If you read the news, the states of the Arab Spring, are leaning again towards dictatorship. Look at what Morsi in Egypt has done. He effectively made...
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Mary
josephson45r
Jan 9, 2013 1:37 am
There were many of us who objected to and were appalled by our mission in Vietnam. I'm also disgusted by the fact that more Americans have been killed in...
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Mary
josephson45r
Jan 9, 2013 3:24 pm
eduard, Perhaps client-server or network is a better analogy for a thought system. Apparently dummy terminals connect to a mainframe, but exchange occurs with...
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William
bhvwd
Jan 9, 2013 3:57 pm
Mary,I remember my objection to Nam . I could never see any pressing national interest. Kennedy was said to be trying to halt the incursion and some say that...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 9, 2013 4:25 pm
I am speaking about the thinking itself. One can realise that they are thinking and can follow their thoughts[I was thinking that and now I am thinking this]....
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William
bhvwd
Jan 9, 2013 6:13 pm
This Terantino film seems just a violent shoot um up but I see a deeper context. The show is set pre civil war and is a graphic condemnation of slavery. They...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 9, 2013 7:29 pm
Mary, My depiction is computureze, in that the matrix of neurons operates on the basis of inputs and outputs. And in the Noosphere which is the complex of ...
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Mary
josephson45r
Jan 9, 2013 7:54 pm
eduard, Yes, analogies only go so far. Part of my point is that we don't need to observe neural activity in order to observe and think about our thoughts. I...
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Mary
josephson45r
Jan 9, 2013 8:55 pm
Bill, Tarantino strives to make violence as ugly as it really is. Here's a test to determine how many slaves we virtually own. Another appalling reality. ...
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William
bhvwd
Jan 9, 2013 10:01 pm
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 10, 2013 12:04 am
Mary, I would have difficulty with the use of mind. It leads to the idea that thinking is happening somewhere else. And if it happens somewhere else then you...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
Jan 10, 2013 12:08 am
The present cinema and especially that of Tarantino, is like wrestling ... red turns to green. eduard ... From: William Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:01...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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William
bhvwd
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....
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Mary
josephson45r
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'...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
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...
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Dick.
somerset_2
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...
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William
bhvwd
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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William
bhvwd
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...
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eduardathome
yeoman4
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...
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William
bhvwd
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
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William
bhvwd
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...
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William
bhvwd
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...
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Mary
josephson45r
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...
