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enlightened seed
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what came first, the seed or the tree?
#22343580 - 10/06/15 11:56 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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what came first, the seed or the tree?
Edited by enlightened seed (10/06/15 11:57 PM)
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Arctic W. Fox

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Tree.
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whitelights
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The real question is if god exists, what came first, the Easter bunny or the egg.
-------------------- its that bitter-sweet-sour, electric-smooth-twang. everything you ever have, are. or will feel along with every emotion, joy, hate, love, fear or aspiration burning down your nerves and into the fabric of your place in this existence at ten thousand degrees above and below zero will you find yourself wondering if you've been dead or alive this whole time. being born over and over only to die over and over hoping the wheel stops in the same place it started when you spun it, and when it finally does and you can step back and take a nice deep breath you realize how beautiful life is, remember, wake up to the most beautiful day of your life every single day, its just the way.
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enlightened seed
Utopia is a state of mind



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the (programmed bunny) then came the egg.
some people think of god differently.
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Jaegar
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Right. The tree.
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enlightened seed
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Re: what came first? [Re: Jaegar]
#22343810 - 10/07/15 01:32 AM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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i am working on something to make the seed come first. it might or might not pan out.
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what came first the question or the answer or time?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13658-brain-scanner-predicts-your-future-moves/
Daily news 13 April 2008 Brain scanner predicts your future moves
Long before you decided to read this story, your brain may have already said “click that link”. By scanning the brains of test subjects as they pressed one button or another – though not a computer mouse – researchers pinpointed a signal that divulged the decision about seven seconds before people ever realised their choice. The discovery has implications for mind-reading, and the nature of free will. “Our decisions are predetermined unconsciously a long time before our consciousness kicks in,” says John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who led the study. It definitely throws our concept of free will into doubt, he adds. This is by no means the first time scientists have cast doubt on conscious free will. In the early 1980s, the late neuroscientist Benjamin Libet uncovered a spark of brain activity three tenths of a second before subjects opted to lift a finger. The activity flickered in a region of the brain involved in planning body movement. But this region might perform only the final mental calculations to move, not the initial decision to lift a finger, Haynes says. Brain decides Haynes’s team delved deeper into the brain with a technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that can measure brain activity while a subject carries out a task. In this case, 14 volunteers lay in a brain scanner and were told to tap a button with a finger of the left or right hand whenever they felt the urge. While the subject waited to make a choice, a screen flashed a random letter every half second. After a subject finally pushed a button, they were asked to indicate which letter had on the screen at the moment the decision was made. There is usually half second a lag between thought and action, Haynes says.
When Hayne’s team later analysed the fMRI scans, they found that the prefrontal cortex – a part of the brain that is involved in thought and consciousness – lit up seven seconds before the subjects pressed the button. Unconscious will By deciphering the brain signals with a computer program, the researchers could predict which button a subject had pressed about 60% of the time – slightly better than a random guess. “It seems that the brain is making the decision before the person themselves,” he says. Although we make some choices in a heartbeat, Haynes thinks his experiment captures the dawdling tempo of daily life. “In most cases, we decide internally in a self-paced way: ‘Now I want to get some orange juice’ or ‘I’m going to get some apple juice instead’,'” he says Our brains might pick beverages long before we realise, but Haynes thinks such decisions are still a matter of choice. “My conscious will is consistent with my unconscious will – it’s the same process,” he says. Mind-reading Chris Frith, a neuroscientist at University College London, also questions whether the experiment puts a dagger in the concept of free will. Getting volunteers to lie in brain scanner and waiting to press a button could affect their brain activity in way normal decision-making doesn’t, he says. And what if we don’t like our brain’s decision? Experiments to test whether a choice can be reversed are in the works, Haynes says. “We can’t rule out that people might be able to change their minds.” Anticipating a person’s decision might one day find use in devices that wire our brains directly to a machine, he adds. A mind-reading car might anticipate lane changes and turns well before the driver ever knows his intentions. “It’s good if the technology knows what the user is going to want – potentially before the user even knows what they are going to want,” he says. Journal reference: Nature Neuroscience (DOI: 10.1038/nn.2112)
https://www.bing.com/search?q=unconscious+Anticipating+choice%2C+Brain%2C+&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=unconscious+anticipating+choice%2C+brain%2C+&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=5F48CD9D224443E89BF19170820FCF74
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If a potato sits on a shelf, it's 'eyes' will begin to grow, but unless an external force drops that potato in the earth, it cannot become a new potato plant. It may well be that detachable seeds became an advantageous evolutionary development. What if an entire cycad tree needed to fall over and become embedded in some Devonian mud for it to grow a new tree? Maybe it took aeons of development for the reproductive aspects to loosen enough to be carried to the earth by pteradons or wind or giant dragonflies. What if the original cycad tree was a weird overgrown mutation from some more primitive club moss? (I'm just throwing out terms from 9th grade natural science here while wildly speculating about the Great Chain of Being). The seeds would be later developments from earlier and more primitive reproductive processes (whatever they were, I'm not a botanist),
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