0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
This needs more time than I have at the moment to address. You are emoting based on false facts and fake news.
And possibly fears introduced at childhood if you attended religious ceremonies in the Jewish faith - but you would have to give some personal information about this.
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 05:16:39cat's fear center That's essentially the same as a "don't run into trees" centre.
cat's fear center
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 05:16:39. I have lots of personal proof i.e. not "proof".
. I have lots of personal proof
Scientists have continuously improved their understanding about consciousness. Here is one of newest results.QuoteIn a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus. Activation of the central lateral thalamus and deep layers of the cerebral cortex drives pathways in the brain that carry information between the parietal and frontal lobe in the brain, the study suggests.This brain circuit works as a sort-of “engine for consciousness,” the researchers say, enabling conscious thought and feeling in primates.To zero in on this brain circuit, a scientific team put macaque monkeys under anesthesia, then stimulated different parts of their brain with electrodes at a frequency of 50 Hertz. Essentially, they zapped different areas of the brain and observed how the monkeys responded. When the central lateral thalamus was stimulated, the monkeys woke up and their brain function resumed — even though they were STILL UNDER ANESTHESIA. Seconds after the scientists switched off the stimulation, the monkeys went right back to sleep.This research was published Wednesday in the journal Neuron.“Science doesn’t often leave opportunity for exhilaration, but that’s what that moment was like for those of us who were in the room,” co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells Inverse.https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/3d-brain-models-crucial-stage-of-human-developmenthttps://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)30005-2
In a wild new experiment conducted on monkeys, scientists discovered that a tiny, but powerful area of the brain may enable consciousness: the central lateral thalamus. Activation of the central lateral thalamus and deep layers of the cerebral cortex drives pathways in the brain that carry information between the parietal and frontal lobe in the brain, the study suggests.This brain circuit works as a sort-of “engine for consciousness,” the researchers say, enabling conscious thought and feeling in primates.To zero in on this brain circuit, a scientific team put macaque monkeys under anesthesia, then stimulated different parts of their brain with electrodes at a frequency of 50 Hertz. Essentially, they zapped different areas of the brain and observed how the monkeys responded. When the central lateral thalamus was stimulated, the monkeys woke up and their brain function resumed — even though they were STILL UNDER ANESTHESIA. Seconds after the scientists switched off the stimulation, the monkeys went right back to sleep.This research was published Wednesday in the journal Neuron.“Science doesn’t often leave opportunity for exhilaration, but that’s what that moment was like for those of us who were in the room,” co-author Michelle Redinbaugh, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tells Inverse.
No more exhibitionism from her from then on.
Quote from: CliveG on 13/02/2020 16:40:41This needs more time than I have at the moment to address. You are emoting based on false facts and fake news. Nothing fake about pogroms, jihad, inquisition, crusades, regular sectarian bloodshed east of Suez, the knuckledraggers in Northern Ireland who throw stones at children whose parents are assumed to worship the same god through a different rite, or those perverts who practice celibacy with choirboys. QuoteAnd possibly fears introduced at childhood if you attended religious ceremonies in the Jewish faith - but you would have to give some personal information about this. Interestingly, Jewish ceremonies and calendar events are mostly about celebration and feasting, from weekly Shabbat to serious Pesach nosh-ups, with Purim and Chanukah particularly for the kids, and all accompanied by singing, music, and good wine (not asserted to be the blood of a dead rabbi). Yom Kippur is about personal and group atonement for things actually done, not fear of retribution for things not done. Self-flagellation and walking up steps on your knees for fear of spending eternity in Hell because you haven't attended enough Masses, are inflicted by the perverted on the gullible, not us.
But the moment I saw her, she suddenly stopped and looked out her window to the window I was at. I was in darkness and had moved the curtain ever so slightly so there was no way she could see me.
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 17:02:04No more exhibitionism from her from then on.What gave you the authority to spoil everyone else's harmless entertainment and shame a woman who was hurting nobody? Religious perversion, perhaps?
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 17:02:04 But the moment I saw her, she suddenly stopped and looked out her window to the window I was at. I was in darkness and had moved the curtain ever so slightly so there was no way she could see me.Nice bit of self- delusion there.
I was trying to show that a logical machine (which I once was) would view life as mechanical and therefore meaningless. If there is no meaning to life then killing it just switching off another machine. Which it how I viewed killing the cat when I was a teenager. I was still moral in that I did it to relieve the suffering. I could just as easily have let it die slowly on the basis that suffering is just electronic impulses. I am pointing out that if one takes atheism with a mechanical belief to its logical conclusion then morality and doing good are meaningless. If meaningless, why get emotional?
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 05:03:47I was trying to show that a logical machine (which I once was) would view life as mechanical and therefore meaningless. If there is no meaning to life then killing it just switching off another machine. Which it how I viewed killing the cat when I was a teenager. I was still moral in that I did it to relieve the suffering. I could just as easily have let it die slowly on the basis that suffering is just electronic impulses. I am pointing out that if one takes atheism with a mechanical belief to its logical conclusion then morality and doing good are meaningless. If meaningless, why get emotional?I have sometimes wondered if this could be a solution to the Fermi paradox. Maybe sufficiently-advanced civilizations come upon some slam-dunk evidence that either existence is meaningless, free will doesn't exist or some other profoundly sobering truth. The ensuing existential crisis prompts them to either commit mass suicide or simply refrain from reproducing until they become extinct. However, given that there are people who already believe those things but still seem to live a happy life, I'm guessing that hypothesis is unlikely to be true.
She was in the middle of something that even a bombing by an air force would hardly result in a distraction.
Quote from: CliveG on 14/02/2020 19:06:07She was in the middle of something that even a bombing by an air force would hardly result in a distraction. What you tacitly said was that she was in the middle of doing something she regarded as commonplace.Of course she would be distracted.If as you imply, she was an exhibitionist then her goal was actually to be noticed. She would have kept a very close eye on peoples curtains to see if they twitched.
Are you writing from ignorance, which is lamentable, or prejudice, which is inexcusable, in a science forum?Being a member of a race that has been attacked by Philistines, Romans, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Nazis, Communists (even though our brethren wrote their manifesto - talk about chutzpah!) and the Labour Party, can make you just a teeny bit cautious. "By their deeds shall ye know them", said one of our rabbis, and was crucified by the Romans to prove the point.However, unlike all the foregoing (except for sexually inadequate Muslims, who apparently are commanded to exterminate unbelievers including each other, and the Labour Party, which is just beginning to flush itself down the toilet), we are still here and doing our thing, so there's still something to celebrate.
Or once more God wants me to respond
Perversion is not good.
you treat any criticism of the Jewish people as a tribal criticism and antisemitic.
I casually admired her from a distance but my mind was in "idle mode".
Quote from: CliveG on 15/02/2020 14:43:59Perversion is not good.So, for example, voyeurism...?