These topics differ from study topics & informal research topics (in other lists) as they are predominantly for pondering & being creative with rather than for reading about. Some investigation of existing ideas may be done but this will be purely to inspire further creative thought. In most cases the aim is not to find the "truth" but rather, to explore the possibilities of what may be and to break through & annihilate any rigidities, conventionalities, and other preconceptions. There is an overlap here with my "A List of Questions". This "Pondering" category is a subset of the "Questions" category which I want to keep separate for ease of reference.
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If spiritual ideas & feelings are stripped of all preconceptions, all biases, all emotional associations and involvements then the creative mind can run free with the possibilities of what may be. Explore!
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We know consciousness exists; we observe it; we ARE it. Yet it is the one thing in the universe which we cannot even begin to try to explain. What could this phenomenon possibly be, and what are the implications of these possibilities?
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Is the universe really expanding or is it that matter is shrinking!?
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How can the movement of consciousness through time be integrated into a 4 dimensional space-time graph? Is something more required to portray it?
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I've lived my whole life in the physical universe so how can it feel so awesome that it exists (assuming it does)?
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There is a view that 'Why' questions have no meaning. How much truth do I find in this? Is the same true for 'What is' questions? Are there implications to this?
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How would a machine mind best be modelled on a real human one in terms of its internal process (rather than its outward appearance)?
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Is there a way of viewing the nature of time such that the past changes so that if we went back in time we would arrive somewhere which had never been in our own history (maybe even in a void)?
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Explore the phenomenon of Meaning.
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The universe can be modelled using mathematics but is this because it is the nature of the universe or because the human brain is wired to perceive things in a logical way? Or is the idea of a mathematical universe accurate but only a subset of the whole?
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Much of the human sense of what is real seems to be based upon estimation of what is probable but is the way this estimate is made applicable to all the contexts in which it is applied? Especially: science frontiers & metaphysics.
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Consider the human species. They are animals very similar to the other great apes. Yet they have created technologies, mathematics, scientific ideas & other things which far surpass any other animal. How did they manage that?
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