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Forum: Items Available 10-29-2012
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Posted By Russell Nash
a few books

I wonder if someone wants to buy...

Gothic Tales, Ligotti, HCDJ, 1st edition - NEW
Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Ligotti, Softcover, 1985, 1st edition - author's copy (some paragraphs corrected by...
Forum: General Discussion 10-11-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

What show off...? jemeinigkeit is translated as mineness in English (cadacualtez in Spanish). Take into account Tatiana and Krista Hogan. Two girls with their heads joined from birth, that seem to...
Forum: General Discussion 10-10-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

The same can be said about your viewpoint. There is no "vast weight of evidence", and your viewpoint can be contested and disputed by innumerable other people.



Divergent scientific opinions...
Forum: General Discussion 10-10-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Malone, I'll get back to your comments later today.

In the meantime, have a look at this guy, Dr. Eben Alexander. His resume is this long Dr. Eben Alexanders Biography...
Forum: General Discussion 10-10-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

This scientist

Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness - YouTube

seems to defend your viewpoint. He says that consciousness is located in the brainstem or it is a part of the...
Forum: General Discussion 10-09-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Did I say that I disagree with you on this point? I'm just saying, guys, listen, that at this point of scientific knowledge we can't be sure of what consciousness is or is not. That some...
Forum: General Discussion 10-09-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

What vast weight of evidence...? The vast weight of evidence, which I have been asking you to provide all this time and you are still unable to?

In any case, a computational neural network can't...
Forum: General Discussion 10-07-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Well, I don't believe in God, so I would say that this is not a quasi-mysticism approach. I would say that it is one approach. But, why do you dislike it so much? What shred of evidence do you have...
Forum: General Discussion 10-07-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Malone said it was indisputable that consciousness is an offshoot of the brain's functioning, not that the particulars of how the brain functions to create consciousness were indisputable.[/quote]
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Forum: General Discussion 10-06-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

It only disagrees with how the brain creates self-awareness. There is nothing in that article that indicates brain-independent consciousness.

However, a research team led by the University of Iowa...
Forum: General Discussion 10-06-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

In fact, Malone, it is not an indisputable concept. If it is, as you just stated, can you please explain me how our brain memorizes anything? For example, I'm remembering a song by .... (any singer)....
Forum: General Discussion 10-05-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Until we know what consciousness is without a doubt, this lady is entitled to believe what she wants. If she is still asking: "where is my son"?, when I presume she buried him, it is because she...
Forum: General Discussion 10-01-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

For the first part, strange is not the most appropriate word, right. It just is, right too. But why the way it is? Just because. When a hundred years ago, a guy had a headache, he didn't say: "it...
Forum: General Discussion 10-01-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Yes, I agree.

I , however, came up with another answer. When my mom died, I thought about this problem for long. I said to myself, "even if she is alive, as quantum consciousness (a waveform or...
Forum: General Discussion 10-01-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Yes, the word is patterns, not laws, as you very well stated. "In any system there are going to be patterns", why do you think it is so? Why is it that a chaotic and random (nothing more chaotic and...
Forum: Off Topic 09-30-2012
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Views: 4,954
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: Torture

"... the only way he could calm himself was to take pleasure in the suffering of others: with a gloved hand he would whip or cave in the skull of one or several eunuchs who had witnessed his failure,...
Forum: General Discussion 09-28-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

What is a coincidence (good fortune)?

Let's imagine that we play this game. We, living in different cities, far way from each other, point at any place we like on a world map. It could be any...
Forum: General Discussion 09-27-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

When I was listening to my answer, the one I gave my friend after being told about the suicide, I thought, almost immediately that my answer was doomed. You said it right, and that was what I exactly...
Forum: General Discussion 09-27-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

But, even if you don't procreate, or if everyone on this planet decides to die unanimously, the problem is still there (no humankind to understand it but there might be others): this equation, so...
Forum: General Discussion 09-27-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

In fact, it is not fiction. A friend of mine, a high school teacher, knows of a few teenagers who have committed suicide in the past year. He works for a poor (almost) rural area in the suburbs of a...
Forum: General Discussion 09-27-2012
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Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: 16 years old

Malone, let's imagine that "ax+by+cz=0" is the equation that explains everything. We can call it, The Russell's equation.

Be a=b=c=1 (to make it easy) then we have "x+y+z=0". This is the equation...
Forum: General Discussion 09-26-2012
Replies: 51
Views: 29,212
Posted By Russell Nash
16 years old

This is not fiction. It happened.


16 years


He is 16 years old. What do we know about him? He is the best student in his class (last year in high school), which is a lot to say...
Forum: General Discussion 09-12-2012
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Views: 4,497
Posted By Russell Nash
An unsolved metaphysical mystery: “a book by Ligotti”

I was wondering when it is that a book written by Thomas Ligotti can be considered that it is a book written by Thomas Ligotti.

One may say that whenever Ligotti writes a book, it immediately...
Forum: General Discussion 09-06-2012
Replies: 38
Views: 17,014
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: Snared in a Trap

By reading from what you just said: "life contains suffering", and "there is no guarantee of pleasure", I deduce that you don't like suffering but you do like pleasure. Is perhaps AN just a...
Forum: General Discussion 09-02-2012
Replies: 38
Views: 17,014
Posted By Russell Nash
Re: Snared in a Trap

They protest where ever they set foot. Putting up posters such as this:

http://www.oneiricon.com/justsaynotolife/nonexist.jpg[/QUOTE]

Isn't it illogical to claim "Nonexistence never hurt...
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