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I think the quote suggests that if we can "poke" at the brain just right with outside influences, we can change our experience of reality. I can envision a day when we may use devices to that can do this in specific and precise ways. Of course, causing someone to feel like they have extra...

"Consciousness is simply the real time processing of sensory input and internal communication and monitoring. Our experience of reality is demonstrably constructed by the brain. When you alter the underlyingbrain function, you alter that construction. People can be made to feel as if they do not...

Wow Buck, this is what you give us? Conspiracy, cynicism, ad hominems? After all these years of arguing on here I would have expected you to get better at it, not worse. There are many nuances to this issue and many juicy bits you could have ripped apart from this particular argument, yet you...

It's been years since I wrote that, but I do believe I clarified at some point that we can never hope to raise DO levels to those able to satisfy the roots. The aim is really to facilitate a favorable environment for beneficial microbes. The heuristic I gave of "1wt per gallon" also seems a...

Evolutionary theory describes how species change over time. It has nothing to say about how time began, how the cosmos developed, or if there was nothing before something. You do not have a firm grasp on evolutionary theory. It offers many mechanisms which can explain how the animals you...

Personal insults aside, it doesn't matter how you typed it, you are hiding behind the idea that you can admit to micro-evolution yet still deny evolutionary theory. It's nothing more than moving the goalpost via special pleading. You say there is no evidence for evolution, and upon being...

Micro-evolution is evolution. Small changes add up over time. The only thing the term micro-evolution indicates is the resolution we are using to look at it. It's an indication of time-frame. It's not an actual category used by scientists. Evolution does not postulate that one species...

"Quantum physics is claimed to support the mystical notion that the mind creates reality. However, an objective reality, with no special role for consciousness, human or cosmic, is consistent with all observations." - Victor Stenger http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery/

Anyway here is an example of someone who is pretending to do her job. This woman calls herself an investigative journalist. Notice that she actually does no investigation at all. Notice that her investigation was nothing more than an exercise in confirmation bias. She started with the...

Remember the media is a general term. There are some good outlets out there, particularly foreign ones. But yes the vast majority of media outlets have numerous problems. Part of the problem is that marketers are smarter than ever. Whether it's to sell a product or an idea, they have been...

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Organics with DWC is a bad idea. It invites all sorts of problems, including slime, and offers no objective benefits. That should make a fine tea. The only reason to go "balls out" is for personal pleasure. It just feels good to hit the slime with a bazooka even though a handgun will...

That's the point; it's not always a demon. For a long time people saw a Succubus, and then it was blamed on Sea Hags, and in more recent times they see aliens. Why would Sea Hags stop doing and then aliens start doing it? Is it just coincidence that people started seeing aliens around the...

If something varies normally between two far extremes, It usually swings back naturally to values in between. From sport to crime to illnesses we see this common theme, An effect we call, statistically, 'regression to the mean'. When Bruce plays his cards right and he's holding up a queen, You...

The parent fallacy is indeed False Cause (non causa pro causa). This is a specific instance that may appear similar to its siblings post hoc (after this) and cum hoc (with this) reasoning, but is its own category. I'll go ahead and give my explanation of this one as it looks like no one is...

These are assertions rather than arguments, so we do not know the premise they are based on or logic used to back them up. To counter these we would only need offer the counter-assertion. If looked at from the highest perspective everything is happening for no reason Consciousness is what...