n4d@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote in news:18980-48D4A831-618@storefull- 3152.bay.webtv.net: One would then need to argue for the superiority of the eternalism model. What explanatory advantages does it offer? Saying that a changing external world is an "illusion" presumes one has adopted, or at least is leaning toward, a static model rather than a dynamic one. Given that experience changes --- and...

n4d@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote in news:18982-48D27594-20@storefull- 3152.bay.webtv.net: In an eternalism model, change could be a type of relation, a comparative state. *Situation A* is different from *Situation B*, ergo the illusion of one situation having altered into the other --the belief that a physical or even hyperphysical action must have transpired. But there is no physical modification, change doesn'...

On Aug 19, 1:26 pm, n...@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote: Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquely self- aware. A ridiculous belief, if it encompassed anything much beyond that failure to identify with reflections. Animals flee predators and potential harm, acts of self-preservation for which there is no point in doing if an organism lacks the capacity to distinguish ...

n4d@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote in news:4204-48AB025B-2990@storefull- 3153.bay.webtv.net: Until relatively recently, humans were thought to be uniquely self- aware. A ridiculous belief, if it encompassed anything much beyond that failure to identify with reflections. Animals flee predators and potential harm, acts of self-preservation for which there is no point in doing if an organism lacks the capacity...

On Aug 18, 2:29 am, n...@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote: Hamady wrote: With ample evidence discovered by science, the thesis of an "infinite universe" was tossed onto the scrap-heap of the history of scientific ideas. Yet, more important questions were forthcoming: what existed before the Big Bang? What force could have caused the great explosion that resulted in a...

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:22:35 -0500, n4d@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote: Art wrote: This 1904 paper by James: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/consciousness.htm where James attempts to do away with consciousness (at least as a "something" yet postulates "the one primal stuff is pure experience" puzzles me as to exactly where James stood. I've not read him enough. James wrote during ...

Rec Room wrote: John Jones wrote: imagine that water comes in two forms - H2O on earth, and XYZ on twin-earth. So, when both earthmen and twin-... responses. BP must grant you clearance for that. So please exit this function. Failure to comply could lead to your ejection from Rec and Lounge or even the entire building. I think part of the original scenario was that the earthmen and twin earthmen were ...

... suppose it would also be reasonable to be offended if you thought it was an impostor. Large cans of nuclear wup-ass are opened. "Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't ya?" --- Burt Gummer to a graboid "Grant me one request! Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then the hell with you!"...

... caused him to backpeddal from apprehension, just in time for my ball to finally arrive, but weakly; and win the out~! He played *great;* and I beat him 21-*2*, 21-*5*~! Go on down to the rec room, find a 9 year old; and see if you can beat him by those scores in ping-pong. "Betcha cain't"~! : ) Lala

... to survive from infancy on the desolate planet. Over the course of the episode, Charlie demonstrates several odd powers. In one scene, he does card tricks for the crew in the rec room. He changes the faces of the cards to have Yeomand Rand's picture on them and when he has her pick a card and return it to the deck, he stares ...