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Life exists everywhere it can, I dreampt once that there were even machines that had soul.
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jim wrote:"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." -Albert Einstein Belief is always superior to knowledge, because ultimate knowledge never existed in a world with an omnipresent margin for error; whereas belief can neither be diminished nor destroyed. - Jdlaw. You've taken my life, so take my soul
That's what you said but who are we to know
I want to be with you
Long as you want me to
But don't move away
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you said?
Ain't that what you say?
Liar, Liar, Liar
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Quote:"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Without vision the people perish. (Bible, Proverbs; 29:18)
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"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself"
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Why does the passage of time seem to speed up as you get older?
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Neo wrote:Why does the passage of time seem to speed up as you get older? One of the things I've read is that the perception of the passage of time has to do with how many new memories you are processing. When you are young, many experiences are new and so for a give duration of time (say, a day), many new memories are formed. When you are older, you experience fewer things that are new, therefore you are creating fewer new memories over a given period of time. So, it is the experience of the number of new memories per given period that lessens as you age. And so, time passes faster. Solution? Get out there and do new things every day!
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If you had a glass hammer, would you use it?
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I think therefore I am, I think 
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Light travels faster than sound.
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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the cosmos is like pouring honey through the eye a needle...
in the near future biorobots will be our new heroes
cause and effect effects the effect of the cause not vice versa that the cause could cause the effect even if it were not effective as the cause of the effect as an effect could have effects only on the related cause after a time x at one point to y at another where x is the effect and y is the cause the bridge between is the illusion of some action having taken place for instance a physical action that leads to a mental impression or just the opposite
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sambuca wrote:the cosmos is like pouring honey through the eye a needle...
in the near future biorobots will be our new heroes
cause and effect effects the effect of the cause not vice versa that the cause could cause the effect even if it were not effective as the cause of the effect as an effect could have effects only on the related cause after a time x at one point to y at another where x is the effect and y is the cause the bridge between is the illusion of some action having taken place for instance a physical action that leads to a mental impression or just the opposite
Easy for you to say 
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hi neo--guess i was too confused and complicated--here is what the british astronomer/philosopher eddington writes in "causation and times arrow" maybe it says it better-- "...there is no discrimination of cause and effect but events are connected by a symmetrical causal relation which is the same viewed from either end"--- 
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sambuca wrote:hi neo--guess i was too confused and complicated--here is what the british astronomer/philosopher eddington writes in "causation and times arrow" maybe it says it better-- "...there is no discrimination of cause and effect but events are connected by a symmetrical causal relation which is the same viewed from either end"--- Easy for him to say
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"The only things we perceive are our perceptions."
- George Berkeley
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jim wrote:"The only things we perceive are our perceptions."
- George Berkeley Ah, good ol' Bishop Berkeley. Inspired Samuel Beckett quite a bit. You reckon his philosophy is consistant with a programmed reality, Jim?
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Not sure if the Bishop understood programming, but he certainly got the idea of a consciousness-centered reality, which is entirely consistent (and partners nicely) with programmed reality. Was that brilliant insight, or was it more the de facto viewpoint of his day, only to be slowly destroyed in the upcoming Age of Reason?
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jim wrote:Was that brilliant insight, or was it more the de facto viewpoint of his day, only to be slowly destroyed in the upcoming Age of Reason? Now there's a question and a half! Bishop Berkeley interests me quite a bit, but I wouldn't pretend to understand his insights to any great degree. Food for thought though.
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"Claims that the virtual reality conjecture cannot be tested by science to the standard of objective reality are hollow, as science has never proved the world is an objective reality, either by logic or experiment. It is hypocritical to call a new theory unprovable when the established theory is in the same boat."
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