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Free Will
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well what i meant by free will was control over your brain. do you control what your brain does or does your brain control what you do? that is basically what i am asking.
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PerceptionSee object with eyes.
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"Mind" is a word we came up with that doesn't describe an actual object, it's part of an experience created by your brain. "Thoughts" and "feelings" are the way... |
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Life & DeathIf your a clone do you have a soul?
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what do you mean by soul, anyway? and if they dont have them, then why dont they have them?
by soul do you mean a consciousness, or an ability to experience? i think everyone who is conscious has a... |
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HistoryPrehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog : Discovery News
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A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a body-less skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago in England.
One of the world's best preserved prehistoric human brains was... |
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phil thinknig usually invles concious effort?
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"well i gues your brain always does it but i mean like "you" are not doing the effrt as in not your concious working brain."
forgive me i dont know how to quote... well if the b... |
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Could there be a pill for that?...
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To me, a man is a man.
A woman is a woman.
Those who say they're "a man trapped in a woman's body." or vice versa, I believe, are self-consious. They don't like who they a... |
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AnimalsThree reasons I hate Orcas (Killer Whales)
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4 times the size of our brain... that doesn't mean they're smarter than us or even close. The deciding factor in intelligence is brain mass proportional to body mass so yah... they have 4 ti... |
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Bored
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When we are bored our brain is slightly deactivated. We attempt to get away from boredom because our brain needs to be stimulated. |
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God in ReligionUniverse : design or necessity?
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so our brains give us life? wait how do i know i have a brain and its a brain that works.. how do i know im me and not part of something.. |
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BiologyIs the brain really big enough response
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responding to the above thread. There is the belief that memories can be stored in other organs other than the brain for example the heart! |
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Intelligence, Memory & Brainbrain controls the mind? or mind controls the brain?
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March 05 2007 dunno the rules to this site (if there's no bumping) but wow *answers*
Brain controls the mind. Think about it, when you're sleeping (unconscious) or in a coma or something.... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
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if deja vu is just a brain malfunction, of an inncedeint that has already occured, then why does it occur that same day of when you have dreamed it? Also if this brain malfucntion is ture, then that m... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsReality or Illusion ?
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We can't. It's no use philosphizing about it 24 hours either, it makes one depressed.
Basically, we can not be completely sure wheather we exist or not, because for us, the whole universe i... |
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Life & DeathAFTER DEATH
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Cturtle : "Perhaps the large area of the brain science claims we don't use could be redefined as that portion which we already used, a repository of past life experiences?"
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Human Nature & EmotionArtificial Intelligence
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yeah but animals and humans are different in the way we think becuase of diferent parts of the brain we have and dont have, animals dont have the parts of our brain that get addicted or process moral... |
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Is the Brain Really Big Enough?
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In my opinion,
The brain is a filter, consuming knowledge or concept through the senses. The brain then "thinks" about, or perceives the knowledge. It filters it all into, what you need t... |
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Free Will
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if there wasnt a mind than you wouldnt be experiencing anything. if there wasnt a mind nobody would experience the world. the brain allows for experience to take place, and this experience is not a ph... |
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Weird ThingsHistorical curiosities
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- When you sneeze your heart stops beating.
- That all a hickup is is a malfunction in brain waves and that if you trick your brain by doing something else like chewing something crunchy you will q... |
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Free Will
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well, i think its impossible to know whether or not there is anything in control of the brain. im pretty sure that physical things react to other physical things, and that the brain is a physical thin... |
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FuturologyLandau's Determinism
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Landau said if we know precisely the information of all the objects in rhe space then you can predict there future but then if the computer/brain/or whatever thing doing this calculation has to know i... |
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Fake?
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i think we can all agree on the many "I";s in time and part of brain realted to personlity way of thinkning by influnce etc... but is there an "I" underneath?? that doesnt change .... |
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Learning
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Babies and young children , certainly still at age 5 are still growing. The brain continues to develop into the teenage years, and while the child's brain is still very plastic it is making new n... |
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Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
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Neurology explains this phenomenon as being caused by the brain incorrectly registering an event as already having occurred whilst it's still being experienced. It's a timing issue where the... |
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Free Will
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Angel of death-
That depends if we found a way to transport the soul. If not, then your sould would remain in the body, but your brain would basically be erased. The theology is that your mind woul... |
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