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There is right and wrong, and there are right and wrong pathways, just as there are right and left pathways....
And, above all, there remains the allure of roads not taken and less travelled by.
Oh poetic you!
So you're declaring that right and wrong are absolutes, as right and left are. Can our perceptions cause a change in what is actually right or wrong?
Indeed, had fixed my last job contract so i finished the day before I started leave. But that also means I am out of a job when I finish my leave in january.
Thanks! Job interview could have gone better, but the job application didn't describe the job well enough so I wasn't properly prepared, and despite several tries previously I couldn't get hold of the contact person.
Can't definitively. Why I asked. How do you model a world that you don't have. Or do you? What would it look like?
Can't definitively. Why I asked. How do you model a world that you don't have. Or do you? What would it look like?
But if you have yourself - your fully functioning brain, just disconnected from external input sources - you do have a world, right?
Free will vs predetermination
Well, not for light. In fact, photons don't experience any time at all. ... From the perspective of a photon, there is no such thing as time. It's emitted, and might exist for hundreds of trillions of years, but for the photon, there's zero time elapsed between when it's emitted and when it's absorbed again.
We exist in the same space as photons.
So our lives have already been lived end to end. We experience time like an arrow - yes. But a photon exists with us and to it, time is just a mountain where up is forward and down is backward. Our lives have already been set. The pattern in the rug is already there..
THoughts?
Well, not for light. In fact, photons don't experience any time at all. ... From the perspective of a photon, there is no such thing as time. It's emitted, and might exist for hundreds of trillions of years, but for the photon, there's zero time elapsed between when it's emitted and when it's absorbed again.
We exist in the same space as photons.
So our lives have already been lived end to end. We experience time like an arrow - yes. But a photon exists with us and to it, time is just a mountain where up is forward and down is backward. Our lives have already been set. The pattern in the rug is already there..
THoughts?
If you knew the world before you disconnected.
Then again, too much of what is basically sensory deprivation pretty much mentally destroys the person.
So "thinking"?
The ambulance parked outside my neighbors. Been there awhile. Hope they are okay. They are an older couple and he’s been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in the last year. Prone to falls etc.
Found out yesterday that a guy I trained with was a victim of a hit and run and left to die last Friday.
He left behind three kids, one of them is pretty young... It fries my mind to think that maybe if the driver acted like a human being and called 911 Luke might still be alive today; and his daughter might have grown up knowing her dad.
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He left behind three kids, one of them is pretty young... It fries my mind to think that maybe if the driver acted like a human being and called 911 Luke might still be alive today; and his daughter might have grown up knowing her dad.
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Sadly some people are pretty selfish. Especially if they had been drinking.
Ambulance still outside neighbors. Not a good sign.
Are you saying that a "disconnected" brain is incapable of dreaming, for example?
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Oh my, this is terrible. Just terrible. While deadly accidents happen, there is no excuse for a hit and run. I hope that the driver is found and that he or she faces justice.
Friend of mine in her early 20's died the same way a few years ago, the driver was never found (Police found evidence that the car ended up in Mexico). I don't know how can anyone live with that. My friend was a very active individual in my community, well known by virtually anyone who had civic duties at heart.
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No. Long term is typically tie to hallucinatory and loss of self identity.
*wiki*
Short-term sessions of sensory deprivation are described as relaxing and conducive to meditation; however, extended or forced sensory deprivation can result in extreme anxiety, hallucinations, bizarre thoughts, temporary senselessness, and depression.
Always ominous to see an ambulance parked - for a while - outside the house of someone you know and like (such as a good neighbour).
An appalling and absolutely tragic story; horrific and heart-breaking.
No, not a good sign.
Some people are indeed extraordinarily selfish.
Another tragic, totally unnecessary and utterly appalling story.
Aren't hallucinations, anxiety, depression etc. forms of thinking, as deranged as they might be?
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They could/are be the mental destruction of the thinking process. Note in the definition: loss of self identity. I would not call that "thinking".
My youngest cat has found the fun in playing with a toilet paper roll. I am neither charmed or impressed, while he is.
Give your cat a toilet cardboard roll without the paper and the cat will be happy.
Good idea, I'll try but it seems that he enjoys seeing the paper unfolding so that he can then shred it in multiple pieces (I assume that his goal is to make my life as his earthling servant more difficult).
No, his goal is to repeat as often as (felinely?) possible the exquisitely thrilling sensation of claw ripping through paper.
I am still convinced that the idea of making my life more difficult is part of his enjoyment. At any rate, I think I'll have to find a solution, maybe some other strange tool on Amazon.
There is some credence to the fact that cats plot our suffering behind their slaves couch.
Method of communication is still tbd ...