How does he know what our minds are? Saying that (in enough detail) would be a major achievement in itself, and is a necessary prerequisite for his project.
Since I am almost certain that he does not know the needed detail at all, I conclude his project is purely wishful thinking, and doomed.
If you get the iphone app Speaky, copy a URL to the clipboard on your iphone, then open the app, then the will start reading the comments to you!
Choices of speak and English national accents.
Works for me.
See https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speaky-voice-reader-for-web/id754061898?mt=8
It all depends on what 'continuation of this [life] to a large extent' means.
Most religions claim that there are later changes to the nature of living in the afterlife, such that one gives up what desires and thoughts are peripheral to one's life, and centers on what loves and wisdom are...
I would modify what Jim said a little, and say that people are the loves that are the permanent substances of the mental+spiritual world, and that thoughts and imaginations are the transient forms that these substances take when the people think and imagine.
I agree with you that imagination is...
Are loves, reasons, intentions, and consciousness causally effective in the processes of the world?
If so, then you are not talking about physics according to the physicists.
If not, then you are not talking about mind according to every regular and rational person.
I am still trying to work out if pandeism has any specific consequences for the universe and us now! From what you say here, perhaps not. I ask, for example, does the 'underlying force sustaining our Universe' have any consequences for life and consciousness? Or is every pandeist free to make...
But something like that is needed! Just look at all the first posts at http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/find-new/2520910/profile-posts.
Maybe the first 10 posts of a new person should not result in email notifications or as new threads in the list?