Jump to content

zapatos

Senior Members
  • Posts

    7719
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    91

Everything posted by zapatos

  1. You need to study harder. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-we-see-stars-when-we-rub-our-eyes/ So there is something embedded in the front of my face that I cannot touch?
  2. I was responding to your comment about rubbing your eyes. You didn't ask me to teach you about photoreceptors and neuroscience. I scrubbed my face this morning. There is nothing 'embedded' in the front of it.
  3. This site may be a bit advanced for you.
  4. I have no idea what this means. Well, I have no idea what any of your post means but this one in particular struck my fancy.
  5. What you perceive as light is just an electrical signal sent to the optic nerve. Doesn't matter what causes the electrical signal. Can be light, touch, sound, and others. And internal 'touch' is just a surrogate for physical touch. And internal 'smell' is just a surrogate for physical smell. The brain just interprets stimuli. Vision is nothing special. Um, no.
  6. Yep. You are right. 😊
  7. As studiot has pointed out, it is not spooky at all.
  8. Are you looking to establish a hierarchy of 'bad deeds'? You do realize no two people will ever completely agree, don't you?
  9. So no sand or excess commas.
  10. Ignorance is bliss! 🙄
  11. What do you think he might have meant?
  12. What exactly is "pure potential"? As opposed to, say, impure potential? Can you hand me some potential?
  13. When my mother was near the end of her life she emotionally suffered whenever any of her kids or grandkids experienced any setbacks. We instituted a policy, at my urging, that we lie like crazy to my mom. David got into graduate school. Mary's debt was forgiven. I got that promotion. I've never been happier about a decision to lie in my life. For the most part I believe that people should be told the truth, but I'm sure there are dozens of exceptions depending on the circumstances.
  14. It doesn't mean anything. It isn't science. It isn't even a good argument. It's like saying A=B, and B=C, so A=C, without bothering to define what A, B and C are. And then to tell this little story in a thread about whether or not intelligence is supernatural. It is navel gazing.
  15. Sounds like an argument you would get from someone in primary school.
  16. Unless you are draped in a bearskin eating roots and berries I am not sure that you can get through one single day without using modern science.
  17. I asked you how your theory worked and you said 'string theory'. How is it your theory if the way it works is 'string theory'?
  18. So your "new theory" is actually string theory? Not really fair of you to take credit for it then.
  19. How? By what mechanism? Where was it when it was invisible? My dog was in my office but when I looked again she was in the kitchen. I can describe how she got from one place to the other via her moving through 3d space. How in your view did she get from 'this plane' to 'the other plane'?
  20. It is OK because it identifies those who are impacted. It makes no sense to say blacks were hurt but we cannot help them because they are black and therefore we cannot identify them. If only the black people in my neighborhood were exposed to a disease, do I also have to treat all of the white people just so that I'm not sorting according to race? If we applied your logic to tornados the insurance companies would not have to pay anyone with a claim because that would require us to sort based on the criterion of 'damage'. It is self evident that the criteria you use is the one that identifies who is impacted, whether that is damaged homes or race. You said previously that is was okay if it was used for good (see below). Now you are saying it is not okay. Did I miss something?
  21. Or it may be God or pink fairies. Throwing out random ideas is weak.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.