reality

I see that there has not been a thread abut CERN for some time. Is it "Turtles All the Way Down"? LHCb discovers three new exotic particles Once upon a time there were three elementary particles and it all made sense. Now: I wonder if the actual number of particles in this universe has a...

Through exploring my mind and friends of mine exploring their minds, the terms reality creation and conscious creation has come up frequently. Recently, I have been reading books such as Ten Thousand Whispers: A Guide to Conscious Creation, Reality Creation 101, and The Reality Creation...

I'm making this thread as a response to some of the ideas presented in the "The problem with atheists" thread. I'll quote what I said there. I thought this should have its own thread as it's sort of its own topic. Any thoughts on this odd need to gather one's morality from the nature of...

What does the term "denying reality" mean? Doesn't that presuppose there is a reality to deny? What reality?

It is a remark made by Bruno Putzeys in another thread (Philosophy & Religion subforum) that prompted me to start this thread and poll about dreaming that one is reading: Notwithstanding the oddity of your explanation (quite a lot of characters, objects, and environments vividly 'seen' in...

Most of you are by now acquainted with the philosophical realisation that the world which we actually experience is not real in itself. I.e., we observe ordered sensations within/upon consciousness which yield the impression of a world. We cannot actually observe the reality of anything. Basic...

It occurred to me, thinking about the Christian notion of the afterlife, that the standard life, death, resurrection, judgement, afterlife scenario completely renders the struggle of labour irrelevant. By that struggle I mean not only the struggle for social justice, but also the struggle more...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2261602,00.html The Sunday Times July 09, 2006 Stop dithering, this dictator's really got WMDs Andrew Sullivan Case No 1: a genocidal, certifiably loopy dictator with a history of nuclear, chemical and biological weaponry has the potential to...

On another forum I'm engaged in a discussion that has devolved into the old favorite--"how do we know anything is real" argument. Anyone know of good articles or posts, etc. pointing out the lameness of that argument? I know this has popped up here on the JREF forums as well...

The universe/reality has constructed brains that house our consciousness that is able to know itself through own curiosity about how we fit into the reality we find ourselves in. In doing this, reality is able to construct a copy, using itself as the template by imprinting itself on/in our...

So, are atoms, regarding their basic componets -- electrons, protons, neutrons, etc. -- perfect? I mean if you were able to isolate each of these individually from each other, would they all be identical (same size, shape, mass and whatnot) without any imperfections? It's interesting because it...

From BoingBoing: The IRS has recognized the Church of Reality as an official religion! The Church of Reality is a religion based on believing in everything that is real. What makes it a religion is that what a person believes in is a personal choice. Most people choose to believe in some sort...

Can science give a useful description of reality? Same description as posted by jay_gw in the other thread.

Can science give a useful description of reality? Same description as posted by jay_gw in the other thread.

Can science give a useful description of reality? Same description as posted by jay_gw in the other thread.

Does anyone have a good summary of what the process is for turning philosophical ideas into physical reality? How do ideas like "capitalism" which may start in the mind or the mind may reflect the physical reality of people trading back and forth ----- how do those types of ideas become a...

What do you all think about this. I can say wow. I really hope it works and soon.

I was working on an essay a couple days ago concerning the problems with separating ideas based on direct physical experiance from those which are created within our mental realm. The problem seems to arise from the overlap. But that's not my question. I was looking are some sources, and...

The cloaking device, famously used by the Romulans in Star Trek to hide their spacecraft from enemies, may yet become reality, thanks to US researchers. University of Pennsylvania PhD student Andrea Alu and professor Nader Engheta have written a paper for the journal Nature describing how a...

What if you could know beyond a doubt that the eternal Hellfire exists? What if you could hear and experience the screaming, pain, torment, horror and everything evil that is in Hell? What if scientists actually found Hell and found billions of souls of terrified people who have been banished to...

Can Christians agree with Hume concerning the ultimate unknowability of reality because of sense impression limitations. Or are Christians obligated to believe that what we perceive is exactly the way it is perceived because Goid has no need to deceive as Descartes tells us? This is the first...

I am in a few discussions on various boards and I wonder what the general outlook is here regarding mathematical descriptions of real physical phenomena. Do you view mathematical descriptions of real systems, objects and behaviors to forever be defined as axiomatic ( the catholic definition ) ...

The materialists amongst you argue that photons enter the eye and that the eye sends info to the brain about these photons. The brain then transforms this data into abstract experience upon awareness, thus representing external reality. Here's the question: How does the eye and/or brain know...

Some of you are aware of my philosophy which concludes that we're all existing within the Mind of God. I thought I'd explain why this philosophy is consistent with QM... The fundamental energy of perceived existence is known to be essentially indeterminate... yet progresses towards a...

ok, that's a neat trick, how did you do it? :D Adam Edit: (Diamond started this thread, when I opened it there was nothing there, not even a blank post by Diamond. I've never seen this one before!)

That's what these guys reckon, only 15 years this could be a reality http://www.isr.us/SEHome.asp?m=1 Seems plausible to me. So when do we start? The sooner we gat started.....

In light of Luciananarchy's assertion that she/he/it can experience Psironic Karma, a term which nobody else has ever heard of, I suggest that we should all divulge our own superpowers and a term to describe that power. My superpower is; Phyllomic Morphosis. The ability to turn green leaves...

I think I'm rich, therefore I am. hmmm...bank account still empty. I observe myself as a incredible hunk of a man with a devastating personality.........no still an ugly, lonely person repeadedly regected by women. :( I have faith that I am an intelligent person.....hmmm I still don't know...

I was watching the news and listened, shortly and just long enough to grab the remote, to an announcement and some preflicks about a new reality TV show coming for the fall season. The new offering is "Boy Meets Boy." Seems like old reality revisited to me, but I never watched any of the...