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Bardy


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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: Bardy]
#28559530 - 11/28/23 02:27 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Descartes came to the conclusion “Cogito, ergo sum” because he realised his senses could be fooled and the only thing he could know for sure was that he existed because he has an experience.
This is why most people agree we cannot prove anything, other than that we exist in some form, based solely on our senses. It is not an outrageous claim. It has been largely agreed upon for centuries.
I think there is also a sense in which science is never able to positively prove anything either. It’s more just a gradual convergence on reality.
Edited by Bardy (11/28/23 03:26 PM)
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: Bardy]
#28559655 - 11/28/23 03:54 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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it is a variant of "This is that I am" which is the translation of god's name in Hebrew ("yehaveh" aka "Jehova") and another variant in buddhism is Tathagato "he who walks thus".
moebius strips could be more explanatory.
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Bardy


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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: Bardy]
#28559671 - 11/28/23 04:03 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Circular reasoning? Haha
It’s starting to sound like I don’t believe anything can be truly proven
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: Bardy]
#28559688 - 11/28/23 04:09 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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there is also the fact that in any 10th of a second more than a million neurons may be firing, different from those of 10th of a second earlier: trying to describe all of that other than by saying "Thus" or "That I am" would be absurd since by the next utterance the veracity would no longer hold.
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Bardy


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So it’s a different set of neurons each time saying “I am!”, “no I am!”
We all are. And we are not one, and we are not many. We just are? Lol
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: Bardy]
#28559821 - 11/28/23 05:52 PM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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pretty much as you say, being a good approximation.
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What does one firiing synapse communicate?
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28560254 - 11/29/23 01:53 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Not much
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28560314 - 11/29/23 05:10 AM (1 month, 29 days ago) |
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Quote:
BrendanFlock said: What does one firiing synapse communicate?
where is this lonely synapse? did you sit on a pin?
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Lol, it is part of a group.. I concede..
But it must have a singular output in combined with the bundle..
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: BrendanFlock]
#28561692 - 11/30/23 05:10 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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neurons in isolation are too lonely
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They go catatonic and wake up from their amnesia in a blind, murderous rage.
(People have literally rioted over the use of straw hats and top hats in a fashion crime.)
If mundane people aren't doing that, nothing paranormal has occurred.
(Think, cat vs. cucumber.)
What will happen, irl, when the whole thing is said and done and over with, the normies will misremember something tolerable in place of what they cannot grasp.
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Re: How do you prove the paranormal? [Re: durian_2008] 1
#28563033 - 11/30/23 10:07 PM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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Is that comment supposed to not make sense? Or have I had a stroke or something? Lol
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