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Consciousness: a discussion topic. Do you think we are special?
Drydess:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on July 25, 2017, 06:47:32 PM ---the need for fire was probably really important. there might've been plenty of other peoples on different islands that never learned how to use fire. they probably didn't last long, which is why we only see the ones that did use fire
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i just used fire as an easy example, although why is it that numerous different great civilizations worship or believed the same things at once, in a situation where there is no physically possible way in which they could have contacted each other? dragons appear in ancient chinese, native american, and european artwork, when there's also no physically possible way that dragons could exist? we would've found some sort of non-human evidence by now if that were true
i want to avoid this but it applies perfectly, why is it that without contact every civilization immediately started worshiping a god of some sort?
PhantOS:
not every civilization did. only major ones, which is why they became major. all animals have instinct which forces them to adopt unexplainable patterns en masse. dragons are probably a hidden instinct of fear, which all animals have to a certain degree. thoughts of scary creatures like bulls or giant lizards and other things are natural thoughts that go through the mind of prey and probably stay subconsciously
the neolithic revolution, another simultaneous development in the human race, is still being investigated. they say the most probable explanation was a major climate change combined with social heirarchy forming. either way, it didn't happen instantly, it was a process that took thousands of years of observing and eventually testing to fully understand. that's all most of these major breakthroughs are - global experimentation that some discover faster than others. the ones that do discover it the fastest build the largest empire first, therefore being overrepresented as an example for the neolithic revolution
religion might be a social thing. freud probably explains it by some instinct of leadership and submissiveness, as people require some entity to be completely subservient to or some other stuff.
Køtt:
--- Quote from: Remurr on July 25, 2017, 06:21:29 PM ---What do you think? Do you think we have it all figured out, or is there still a lot we have left to learn?
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kinda too tired to make paragraphs, sorry if i post weird and all but long story short i think we have learned a lot so far, but there are billions and trillions of things we can and/or will learn if we have more tools and keys to access to them, which has been happening looooong ago and the rate of that increases more and more.
i kind of think of it like stars or the universe for example, we can see the things and what's happening outside but with the tools such as ability to make rockets and spacecraft we have the possibility to go there. of course, obviously enough, it will take time. kind of my basic thinking.
The Resonte!:
who says that any of you dorks have consciousnesses besides one individual
Remurr:
--- Quote from: The Resonte! on July 25, 2017, 07:22:07 PM ---who says that any of you dorks have consciousnesses besides one individual
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Most of us have only experienced one other "conscious perspective." Dreaming--you're perceiving some form of reality from a perspective that isn't your actual body. But from our current understanding, dreams still happen within our brains. People who have had OBEs/claim they can practice remote viewing would be more difficult to convince that consciousness is restricted to your body or brain. However, I cannot personally comment on this because I've never experienced anything like that. My mother has though