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Thanks for your patience but you wont get me to go along with this. There is no sense in which we can assume that the senses work on a mirco-level as you describe. I think I have experienced the most basic level of experience possible. THis was achieved in a state of sensory depravation and on drug...

You lucky dog! Sadly, the universe seems to find me fascinating. :lol: The joys of being an airhead. Are you familiar with Jiddu Krishnamurti? He's written extensively regarding the observer and observed. Meditation is just the process of gaining some conscious control over this naturally occurring...

Its been two years since the end of treatment, that means I stand a good chance to last a bit longer. It has been a painful experience, and getting a simple cold can now be something of a major event, but life goes on. I really don't know what it is exactly that you think you experienced but whatev...

[quote="chaz wyman"][quote="Linz"][quote="chaz wyman"] This is nothing like it. Speaking as a cancer patient. I was told that my body had been bombarded with heavy doses of Radiation. But no matter how hard I tried I was not able to experience this during the event. Nev...

WHoopps! I think your description has failed on empirical grounds. Definition of empirical : relying on experiment or experience ,not on theory As I have personally experienced the phenomena of the sub atomic particles, I did not deduce these from theory or require the quantum physicists to confirm...

In a sense this is true , but the problem is that if you say the role of science is only to define, that would be to assume that the objects of their definition exists regardless of science. In fact what science does by describing is to place a focus upon particular observable phenomena in order to...

Did you mean "describe"? [/color] I certainly stuffed that up but looking at it again I think being able to define things as opposed to describing them is what science aims to achieve. That I would think is the most desirable outcome from the logical thought process. I'm not sure what you...

I agree that define is a far better term.

Question.
As the ability to repeat the results of a process is a main requirement of the scientific proof why should the repeated characteristics attached to a random event observed by experience be self justifying?

Glad to hear people are still happy to live in a Universe full of unanswerable mysteries and there is a wide variety of paths still being trod. It had always been my view that posing unanswerable questions was an exercise in futility, and an entity that explained them simply shifted the problem side...

Returning to academia after nearly 40 years of falling down nearly every hole in societies fabric I became exposed to the vagaries of Western philosophy that under pin the Western education system. :( As a long term Vipassana meditator :) I find the intellectual mind games so greatly prized by the e...