say knowledge that the brain thinks has been around since antiquity; secular thought has. I don't know if philosophy has ever...
58985 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 14, 2013
5:04 pm
eduard, Property dualism, emergent realism, non-reductive materialism, anomalous monism, biological naturalism, epiiphenomenalism, panpsychic property dualism...
58986 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 14, 2013
6:15 pm
The head of the NRA boasts that no gun legislation will come out of congress. Obama will speak in an hour. I think Obama will use executive orders and force...
58987 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 14, 2013
8:33 pm
... "All these people that you mentioned ,I know them they are all quite lame. I had to rearrange their faces and give them all another name but right now I...
58988 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 14, 2013
10:24 pm
Mary, The receptors do not project anything. That is why they are called "receptors&quot;. I used the example of the Greeks to show how off the mark people were...
58989 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 14, 2013
11:16 pm
Mary, I don't deny that there are theories of brain-mind. There are likely all sorts of explanations or theories which wish to assign some types of thinking...
58990 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 15, 2013
3:39 pm
Bill, By all means, feel free to go your own way. Mary...
58991 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 15, 2013
4:07 pm
eduard, When referring to anatomical differences of receptors, I forgot to specify sense organs which are variously configured and influence perception. My...
58992 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 15, 2013
11:08 pm
I have just seen the movie and if you want to learn recent history this show is a must. A female CIA agent changed the world. The girl joined CIA out of high...
58993 eduardathome
yeoman4 Send Email
Jan 16, 2013
1:50 am
My only point is that the idea of the apple does not "reside" within the apple, as you suggested. eduard ... From: Mary Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:07...
58994 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 16, 2013
10:38 pm
I just listened to the President and Vice Presiden announcing their measures to combat gun violence. I see the effort as reasonable. It is reasonable in its...
58995 William
bhvwd Send Email
Jan 16, 2013
11:56 pm
Individualism in existentialism is a central tenant. Privacy is the bullwork of freedom and the individual life. Those prone to collectivism tend to dilute...
58996 Mary
josephson45r Send Email
Jan 17, 2013
1:27 am
Okay then. Ideas about objects reside in the brain, as well ideas about the brain. The notion of an object, including the brain, and all an object will come to...
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