• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. Druidus

    Nudity and/or Sexualized Nudity - Dangerous? Immoral? Taboo?

    (Bolded parts are the most essential in order to be able to know what I'm asking.) I know it took me a long time to get to that question, but ask yourself. Don’t just look at Stargate, that’s just the example that made me think of this. This seems common everywhere in most western...
  2. Druidus

    Nudity and/or Sexualized Nudity - Dangerous? Immoral? Taboo?

    (I know that this is long, so in the second post, I've bolded the most essential part, so that people can still answer the question if they don't want to read it all.) I was recently talking to some friends about a television show franchise I deeply enjoy, Stargate (all three TV series, plus...
  3. Druidus

    The Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham (of AnswersinGenesis.com) Debate

    I was unfortunate enough to be without wifi when the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate occurred earlier this year. I've been putting off watching it for a long time now. I'm now questioning whether I really should watch it or not. I'd rather not waste two hours of my time if it isn't worthwhile...
  4. Druidus

    Any Other RFers Living in Nova Scotia?

    I'm not exactly sure if this is where I should post this, but it's my best guess. I recently moved to Halifax to go back to university. I'm most likely going to be attending the University of King's College, but there are six other universities that haven't responded to my application yet...
  5. Druidus

    Do We See Colors Differently?

    Every brain creates a model of reality that you then experience. The general hardware is always the same, neurons, glial cells, etc. But they are not identical in any two people, and so they will generate different models. We have evolved a "toolkit" for processing wavelengths of light into...
  6. Druidus

    Consciousness, Mind, and Brain

    I would posit that they are different. The brain produces consciousness, and the subjective conscious experience of this, as well as the subconscious' alterations of that experience, is our mind. I think the brain produces consciousness because of the strong evidence for it's components being...
  7. Druidus

    Religious Studies Major

    Hey, I'm in in university right now, finishing up my degree after a prolonged health related absence. I'm going for medicine eventually, although I switched from going for primarily research. I think your idea about becoming a rabbi is pretty cool. RS would give you a unique perspective to...
  8. Druidus

    Do We See Colors Differently?

    I can see one way we might be able to test this. This idea, of course, rests on you first having accepted that what we subjectively experience is a product of the brain itself (you might get away with just saying that our perceptions of/from the senses, at least, are a product of our brain) and...
  9. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    Yeah, I find that far too many science and tech journalists are allowed to get away with such sensationalizing and exaggeration. It's easy to understand why, it sells magazines and it garners more readers/traffic, so it amps up the value of ad space. But that doesn't make it right.
  10. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    Good example with the baby simulators, I like that. :yes:
  11. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    True, and you're entirely right to worry about the potential for the abuse of future artificial intelligences. Such treatment of sentient beings would be a tragic travesty and a tarnishing of humanity as a whole. I wholly agree with you on that. We owe it to the sentients that we create to...
  12. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    Look, just because something is an AI does not make it sentient. Once you understand this fact, you'll be on the road towards understanding why you are wrong about this matter. Here's an excerpt from something relevant to the discussion: Here's the source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
  13. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    Isn't it "manufactroversy"?
  14. Druidus

    Evil Scientists Create a Computer Intelligence with Schizophrenia.

    Sorry, but this is not a sentient computer, it isn't even a pre-sentient computer, it's no where close. There's no danger of a computer "going sentient", that's not how it works. We've got a LONG way to go to create a sentient artificial intelligence. I've been following the field of...
  15. Druidus

    Saturn V Launch Video

    I watched this video of Saturn V's launch and it brought on a powerful mix of emotions. It's symbolic of our species' great potential. It's an example of what we can do when we work together. It's awe-inspiring to see something so magnificent and glorious as this come from a single species, a...
  16. Druidus

    On the Notion of Faith

    I found an interesting blog that I thought a few people here might like. On the notion of faith | Scary Reasoner Here is an excerpt: There've been some quite good posts there, but I'll stick to that one for now. What are your thoughts on faith? To me, I find it, like the person who wrote...
  17. Druidus

    Higher Dimensional Organisms

    Right. They have smaller "organs" called organelles. Even prions, self-replicating protein strands, are three-dimensional. Even a single atom takes up three dimensional space. Simply being kind of flat, like paper, does not make you truly 2-dimensional. You must be impossibly flat...
  18. Druidus

    Higher Dimensional Organisms

    Not enough. I'm assuming, knowing nothing first-hand of higher dimensions, that a natural selection like phenomenon would operate on lifeforms there as well as here.
  19. Druidus

    Higher Dimensional Organisms

    Of course it wouldn't be a realm such as we're used to. That doesn't presuppose that it doesn't have its own rules that can allow for the existence of different types of life.
  20. Druidus

    Anyone Around Remember the Old Times on RF?

    Doing ok. I had to leave university for health reasons for a while, but I'm back into my studies now. My lost years were 2.5-3 years I spent addicted to opiates/opioids (my favourite being intravenous hydromorphone). But those days are over, I conquered my addiction on my own. No rehab...
Top