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[Anonymous No.20515941]

So what's your theory on what life is?

[Anonymous No.20515944]

>>20515941
the condition of being alive

[Anonymous No.20515947]

It's shit and then you die

[Anonymous No.20515950]

the pursuit of big asses and thick thighs

[Anonymous No.20515955]

I like eating a bunch of McDonalds

[Anonymous No.20515958]

>>20515941
Its not death

[Anonymous No.20515960]

>>20515941
Only what it evidently is.
If a giant space god(dess) comes along to reveal some deeper crazy origin, so be it. Until then, we’re just-so beings, parts of the universe that grew senses so complex because we’re on a perfect planet for just such a thing.
And getting off to visit another like us is just a fantasy we tell ourselves

[Anonymous No.20515972]

>>20515950
You need some Aristotle

[Anonymous No.20515986]

>>20515941
Unless there’s some third act redemption arc I’m unaware of yet, pure evil.

[Anonymous No.20515989]

>>20515972
There has to be around 10 people actively posting here now

[Anonymous No.20516074]

>>20515986
But Dostoevsky says suffering is good for you

[Anonymous No.20516114]

The buddhists almost got it right. Life is unending and difficult to escape. Nirvana is nothingness since it may be more preferable than to constantly reincarnate all the time.

>proof of reincarnation?
Use simple logical thinking.
>Where do you go when you die?
We can assume you stop existing.
>Was there a time where you did not exist before?
Yes, before you were born. Therefore it is more logical to be reborn than to never exist again, since you already happened to appear out of non-existence one time already. Your very present existence proves this.

Life never ends. There is no hell. There is no heaven. There is no God. There is only this.

[Anonymous No.20516120]

>>20515941
42 LOL

[Anonymous No.20516126]

>>20516074
easy to say without defining suffering

[Anonymous No.20516148]

>>20515941
Life is an opportunity to be antisemetic. I never let this beautiful opportunity pass me up.

[Anonymous No.20516166]

>>20515941
Every person on this planet is, was or will be you. You are everyone, and everyone is you. After death You will be everyone and everyone will be You

[Anonymous No.20516189]

>>20516114
>since you already happened to appear out of non-existence one time already
there are many cases of consciousness essentially being a trick of your brain. Physical brain trauma can cause neurological effects on your thinking and perception. If you put a needle in your brain at just the right way then you can smell burnt toast (the doctor who proved that is on the tip of my tongue).

It is most logical then to say that your consciousness is your brain. So when your brain is created then your consciousness is created (birth) and when it is destroyed your consciousness is destroyed (death). Unless your brain will come back which seems impossible.

[Anonymous No.20516216]

>>20516189
>your brain is you
So if you build a brain, somehow, down to the very exact molecule and atom in its exact place identical to yours. Does that mean that this duplicate brain, that also works, is somehow you as well?

[Anonymous No.20516233]

A bucket of piss to drown rats in.

[Anonymous No.20516372]

>>20516216
>So if you build a brain, somehow, down to the very exact molecule and atom in its exact place identical to yours. Does that mean that this duplicate brain, that also works, is somehow you as well?
This is nonsensical because it cannot be done, as everything is interdependent, as time only flows in one direction.
The molecules in his brain are arranged that way because of an infinite number of causes and conditions, including all his ancestors genes, their mutation and all the experiences he had in his life.

To answer your question: Yes, because the only way to get the exact same brain would be to make a perfect copy of our universe.

[Anonymous No.20516375]

>>20516166
Based and lainpilled.

[Anonymous No.20516377]

>>20516216
No, it’s an artificial twin. And infantile. Would it have your memories too? A clone in science fiction terms

[Anonymous No.20516417]

>>20515941
A degree of iteration or threshold within the process of transcendantal autopoiesis. The bridge between the eidos, the logos and the hyles.

[Anonymous No.20516460]

>>20516166
I'll see you in the tard class

[Anonymous No.20516472]

>>20516189
Correlation does not imply causation

[Anonymous No.20516475]

>>20516460
>recognizes that Nat is simply a collection of instinctive actions
>is surprised when he sees Nat start masturbating in public

[Anonymous No.20516491]

>>20516189
Your consciousness is distinct from your brain, however cognitive processes are constitutive of the necessary background operation which regularize our conscious activity.

[Anonymous No.20516504]

>>20516491
Your consciousness is not distinct from your brain, however... there is no however.

[Anonymous No.20516536]

>>20516114
>to constantly reincarnate all the time
How do they explain that the world population around 1700 was 600 million and now is 8 billion? How does that work with reincarnation?

[Anonymous No.20516550]

>>20516504
> motion is not distinct from the car
> breathing is not distinct from your respiratory system
> poop is not distinct from ass
This can go on.

[Anonymous No.20516597]

>>20516550
they're all material things

[Anonymous No.20516607]

>>20516536
More rocks and things reincarnating into humans.

[Anonymous No.20516614]

>>20516597
Unless you believe all idealists to be spiritualist mystics, I don't see what you are trying to prove.

[Anonymous No.20516623]

>>20515941
*gestures vaguely around myself*
That's my theory.

[Anonymous No.20516625]

>>20516550
>get hit in the head with a hammer
>you become a different, lesser person in a specific way depending on what was damaged

>deprive your brain of sodium
>it starts to shut off along with your consciousness

>add a small chemical alteration to change the firing pattern of your brain
>your state of mind and personal affect is wildly changed until it gets metabolized

I honestly don’t get why people are afraid to acknowledge the clear most likely conclusion that your brain creates your consciousness. That is where all evidence points.

[Anonymous No.20516637]

>>20516536
Npcs exist anon

[Anonymous No.20516678]

>>20516375
>no Intelligence and Spirit

[Anonymous No.20516687]

>>20515972
*Sorry, I meant Arsetotle.

[Anonymous No.20516700]

>>20516625
If the mind and Consciousness are mutually exclusive to the point you distinct all the function of the mind as functions of Consciousness why even acknowledge consciousness at all?

[Anonymous No.20516709]

a formless ocean where waves turn into each other

[Anonymous No.20516729]

>>20515941
the condition of being alive

[Anonymous No.20516756]

>>20516491
>Cognitive processes are constitutive of the necessary background operation which regularize our conscious activity.

What is it you are trying to say here? It is vague enough to be utterly unassailable and yet stupid enough to invoke ridicule.

Is it that consciousness is part of the normal high brain function that allow us to observe our conscious activity?

That our consciousness is low level function that allows us to act with agency and thought in the physical world and allows us to realize it?

That the brain chemistry that shares routines with consciousness that allows us to exhibit some reasoned control over our thoughts and actions?

[Anonymous No.20516786]

>>20515941
a structure of being which
1. maintains a distinction between self and not-self though what is and isnt part of a self-referential process of creation
2. has to remain in constant flux with the not-self in order to maintain self-referential creation, i.e has desire

[Anonymous No.20517077]

>>20516756
>What is it you are trying to say here?
Consciousness is the flux of intentional, thetic and synthetic acts which are united in virtue of the singularity of their author.
Those acts imply cognitive capabilities but are not equated to them (I.e., there is no cognitive structure for 'evaluation', but there are cognitive structures I plied through evaluation.
Just like reasoning isn't done "in your brain", but in language which is itself "in the brain", so to speak (but also outside).

[Anonymous No.20517122]

>>20517077
thanks deepak

[Anonymous No.20517148]

>>20516114
>Yes, before you were born
How do you know you did not exist if there was no one there to observe yourself not existing?

[Anonymous No.20517195]

>>20517122
If that is a charge of ESL, I am quite guilty, but not of being brown however.

[Anonymous No.20517204]

>>20515941
a quest for beauty

[Anonymous No.20517229]

>>20517195
don't tell me you haven't heard of deepak chopra, the philosopher of our age

[Anonymous No.20517235]

>>20515941
My take

https://pastebin.com/hZX22PNM

[Anonymous No.20517249]

>>20517229
Sorry, thought it was a (merited) jab at my poor English.
I don't think I've read anything directly by him, only on him, and it gave me the impression he was a retard who had successfully recycled phenomenological language.

[Anonymous No.20517316]

>>20517235
Now as far as transgenders go, they exist in a state of between beings, which essentially, even in asexual or transsexual animal life, is where limbo resides, where all lost souls go to dwell, this essentially is purgatory, and purgatory is the domain of lost souls, which explains why they never will "Be", and why often those in transistion, be it coral reefs or weird sea creatures, or human transgenders are viewed as something that affects the uncanny valley effects of such abominations like cyborgs with half human faces. These are examples of not evil, but rather things that should not be, but take up parts of our environment to help us realize that there is a large gulf between our existence (the nominal, binary existence) and the domain of things that exist in our subconscious where Satan tries to blend into the nominal world and produces fear and anxiety for those that exist in a perfectly ordered universe, as God intended.
Absolutely based and deranged psychopilled.

[Anonymous No.20517320]

>>20517235
>>20517316
Shit, forgot the arrow.
>Now as far as transgenders go, they exist in a state of between beings, which essentially, even in asexual or transsexual animal life, is where limbo resides, where all lost souls go to dwell, this essentially is purgatory, and purgatory is the domain of lost souls, which explains why they never will "Be", and why often those in transistion, be it coral reefs or weird sea creatures, or human transgenders are viewed as something that affects the uncanny valley effects of such abominations like cyborgs with half human faces. These are examples of not evil, but rather things that should not be, but take up parts of our environment to help us realize that there is a large gulf between our existence (the nominal, binary existence) and the domain of things that exist in our subconscious where Satan tries to blend into the nominal world and produces fear and anxiety for those that exist in a perfectly ordered universe, as God intended.

[Anonymous No.20518069]

>>20516375
gonna start this whole list tomorrow, thanks anon

[Anonymous No.20518077]

>>20515941
My theory is that "life" is a prejudice

[Anonymous No.20518131]

>>20517235
>God is the amalgam unconscious gestalt of all beings
Cool
>Also jesus and the holy spirit are -
lmao stay on /x/

[Anonymous No.20518151]

>>20516189
Consciousness is created from what though?
You might be right that the brain is consciousness but why should this particular complex arrangement of matter make consciousness?
Moreover we are only able to make observations about consciousness from the standpoint of being conscious, so how valid can any of our observations about the nature of the mind be?

[Anonymous No.20518180]

>>20518151
In my humble opinion, I believe that an amalgam of fleshly thinking parts transcends reality with consciousness by existing partly in a superposition of existence and nonexistence.
Sophistry aside, I think the part of you responsible for your consciousness is so small that it's on a quantum or subquantum level and therefore not bound to traditional laws of matter.
It's there, most definitely. If I shot you in the head you would certainly leave your body.