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Try it and see if it works. Verify empirically.

I think of the elements as an arbitrary division of "everything" into four rough categories. Since whatever you can imagine could come at you in the form of a weird dream, an astral projection, etc., treat the balance as being ready for anything. E.g. if your heart races fast during AP, fi...

This is difficult to me because there's multiple perspectives to consider. For example, if you've ever almost died, you'd probably have noticed that as your mental faculties start to shut down, it becomes apparent that the things you take for granted as being you are not to be taken for granted. It'...

I haven't done it in the sense of actually possessing something, but it's definitely possible to manipulate your concept of self into something else. Treat yourself like a sculpture, then sculpt. You start at you, then similar to how you can visualize say, a triangle, try to morph your entire awaren...

One of the most interesting things I've experienced is how I can have multiple totally different feelings, but have them both mean the exact same thing. For example, in the wrong state of mind, stubbing your toe might issue a "this feels good" message, all the same as something like eating...

What are your favorite arguments against the idea of true death in the sense of oblivion? I find it odd that, at least in western culture, characteristics of death are assumed, then religions work on that fear to provide alternatives. It would seem just as plausible, to me, for the death assumption ...

Suppose I am stabbed. I then proceed to modify my senses so that I do not see the wound, I appear healthy, and I do not feel the wound. While this modifies my internal representation of the world, it leaves the objective world unchanged. Surely, to others I will be bleeding, and once I remove my gla...

If you actually think deeply about what you do when learning, you'll notice that you're not doing much at all. When you look at a book, it seems that the mere action of observing the text is enough to cause you to gain related knowledge, such as visualizations, understandings, etc. For example, look...

Kiss my heart Kiss my lips Spark the divination Of something lost in my chest It beats along But something's amiss The rhythm's lost Its ignorant bliss Kiss my heart Kiss my lips Connect the dots from this to that Bring forth sensations of merry Pleasure, pain, and misery, maybe joy Understanding It...

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Layman translation (for those who find me overly technical):
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I'm bored.

Existence would be rather dull if there were an ending. Welcome to the never ending ladder. Power is all relative anyway.

You guys have slightly missed the point. What I'm getting at is where the actual qualia comes from, and what decides it. You don't get a rainbow when you cut open a brain, so where are the colors? Suppose we have two completely identical observers, physically speaking, in the exact same positions, w...

1. You'd be surprised what is feasible to manifest physically, but real life isn't harry potter; there are limitations. An illusion can be just as useful as a physical effect though, and a lot easier. 2. I take a many worlds view on this topic. Anything that could theoretically exist, does in some s...

If there is no absolute, and it is random, and that we are free to do what we please will-nilly, then we would all be gods. Everyone would be justified and there would be no need for any spiritual or occult work. It may be that we all go to a similar destiny in design, based on our choices, but I d...

Spida, no real offense intended, but that description sounds nearly religious. I feel you could explain it better. Also, I enjoy being the devil's advocate. What does an "expansion" of consciousness even mean? Are you talking about it getting more and more data? Are you talking about it gr...

Shawn Blackwolf, THANK YOU (in the event that I'm not completely misinterpreting your image) That's exactly what I was getting at. Chaos to order, and order to chaos, eternally. Spida, What it comes down to for me is being torn between two paradoxes. On the one hand, you have an eternal Consciousnes...

Spida, That might be overkill. Just look at the anthropic principle. Except reject the part where it says that the world is fine tuned. Effectively, we must have order because otherwise we wouldn't be able to think about it. Doesn't mean there's any method to the madness. It can be random luck. Thou...

Shawn, We are ***SO*** different , and you just don't get it... I understand perfectly. I just think you have it in you to be reasonable. I don't give a damn ( nice word ) what someone thinks of the code , or thinks I need to offer a proof for it...I have more than worked with it long enough , taugh...

Neofight, While you have a valid point about the chicken and egg thing, I don't think it's actually possible to resolve which came first. It's a circular dependency. My general solution is to simply realize that neither of them came first because time doesn't need to have a beginning. It's an infin...

Shawn Blackwolf, Because that's not how proofs work. You can't verify anything you see. It's like being handed a recipe without having a clue about why the recipe works. If you stumbled across a book on how to make a space ship, are you going to invest insane quantities of money into building said s...

Spida, (I understand I write lengthy posts, but response times are sad at best, and it's impossible to discuss anything of real value with only short posts) Maybe you cannot remove things from Existence, but you can regress to a time before those things existed. This is exactly what is implied(I bel...

Spida, I'm not sure you can define "nothing". That's kind of a contradiction. "nothing", basically by definition, has to be undefined. I also don't think that's correct to define "nothing" as what's left if you remove "everything". 1 - 1 does not equal "u...

Cerber, [smile] Abstract concepts are still valid as definitions. I'm actually quite relaxed about what I might accept as a valid definition. For example, even though I can't personally imagine having a 360 degree field of view, I know it can exist because vision is just about color data, and the id...

OP, it's cyclic. Order is a special case of chaos. If you equate random with chaos then order is just when by chance you get a random value which is coherent in some way. Ex: take a random number generator. No matter how good it is, there's probably a chance of eventually getting a sequence of ident...

Spida, yes, but they might also have gotten 11 from the fact that there are 10 numerals (0-9) and 10 + 1 = 11. Or that the flying spaghetti monster owns eleven cats (six of which are black, one of which is yellow, and the others some other color). Your correlation is valid, but my point is that it c...