Australian Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett told Variety that she's dated women before -"many times," in fact.
The quote was said in passing while promoting her new film about a lesbian romance, 'Carol', which is premiering at Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
Cate is currently married to filmmaker Andrew Upton, and has four young children, three boys, and a gorgeous baby daughter she and Andrew recently adopted.


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Do I need to try this from the Project Properties-->Compile-->Post Build Events instead?
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A: It's not enough to just have the target in your project file.  It has to be set up appropriately so that it will be picked up by the build sequence.  Naming it "CopyFiles" will not accomplish this.
There are a few well-known target names that are called as part of the build sequence (you should be able to find MSDN documentation on this).  I believe "AfterBuild" is one of these.  So your target should look something like this:
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You may also want to consider adding Inputs and Outputs attributes on the targets to help with dependency analysis, and you may also want to consider adding a BeforeClean or AfterClean target to clean up the post-copy files.

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With its long-standing reputation, and panoramic views over Hagley Park, Pescatore continues to earn its position as one of New Zealand's best contemporary dining experiences. Pescatore offers an exciting new dining concept, enhanced by its stunning new interior, which is sure to turn heads and rejuvenate guests' longstanding love affair with this iconic Christchurch restaurant. The space is luxurious and modern, offering a minimalist approach to formal dining that is thoughtfully comfortable and uncluttered. For the very best in intimate dining, Pescatore's stunning private room is an ideal choice for an exceptional, exclusive dining experience. Executive Chef Andrew Brown and his team have created a unique, fresh conceptual approach to the cuisine, which at its core has a passionate respect for ingredients. From the origins of classical cuisine to the very latest food techniques, the menu has been designed to engage the senses and build an emotionally rich experience triggering long held food memories from the past. Seasonal menus are matched with top vintages from Pescatore's comprehensive wine list, honoured by Wine Spectator magazine as being one of the most outstanding restaurant lists in the world.
Dined at Pescatore Restaurant last week and surprised at what a good experience it was. I'd read a bit about Pescatore on other review sites and unfortunately I don't get out into the Christchurch dining scene much these days so when I do go out, I'm really pleased when I have a good experience!
Really good seafood restaurant - on the expensive side but well worth paying for good quality especially if you're treating yourself to seafood.
Hopefully will pay another visit to Pescatore restaurant sooner rather than later.


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Mumma Walker's 7 Years of Pregnancy by CharlieBeth: (Secret Post!) Finding out!
So today I pee'd on a stick. I shouldn't have done. I'm not due to test until the 9th but I simply could not help myself. It wasn't even my FMU... But the line came up in under 3 mins so I think that's pretty certain!
I had toyed with idea of not telling Mark to start with, I figured I'd save it until my scan was due - I start my 2nd tri on his 40th birthday! (or I should do if my dates are right) but in the end I couldn't hold it in. A mixture of excitement, terror, and just not wanting him to think I was messing with his head by not telling him, had me confess all less than 20 mins after taking the test!
I'll call them on Monday if I can creep away from work to some place quiet!


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The Big List of Lies by our Leaders. Post it everywhere to change America.
By Larry Kummer, Editor / 11 Comments	/ 2 August 2015 1 May 2018
Summary: Here's the big list of lies by our leaders. It's one of the most important posts among the 3,300 on the FM website. It should be posted in every home. America will change when enough Americans no longer accept leaders who lie — even those of their own party. This goes up as a reference page on the right-side menu, to be updated with future lies by our leaders. In the comments post other big lies by our leaders that should go on this list.
"Since becoming a journalist I had often heard the advice to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied".
— Claud Cockburn (Irish journalist) quoted in Discord of Trumpets: The Autobiography of a Legendary Newspaperman
(1956). Often attributed to Bismarck.
Examples of lies to guide us.
FDR before WWII.
Fear-mongering to start the Cold War.
All our foes are Hitler.
Other examples.
Are we cowards, or just gullible?
(1) Examples of lies to guide us
"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
— George Washington in his Farewell Address (1796).
The history of American since WWII is one of lies by leaders that we eagerly embrace. No matter how often they lie, we believe. Here are some of the most outrageous, some of the most influential, and some that are just routine.
There was no missile gap.
There was no bomber gap.
The Tonkin Gulf incident was fiction.
9-11 was not staged from Afghanistan.
Saddam was not working with al Qaeda.
Iraq's soldiers didn't kill babies in Kuwait.
Torture didn't help us find & kill bin Laden.
Hitler didn't plan to conquer South America.
The Russians shot down our U-2 over Russia.
The policeman didn't warn 12-year old Tamir Rice before killing him.
US intel had little evidence proving Saddam had functional WMDs.
The 1976 "Team B" reports about the aggressive powerful USSR were fiction.
There were no Libyan hit teams roaming America (gated TIME article; open version)
Iran has been 3 years from having an atomic bomb since 1984 (& still doesn't have it).
The USS Vincennes did shoot down Iran Air Flight 655 (we eventually admitted it, then lied about the circumstances). More details here.
Yemen's al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) does not "pose the greatest potential threat to the United States."
It's false to say about ISIS in Syria and Iraq that "We are now facing an existential threat to the security of the United States of America …"
(2) FDR's campaign against Germany before Pearl Harbor
"I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany"
— Speech by FDR about NAZI plans to conqueror the western hemisphere.
This is not a lie by US government officials, but still an amazing story: the British Security Coordination project set up to run information operations in the US to push us into WWII. See this description of the BSC in The Guardian. Their greatest success was the fake map showing Hitler's plans to invade the western hemisphere, a keynote of FDR's powerful speech on 27 October 1941 (see this story in The Daily Mail. For the full story see British Security Coordination: The Secret History of British Intelligence in the Americas, 1940-1945
(3) Fear-mongering to start the Cold War
"Mr. President, if that's what you want there is only one way to get it. That is to make a personal appearance before Congress and scare the hell out of the country."
— Senator Arthur Vandenberg's advice to Truman about how to start the Cold War. On 12 March 1947 Truman did exactly that. From Put yourself in Marshall's place
by James P. Warburg (1948). In 1941 he helped develop our wartime propaganda programs.
The Soviet Union was a great power, looking for opportunities to expand after WWII. But the US government created the Cold War by exaggerating its menace and power, and lied routinely to keep it going.
What's sad is that they're running the same playbook again, and we're buying it. Government officials demonize Russia while ignoring our role in creating the Ukraine civil war: Finding truth amidst the lies about Russia & the Ukrainian civil war.
For more about this see The Ukraine anti-semitic flyer: a case study in propaganda, Let's stop the 2-minute hate on Putin & think before we reignite the Cold War and Finding truth amidst the lies about Russia & the Ukrainian civil war. and The first rule of American war is not to believe what we're told.
(4) All our foes are Hitler
"Every nation has the government it deserves."
— Joseph de Maistre (lawyer, diplomat, philosopher), letter dated 13 August 1811 from Lettres et Opuscules.
Just as every geopolitical crisis is Munich 1938 to our hawks, all our foes are Hitler. Here are some claims by our Presidents. There's a larger body from US officials, and an almost endless list of often-daft such claims by our geopolitical "experts" and other Very Serious People.
Saddam Hussein was not like Hitler, despite both Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. making the comparison. Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia was not Hitler, despite Bill Clinton making the comparison. Vladimir Putin is not Hitler, despite Hillary Clinton making the comparison of Russia with NAZI Germany (as did British PM David Cameron).
See more examples in an excerpt from War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
by Norman Solomon (2005), and in "61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill".
(5) Other examples of lies to guide us
"An honest man's word is as good as his bond."
— Said by the squire Sancho Panza in Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Keeping us scared by false alarms about terrorism in America: The US government is competent, as proven by the results of the latest terror alert, Should we panic at the many warnings about domestic terrorism?, Are ISIS terrorists coming to America from a base in Mexico?, Who believes that the Federal government seeks to take over Texas?, and Prepare for terror on the 4th of July!
Debunking the lies: The most useful news story of 2015: the truth about the bin Laden hit.
Add your contributions to the list in the comments.
(6) Are we cowards, or just unusually gullible?
"Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful — horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate. And Hatred is also a great anodyne for shame."
— From the demon Screwtape, in The Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis.
See the common element to these lies: they arouse our fear. Why does fear have such an effect on us, despite officials 'long history of lying to us about threats? How do you describe people ruled by their fears? We call them cowards. It's the description of us that none of us dare say.
Are Americans easily panicked cowards? I think not, but many experts disagree.
Today's fear-mongering (they think we're cowards, but I'm sure they're wrong).
Why are we so fearful? Have we become cowards?
Our leaders so frequently employ fear to guide us because lies work. The information superhighway has not made us smarter, it just carries the lies faster and father. Our leaders will stop when we become stronger and more skeptical. On that day we will have taken a large step towards retaking control of America.
(7) For More Information
If you liked this post, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. See all posts about FEAR, and these about lies by our leaders…
Our leaders have made a discovery of the sort that changes the destiny of nations.
Our minds are addled, the result of skillful and expensive propaganda.
Why do we believe, when the government lies to us so often? When we change, the government also will change.
Amnesia and anger: one is the problem, the other the cure.
Government officials' lies erode the Republic's foundation. Do we care?
We hold the solution in our hands…
Learning skepticism, an essential skill for citizenship in 21st century America.
Remembering is the first step to learning. Living in the now is ignorance.
Swear allegiance to the truth as a step to reforming America.
11 thoughts on "The Big List of Lies by our Leaders. Post it everywhere to change America."
Mark Petry
Best FM posting ever. thank you!
Great post, but only scratches the surface of the Big Lies we get told by our pols, our church leaders, our scientists, our teachers, our business managers, and our experts.
Other Big Lies include: "Capitalism is the only viable economic system." (Reality check: most of American society does not operate by capitalism, including our libraries and universities, our K-12 schools, our fire departments, our police, our emergency first responders, and our military. )
"Our best and brightest intellectuals come from the Ivy League universities." (Reality check: the people responsible for America's worst blunders, from Viet Nam to Iraq 2003 to the global financial meltdown, boasted a unique panoply of advanced degrees from elite Ivy League colleges. Read David Halberstam's book "The Best and the Brightest.")
"Scientists are objective and unswayed by social groupthink or mass hysteria or cultural fads." (Reality check: 40 years ago, scientists were warning about global cooling. 80 years ago, scientists were pushing quackery like eugenics and urging politicians to enact laws to sterilize poor people. Read the book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles McKay.)
"Mathematics applied to the social sciences is useful and effective." (Reality check: see the paper "The Mythology of Game Theory" or the book "When Genius Failed.")
"Economics is a science (rather than a smokescreen for justifying the predations of a corrupt elite)." (Reality check: peruse John Quiggin's book "Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us.")
"America has the greatest military in history." (Reality check: America hasn't won a major war since 1945. See the article "A Record of Unparalleled Failure," Tomdispatch, 10 June 2014.)
"The American people are the greatest people in the world." (Reality check: read the Esquire article "Greetings From Idiot America," or almost anything by H. L. Mencken or Mark Twain or the journalism of Tom Wolfe.)
"America raised itself by its own bootstraps with a combination of Protestant work ethic, yankee ingenuity, and American exceptionalism." (Reality check: read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States.")
"Great post, but only scratches the surface of the Big Lies we get told by our pols"
I could write a book and you could as easily say the same thing.
socialbill
Thank for your effort at trying to turn things around! Cowardice and gullibility go together. Both are largely the result of an atomized society. If people stand together both can be overcome. Bertrand Russell pointed out that the upper class (like himself) learned courage and solidarity at institutions such as Eton. The 30s founders of the labor movement learned both in battling with company goons and management.
Gullibility can be overcome by people talking together at blogs like this one, but better face to face.
Finally, years ago during the Vietnam War people would have been shocked that THEIR government lied to them. (Maybe this helped fuel the protests.) Today you get a cynical shrug (as seen apparently in the number of comments).
Social Bill,
That's a brilliant insight! I have written often about our alienation from our society, our atomization — but I never connected those things to our gullibility, fear, and grasping at tribal-like identities.
PF Khans
Fabius Maximus,
More lies for your list:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/obamas-many-abuses-of-the-2001-aumf/
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 Меркурис, Георгиос — лидер Греческой Национальной Социалистической партии.
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10 Handsome But Not So Famous Hollywood Actors
Hollywood can get even more competitive when it comes to male actors. Most of the movies centre the male character so the best choice has to be made when it comes to cast a male lead. There are plenty of male actors who got cast in a high budget movie which turned out to be successful, but next, they disappeared as if they were never there. They are handsome and have a great personality but still cannot find fame, that's Hollywood for you! It is something more than handsomeness which carries one to the peak, maybe luck and hard work it is, because there are some pretty unattractive actors who are garnering more fame than there handsome colleagues. Here are ten of the Hollywood actors who are very handsome but could not get very famous.
#10- Johnny Messner
This 47 year old has lived in Europe for 13 years as his father served the US Air Force. During this time, he developed an interest in sports while playing on teams at the military bases. Probably that's where he got his built and enduring personality. He has two other siblings. As an actor, he is best known for his work in the movies such as The Whole Ten Yard, Tears of the Sun and Hostage. He also has had roles on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Cold Case. He met his partner Kathryn Morris on the set of Cold Case and had twin boys with her in 2013.


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Wachthubel ist der Name eines nach Nordosten weisenden Bergvorsprungs bei Aeschiried auf dem Gemeindegebiet von Aeschi bei Spiez im ehemaligen Amtsbezirk Frutigen des Schweizer Kantons Bern, sowie des auf demselben Vorsprung gelegenen Weilers.

Auf dem Wachthubel befand sich früher eine Hochwacht, darauf der heutige Name noch hinweist. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Zusammensetzung mit dem vor allem noch in der westlichen Deutschschweiz verbreiteten Worte Hubel 'Erhebung' als Hinterglied.

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Apr 07, '09 - What are little girls made of?
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Dec 03, '08 - Sexist in Obama's Administration?
Nov 05, '08 - Fix it.
Aug 07, '08 - Batman, or just batty?
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Jack has been working at Copper for a year as a lift operator. Part of his job, being more experienced now, is to train the new operators this year and on this particular day, he was training and operating on Excelerator lift.
Excelerator is a mid-mountain lift that takes only a few minutes to ride. It's one of Jack's favorite lifts to work because it is so quick and seeing sunrise from the top of the mountain is always enjoyable.
Part of every day at any lift is snow work. Snow work varies from cleaning snow off of chairs, to making sure the top ramp is smooth and not icy. The views at the top of Excelerator help make snow work more enjoyable.
Besides being a fast lift, Jack likes Excelerator because he's very familiar with the lift. The opening procedure takes a while to learn and goes more smoothly once the operator can find a rhythm. Here, Jack works on helping one of the other operators learn how to smoothly open the lift. On his days off, Jack likes to ride the East side of Copper. If you see him out on the slopes, you know that he's in his happy place.
A bio of Jake Mechem, a lift operator at Copper Mountain.


A farewell event was organized for Dr. Bhavana Sharma on October 28th, 2016. Dr. Bhavana joined our lab in May 2008 and after a very successful stay in our lab she is now leaving us to join as a Scientist in a multinational R&D group. We wish her all the very best for her future endeavours. Attached below is a poem composed by her about our journey in SMITA.


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Is your horse rushing the fence?
Do you get the feeling that your horse does not listen? This is a common problem with some of the hot headed horses of today. This is one exercise that focuses on getting the horse alert and for the rider to practise how to show the horse whats next.
For this exercise you only need 3 fences and it does not focus on height rather getting the horse to listen to what you want, so keep it simple. For beginners and young horses poles on the ground are ideal.
Is your your horse rushing the fence? Try this exercise.
Start off your exercise in trot. Trot over A in a straight line a few times, focus on hitting the middle of the pole and keeping your horse straight. You might feel your horse starting to rush. Make a half halt at point X, look at fence B, use your weight aids to indicate a left turn together with an open inside rein to clearly show your horse the way.
Look at the fence you want to jump. This will automatically shift your weight in this case to the left.
Use an open rein to clearly show the way.
Hold a light but constant connection with your outside rein. This will prevent over bending of the neck. If you bend the neck too much chances are the shoulders are still pointing in another direction and the horse will not follow your intentions. If you are lucky enough to get to the right fence you may get a pole down if your horse is too bend.
Move it up a notch. Try to keep the horse in canter. Be diligent on keeping the right canter. The easiest way to ensure this is to look where you are going and use your weight aids. As soon as you take off over one fence look to the next!
Do the exercise from both directions, keep your horse straight over the fence and think about your position. There are endless combinations. Keep the fences low and your speed down. If you need to, make a halt before the fence to slow down your horse. Continue in trot. You can also make a halt after the fence if this feels necessary.
To finish off you can make the exercise into a show jumping course, include E and F. Alter your route to keep both you and your horse alert.
If your horse gets too excited and you start to fight it with your hand, bring it back to poles on the ground or even no poles. Practise your transitions between halt and walk, halt and trot etc. More exercises to come….
This post is written with inspiration from Eddy Anderson.


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WWE Legend The Undertaker makes an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
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WWE Legend The Undertaker makes an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in order to promote his 30th anniversary with the WWE.
A lot of mainstream viewers have outgrown the WWE. Many however, still remain fans of classic acts such as the Undertaker. To think that a Zombie wizard lasted a year, let alone three decades in the company is testament to Mark Calaway's dedication to the character, in and outside of the ring.
Also read: Jey Uso declares his allegiance to Roman Reigns with shock heel turn
The Undertaker debuted in the WWE all the way back in Survivor Series 1990. The WWE are celebrating his 30th anniversary with the company at this year's Survivor Series and have even put his latest documentary, "The Last Ride", up on their free version of the WWE Network.
The Undertaker made a surprise appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He took part in the Suggestion Box segment where he ended up giving the Tombstone to a Scarecrow. The segment saw Fallon asked by a fan if he could think of a way to combine Halloween and the WWE. Fallon answered in the negative but claimed he knew someone who did.
TONIGHT an all new Suggestion Box including an appearance from @WWE Legend @Undertaker! #Undertaker30
See you at 11:35PM ET! #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/jIckqytm2B
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) October 31, 2020
The Official Tonight Show Twitter dropped the video clip earlier in the night.
For The Undertaker's anniversary, the WWE are celebrating with 30 Days Of The Deadman on the WWE Network.
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As the depths of winter approach and the temperature fluctuates around freezing, people's attention is turning to staying warm. But how efficient are some of the buildings in which we live and work at keeping the heat in?
Using a thermal imaging camera, Aberdeen inspection specialist Inspectahire has captured the centre of Aberdeen in a multi-colour hue. The camera can detect the thermal or infrared energy which all objects with a temperature higher than absolute zero (-273.15ºC) emit. This energy is invisible to the human eye because its wavelength is too long.
The brightest colour in the images shows where the greatest amount of heat is being lost from a building – this is usually through windows, doors or poorly insulated walls and roofs. It is particularly evident in older buildings which may not have double-glazed windows. While the best insulated parts of the building are shown in the dark blue.
With the price of energy increasing and accounting for a greater amount of household expenditure, and £1 in every £4 spent heating a house being wasted due to poor insulation, ensuring heat is retained in a building is more important than ever. It was estimated that in 2009, British homeowners wasted £500m due to poorly insulated properties.
It is not just homeowners who are facing these challenges, businesses are too.
Cailean Forrester, Inspectahire managing director, said: "Thermal imaging cameras detect the infrared energy that the buildings emit and then display this as a multi-coloured image. Surveying buildings in this way can help to pinpoint precisely where heat is being lost and then effectively channel resources to improve energy use, lower emissions and cut costs.
"Older homes weren't built with insulation, but they did incorporate design features which tried to keep drafts out, such as wooden interior shutters which closed over the windows. Many of these are now stuck down by layers of paint, but freeing them and using them will help to minimise heat loss through this weak point. As can be seen in buildings with modern construction methods and materials, heat loss through windows isn't such an issue."
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Setting Up Custody X Change Notifications: Exchange Reminders, etc.
Setting Up Notifications: Exchange Reminders, etc.
Custody X Change automatically notifies you inside the app when an account linked to yours edits your calendar, activities or shared expenses. You'll get a message under the bell icon at the top right of your screen.
To receive notifications outside the app — not only about revisions by a linked account, but also about upcoming exchanges and activities, if you choose — you'll need to adjust your notifications settings.
Scroll down to the notifications section, and click "change."
You'll land on your notifications settings page. Find an overview of how each section works below.
If you have an Android phone or Windows computer, a push notification is the most immediate way to receive information from Custody X Change. A push notification pops up on your device as a message and doesn't require you to open any programs.
Note: If you'd rather be informed by email only, skip to the next section on the page, "linked account changes." iPhone and Mac users should also skip ahead, as Custody X Change push notifications aren't currently supported on Apple products.
Before you can receive push notifications, you must give permission from your devices.
If the browser you're using doesn't have permission on your current device, you'll see an "activate" option at the top of your notifications settings page. Click it, then give permission if a pop-up window appears. Watch the number of active devices/browsers go up by one.
Repeat this process on each device where you want to receive push notifications.
To retract permission, click "deactivate" after logging in on the device where you no longer want to receive notifications.
Once you've allowed push notifications, you need to choose when you'll receive them. Do this in the following sections.
Do you want to be notified outside the app when an account linked to yours edits one of your items?
If so, choose whether you'd like to be informed by email, push notification or both for each type action: changes to your calendar, your activities and your expense tracker.
If you choose push notifications, make sure to give permission to your devices (explained above). Remember that push notifications aren't currently supported on Apple products.
You don't want to be late to an exchange. Picking up or dropping off your child on time is a legal requirement, as set out in your court orders.
Here, set reminders so an exchange never slips your mind.
First, choose whether you want to be notified by email, push notification or both. If you choose push notification, make sure to give permission on your devices (explained above in "push notifications permission").
Then, choose how far in advance of a exchange to want to receive the alert.
Finally, if you have multiple calendars, you'll see an option to select which calendars you want to receive alerts about.
Activities are events that don't involve custody exchanges. They can be for anything, from appointments to play dates.
In this section, you'll tell the app when and how you want to receive activity reminders.
Then, decide if you want to be notified during your custody time, during the other parent's custody time or during both periods.
If you enter only your child's activities into the app, you shouldn't need notifications during the other parent's time. The other parent is responsible for getting the child to activities then.
However, if you enter your own activities into the app (e.g., work meetings), you'll want notifications regardless of who has custody.
Click the appropriate toggles and enter the amount of warning time you'd like.
You can also choose specific reminder settings when you add an activity. If you don't make selections for that activity, the settings you chose above will apply by default.
Simply select the timezone you live in and want your calendars to follow.
Custody X Change calendars can notify you when it's time to exchange the children.


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French MPs vote in favour of recognising Palestine
By AFP - Dec 02,2014 - Last updated at Dec 02,2014
PARIS — French lawmakers voted Tuesday in favour of recognising Palestine as a state, sparking an immediate angry reaction from Israel, which said such "unilateral measures" would harm efforts towards Middle East peace.
Following hot on the heels of similar votes in Britain and Spain, French MPs voted 339 to 151 in favour of a motion urging the government to recognise the state of Palestine as a way of achieving a "definitive resolution of the conflict".
The vote — which is non-binding on the government but highly symbolic — comes as European countries seek alternative ways to restart the stalled Middle East process.
Sweden's government has gone even further, officially recognising Palestine as a state in a controversial move that prompted Israel to recall its ambassador.
But the French vote result still prompted a swift and angry response from Tel Aviv, which said it would send the "wrong message" to the region and would be counterproductive to the drive towards peace.
"Israel believes that the vote in the National Assembly... will reduce the possibility of achieving a deal between Israel and the Palestinians," its embassy in Paris said in a statement.
A solution to the conflict will be achieved "only with honest and direct talks between the parties and not by unilateral measures taken by one of the parties or by third parties," it said.
The Palestinian leadership, meanwhile, expressed its "gratitude" for the vote and urged Paris to "translate its parliament's vote into action".
France will 'do its duty'
Palestinians are seeking to achieve statehood in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank with east Jerusalem as the capital.
With little progress on reaching a settlement, they have been lobbying foreign powers for international recognition.
The Palestinian Authority estimates that 135 countries have now recognised Palestine as a state, although that number is disputed.
During a debate on the issue Friday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Paris would recognise Palestine if diplomatic efforts failed again and urged a resolution to the Middle East conflict within two years.
France is spearheading a drive at the United Nations to unfreeze the moribund peace process and the Palestinian envoy to the UN said earlier Tuesday a draft resolution could be submitted to the Security Council by mid-December.
Riyad Mansour told AFP the text was set to lay out a timeframe for negotiations on a final peace deal and possibly a deadline for Palestinian statehood.
It would also pave the way for a last-ditch international conference that France has offered to host.
This European initiative was expected to be discussed in Brussels when US Secretary of State John Kerry holds talks with European ministers during this week's NATO meeting.
"If these efforts fail. If this last attempt at a negotiated settlement does not work, then France will have to do its duty and recognise the state of Palestine without delay and we are ready to do that," Fabius told MPs on Friday.
'Momentum will grow'
At a pan-European level, the European Parliament is expected to hold a vote later this month on recognising Palestine and EU foreign policy supremo Federica Mogherini is also pushing for the creation of a Palestine state.
"Governments and parliaments are taking action. That momentum will grow," said United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon last month.
However, lawmakers in Paris were more divided on the issue than their British and Spanish counterparts, reflecting the sensitivity of the debate in France, which is home to Europe's largest Jewish and Muslim communities.
Senior lawmaker Christian Jacob of the opposition UMP Party told MPs ahead of the vote: "Who are we kidding? We are kidding the French people if we think that the parliament will have any influence at all" on the peace process.
France was the scene of several pro-Palestinian demonstrations during this summer's 50-day offensive by the Israeli army in Gaza that killed more than 2,000 Palestinians and dozens of Israelis.
Some of these turned violent with looters in July destroying Jewish businesses and shouting anti-Israel obscenities in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles — sometimes known as "Little Jerusalem" for its large community of Sephardic Jews.
French lawmakers prepare motion to recognise Palestine
French Socialist lawmakers are preparing to submit a motion to parliament asking the government to recognise Palestine as a state, sources said Tuesday, weeks after British MPs passed a similar vote.
French lawmakers to vote November 28 on recognising Palestine
French lawmakers will vote later this month on a proposal urging the government to recognise Palestine as a state, a parliamentary source said Wednesday, as diplomatic tensions continue to rise between Europe and Israel.
Irish parliament backs recognition of Palestinian state
Irish lawmakers urged their government Wednesday to recognise Palestine as a state in a symbolic motion that sailed through parliament unopposed.


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Questioning Consciousness
by nomo » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:37 pm
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To understand consciousness and its evolution, we need to ask the right questions.
by Nicholas Humphrey • Posted January 28, 2008 04:57 PM
No one doubts that our experience of phenomenal consciousness—the felt redness of fire, the felt sweetness of a peach, the felt pain of a bee sting—arises from the activity of our brains. Yet the problem of explaining how this can be so seems to many theorists to be staggeringly hard. How can the wine of consciousness, the weird, ineffable, immaterial qualia that give such richness to subjective experience, conceivably arise from the water of the brain? As the philosopher Colin McGinn has put it, it's like trying to explain how you can get "numbers from biscuits, or ethics from rhubarb." The philosopher Jerry Fodor recently claimed, "The revisions of our concepts and theories that imagining a solution will eventually require are likely to be very deep and very unsettling."
If you smell theoretical panic, you're right. But are the scientific answers really so far out of reach? Have people been beguiled by the marvelous properties of consciousness into asking for the moon, while what is at issue is really much more down to earth? Everybody says they are waiting for the Big Idea. But perhaps the big idea should be that consciousness, which is of such significance to us subjectively, is scientifically not such a big deal.
It all depends on asking the right questions at the outset. I can show what I mean with the example of a well-known visual illusion. Consider what you might want to explain about the experience of looking at the object in the picture to the left (Fig. 1), a solid wooden version of the so-called impossible triangle. Since it is at first sight so surprising and impressive, any of us might very well innocently ask the (bad) question: "How can we explain the existence of this triangle as we perceive it?" Only later—indeed only once we have seen the object from a different viewpoint (Fig. 2), and realized that the "triangle as we perceive it" is an illusion—will it occur to us to ask the (good) question: "How can we explain the fact we have been tricked into perceiving it this way?"
Now, no one wants to think that consciousness is likewise some kind of trick. But let's nonetheless see where the analogy may lead. The standard philosopher's example is the case of what it's like to see red. So, suppose you were looking at a ripe tomato: What might you want to explain about the qualia-rich red sensation that you are experiencing?
Since the qualia are indeed so up-front and remarkable, and since no one knows why this is, we are all, most probably, going to start off by asking what may be a bad question: "How can we explain the existence of these qualia as we experience them?" So here, again, it will only be if we undergo a radical shift in perspective and realize that the "qualia as we experience them" could be a mental fantasy, that we shall move on to asking what may be the good question: "How can we explain why we have the impression that such fantastic qualia exist even if they do not?" But, here is why it is likely to be so difficult to make this move: In the case of consciousness, we cannot simply change our perspective to see the solution. We are all stuck with the first-person point of view. So, the result is we persist with questing for the qualia as such.
Yet if consciousness is a trick, then of course this quest is a fool's errand. It will make no more sense to try to explain the existence of qualia than it would to explain the existence of the impossible triangle. What we should be doing instead is trying to explain just how we have been set up—and why.
Well, is it a trick? The only way to find out, I'd say, would be to take seriously the idea that consciousness is a trick, and think through what further questions would follow at a scientific level. And, though I realize I should not go overboard with the analogy, I believe the impossible triangle can continue to show the way.
A philosophical term comes in useful here. When people perceive, think, believe, and so on, these mental states are called "intentional states;" whatever the particular state is about—the percept, thought, belief—is called the "intentional object." So, when we look at the wooden triangle from the special position, what we perceive—the impossible triangle—is the "intentional object." Meanwhile, the thing we are actually looking at can be called the "real-world object."
So, now, with phenomenal consciousness, let's see if we cannot make a similar distinction. Suppose that, when we are conscious of having a sensation, when we say it's like something—it's like seeing red—this thing it is like is the "intentional object of consciousness." Then, if this is in any way similar to the case of the triangle, there will be a corresponding real-world object—presumably something going on in the brain—which is what we are actually engaging with and commenting on. In which case, there will indeed be another series of questions to ask.
1. What exactly is the real-world brain activity that we are engaging with when we say a sensation is like something?
2. Why does this activity have the (tricky) properties it has, such that our experience of it is seemingly something so strangely private, not of this world, and indescribable in common terms?
3. What makes this trick work? How is it done?
4. What is the point? Why was it designed like this? What might have been the evolutionary advantage of our having these marvelous experiences?
I believe we can already propose plausible answers to each of these questions—although they are all quite radical. Here they are.
The real-world brain activity is the activity that I call "sentition." In response to sensory stimulation, we react with an evolutionarily ancient form of internalized bodily expression (something like an inner grimace or smile). We then experience this as sensation when we form an inner picture—by monitoring the command signals—of just what we are doing.
Sentition has been subtly shaped in the course of evolution so as to instill our picture of it with those added dimensions of phenomenality. Sentition has, in short, become what I call a "phenomenous object"—defined as "something that when monitored by introspection seems to have phenomenal properties."
I do not pretend to know yet how this is done, or what the neural correlate of phenomenous sentition is. My hunch is that feedback loops in the sensory areas of the brain are creating complex attractor states that require more than the usual four dimensions to describe—and that this makes these "states of mind" seem to have immaterial qualities. But you do not need to understand what I have just said to get the message. Creating a thing that gives the illusion of having weird and wonderful properties need be no great shakes, and is certainly much easier than creating something that actually has them, especially when it is possible to restrict the point of view.
There is every reason to think the truth about consciousness will eventually be discovered by scientific investigation. Even so, I'd flag a potential difficulty in getting there. If sentition appears phenomenal only when observed from the specific first-person viewpoint, this is bound to create major difficulties for those neuroscientists who hope to find the neural correlate of consciousness (the NCC) by studying the brain from the outside. For the reality will likely be that seen from outside, the NCC will strike the observer as nothing special, merely an oddity—just as would happen if we were to come across an impossible triangle lying on a bench, without realizing what it has been designed to do.
The final challenge will be explaining the biological purpose of all this. We can surely assume that the kind of development I have sketched above will not have happened accidentally. It must be the result of natural selection favoring genes that underwrite the specialized neural circuits—whatever they turn out to be—that do indeed sustain the illusion of qualia, giving rise to the magical mystery show observed by the first-person. And it is axiomatic that this will only have happened if those lucky enough to be spectators of this show have somehow been at an advantage in terms of biological survival. Yet, how can this be if, as is widely assumed by theorists, the phenomenal richness of consciousness is of no practical value whatsoever?
Fodor has stated this aspect of the problem bluntly: "There are several reasons why consciousness is so baffling. For one thing, it seems to be among the chronically unemployed. What mental processes can be performed only because the mind is conscious, and what does consciousness contribute to their performance? As far as anybody knows, anything that our conscious minds can do they could do just as well if they weren't conscious. Why then did God bother to make consciousness?"
Fodor is undoubtedly asking the right question: "Why did God—or rather natural selection—make consciousness?" Yet I'd suggest the reason he finds it all so baffling is that he is starting off with the completely wrong premise, for he has assumed, as indeed almost everyone else does, that phenomenal consciousness must be providing us with some kind of new skill. In other words, it must be helping us do something that we can do only by virtue of being conscious, in the way that, say, a bird can fly only because it has wings, or you can understand this sentence only because you know English.
Yet I want to suggest the role of phenomenal consciousness may not be like this at all. Its role may not be to enable us to do something we could not do otherwise, but rather to encourage us to do something we would not do otherwise: to make us take an interest in things that otherwise would not interest us, or to mind things we otherwise would not mind, or to set ourselves goals we otherwise would not set.
To test this idea we will need evidence as to how being phenomenally conscious changes our worldview: What beliefs and attitudes flow from it? What changes occur in the way conscious individuals think about who and what they are?
These are empirical questions that can be answered only by careful fieldwork in the realm of conscious creatures. What is needed is a thorough natural history of consciousness, and it must be a program of research in which we are ready to consider all sorts of possibilities—not just those we would expect to find discussed in the science or philosophy section of the library, but perhaps those that belong in the Self Help section, or even Mind and Spirit.
Regrettably, this area of consciousness studies has been neglected by scientists (although artists have been involved with it since art began). I cannot claim to be more than an amateur myself. All the same, I will not hold back from telling you my own main conclusion from a lifetime's interest in what consciousness does. I may shock you by what may seem the naivety of my conclusion (I've shocked myself): I think the plain and simple fact is that consciousness—on various levels—makes life more worth living.
We like being phenomenally conscious. We like the world in which we're phenomenally conscious. We like ourselves for being phenomenally conscious. And the resulting joie de vivre, the enchantment with the world we live in, and the enhanced sense of our own metaphysical importance have, in the course of evolutionary history, turned our lives around.
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Re: Questioning Consciousness
by Ben D » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:44 am
Yes, conceptual consciousness is a form of illusion, the real is beyond time space relativity...
There is That which was not born, nor created, nor evolved. If it were not so, there would never be any refuge from being born, or created, or evolving. That is the end of suffering. That is God**.
** or Nirvana, Allah, Brahman, Tao, etc...
Ben D
by DrVolin » Mon Dec 09, 2013 8:45 am
Or we can simply say that qualia is an evolved response, or adaptation, to external stimulus (signal wavelength, for example), in which case it is not hard at all to explain. It is still difficult to figure out how it is produced, but that becomes a mechanical problem, not a philosophical one.
all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars
--Guns and Roses
by tapitsbo » Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:21 am
my admittedly uninformed mind doesn't understand how mechanism isn't just an evolved response to qualia
it seems easier to trace the origin of the physical world back to information and sensations than it is to do the reverse.
so why is there a consensus that matter causes consciousness and not the other way around?
i mean, besides any hypothetical mind control enslavement conspiracy (which if it existed would naturally not be the whole story. right?)
tapitsbo
by tazmic » Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:35 pm
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Exhaustive coverage here.
"Nagel's Mind and Cosmos is an opposite bookend of sorts to Alex Rosenberg's recent The Atheist's Guide to Reality. Both Nagel and Rosenberg are naturalists, but both are also highly critical of their fellow naturalists -- who, Nagel and Rosenberg maintain, do not see the deep metaphysical problems afflicting the complacent materialism that prevails among contemporary philosophers (and among contemporary scientists in their philosophical moods). What Nagel and Rosenberg disagree about is the prescribed remedy. For Rosenberg, to be a consistent naturalist requires being a radical eliminativist -- denying the existence of intentionality and semantic meaning, the epistemic value of introspection, and so forth. For Nagel, salvaging naturalism requires going to almost the opposite extreme of reviving the Aristotelian teleology that naturalists have for centuries been defining themselves against."
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by coffin_dodger » Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:37 pm
tazmic wrote: "Nagel's Mind and Cosmos is an opposite bookend of sorts to Alex Rosenberg's recent The Atheist's Guide to Reality. Both Nagel and Rosenberg are naturalists, but both are also highly critical of their fellow naturalists -- who, Nagel and Rosenberg maintain, do not see the deep metaphysical problems afflicting the complacent materialism that prevails among contemporary philosophers (and among contemporary scientists in their philosophical moods). What Nagel and Rosenberg disagree about is the prescribed remedy. For Rosenberg, to be a consistent naturalist requires being a radical eliminativist -- denying the existence of intentionality and semantic meaning, the epistemic value of introspection, and so forth. For Nagel, salvaging naturalism requires going to almost the opposite extreme of reviving the Aristotelian teleology that naturalists have for centuries been defining themselves against."
It's little wonder we have no idea what consciousness is. The words and language we use to describe these concepts are enough to turn anyone lower than brainiac into a disinterested party.
coffin_dodger
by Wombaticus Rex » Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:53 pm
Two of my favorite riffs on this modal composition from Nick Herbert:
http://southerncrossreview.org/16/herbert.essay.htm
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/herbert_int.htm
DJB: Do you see Bell's Theorem, and our understanding from astrophysics that all particles in the universe were together at the moment of the Big Bang, as being a possible explanation for mysterious phenomenon such as telepathy and synchronicity?
NICK: Yeah, I do. But I think that it would be too easy to say that because we're all connected we have telepathy. Because, again, why do we feel so all alone?
DJB: Doesn't it have something to do with the recency of the connection?
NICK: Yeah. If you make a connection, separate, and then make any other connections, those later connections will dilute the first connection. It's just as strong, but now you have another connection that's speeding into you. So it's a little bit like what's been called the coefficient of consanguinity, which measures how close people are linked genetically. Your mother is the closest to you, then your grandmother, and so forth on down. You're all linked by connections, but the more recent connections are the strongest. But even then, even when you've just met somebody, and separated, the telepathy between you is not really readily apparent. It would be be something, wouldn't it, if we lived in a society where the last person you met you had a telepathic contact with, until you met somebody else. That doesn't seem to happen, though, at least on the level we're aware of.
So the real question is why is telepathy so dilute? I would expect a proper science to explain that fact. Then, of course once we had that explanation, we could increase it, make it greater, or overcome the diluteness if you didn't want to have telepathic contact with certain people. So that to me is the biggest mystery. Bell's Theorem could explain telepathy, but what explains the lack of telepathy? That's something I don't think anyone has really addressed. There are a few people who have addressed this fact on the level of psychology, but not physics, as to why we don't have telepathy. The most convincing answer that I know about is that it would be just too terrible to look into the hearts of people, because there's so much pain around that it would be excruciating to tap into that.
RMN: Also, it seems that a lot of people don't want to be that open about themselves, maybe they don't want people seeing into them.
NICK: There's that too--I don't want people to look into me. But suppose you want to look into other people? A reason not to do that would be that it would be very painful.
RMN: There seems to be an idea among physicists that by persistent analysis, they will eventually discover the fundamental particle, the stuff from which all matter is formed, and yet they continue to discover smaller and smaller versions of this particle. What are your thoughts on this?
NICK: Oh, ultimate particles, huh? I'd be perfectly content if physics came to an end--that quarks and leptons were actually the world's fundamental particles. Some people think this, that physics is coming to an end, as far as the direction of finding fundamental particles goes. It's okay with me. I don't think that's the most interesting way to go, looking for fundamental particles. You know my real notion is that consciousness is the toughest problem, and that physics has basically taken off on the easy problems, and may even solve them. We may find all the forces and all the particles of nature-that's physic's quest--but then what? Then we have to really tackle some of these harder problems--the nature of mind, the nature of God, and bigger problems that we don't even know how to ask yet. So, actually I'm not too interested in the problem of finding fundamental particles, but my guess is, from what we know now, that we're very close to that situation.
by Julian the Apostate » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:17 pm
tazmic » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:35 pm wrote: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
Interesting material, I will have to bookmark it for when I have more time to do some reading.
First Things seems like a very interesting organization. As a Freemason, the title of their Daily Columns page ("On the Square") caught my eye. So I wanted to learn more about who is behind First Things. The About Us page says it is published by "The Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society." Woah, sounds heavy, and like their Daily Columns page, there is a hint of Masonic terminology in there.
So I looked up R.R. Reno, turns out he was an Episcopalian and in 2004 converted to Catholicism. While that doesn't necessarily preclude him from being a Mason, it makes it far less likely. I just wonder why his organization uses so much Masonic terminology. Perhaps it is unintentional and coincidental…
Julian the Apostate
by slimmouse » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:54 pm
tapitsbo wrote: so why is there a consensus that matter causes consciousness and not the other way around?
Surely thats because this is what we are supposed to think?
Dec 19th 2012. What's your own Gut feeling?
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by Pele'sDaughter » Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:29 pm
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/201 ... sciousness
Interview with Christof Koch. Here's the intro.
A neuroscientist's radical theory of how networks become conscious
It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, thinks he might know the answer. According to Koch, consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. All animals, from humans on down to earthworms, are conscious; even the internet could be. That's just the way the universe works.
"The electric charge of an electron doesn't arise out of more elemental properties. It simply has a charge," says Koch. "Likewise, I argue that we live in a universe of space, time, mass, energy, and consciousness arising out of complex systems."
What Koch proposes is a scientifically refined version of an ancient philosophical doctrine called panpsychism -- and, coming from someone else, it might sound more like spirituality than science. But Koch has devoted the last three decades to studying the neurological basis of consciousness. His work at the Allen Institute now puts him at the forefront of the BRAIN Initiative, the massive new effort to understand how brains work, which will begin next year.
Koch's insights have been detailed in dozens of scientific articles and a series of books, including last year's Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. Wired talked to Koch about his understanding of this age-old question.
Don't believe anything they say.
And at the same time,
Don't believe that they say anything without a reason.
---Immanuel Kant
Pele'sDaughter
by Ben D » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:02 pm
The thing is, both objective knowledge and subjective awareness only arise as a result of awake state consciousness self referencing itself to the physical body, and any natural not material based awareness, presuming it exists, is totally obscured by the neuron firing brain focused on relative subjective awareness and objective ruminations.
Imo, it is the public education system that has been the cause of accelerated evolution to dependence on the conceptual mind to the exclusion of the non dual meditative holistic mind which nowadays is mostly beyond the capacity of people to realize. Not that this evolutionary process wasn't already in full sway among the scholarly class for millennia, thus the loss of true understanding of mystical religious scripture of the past.
So in a nutshell...when consciousness identifies with a physical source in time and place, the undivided whole of existence is mentally divided into two parts...me the observer, and not me the rest of existence. On the other hand, if the mind is still and free from identification with the physical source, the 'I' and its relative perceptions doesn't arise in the mind to disturb the timeless state of unity of existence. Both forms of awareness, the relative and the holistic (religious), should have their place in the life of human beings, for without the latter, knowledge of what and who they really are can't ever be realized, and thus they can easily be brain washed into believing whatever the mind controllers desire...and are!
by DrVolin » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:11 pm
I'm a hypothetical realist. I am willing to accept the possibility that there is a reality out there. At least, that is, until I have good evidence that there isn't.
by Sounder » Mon Dec 09, 2013 7:26 pm
No one doubts that our experience of phenomenal consciousness—the felt redness of fire, the felt sweetness of a peach, the felt pain of a bee sting—arises from the activity of our brains.
It's good to see the major premise in the first sentence. I doubt it, an I'm not no one. If the brain is more like an amplifier than a computer say, then consciousness might not so much 'arise' from the brain, as much as the brain being part of an interface system that provides access to externally generated signals (vibrations).
The lives we draw for ourselves are determined by the direction and focus of our attention.
This determines the manner by which Source 'speaks' to you.
Always done in terms of the forms of your existing understanding.
So go ahead and keep up with the materialism, Source will still speak to you.
All these things will continue as long as coercion remains a central element of our mentality.
Sounder
by Elvis » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:34 pm
I'm swimming in this subject lately, not so much in a scientific but a cultural context.
tapitsbo » Mon Dec 09, 2013 6:21 am wrote: so why is there a consensus that matter causes consciousness and not the other way around?
I think it was partly an over-reaction of the Enlightenment (so ironic it's called that) to claptrap religion (which itself went too far with fancy). In that new rational, objective view, everything had to be accounted for with physical cause and effect. Then further, the individual, subjective consciousness became something to be studied, rather than lived. I'm not saying it very well, but in other words, yes:
slimmouse wrote: Surely thats because this is what we are supposed to think?
where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery.
Good luck solving that one!
I think Sounder phrases it well --
Sounder » Mon Dec 09, 2013 4:26 pm[/url] wrote: If the brain is more like an amplifier than a computer say, then consciousness might not so much 'arise' from the brain, as much as the brain being part of an interface system that provides access to externally generated signals (vibrations).
I'd add that the brain is also a filter, but overall, I like the "interface system" characterization (even if expressed in a somewhat 'techocratic' term).
In another thread someone, Jack Riddler, I think, said (paraphrasing) that "there is no material/spiritual dichotomy -- it's ultimately all physical." Well...the dichotomy doesn't go away so easily, because one can just as easily say "it's all spiritual!" And they might actually have science on their side (i.e. science meaning data, not the institution of Science).
(I have much more to write about this topic, if I get my thoughts in better order (agh!) and find the time.)
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