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Prediction = certainty.

Certainty = stability.

Stability = equilibrium.

Equilibrium = harmony.

Ideally, this should all happen at the unconscious level, without explicit communication and terminology. Unfortunately, people are scared of the future and seek solace in symbolic representation.

The purpose of defining anything is to aid prediction.

I am something that cannot use words to completely describe itself.

... or numbers.

Everywhere you will look, whatever the topics are about, the whole sotry will be splitted in 2 options. It's either a 0 or a 1..

Isn't there anyone els who can look further then this..

Something that is neither qualitative nor quantitative, yet credulously a bizarre hybrid of the two.

It is just 1....
1 equal infinity  

No, 1/0 equals infinity. Take something and put nothing into it and your answer is infinity. Infinity is without limits and is everything and therefore a measure of nothing.

[WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?]

In my view, If the deterministic view of the universe was proved that would suck the very essence of Life out of the world. A predeterminate Universe would be a dead meaningless Universe. I refuse to believe that.

I agree completely. It would more than suck the essence of life out of the universe, it would automatism us. ...

The latest questioned polled to scientists on Edge.org was this:

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?

Susan Blackmore, a psychologist (and former para-psychologist) answered with this:

"It  is possible to live happily and morally without believing in free will. As Samuel Johnson said "All theory  is against the freedom of the will; all experience  is for it." With recent developments in neuroscience  and theories of consciousness, theory is even more against it than it was in his time, more than 200  years ago. So I long ago set about systematically  changing the experience. I now have no feeling of  acting with free will, although the feeling took many years to ebb away.

But  what happens? People say I'm lying! They say it's  impossible and so I must be deluding myself to  preserve my theory. And what can I do or say to challenge them? I have no idea—other than  to suggest that other people try the exercise,  demanding as it is.

When the feeling is gone, decisions just happen with no sense of anyone making them, but then a new question arises—will the decisions  be morally acceptable? Here I have made a great leap of faith (or the  memes and genes and world have done so). It seems that when people throw  out the illusion of an inner self who acts, as many mystics and Buddhist practitioners have done, they generally do behave in ways that we think  of as moral or good. So perhaps giving up free will is not as dangerous  as it sounds—but this too I cannot prove.

As for giving up the sense of an inner conscious self altogether—this  is very much harder. I just keep on seeming to exist. But though I cannot  prove it—I think it is true that I don't."

http://edge.org/q2005/q05_8.html#blackmorehttp://edge.org/q2005/q05_8.html#blackmore

Defining relationships offers stability and predictability.

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Your sense of humor is like the sense of sight. Accept high spirits again by opening your eyes.

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Humans are not a normal species of animal.

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School is the everyday western symbol of impermanence.

Everything in life, except school, has the potential to last forever. Vocations, relationships, where you live, habits, none of these things eventually have to change. Not school. School is temporary. When you're in school, though, it feels like forever. You day dream. It enters your subconscious, referenced to a deep wish for impermanence. In the same way, you may feel you don't have enough time to do homework or to study for a test. Maybe you wish you could go back in time and study more, or go into the future to see what will be on the test, or what life will be like when school's out. And, also, there is always the feeling that these days will not last forever.

When you're dreaming about school, you're dreaming of impermanence.

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Is the psychic boy a version of baby Jesus?

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[Frank]

Frank, doesn't it make more sense to say it the other way around? It feels to me that I am traveling through time right now towards the future, experiencing everything linearly moment to moment. I imagine stepping out of the physical would mean stepping outside of physical time and therefore around time freely, both backwards and forwards, without having to go through a series of moments.

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