StringJunky

My personal stance is that I don't fear my own demise and, as such, don't need a soul to keep me going... in fact, I'd be rather pissed off... there's only so many times you can go around the block before it gets boring.

I couldn't find one that was liquid below 70C. Mercury is the only one I know.

I would ask "Is a soul needed?"

Right.

why speculate on top of a speculation that's not even got one shred of evidence in the first place?

I have been on a forum where this operates but, as you say, it needs to be a native option. With three different people having to do it isn't that problem negated?

Would a hide post button be helpful that is programmed to operate if, say, three people press it to avoid abuse.

It's usually in the UK morning when the spam seems to pile up (maybe 10 in a row on the New Content list) and most of the US is asleep; It's not a big deal really.

We all know Cap'n Refsmat and the mods are smart people. They know what's best for the forum, what can be done and how. Spam is a fact of life. We only see it when there isn't a mod around and gone when there is. I don't report obvious spam anymore because it's obvious but I do the more subtle ones. Let them get on with it the way they want to and have time for.

The evolution of life is a continuum of many forms from lifeless particles. Differentiating or defining the exact point at which one transits to the other is like asking: at what frequency does red become orange in the spectrum?

Ok. Tell us what that interdependency is. Who said any about it being ideal?

Negative attention is better than no attention.

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That's about the long and the short of it.

Like the bike riding example I used in another thread; you don't think about it until it's necessary for you to do so but it's there.

No, it's just data from your subconscious observation processes coming to the fore of your conscious awareness.

I say this only partly humorously. They need to do a wide variety of mind-bending drugs to experience what the brain is capable of; there is no part of you that can't be manipulated to simulate these things. Those experiences are, most likely, manifestations of physiological stress; oxygen depletion, for one, can give you 'floaty' out of the body experiences. If you think about the process of gradual oxygen depletion to the body, the brain gets highest priority and, as a result, imagine what it would be like to be awake but lose all your tactile body senses first. You will feel like you are floating because your brain no longer receives the information from those parts because any oxygen left is increasingly prioritised for the brain. The next step in the process will be diminishing vision, which becomes tunnel-like as you lose peripheral vision first. This is the 'light at the end of the tunnel' effect many people apparently have who said they had a near death experience. I read a step-by-step analysis many years of the process of dying and the gradual termination of physiological processes which adequately explains these apparently paranormal experiences

Money - Dark Side of the Moon 1973 Pink Floyd.

But it's not measurable and not needed, like DM and DE are, to complete the picture.From a purely empirical point of view, it is just wishful thinking that was originally inspired, and still maintained by many, due to the fear of dying and it's permanence. It's a mental comfort with no basis in science.

I have worn mitts and it helps a bit; cheap ones though from Halfords. Any recommendations on specific ones for this purpose? I think this too but bear in mind it's got suspension forks. Don't know whether to swap them out for some normal ones. The stem is pivoted and I only recently raised it to reduce the forward leaning pressure. It's knowing where to start with the fitting of the bike is the first step, I suppose. Yeah, the grips don't seem to help that much and they cost me 60 quid. Round ones, well chosen, with the right mitts might be worth exploring. Function will butt in then, hopefully. Thanks for the link.

Life is not a rehearsal; it is the performance.

If you studied physics a bit you would see that there is no mechanism that could plausibly account for it. Even in biology, as I'm sure you know, all psychological/physiological phenomena are emergent processes. What you are asking for is an extant non-physical phenomenon that co-exists in parallel but autonomously to the physical processes.

If that's what it takes to survive and humans are not collectively responsible enough to do something about it before such a situation might occur we only have ourselves to blame.