Thread: hmmmmmm............ What am I doing here

Originally Posted by AmyAnn

Nothing-truth only means something through a sense that it effects or affects something. Sensation is actually chemicals moving around in your brain, thus relative. Relatively, all that means anything is what we can sense.

Can any sense abstract from an element? Or do all senses abstract only from things?
When you have an IQ test, and it is asked if something is the same or different? would you imagine that these concepts are different from the concepts of true and false, equal not equal, is and is not, absolute and relative, form and material difference, definition and enumeration, etc? Or as was pointed out over 2500 years ago, are there two and only two elements that the mind actually works with?

The Eskimo has a zillion words for snow, and we have the same for the most basic abstractions possible. And if we cannot keep them distinct in our mind, we simply cannot think.

Any possible sense of a living organism must abstract from things, i.e. must distinguish between form and material difference, between same and different, true and false--if a mind cannot do it, that mind is dysfunctional--not because I say so, but by definition, by physical fact. i.e. we are not really alive.

In scripture, the ressurrection of the dead is not something mystical, it means that the mind of man will be awakened. You know the line, "The sleeper awakens!"

How can anyone think they are lucid when dreaming when they are not actually lucid when awake?

Actually you can go lucid when awake , in psychoactive states of mind.

Senses abstract from elements. Elementally, atoms are constructed in terms of protons, electrons and neutrons. Beneath that, is Higgs boson, which is said to potentially pierce this dimension. You could consider each universe has a black hole and dark matter which counterbalances, thus providing it's existence. I can't really go into the philosophy of physics because I have much organic chemistry to focus on.

Seeing you two go at it like this is absolutely adorable.

haha that's an awesome argument going on there, not that i can follow any of it.
Philosohpy = another language to me