Déjà vu

It's common knowledge that dogs somehow know when their owners are heading home, for example.

I don't know where we're evolving. I think most people are going to believe whatever mainstream science tells them, and they will be seen as the healthiest people and will therefore procreate. So, correct or incorrect, that will be the case. I'd personally hate for blind science to make declarative statements about the nature of things that aren't fully understood and for that to become everyone's version of common sense, but it could happen. And then humanity will just stagnate like the Borg. (Insert Borg meme.)

 

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People near death often report a sensation of being outside of their bodies. There is sometimes veridical evidence in such cases.

 

I think deja vu is an epiphenomenon. Some suggest the totality of conscious experience is an epiphenomenon but personally, I can see an evolutionary benefit from having conscious experience.

There was a recent study with anesthetized monkeys that were given shocks to a region of their brains called the central lateral thalmus and after these shocks, the monkeys awoke. Iirc this area of the brain allows for communication between a couple different brain pathways, so this would lead me to believe that this demonstrates neural adaptation.

 

LINK????

 

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30005-2

 

Thank-you.

 

Think about the Ghostbusters. Are they the future of the emergency service? I mean is it one day going to be their duty to trap our own invasive essence and return it to our body?

It is said that we are our memories and experiences. Do we share a giant lifestream of a spirit essence that will become YOU if it had your body long enough to process your memories?

 

It is said that déjà vu may have originated around the early nineteenth century. That makes me laugh. guerillabedlam what if Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc or even Nostradamus had deja vu? Could it be a strength?

 

I believe in ghosts, but I'm not sure they will ever require an emergency service. They are quite rare.

I think what we are is entities that inhabit a four dimensional block universe, meaning the past, present, and future exist simultaneously, but that consciousness is not bound by the three dimensions with a linear timeframe that we perceive every day. It's difficult to say what happens past that.

I am certain that we live in this four dimensional universe in which the past, present and future coexist simultaneously, but honestly am having a difficult time understanding what it means. I must die someday, but will be alive in the "past." What does this mean for my consciousness, though?

It's hard to understand this world if you don't appreciate it through the lense of linear time. After all (according to me, and others) I am currently self-aware in the past. Yet I know myself to be aware in the present. That is what I experience. I am alive. Yet, my past and future states also know me to be living and aware at that time.

What it seems to suggest to me is that I am already dead, and it isn't too bad, though I'd like to believe there is also more to experience beyond the threshhold of this life. A soul may just be the permanent imprint this body and consciousness leave behind.

Or I suppose I could be the accumulation of energy itself that has flowed through me. And a never ending supply of energy will always flow through everything in the cosmos, including me.

I don't suspect that any information is ever completely and utterly lost, though. And ultimately, we are information. Our personalities are information. Our psyches are information. It's kind of funny to me how scientists at large are also steadfastly against the idea of information loss -- they even are opposed to the idea where black holes are concerned -- yet when it comes to self-awareness, they can be perfectly fine with the idea that this information will one day cease to exist. I don't think so; I think the universe accounts for every last thing, including sentiences.

 

Not sure what you mean by strength in this context.

 

I guess that I meant a strong faith in a cause or legacy.

 

Who of us here has dreamed since themnax posted this?

I have since dreamed about owning a retro arcade cabinet of a beat'em up game like FinalFight. It occurred to me that the player's fighter combo moves get more the complex the further the game goes on as I was thinking about it while I was in the bath. My brother unplugged the game to save electric. Why is it that the best parts of our dreams are taken away from us as if they were forbidden? Is it because we want them so?

We rise with these elusive pleasures desperately recalling what we can. Is a reducing energy the answer to why the left overs to our dreams fade away?

 

I dreamed my old dog and I were riding inside of the balloon of a hot air balloon.

 

Who told YOU that we die? Can he prove it?

Could space, time and the 4th dimension be where all of the spirit entities are? Is this not a united parallel to all planets?

Remember neonspectraltoast that everything was created and that creator must have been created too. Space, time and the 4th dimension can even suggest that the creator created it's self but what created the rules? We might eventually say that the some answers may leave us no smarter than an insect. “We may not be too worthy to go all of the way.”

I am always drinking a chocolate milkshake in realtime at both the past and future. It makes now difference where the present me is but I try to regard it as a map legend and focus on such orgasms. awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i love drinking chocolate milkshake so.

We are mostly not so alive in space, time and the 4th dimension too or are we undetected? What if ghosts were metamorphosis? Could that be to us what a cocoon is to a caterpillar before they are reborn as a butterfly?

Do you understand how a defibrillator works neonspectraltoast? Very important. More on this later please.

Existence is a database. What a trip. All true!

 

I suppose so, I could see an effective orator incorporating deja vu experiences in inspiring rhetoric to followers and faithful in the Middle Ages and prior.