Gorototh

I don't know about you guys but this just blew my mind so hard it made me twitch in the most bizarre of ways. http://www.iflscience.com/brain/first-brain-brain-interface-could-revolutinize-neuroscience Check out this post and share what you think of this, dawn of a new era in neuroscience?

No.........Not a real romantic relationship. An A.I, no matter how similar to the reactions a human would have, will never have the same chemical connection a man and a woman or man and man or woman and woman can have. It's simply not possible. As long as it's artificial it can't go both ways. However, a man or woman can fall in love with A.I, just how it can fall in love with a car or some other creepy fetish like taxidermy baboons or some shit xD

I'm happy to see that, but this wasn't aimed toward scientific minds, this was aimed toward religious thinkers and magical thinkers that believe they have the right answer when it comes to what spirituality means. Now, as for evidence of what I'm asserting... We live in a day and an age where ignorance is a choice...And people STILL choose ignorance. It would take a person merely a day to comprehend the things I assert in this piece of slam poetry ( Poor quality I might add being my second piece ). I appreciate your enthusiasm for question, it is very useful in this day and age, but just because you're too lazy to research the natural world, doesn't make your beliefs true, that is what I'm trying to convey in this thread. Thank you I responded to both threads, interesting to converse about and really important questions to address!

Okay, I still don't understand why it's necessary to hold these absurd beliefs in something greater than ourselves. I really encourage the OP to get into scientific research and literacy. I think the OP has overthought this and is overwhelmed mentally, incapable of coming out of his own delusion. I strongly recommend to get a more precise understanding of the world you live in and how the natural world works. Unless of course we are talking of science fiction which is obviously awesome. In that case yes. Aliens.

i don't believe you ever can truly forgive someone if they hurt you strongly. A daughter can never truly forgive her mother for abusing her physically. The families of murdered children never forgive the murderer. A child may forgive his friend for stealing his lollipop. It certainly depends on the gravity of the act, but because of the fact that things that impact you cannot be easily forgotten, therefore it is hard to truly forgive, the definition of forgiveness is mostly seen throughout biblical interpretations, which state to offer a sacrifice, to lose something of yourself out of human compassion in order to forgive someone. And that I must say is utterly useless and you do not have to forgive everybody that hurts you. It is your choice to make and shouldn't be tied to anyone else's point of view.

I don't think money is the only source of happiness or the only cause for unhappiness which is what I think the matter at hand is. It would be terribly absurd to think so. In fact I think this thread in general is almost useless seeing that it is obvious people get their happiness from almost anything, it is a basic human necessity to be content, it's what drives us away from suicide. A boy in central Africa could be extremely happy to have found a source of clean water, where a middle class white male can be extremely unhappy because his Wi-Fi is taken down for 20 minutes. This is not a useful question.

Hello SF, this would be my first post on the forums here so I wanted to post my views on human nature, spirituality and hopefully it can raise the eyebrow to think how this influences all of mankind. Hopefully you enjoy it ! Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight, I'm making this post on a very important and not very acknowledged topic, that in my opinion is most likely the one that influences everybody's life to the core of their understanding and perception of themselves, society, the world, and the universe. This topic is that of spirituality, I am not talking about magical force fields around people's bodies or an invisible man in the sky that teaches you right from wrong, nor am I talking about the harvesting of energy from rare minerals and crystals from the Earth. I am talking about you. YOU, and your relationship with your surroundings, your relationships, your thoughts, ideas, first loves, beliefs, accomplishments. You, you are defined by what you have dictated to be reasonable, comfortable, acceptable, and that stems from who you were when you were given the tools to create your identity, the person that built the present you, the one that either accepted beliefs as fact, painted a portrait that stimulated a certain region of your mammal brain, the person that solved an overwhelmingly difficult math problem. That person is responsible for who you are today, and that person will still be held accountable for who you are now. It doesn't matter if who it is you are now is a junkie, a loser, a nerd, a plumber, scientist, engineer, explorer, internet magician, programmer, Uber, L33t. You are who you've built yourself to become the past couple of years, but that does not limit the potential that you have to construct and build the person that is coming after the one you are right now. Think back to the one that built you, are you proud of him or her? Are you proud of what that person did for you, do you want to remain dwelling in who you were or do you want to acquire the tools necessary to build the person you want to become...That, is the spirituality I am talking about. The type that tells people to go fuck themselves, or to have a nice day. That is the true spirituality that is present in every intellectual standing ape out there that thinks there's something not quite right with what we see today, the individual insanity that invents, innovates and discovers. That is you. I have seen many people deny the fact that they are living breathing human beings that are part of a world filled with other living breathing human beings that are as capable or not to do great things or to do horrible things, they fail to realize how unimportant their perspective of the present is because they are afraid. Afraid of how difficult and how hard it is to sit down shut up and think. Afraid that maybe, just maybe, they are wrong. That they have built the wrong person. The way you should approach this existential awareness is by taking a step back, looking at yourself and realizing you are a living...breathing...human being, capable of understanding and discovering the very mysteries of the universe, the collective stardust unimaginably larger than you think. That, is far more spiritual and relieving than any holy book can teach you. The ability to sit down...shut up...and think. This I think, is our biggest problem in society and our ability to rely on each other as a species. Because that is what we have evolved to do. To research new scientific boundaries because we do NOT want to die and we want to discover how this existence works. We are not screeching apes flinging shit at each other, nor are we ignorant peasants fighting for land and bowing down to the superior ape that has a relationship with the inexplicable. We are human beings, capable of reason and logic. Throw away the asshole that built you and create somebody that understands this infinite cosmos and is kind and caring to his or her's peers. Study, question, reason, love, care, empathize, discover. That...is the kind of spirituality that I care for, the kind that gives meaning to these 100 years we have on this Earth, this beautiful Earth. That is the kind worth believing in. That is my take on Science, Religion, Politics and Philosophy, which are in my opinion one for all and all for one. Please share your thoughts and opinions. Remember, be Unafraid of the Dark.