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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mitch Blevins who wrote (5242)	12/20/2000 1:52:31 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

If time truly worked like IP network traffic, then (real) IP network traffic would be impossible. Thanks for the link. My internet connection here at my office really bites and I can't load some links through our connection. I'll check it when I get home to my good connection. Time, IMO, is the directional arrow of physical phenomena. I don't necessarily think that it is linear nor necessarily sequential in other spaces like the informational space. That space, again IMO, is not bound by limitations of causal chains of the material world. Physical reality is bound so IP traffic through physical media would not have the properties of non-sequential transport that my hypothetical information ether would allow. I think it is important to note that "unconscious" may simply be a firmware implementation of an information state. Your reflexive actions are not part of the conscious activity but part of a meta-consciousness. We know that mystics can expand their consciousness into autonomic processes, but I consider this an expansion of the consciousness and not proof that physical breathing and heartbeats have any true relationship to the "pilot's seat". The out-of-body experiences of patients during anesthesia seem to suggest that there is an ethereal existence of information states that would be unavailable to us in we were only physical, but somehow are anyway. I'm still trying to make all this stick together, but while I tend to state my ideas with authority, I'm realize no more authoritative than anyone else. I believe that this is a by-product of this consciousness-directed reality. Things that are true for me sometimes don't extend outside of me and may not apply to other people! They may only be true because "me" expects them to be true. Like the blow to the dummy hand causing pain. Are we to judge that it isn't real pain? I don't know how to do that. Certainly it evokes a response that is qualitatively similar to a real event.