Any hand drummers here? I play djembe, mostly west African music.
It is kind of funny that dreads are associated so strongly with Rastas, when the original Rastas did not grow dreads. They grew their beards to...
A flag is just a piece of cloth. To venerate it is beyond silly. Several people in my family from different generations fought in conflicts from...
I don't really see what this has to do with atheism ultimately. Life arose through natural processes. Organisms are not immutable creations....
Nice one waterbrother. You made a baseless claim (that dating techniques derived from geology and paleontology are a hoax perpetrated by...
Much of the groundwork for modern paleontology and geology was done by religious men fifty years before Darwin and Wallace published their...
I doubt that Darwin thought that consciousness resided in all living things. I've never read anything by Darwin that suggested this. As for...
Hallucinations presuppose consciousness. That is to say that only things that are conscious can have hallucinations.
ForestsEchoLaughter you did not provide any evidence for any of the claims that you made. The claim that morphology never changes is so silly that...
Yes, thinking up that preposterous post must have been quite a bit of work. Morphology certainly changes, and your statistics are way off because...
No god in pantheism? Doesn't the word 'pantheism' imply that everything is god? Hence 'pan' and 'theism'.
Why am I depressing? I find evolutionary science to be exhilarating and amazing.
NaOH + HCl -> NaCl(aq) + H2O + heat. No explosive fumes. Just wanted to clear that up.
I think the quote in the OP is terrible. To me that says to be closed minded, to ignore evidence, to value one's own reason without questioning...
It's funny how some people are disturbed by the idea of being a machine and some aren't. It's never really bothered me.
I see no reason why we could not make conscious machines. We are conscious machines. A woman's womb constructs a biological machine from raw...
I had a dmt experience which consisted of a precise sequence of patterns, images, body movements, and voices repeating about five or six times. It...
I am fairly certain that humans will eventually create conscious machines. But since we do not know what is necessary for consciousness I wonder...
yes yes, very funny.
It is also certain that a schizophrenic brain is organized differently than the average brain. The differences are so profound in many cases that...
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