@GrantHBrennerMD "we got bored" and "needed some drama" lol. we wanted to study emotions because we evolved without the need for them and we wondered what was lost. by watching them, we decided emotions were an unneccesary risk factor & evolved accordingly. :)
@MccardJoseph@PhilosopherJoeC "consciousness-as-generative" you're saying that what someone does can be traced back to the cause of the source of their action. that how someone thinks, lives, behaves has causal factors. as apparent, of their internal condition?
@MccardJoseph@PhilosopherJoeC A think acted on me and so I acted on a thing, whether or not i was conscious of it. the causal cycle. now i'm conscious of the cycle.
@PhilosopherJoeC@MccardJoseph To cause something and to be the cause of something can't be separated out. I existed and so this caused something vs i acted on my own freedom and caused something else without "admitting" to it. the state is the being not the admission. that's real freedom without causation.
@lancejpollard@roydherbert You don't build a universe from an equation. You build a universe and then "think up" "some equation" that describes it. logic error #1. but if one thing creates another, keep thinking! thoughts can & do become things. :)
@marguerite_as@TheProjectUnity God is a conceptualization of what can be seen by the field illuminating it? :) John 9:39
"And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
if the heart cannot see, should the mind?
School Chalk under an electron microscope.
It’s almost entirety made up of fossilized shells of ancient single-celled marine plankton called coccolithophores.
@GrantHBrennerMD@drmichaellevin ha! Same era! real name, actually mom never implied that. i think i was going for the "might as well be" scenario more than anything else. i actually just saw this and felt like it might apply.. https://t.co/rJsQDVKL7F
We aren't the authors of our thoughts. We're just the user interface. We look at the universe and see a solid reality. The universe looks at us and sees a line of code.
We spend our lives trying to leave a mark on the surface of reality. Oblivious to the fact that our existence is being computed from beneath. We aren't separate individuals. We're just the localized tips of a single, massive mathematical architecture.👇