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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 1 of 148 (289684)
02-23-2006 2:21 AM


The laws of physics do not recognize the force of me. My physical body though, must obey them so I must succumb to them in that context.
I affect the world around me on a daily basis in some very unique and unpredictable ways.
I am a force that does things at will and in many ways not according to any known physical laws. In fact it can be said that the force that is “us” generates it’s own set of changing laws called beliefs. The force that is us succumbs to these laws both by coercion of other similar forces and our choice. By obeying these laws we in turn can have a profound and unpredictable effect on the physical world. In effect, our changing Laws can become a force and in turn, affect the physical world in unpredictable ways according to the laws of physics. In addition to this we as individual forces can choose to act against the very laws we generate.
Perhaps thinking of us in terms of an energy force will allow science to have a better glimpse at that which is “us”.
I find this perspective interesting and would like to see it explored.
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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 3 of 148 (290226)
02-24-2006 8:41 PM
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02-24-2006 8:44 AM


Re: That which is us
I agree that it is under the quite general blanket of what I started.
I Do not come to this sight to debate as many I see.
Debate for debates sake is simple argueing.
I have come here to have meaningful input and exchange.
Though debate may arise.
I can very clearly see the problem that arises when those of the religions of science and faith clash. I am trying like hell to avoid that foolishness. My main topic is too broad but I had a lot on my poor little mind. lol This is an aproach that I have never heard. The idea that we are a spirit and it dwells within the body had been around for ages but not described in the sense of physics. I had the hopes as this came to me that it might bridge some gap. The biggest obstacle that science has is that to the religion of science The world is flat until proven otherwise. We as spiritual beings know the world is not flat and you know what I mean.
I have been asked by some inteligent people here including administrators if I am "EVO" or"ID" That tells me something important about them especially when I have watched thier posting.
I see inteligent people treat EVO with the same fervor that crationists treat ID. That type of passion is not warranted to a theory. It smells the same to me It is either a theory or it isn't. It is no more foolish to defend the Bible than a theory.Both have thier very relavent purposes. I see them both clearly. Many do not. Science will teach us about the physical world and its laws but it will never do anything for the spirit. It will not comfort you when the bottom drops out. No theory will help the pain of a child or a parent dying. Rationality goes right out the window. I have seen it first hand.
Now I will tell you flat. I Do not believe in any way that the earth was created in 6 days and I was born Catholic. The general theoretical process of evolution makes sense but there are a lot of holes.
I also don't have a problem with having other forms of life evolve into what I am if it is the case.
I feel that I am truly in the middle. Those who put thier faith in science can lose perspective just as those who burry thier head in religions can lose thiers.
You mayhap expected a simple answer. You may find I often do not ablige These are the reasons why My topic should be kept separate so that it gets explored before it gets burried in the mess I created in my first forum. I will get better at this as I go.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 14 of 148 (290916)
02-27-2006 4:22 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by John Ferguson
02-27-2006 6:41 AM


I have not heard one person come within a mouses butt hair of grasping nor saying one word remotely relating to exactly what I stated.
I have not the foggiest notion where some one gets ESP out of my
topic.
This topic was intended to be looked at from the standpoint of physics.
We talk about forces all the time. But we can never see one. Only evidence that they exists. What I see it that many people do not like when the obvious stares them in the face. It's just that physics cannot put this in a neat little box and say ...there...that's a rule we can follow.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 17 of 148 (291248)
03-01-2006 2:41 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Percy
02-27-2006 4:35 PM


No, you are not a force.
I respectfully request you seek out the definition of force.
You are matter and energy.
Isn't matter simply energy in an ordered form?
Energy in a specific state of excitation?
Can you provide an example of something you do that is not according to known physical laws?
Why certainly. Every time I decide to do something. No known physical laws will predict if, when, how, or why the force of me will act, or to what degree. For science to overlook that we are indeed a force that obeys both our own laws and physical laws is quite humorous, to me anyway.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 20 of 148 (291354)
03-01-2006 11:12 PM
Reply to: Message 19 by Percy
03-01-2006 3:23 PM


For instance, a person holding a dog by a rope is experiencing the force applied by the rope on their hand, and the cause for its pulling forward is the force exercised by the rope.
Very poor example.
Ropes do not apply force. In your example it is the dog that applies the force.
Gravity is a force. Show me gravity.
Electromagnetism is a force.Show me electromagnetism.
Sure as light is the expression of energy passing through a medium we
are a force as gravity and electromagnetism.
People are physical systems too complex for determinate analysis. So is the weather much of the time. Or try predicting where a water molecule that just descended the drain in your sink will be next week. But water, weather and people still follow all known physical laws. Inability to predict is not an indication of unknown physical laws at work.
Yes ....I know...the world is flat until proven otherwise....lol

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 21 of 148 (291356)
03-01-2006 11:19 PM
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03-01-2006 3:01 PM


Your will is a function of your brain and as such is physical in nature.
This statement is an opinon/belief. What the will is cannot be defined by science. though there have been feeble attempts. Science will forever remain the wrong tool for the job. Though we may learn valuable things in the attempt

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 24 of 148 (291526)
03-02-2006 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Percy
03-02-2006 9:32 AM


The dog's neck applies the force to the collar which applies the force to the rope which in turn applies it to the person. You can carry it even further back and to increasing levels of detail. For example, the dog's muscles exert forces on the dog's skeleton which in turn transmits it to both the ground and the collar.
This is a perfect example of what I have been saying all along. You have only broken the dog down into it's physical parts....this can be done to the quantum level at the extreme however it does nothing to recognise what animates the stuff. Muscles/bones/cells/molecules/atoms ect. are only stuff. Each of these things do not apply the force. I believe this to be a very narrow and limiting perspective.
I am seeing it as a force is directed through them. A very different perspective. One that many refuse to even consider. Exploring this way of seeing things may teach us much. It may not. But I have never seen it done seriously.
Despite our subjective impressions of our own free will and so forth, human beings appear to obey all laws of physics and chemistry. I think that this will become more and more clear to you as you try to develop examples of things operating outside physical laws.
The fact that this conversation takes place is proof. If you choose not to see it that is your choice of belief. That is fodder for another forum. I must acknowledge that you are more than stuff as you must aknowledge me or all is meaningless in the first place, including science.
Now it is obvious that you refuse to take a different perspective and even consider the possibility of what I have said. By disregarding the idea without exploration you are contradicting the very idea of scientific thought. All avenues should be explored. This is an avenue that I believe is worth exploration. Your choice is not to. You do not believe it to be possible.
Science evolves through our perspectives. How we look at things allows us to see them differently. A different perspective often allows us to see things we were otherwise blind to. One must be willing to look in the first place.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 26 of 148 (292119)
03-04-2006 1:41 PM
Reply to: Message 25 by Percy
03-02-2006 4:46 PM


think you're confusing my corrections of misstatements with an unwillingness to explore. If what you'd really like to do is pretend we know nothing and start from scratch, then you're right, I'm not with you. But if you'd like to bring a fresh perspective to some unexplained phenomena, then I'm listening.
I have. You have made the choice not to see it.
But they *do* apply the force. This we can observe and measure.
This is a way of looking at things. It is not the only way. It illustrates what I have been saying in other threads. This view treats living beings as things. It is a useful tool but viewing living beings through this narrow window will only provide you with a view within it's limitations. Your world viewed in this light will remain forever flat.
Scientists assume that causality holds for much, but not all, of our universe. If a neuron in your brain fires causing a cascade of impulses that cause a muscle to contract that lifts your arm, science presumes that something caused that neuron to fire. Perhaps a fly was buzzing around your head, and the buzzing sound entered your ear causing nerve impulses to tell your brain what was happening, which reacted by causing the neuron to fire to make your arm brush the fly away.
Scientists also understand that the universe includes non-causal activity. For example, we don't know what causes an atom of a radioactive element to pick one particular moment in time to decay. We don't know what causes entangled particles to pick one spin over another when disentangled. There may be true randomness in these processes, or there may be more that we do not yet understand. But as I said earlier, unpredictability is not evidence of new laws of physics at work.
You can discuss ad nausium the causall effect of this that and the other thing including the futile attempt to explain who we are.
You have made the choice to put your belief in one perspective.
I choose not to limit myself in that fashion. It is quite simple.
However my view will allow more possibilities.
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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 28 of 148 (292460)
03-05-2006 4:52 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Percy
03-04-2006 7:59 PM


You said that people are a force who do things in ways contrary to the laws of physics, but since people are not a force, and since nothing we do is known to be contrary to the laws of physics, you are wrong. It isn't that I'm choosing not to see it. It's that I understand what you're saying and am pointing out that you're wrong.
Here we will funamentally disagree. You cannot prove you are right because there is no right or wrong to prove. Just points of view. I see it simply to be your belief based soley on your perspective. I see that there are other ways to view things. You choose not to. I choose to explore thier possibilities. You choose not to. I see value in the exploration. You choose not to.
I would ask that you take a second look at what I proposed:
I should have specified known laws of physics in my first sentence.
The laws of physics do not recognize the force of me. My physical body though, must obey them so I must succumb to them in that context.
I affect the world around me on a daily basis in some very unique and unpredictable ways.
I am a force that does things at will and in many ways not according to any known physical laws. In fact it can be said that the force that is “us” generates it’s own set of changing laws called beliefs. The force that is us succumbs to these laws both by coercion of other similar forces and our choice. By obeying these laws we in turn can have a profound and unpredictable effect on the physical world. In effect, our changing Laws can become a force and in turn, affect the physical world in unpredictable ways according to the laws of physics. In addition to this we as individual forces can choose to act against the very laws we generate.
Perhaps thinking of us in terms of an energy force will allow science to have a better glimpse at that which is “us”.
I find this perspective interesting and would like to see it explored.
But I'm not trying to explain who we are. I'm trying to address the thread's topic, which is whether people can have an impact on the real world in ways not covered by the laws of physics.
I dissagree. Unless you are simply debating for debates sake. If you believe in what you say then this is how you define yourself. That is your choice. It is neither right or wrong but simply your choice.
Objectively express for me with current physics or science for that matter, in meaningful human terms, the pain you feel when a spouse dies, The joy you feel when you hold your first child. Or any other feeling we experience for that matter.
My point in this thread was to attempt to promote a view which may lead to understandings our current system of thought is not addressing adequately. Again if you choose not to go down that path it is your choice.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 32 of 148 (292540)
03-05-2006 9:31 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by melatonin
03-05-2006 5:24 PM


Feeling of fear...
I perceive a bear running at me, a threat. A fast response has already passed to the amygdala, and via the hypothalamus, results in activity in the autonomic NS causes a release of noradrenaline/adrenaline increasing attention and preparation for flight. Furthermore, the amygdala activates the HPA axis (stress response). The feeling of fear is the conscious awareness of this adaptive emotional biological state. The glucocorticoids and NAd/Ad released by the HPA axis will ensure I remember this event in the future and maybe not go into the woods without a big gun. Hopefully, I run...
You have used the terms "conscious awareness" , "I" and fear which are not objective. You have also added hope into the mix.

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Message 35 of 148 (293072)
03-07-2006 5:06 PM
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03-05-2006 5:18 PM


Let us know when you are ready to demonstrate your ability to flap your arms and fly.
Any other childish responses you would like to add? You wil find nothing I ever say to that falls to the level of response such as this.

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Message 37 of 148 (293107)
03-07-2006 7:21 PM
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03-06-2006 6:27 AM


blooper
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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 38 of 148 (293109)
03-07-2006 7:22 PM
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03-06-2006 6:27 AM


oh noes...
conscious awareness = information that is reportable enabling voluntary response, IOW enters working memory (i.e. not subliminal/implicit/unconscious)
I = an individual
fear = biological response to primary or secondary (associated with primary through conditioning) reinforcers that are a threat to well-being
'Hopefully' was an indication that the best option is to run - however freezing and fighting are other possibilities. So, you make a decision. In that case, 'for' 'at' 'this' also weren't scientific...
Look into the psychological literature, emotion and its processes are well defined...
Thank you. You are illustrating my point quite nicely.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 41 of 148 (293400)
03-08-2006 5:19 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by nwr
03-07-2006 8:31 PM


In fact you have made the bare assertion
I am a force that does things at will and in many ways not according to any known physical laws.
but you have not provided any evidence at all to support this claim.
That is because it was meant to attempt to introduce a different perspective. The motivation for his comment was very different. If one chooses not to explore the possibilities I have put forth that is thier right. The idea is not necessarily new. I do believe the way I aproached it is.

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2ice_baked_taters
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Message 43 of 148 (293506)
03-08-2006 10:05 PM
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03-08-2006 5:53 PM


But when you say "in many ways not according to any known physical laws," you have contradicted that OP statement. For your wording here claims that there is a violation of known physical laws. That might not be what you intended, but it is what you wrote.
No...my statement was clear. My suggestion is to look at us as a force that science has not addressed yet.

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