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  1. DasMurmeltier

    Hawking's newest doomsday prediction

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-05/stephen-hawking-100-years-left-humans-escape-earth 1000 years arent enough anymore. Strap rockets on your kid's backs, lets go to mars! Im not sure how serious this is to be taken. I mean, i get his point - earth got a lot of problems, sure. But this...
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    Challenge to materialist atheist accepted

    Im a bit late for that one, but it seems highly unlikely that we humans can even begin to define 'something' that is nothing. Our language confines us here aswell. We already have a hard time trying to define something. Is it sufficient for something to exist in space and time? Is something made...
  3. DasMurmeltier

    The death of AI (yet again)

    They can already emulate really simple forms of parts of it, like the neural network components that google uses for their translator. Thats why i assumed that this might be achievable. An actual replica - im obviously not capable to look into the future, but if that ever happens it wont be in...
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    The death of AI (yet again)

    Define non-digital human memory. I need all of its functions, shortcomings and oher things like error recovery functionalities. I need to know all of the input, i need to know what kind of output is to be expected in all situations. Otherwise ill develop something that could be similar, but in...
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    Man has NDE, told not his time, then dies for real 2 minutes later

    Oh :D I totally didnt remember that. Nevermind then! Thanks for pointing it out though, its good to get back to threads like that.
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    Man has NDE, told not his time, then dies for real 2 minutes later

    First time i read that Parnia was backtracking. He always was careful with his words when it came to critical topics like the survival of consciousness and so on. Aware in general hopefully provides us with some hints this time for something. Though im not looking forward to what will happen if...
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    Fake News Poll

    Just to give this a pov from a different perspective: Theres currently a huge discussion going on in germany about fake news. Politicians are scared that fake news could influence the upcoming elections next year. Especially the established CDU of Merkel is concerned by that. And of course, the...
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    This acclaimed scientist gives a friendlier face to atheistic neuroscience |331|

    A bit, but then id be interested in those further assumptions that you think that are wrong. How is consciousness, that doesnt seem to brain based in your opinion as far as i can guess, different from the contents that are brain based?
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    This acclaimed scientist gives a friendlier face to atheistic neuroscience |331|

    Im sure that i dont understand, but when you are saying that the brain shapes the contents of consciousness - what do you mean with that? That the content of consciousness is getting created by the brain? Im not really sure what you are talking about.
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    This acclaimed scientist gives a friendlier face to atheistic neuroscience |331|

    Honestly, i dont think that Paxinos is necessarily a sceptic in the sense of others out there. Hes a typical neuroscientist. Even if their research is rather meaningful to a lot of important questions out there, i doubt that they are all into the philosophy of mind. Kinda doubt that most of them...
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    Arouet's discussion about NDE's

    Ah. Correct. You are right. It should be more like 'im uncertain if i can be certain at all'. There might be ways, i do not know. Ive tried a few things already ( or rather, others made me try them since i wasnt able to do so myself at times) and im atleast capable to participate in life a...
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    Arouet's discussion about NDE's

    Got to agree with your posts to this topic here. I feel similar - ive seen the evidence here and at other places, but the fear wont go away. And knowing that there is no certainity doesnt make it better. And regarding that topic, what Stephen wrote here is very true. Everyone in this forum...
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    The Meaning of Life

    2 answers, Wow. I pretty much have to answer now, right? As i wrote before, i know what you are trying to say here. Im not really a fan of zen and buddhism and stuff like that though. All of that seems way too nebulous to me. Yet again, im a science person. That may be why. Related to those...
  14. DasMurmeltier

    The Meaning of Life

    Yeah. Alright. I guess i can imagine where you are trying to go there. Forget about it.
  15. DasMurmeltier

    The Meaning of Life

    You may wrote that before, what did those monks realize? What is the conclusion for those problems in their or your opinion?
  16. DasMurmeltier

    Brexit

    Its going in the same direction over here in germany, although it seems that the media is not nearly as negative as in italy. In the end theres even a positive note to that over here. Our economy could profit from it and stuff like that - and as we all know, this is the most important thing in...
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    Michio Kaku Finds God?

    I read somewhere that Einstein actually didnt like the notion of a personal god. He was all for an universal, pantheistic god - that we are within god so to speak. The text that you posted there is pretty much going in the same direction.
  18. DasMurmeltier

    Consciousness Is Not Mysterious - It’s just the brain describing itself—to itself.

    Yes, that seems like something that is totally interesting as long as you dont experience it yourself. Though it is kinda hard to grasp the severance and validity of it for someone like me who does not consciously experience things like that. If i were to suddenly get that ability though i...
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    Michio Kaku Finds God?

    Ive watched & read plenty of stuff from Kaku. He already once or twice talked about god, the afterlife and so on. He was always rather vague about it. Kinda doubtful to me that this passage that you linked there is really from him. He strikes me as way too smart to actually state stuff like that...
  20. DasMurmeltier

    Post Mortem Consciousness.

    I didnt even write once that this would be a reality. Im saying that we dont know and we cant prove anything at all when it comes to that. Therefore it is false to argue for one or the other side as a fact. You are still doing that though. All i did was put out an idea. I openly stated that i...
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