Recent content by Chinmoku

Padraigh had a very rare form of tinnitus, he mentioned there were a bunch of cases in the whole world population. He had forced eyelid closure syndrome. He had an electric current running through his head. He was tortured 24/7. His irritability is more than understandable. An athlete with his...

That happened to me. It typically seals in one to three weeks, or even earlier depending on the hole size. Don't blow your nose hard, don't do Valsalva maneuvers or expose the ears to pressure changes if possible (big elevators, trains in tunnels, flights etc). While the hole is open, you may...

So many purple points above the loudness change zero axis of the scatter-plot. I remember seeing something similar from the old, smaller trial and that always bothered me. I really hope those are loudness worsening cases that are unrelated to the device, but we also need to keep in mind the...

This is so tragic, Padraigh Griffin was also father of little twins. I remember his profile picture where he was next to them. I'm so sorry for his family too. He was a fighter and very optimistic almost to the end. He was quite active also on the potassium channel drugs topics. I would...

I think you should care because a scientist making - let's be kind - hazardous philosophical claims without even being aware of it - and this happened even to Stephen Hawking - is not strengthening the materialists positions. Even worse, a materialist scientist doing wrong scientific claims in...

I think that, for our discussion, the second paragraph (the one you didn't quote) from David Albert was more relevant. Because it shows that Krauss makes a mistake even when accepting that we need to define the void in physics terms. Krauss takes a totally misleading and wrong definition of void...

Greg, your set of afflictions is heartbreaking and terrible, but you keep helping people and you have been a light for the tinnitus community for so long. I wish this world and life were a little more fair. He is welcome to try mine for a few days. It has ruined my job, my marriage, everything...

This reminds me of the finale of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, when Govinda kisses Siddhartha's head and he has the vision. Have you read this novel? If not, I think you would like it. Here is the vision part:

But this sort of sentient dynamic void that imagines things into existence poses many of the same problems as a creator God. It resembles some of the Mahayana Buddhist schools. Well at least there is no pretense that the universe or void is good or fatherly, but the level of speculation is still...

But even in the context of Christianity, Jesus always helped those going in the wrong direction. Look at the episode of Emmaus. The small village, in the antique tradition, was the bad place, whereas the big city was the good place. These two disciples misunderstood everything, don't believe in...

Definitely these two have been influenced by Buddhism, big time. What you are interested in in Yogacara is the theory of the storehouse-consciousness. From Wiki: And your other comment below looks like Buddha's theory of rebirth, where the skandhas (the fifth of the skandhas is...

Just to say I would need to check whether the gods doing all the bad things in the old testament were Jahvè or one of the minor deities, one of the Elohim, like the one who asked Abraham to kill his son, that looked a lot like Moloch. In that case Jahvè stops the bad demigods and says no more...

I would like to preface this long post with an apology to all people who are suffering. I'm suffering as well, I'm in this thread, I have been a long time, I'm getting worse and worse. I'm one of the catastrophic cases. My thoughts are with you, and this is what is important, what we are going...

Man, you are right by looking at this single post in isolation. However, this is connected to the nature of reality and this may have a bearing on what we may expect in the afterlife, if anything. Is there a creator God or not? Does the effectiveness of maths (this post) say anything on this? Is...

If you are not surprised by how this tool is so suited to describe the world, how discoveries made decades earlier like Ricci-Curbastro absolute calculus or Hilbert spaces turned out to describe the structure of the universe so precisely and intimately, I suggest, if you are not familiar with...