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  1. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    There are no "laws of nature" merely a logical unfolding of events.... ...somewhat like human law. no traffic laws without traffic... no complex physical laws before the physical universe existed -only new laws as a result of new complex arrangement of very basic events.... the only "real" law...
  2. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    I am not saying I know all of this to be true, but much seems to me that it must be true logically. I am just starting to think about a lot of this, so my thoughts are all over the place and I may not know how to explain them well yet. Getting back to everything as an arrangement and...
  3. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    There could have been no beginning inasmuch as there could never have been absolute nothing -because absolute nothing could not produce anything or be anything by definition. Whatever is just is -just was "always" -but time really does not apply in the same way to simplicity. What is a day...
  4. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    Everything which is complex is obviously made of the more-simple, but also the most-simple. Therefore the original "stuff" is actually all around us -is everything in new arrangements -so we ought to have the necessary evidence available to continue to study -though we ought to be able to get...
  5. Etritonakin

    Bjork, music and videos

    Both can be advantageous and otherwise..... like formal education vs learning how to educate yourself. I was just thinking that her personality is so positive and expressive... and partly the product of a history in a land of no music and no trees.
  6. Etritonakin

    Bjork, music and videos

    Iceland's isolation has meant not being a part of the world 'music scene' -as has the fact that singing as we know it was once not allowed by foreign controlling powers! So... a lack of music history is actually a musical influence for the Icelandic -which -though sad -adds to uniqueness and...
  7. Etritonakin

    Why is consciousness so baffling?

    I think we have a general unwillingness to accept how basically simple it really is. Any most-basic interaction is actually simple awareness/consciousness. All other awareness/consciousness is by complex arrangement of those most-basic interactions. The religious tend to consider consciousness...
  8. Etritonakin

    Capability of "Nature"/Necessity of Creativity

    What is will or intelligence if not mastery? Some very interesting verses from the bible say that the creation will be set free from its bondage to decay by the children of God -who will be given bodies/interfaces like that which allows God (Logos) to subdue all things unto himself. Seeing as...
  9. Etritonakin

    Capability of "Nature"/Necessity of Creativity

    "In" the universe -which once was not -so those forces may not have existed as such prior -and there was a prior. Similarly, atoms did not exist, but that which could be arranged as atoms did exist. I think folks did a great job reverse-engineering the universe, but even they are beginning to...
  10. Etritonakin

    Capability of "Nature"/Necessity of Creativity

    I don't believe it difficult at all to explain human or similar intelligence from the big bang -as the complex and interactive elements which the singularity became specifically lend themselves perfectly to the self-assembly of DNA, etc. From my post.... "Though it may seem counterintuitive...
  11. Etritonakin

    Capability of "Nature"/Necessity of Creativity

    Someone recently advised me to not underestimate that of which nature was capable. Referenced from the singularity/big bang, nature from that point is very capable due to relatively complex/specific arrangement. However, how nature became capable has not been explained. As present nature once...
  12. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    I think maybe "all" that would be required for the existence of God would be for "everything" which has "always" existed -in early stages (so not much in that regard, but still all) -to reach a point of being able to look back on its development thus far -reverse engineer itself -then...
  13. Etritonakin

    Is the idea of hell forever a rational idea?

    No -but it is not actually supported in the bible. It seems to be, but all verses must be taken together. 1 Cor 3:13Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14If any...
  14. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    If the basis of at least perceived "reality" were as free as thought, it would be pretty sweet.
  15. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    That's because we are involved. Throw conscious decision -inexperienced impossibility generators -into the mix and things get weird. We can't have bad ideas without a little smarts. I have wondered whether reality has a specific resolution -or if it can be infinitely subdivided -such as can be...
  16. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    "you still can't predict what direction the steam and smoke will blow or when it will break down." "it's some less than insignificant event in the distant past that determines the outcome of every event great or small" I'm still hearing predictability/inevitability overall... but on a scale and...
  17. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    I think you're peddling magic under a different name -and not perceiving the bits and pieces that are less chaotic -of which the chaotic is composed -and are focused on events after the atoms existed as such -and contradicting the basis of all science. What you see as chaos results in a...
  18. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    When I use the word singularity, I am referring to the point just before the big bang -though it could technically mean everything before the big bang. From just before the big bang, the singularity was set to inevitably become something specific once initiated -but what if we change our point...
  19. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    Edit of original..... Everything must be preceded by that which makes it first generally possible, then specifically possible. As everything developed from greatest possible simplicity, each new complexity/arrangement made even more new arrangements possible. Some have believed the...
  20. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    Everything must be preceded by that which makes it first generally possible, then specifically possible. As everything developed from greatest possible simplicity, each new complexity/arrangement made even more new arrangements possible. Some have believed the singularity which became our...
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