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thats a nice belief system but the fact is GOD doesn't care about us. so being all worried about what that thing thinks is waste of time, when unifying our species as a whole should be what we should be doing. not that i give a sht about god it was just a thought i wanted to share
originally posted by: geezlouise
a reply to: Kentuckymama
I was just teasing, and yea I'm a firm believer that we'd all have been struck by lightning so you're not alone in that!.
Also, isn't it nice to just decide to believe in whatever you want to believe in...? Seems so easy to do. Like, an all-seeing god that is capable of actually reading our minds? NO WAY THATS TOO MUCH! It's far too uncomfortable, its making us all sweat at the very thought. So how about we just modify and adjust our belief systems so we're not put in that hot seat again. Let's just believe in a god that CAN do that, but doesn't out of respect.
Actually, that's kind of a good idea. A God that only goes snooping around when something starts smelling fishy(sometimes literally). Kinda like good parenting.
You're not so bad, Kentuckymama. Amen!
originally posted by: malevolent
...the fact is GOD doesn't care about us.
originally posted by: Kentuckymama
Always. What is in my mind should be solely mine unless/until I decide to speak it.
Japanese researchers create images from thoughts using thoughts about images
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) looks more and more like a window into the mind. In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Vanderbilt University report that from fMRI data alone, they could distinguish which of two images subjects were holding in their memory–even several seconds after the images were removed. The study also pinpointed, for the first time, where in the brain visual working memory is maintained.
Big Brother is watching you: Researchers used fMRI to peer into the visual cortex of a subject and accurately predict which of two images (circular grating, above) he was holding in his short-term memory. The experimenters used specialized algorithms to tease out subtle patterns in brain activity (represented here in red and green) specific to that image in order to make the call.
Visual working memory allows us to briefly store and act upon specific details from images that we’ve seen: what color they are, how they’re oriented, and how frequently they appear. But how and where these details are stored has remained a mystery. Early visual areas, which are the first to receive and process visual information, don’t seem to stay active long enough to do the job. And higher visual areas don’t have the machinery to retain such fine-grained details.
originally posted by: malevolent
heavens overrated i can't place where i heard this but its stuck with me awhile "I'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven"
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Murgatroid
If there's a Heaven, then I am so screwed.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: EsotericGod
If my "mind" was an open book. . . . it'd be on the back shelf behind a beaded curtain marked, "Adults Only".
And I'd already be serving multiple life sentences.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
a reply to: Ophiuchus 13
In a way that relates to one of my quasi-beliefs: We are synthetic agents playing a part in an immense computer simulation. So the programmer is the Omnipotent Being and The Creator.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
But, The Creator would only be interested in performing in-depth analyses on parts of the model space that were behaving in an interesting manner.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
Perhaps the whole system is indexed based on a sparse dataset that corresponds to your "primitive model." While the "advanced model" dataset can be built based on querying the data model.
originally posted by: DexterRiley
The Creator may not necessarily view the contents of the agent data as a violation of any morals, unless those morals define the boundaries of the experiment.
In essence, we are merely blocks of data in computer memory.
-dex