Originally Posted by ottopilot (Post 1034082)

I really have no direction here, just blabbing lol.

Originally Posted by ottopilot (Post 1034082)

From everything I read, the mind is the in between of the physical world and inner self (spirit). The mind is pretty much just another part of the body needed for survival. The more complicated the environment, the more brain power/mind is needed. And more brain-power leads to a fuller spirit. I'm very much convinced we created a world that is literally poison for our minds, we stresses over things that never existed for the millions of years we evolved to our current point.

I really have no direction here, just blabbing lol.

Originally Posted by WingsofWar (Post 1034256)

This is kind of a too broad topic, iv studied the mind too and have a BA in Clinical Psychology, and was actually considering going into neurology. But as life would have it I found myself having a distaste for exploring the biological mind and more interested in the natural and supernatural aspect of the human condition. Which lead me to write my dissertation on Quantum Psychology, and how the thoughts and ideas alone can create and manipulate the universe on both a small and galactic scale.

Originally Posted by supra2nv (Post 1034329)

Wave particle duality, measurement problem, collapsing of wave function, atoms are empty space, everything around us is perception of light of some form, photons traveling in "tiny" black holes called pupils. :).

My line of thought

Originally Posted by WingsofWar (Post 1034370)

Very good!

What iv really been trying to find are avenues of discovery that would apply to quantum psychology.

Ever watch Ghost Hunter? or those Paranormal Investigation shows where EVP and and IR and thermal cameras pick up images and signatures that should not be there? And always in the form of humanoid with some type of intelligence.

I for one believe in ghosts based on 10 years of personal experience, but I also believe those ghosts are bound by the laws of nature. I think the "spirit realm" is a false illusion that allows people to place these phenomenon into a categories that kill off potential scientific research.

IMO, as we live, our body and mind both absorb and project energy. This energy can be an "imprint" or "eco" of ourselves that the surrounding environment absorbs.

Without really getting into it, i could theorize that some forms of energy can have consciousness. If this is the possibility, then its quite possible (even if far fetched) that the big bang theory and the creation of the universe was the result of single thought or idea from dense marble of energy.

Originally Posted by Dustin (Post 1034457)

I can count to 100 all by myself

Originally Posted by Asphalt~86 (Post 1034692)

My general opinion is this:

The mind creates and composes everything that is before us. Everything essentially is an object of itself but not separate in itself. A chair is a chair because the mind has create that description, that pattern, into what that object is. A dog can also then be a chair.

Everything we do in our daily lives is an idea, a thought, a process. We don't need the material quantification of our imagination to make it anymore real than what it is. Thus the future could be a future of stasis within the physical and active within the mental, prolonging life and creating an interactive reality our hologram of what the basis is.

Originally Posted by fatoni (Post 1034826)

i believe in solipsism and i dont think that anyone could disagree with me.

Originally Posted by supra2nv (Post 1034841)

Kind of tangent but Along those lines, one cannot prove or disprove consciousness

Originally Posted by fatoni (Post 1034901)

i think descartes kinda proved that with the whole cogito ergo sum. also, what i said was kind of a joke. if you havent noticed, i love to spend a lot of brain power making smart things sound stupid or vice versa.

Originally Posted by Hindi (Post 1035589)

So we have onion brains?

Originally Posted by Hindi (Post 1035598)

Ogres are onions, brains are onions, the universe is an onion... And everything still tastes like chicken...

Originally Posted by supra2nv (Post 1035652)

So we must incorporate the code to onions and chickens in order to find the grand unified theory if there is one? Sweet lol

Originally Posted by Hindi (Post 1035598)

Ogres are onions, brains are onions, the universe is an onion... And everything still tastes like chicken...

Originally Posted by Hindi (Post 1035676)

Hmmm I wonder how many grant dollars we could get to work on this?

Originally Posted by ahausheer (Post 1035769)

Some thoughts:

Believing we are superior because we can think about thinking is just philosophical masturbation that will not give us the satisfaction of attaining the universal truths we seek.

Other animals are idiots who don't know it, we are smart enough to know we are idiots but we choose to lie to ourselves.

My personal belief is that we don't have the mental capacity to rationally understand our human mind or the ''human condition'' and it is futile to try.
Our pursuit of philosophical truths is no more attainable than a cockroach understanding god.

Those few that have developed a widely accepted explanation of the human condition are simply better writers than those that have not, their argument is not stronger, just verbosely and linguistically louder.

(End of my pessimistic philosophical rant, carry on).