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In reply to the discussion: Interesting challenge by Dr. Deepak Chopra to Richard Dawkins [View all]TlalocW
(15,395 posts)129. Don't even need magnets
Just get a pendulum of any kind - ring on the end of a string and let it start going back and forth. It will eventually start spinning. Deepak had Oprah all excited about the power of the mind with that trick.
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There is a shitload of research being conducting at the intersection of
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#10
It's a request that you supply one of those concrete explanations that you alluded to in post #18.
Jim__
Jul 2014
#21
Asking whether color exists in the external world is not a denial of objective reality.
Jim__
Jul 2014
#30
Machines can identify em wavelength. They don't "see" color - discussed in post #27.
Jim__
Jul 2014
#34
No they see color. Currently they can't express a subjective experience of seeing color.
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#35
"as a first-person experience " well, no as I noted elsewhere, Deepak undid that
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#113
I give up. Your own excerpts make clear my point that "seeing" and "the qualia of seeing" are
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#134
No you are here to toss insults, which must somehow cause you a pleasurable experience.
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2014
#73
I don't understand how anyone can take Chopra seriously, first off...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#37
May I point out one big flaw in Deepak Chopra's challenge? Dawkins is NOT a neuroscientist...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#58
Dawkins treats specialties in science different than theology and philosophy...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#61
Dawkins (or anyone else) is free to present facts and express his opinions
skepticscott
Jul 2014
#65
If I offered a neurosurgeon 1 million dollars to successfully rebuild the transmission on a car...
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#78
Żeah, I'll put it on my list, right next to the book of Revelations. LOL
Starboard Tack
Jul 2014
#95
What is your purpose on this board? All you do is insult and belittle atheists.
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#79
Oh FFS, don't be so disingenuous, you don't even judge people by their actions, if they are....
Humanist_Activist
Jul 2014
#112
Seems like a bit more advanced case of O'Reillys challenge to explain the tides
Salviati
Jul 2014
#76
Clearly Chopra has a "God of the Gaps" argument; he's hinting that ideas or "spirit" are immaterial
Brettongarcia
Jul 2014
#123