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5th August 2015, 10:01 AM | #281 |
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We are electromanetic phenomena:
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'Where' is the image in the mind? What 'space' is the image in your mind in? Where is the dream? Where is your inner voice? It's not the same spacetime then where the electrical and chemical pulses are in the brain, causing this image or the dream. The image you see in your mind's eye is in a completely different dimension than where the chemistry in the brain is. (Maarten Vergucht) |
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Have you already read the 119 pages? That's fast.
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'Where' is the image in the mind? What 'space' is the image in your mind in? Where is the dream? Where is your inner voice? It's not the same spacetime then where the electrical and chemical pulses are in the brain, causing this image or the dream. The image you see in your mind's eye is in a completely different dimension than where the chemistry in the brain is. (Maarten Vergucht) |
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And how can these electromagnetic patterns exist without the brain which generated them?
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Every 'electromagnetic field'-generator can generate consciousness, is a logical conclusion. It doesn't have to be a brain.
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'Where' is the image in the mind? What 'space' is the image in your mind in? Where is the dream? Where is your inner voice? It's not the same spacetime then where the electrical and chemical pulses are in the brain, causing this image or the dream. The image you see in your mind's eye is in a completely different dimension than where the chemistry in the brain is. (Maarten Vergucht) |
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That's what I believe, based on the evidence presented in the book of Susan Pockett.
I believe that we are patterns in the electromagnetic field. That's what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. You, Daylightstar, are some pattern in the elctromagnetic field generated by the brain. That's your true nature. |
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'Where' is the image in the mind? What 'space' is the image in your mind in? Where is the dream? Where is your inner voice? It's not the same spacetime then where the electrical and chemical pulses are in the brain, causing this image or the dream. The image you see in your mind's eye is in a completely different dimension than where the chemistry in the brain is. (Maarten Vergucht) |
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This is a common misunderstanding of what the quantum theory actually says: the word "observer" is the culprit, and Fritjof Capra's promulgation of this confusion in his book The Tao of Physics in the 1970s provided new age charlatans with an apparent authority from which to run with a completely false understanding of the facts. The fact is that an observation is supposedly what collapses the wave function of a quantum system into a definite state. The "observation" is simply a measurement or a sampling, and this can be taken by a mechanical tool such as a camera. No conscious "observer" need be present at all. The whole thing can be an automated process, and the data thus collected can be analysed by a computer. It is not an observer which determines the state of the system, it is an observation, or simply a recording by a machine. There is no requirement for any consciousness anywhere in the set up. All this only applies to quantum systems. Anything larger than a subatomic particle is too big for these quantum effects to manifest. What's more, the camera or whatever does not actually determine anything about what the system collapses into. There is no "affecting" anything in the sense you and the new age buffoons/charlatans are trying to believe: the fantasy that a person can cause any sort of change in the world by using their mind to think about it is exactly nothing more than a fantasy at best, and a scam perpetrated on the ignorant and gullible by charlatans selling mystical healing etc. |
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My understanding is that the more you try to isolate a particle the less you will be able to measure it's momentum. If you look at it's momentum then it becomes a part of a wave pattern.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. It's a finite quantity yet it is infinite, which makes it irrational.......if numbers can be irrational then any theory based on mathematics has a potential for being inadequate in it's description. My point here is that science is not a neat little package with pat answers. The conclusion that anything not proven by science simply doesn't exist is not a valid claim. |
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My issue is that there are irrational numbers at all. A number represents a quantity and that should be finite when dividing.
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1/3 is irrational: .3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 333333333333333333333333333333333333333....etc.
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Its a funny argument. People also emit hot air; does this now mean that hot air is people?
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