Life Without a Sense

[Secular Sanity]

Nothing is outside the universe and all is of the universe.  What separates us from it, maybe our ego's?

Newton’s third law of motion.  Electromagnetic repulsion.  

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yE8rkG9Dw4s

But this is one of my favorite quotes.

"I can imagine a religion saying that matter and energy is God. It’s a beautiful thought, but instead of understanding what you are, you want to be what you’re not. It’s because you don’t understand how precious matter is, or how precious you are, and it is sad.

Just because we can understand feelings from a material point of view, people view it as though it somehow demeans our nature, but instead, it tells us how absolutely incredible matter is. It says that we are one with everything else.

What more could you possibly ask for?" – Rodolfo Llinas

[Carol]

Nothing is outside the universe and all is of the universe.  What separates us from it, maybe our ego's?

Newton’s third law of motion.  Electromagnetic repulsion.  

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/yE8rkG9Dw4s

But this is one of my favorite quotes.

"I can imagine a religion saying that matter and energy is God. It’s a beautiful thought, but instead of understanding what you are, you want to be what you’re not. It’s because you don’t understand how precious matter is, or how precious you are, and it is sad.

Just because we can understand feelings from a material point of view, people view it as though it somehow demeans our nature, but instead, it tells us how absolutely incredible matter is. It says that we are one with everything else.

What more could you possibly ask for?" – Rodolfo Llinas

Okay, and what is matter made of?

I should have watched the video before posting. Life is about so much more than matter, and when a man and woman marry they can become as one, and this has little to do with matter, although to some degree it does include hormones, but a shared purpose is not exactly a matter of matter. What the science is missing is the miracle of consciousness. Studies are being done, but in the West, the thinking is so materialistic there seems to be a cultural blindness to the greater reality.

Color is about motion, no?

[Zinjanthropos]

Enjoyed the vid. Nice way to say it.

Casually speaking: Is sense of danger a misnomer? Should it qualify as a sense or should the processing of data be regarded as a sense? All the knowledge you digest when making determinations, does it enable you to sense something possibly imminent or present?

[Carol]

Enjoyed the vid. Nice way to say it.

Casually speaking: Is sense of danger a misnomer? Should it qualify as a sense or should the processing of data be regarded as a sense? All the knowledge you digest when making determinations, does it enable you to sense something possibly imminent or present?  

Those are interesting questions.  Where in the body would processing data be sensed?   What would the feeling of 2+2=4 feel like?  "Danger" should include some kind of cellar excitement sending a message of uneasiness to the brain, and 2+2+5 may trigger an uncomfortable feeling, like a harsh sound, or fingernails screeching on a blackboard, but 2+2=4 is accepted without any sense of alarm.  

Or another way of expressing the thought is how some people react to pseudo-science or the mention of "God" with a very annoyed feeling, that blocks their ability to carefully listen or read what is being said.  This is not processing information but blocking it.  On the other hand, if what is being said is agreeable, it becomes easy to listen or read and absorb the information.   So exactly how is the sense of true or false working for us and where does this happen?