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Let's say I don't believe in a soul, so it doesn't work. It's a lot more wordplay than anything else.

According to physics and ignoring all the evidence that trees can in fact sense their surroundings in minute ways, the falling of a tree would release potential energy in the form of vibration or kinetic energy to the surrounding air, so unless you want to say physics is wrong (which, I guess you could if you want to, but there would be no way to prove it), then the answer is yes.

Well if consciousness and life are two different things, why would they not be able to exist independent from each other?

I am in a room with only a table and a mirror, nothing else, it's completely closed off which means I have limited air, there's no chimney or windows or etc. How did I escape?

3 gambling musicians, all playing for gold. Only 1 can win the bet, but they all take home gold. How is this possible?

An explorer encounters an isolated tribe in the Amazon. This tribe however, is cannibalistic and are hungry. However, they say to the explorer "You may choose how you are eaten: If your next statement is the true, we will cut your head off. If you lie, we will boil you alive. If we think your trying to confuse is in any way, we will boil you alive". What is the only way they would be forced to let the explorer go?

So can something be conscious without having a physical body?

Shot to the head? Instantaneous incineration? 5 ton steel block being dropped at terminal velocity?

So wouldn't that imply consciousness is a separate entity if artificial life was in fact able to display all the "signs" of consciousness?

What moon is doing even if I don't like the way the entire system works I wouldn't say is evil, the only problem is that it seems to be that the only value farmers have for animals they raise and connect to is that they will eventually become food, which seems like how the rest of the animal kindom thinks as well . Plants? Bacterium?

Well for those people, perhaps because they have gotten in so deep they do in fact think it is the truth, which is still not to say that that has happened to every conservative. It only takes 1 exception to prove an "all" statement false.

So do you honestly think that what people like Stephen Colbert say where conservatives are just crazed, money obsessed children is true? Do you not see how you are tie-ing a few "celebrates" whom many conservatives and republicans disagree with in different ways to the entire political party? I go to Madison (WI) and hear things like "(conservatives or republicans) are evil scum" and "the republican party wants to destroy the world" literally I hear that, and then I go visit my Aunt in Milwaukee which is in the same state, who's republican and one of those old fashioned types of kind people who consciously smile at everything because they actually are happy to see you.

Well, I suppose from my own research, but also from people like this http://www.youtube.c...h?v=46ycu3JFRrA Based on how I see things working too, it may be that the type of thinking various animals have is essentially the same, but with different mechanisms to implore different actions and different ways in which to perceive information, such as with images, words, sounds, tastes, touches, etc. In fact, I can even express emotion in terms of music so that it is inexpressible in terms of words, and the same with art (just look at Juxtapoz). Now that I even think about Juxtapoz, it may be related to the mathematics of imaginary numbers, where they are expressing feelings which are not naturally perceivable by human beings, and there-fore seem confusing or enigmatic, much like how the imaginary number "i" is not a number you can see the actual value of and only seems to exist in imaginary axis with virtual particles and invisible dimensions.

That assumption that that's what I was saying is the same kind of assumption that conservatives make. I'm sure you see that now that I mentioned it.

Well based on your post, I think people would care about cows drowning of they saw it. But, the meat packing industries pay a lot of money to hide that side of a machine with a pit below filling with cow heads. Cows don't think in terms of words, they think in terms of images by the way. It's kind of different than most people, but there are people who have claimed to think in this way anyway. And oddly enough, they seem kind of peaceful and docile, like cows.

I think his name is "Ed Schultz" Both sides are just people, so I don't see why you'd expect what you see in the conservative side to not happen on the liberal side. Although, I suppose Stephen Colbert might also be considered a liberal Limbaugh in the eyes of conservatives too.

But then that goes into the ethics of whether an animal deserves to be taken care of or be eaten. Also, I think you'll find that on a regular basis, people really don't act much smarter than cows. I suppose even with relativity, a living thing doesn't actually "deserve" a particular thing, no living organism is actually guaranteed any particular thing or right from the universe, at least not as far as physics shows.

Concussions just seem to kill you unnecessarily, why would your brain "have" to swell up to the point where it kills itself? It seems like such a trait wouldn't have survived for this many thousands of years.

Taxes are a drag, but you know what? So is forming a society.

The main issues with this struggle, as simple as it sounds, is communication and comprehension. I've been on many sides of different political spectrum, observing different ideals, and it seems all of the sides are all just people. For every rush Limbaugh it seems, there is a liberal equivalent who think similar things about conservatives. Even with communism and capitalism, people in very communist countries would look at the "selfish" US capitalistic ways as evil, even though it doesn't always work with things like corrupt CEOs, it implores working more and working to eventually give back to a community after which the community would give back to you, while capitalists think communist are evil for wanting to enslave people, when really it's just a dictator manipulating the image of communism and people being too afraid to stand up to it. When I comprehend all the different view-points, it seems people are mis-understanding while also not making the effort to further their understanding, and this arrogance causes many problems. There's also the matter of environment too, which is that people raised by people of a certain taste will likely develop those tastes as well, whether its for wine or a political structure.

It would take a bit of energy to make a shift from this system, but it's not to say it can be done, and what's the point of cows living if it's inevitable they are just going to be slaughtered by some careless machine for some random species that is too lazy to explore alternate possibilities? Even though I avoid it, I don't think killing to eat meat is unethical, but you kind of have to admit we dropped the ball on this and created this situation in the first place.

Loosely speaking, force carrier particles are thought to "snap back" to their parent particle, like a rubber band. It's hard to describe in terms other than mathematics.

However, light should still always be measured at "c" because of the Lorentz Transformation "Since relativity postulates that the speed of light is the same for all observers, the Lorentz transformation must preserve the spacetime interval between any two events in Minkowski space." The transformation also sort of demonstrates how you can't even achieve the speed of light, seeing as how events asymtote at the frame-rate of "c" thus making it unachievable.

I'm a Ph. D in chemistry because of google.

Hmm, what your saying isn't entirely true, because I can play a guitar and play so high up on the guitar fret that it approaches the limit of the frequency of human hearing, and even go beyond it, and it doesn't sound terrible at all.