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THREAD PerceptionBlind Peace
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Psychology Forum
Light disturbs darkness (reflected light hits the dark retina) and thus we see. Noise disturbs quiet (sound reverberates a still inner-ear) and thus we hear. In that when nothing gets in, when not...
THREAD PerceptionBlind Peace
5 Posts • 2580 Views
Psychology Forum
"In that when nothing gets in, when nothing happens, is it not remarkable that sleep, and various states of lower levels of consciousness are associated with seeing and hearing nothing? (As you s...
THREAD Out of the Corner of Your Eye…
6 Posts • 3395 Views
Philosophy Forum
When you see something out of the corner of your eye, that's not exactly how you'll perceive it… Sensing something out of the corner of your eye, “Yes!”… But perceiving it â...
THREAD Paranormal & PseudoscienceDeja Vu-Theories
74 Posts • 39492 Views
Science & Technology Forum
On the subject of DEJA Vu a more probable explanation would be when you walk into a room and start to experience deja vu what is actualy happening is that your brain is processing out of sync, your...
THREAD Can we escape our pre-conditioning?
21 Posts • 9732 Views
Philosophy Forum
If we are saying that our upbringing is the root of our pre conditioning of course that is part of it. It's back to the nature/nurture debate isn't it? Genes versus environment. Well for mys...
THREAD Famous PhilosophersSocratic and Platonic philosophies
34 Posts • 10234 Views
Philosophy Forum
Actually. Plato believed the "real world," beyond our perception of it, transcended both space and time, and that the physical material world of diversity and change was illusion. Individual...
THREAD Does rap music insight violence amongst young peop
38 Posts • 34581 Views
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I don't believe rap musicians created that style, I think poverty stricken projects, war torn societies (including gang, drug, and police wars), and prison systems within westernized societies ar...
THREAD Intelligence, Memory & BrainSeen Through One's Actions and Confirmation...
1 Posts • 1923 Views
Psychology Forum
Basically we see others and ourselves through what we have done or what we are doing. This means that our memories would work on the concept that we remember things based on their action. Contrary...
THREAD DreamsDreaming in Focus...
1 Posts • 2549 Views
Psychology Forum
When you sleep or when you imagine something, do you see it in focus? This question is particularly relevant to me as I am short-sighted... Although some dreams are based on experience and I tend to...
THREAD God in ReligionGod?
88 Posts • 20302 Views
Religion Forum
Somebody once told me that god was actually our true self. That each of us is god. The idea was that god was attempting to learn all there is to know about human experience, and so he broke himself up...
THREAD Poetrydelicious audible seduction
1 Posts • 3613 Views
Stories & Poetry Forum
This delicate night, delicious audible seduction. Sounds I hear now... Gentle rain drumbeat on a thousand leaves,on blades of grass,on damp tarmac sloshing in puddles. Distant cry of many sea...
THREAD Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
40 Posts • 8787 Views
Science & Technology Forum
Yes, I agree. I read the paper and I too have come to the same conclusion; the problem with the point and the example of the apple and the grape I'll tackle now. The point, which has no dimens...
THREAD Random QuestionsBest Band.
20 Posts • 24238 Views
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wow what an impossible question to answer so I am gunna make my own rules like half the people here im gunna name one of my favorite artist and all the songs I love from them. Modest Mouse dram...
THREAD Out of the Corner of Your Eye…
6 Posts • 3395 Views
Philosophy Forum
Attention and perception are two different things entirely. What you perceive through your senses, is then interpreted by your brain, i.e what goes into your eye what is seen by your visual field is n...
THREAD Epistemology: Truth & KnowledgeInvalid Beliefs
10 Posts • 3696 Views
Philosophy Forum
You said,  It is not meaningless - it is a very pertinent example of your beliefs. If you erred, it is your fault, I say, Ok, ok I said I erred. It IS meaningless. I do not believe I can fly. Th...
THREAD Reality & MetaphysicsDoes perception match the true form?
11 Posts • 4027 Views
Philosophy Forum
I partially understand what your saying, and alot of 'perceptual' understanding can be found within cognitive sciences of psychology and neurology. I think we have a huge comprehensive under...
THREAD Reality & MetaphysicsQuestioning Reality: Are we for "Real"?
118 Posts • 36324 Views
Philosophy Forum
The world "out there", external reality, is a shared universe of common experience. It is the lowest common denominator of all our experience. We take it for granted and it supplies us with...
THREAD Reality & MetaphysicsThought and Reality
26 Posts • 7536 Views
Philosophy Forum
The "soul concept" for me is a simplistic one...I believe more in the concept of consciousness as a sort of "light" on what has been referred to as the "Mindscape"...I be...
THREAD Famous PhilosophersNeo-Socraticism
2 Posts • 2837 Views
Philosophy Forum
The following will disclose a view on what it is the job of philosophy to do. Instantly, a problem intercedes. “What gall!” you cry. “How outré! â€' to assert the unity of phil...
THREAD About You / IntroductionsProblem with knowledge.
3 Posts • 7213 Views
Talk Talk
I have very little interest in other peoples personal lives, some exceptions exist and that as well I have learned well. The problem is I can not find something, any kind of knowledge that interest...
THREAD Atheism & AgnosticismHands up if you are an atheist
57 Posts • 12264 Views
Religion Forum
Nope, not necessarily, firstly, no matter what, all experiences that dabble with the possibility of OBE's and various esp's, are firmly rooted in the possibility of being delusions and even...
THREAD A Theory on Omniscience...
5 Posts • 2423 Views
Philosophy Forum
(another link with brain function) This came up today, whilst I was thinking some more about one brain area compensating for another... From what I have learned from psychology, when information i...
THREAD Can we escape our pre-conditioning?
21 Posts • 9732 Views
Philosophy Forum
Im not very good at getting my thoughts out in a logical, scientific way so Ive found this post very hard to write. But this is my interpretation of Chiron's question, the resulting conversat...
THREAD Conscious and Sub-Consciousconsciousness - define it! Explain it! Any comments?
17 Posts • 11367 Views
Psychology Forum
Consciousness… Define it… Explain it… Questions I would ask would be… What kind of ‘it' is it? What is an ‘it'? What is ‘is' ? How does it work? Con...
THREAD Life & Deathwhat is your theory on life?
270 Posts • 54706 Views
Philosophy Forum
By the way, i stumbled across a cause for choice. Making my past theory .."choice has no cause" invalid. The reason we make choices, is because we use logic and reasoning. But becaus...
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