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Reply #19: The placebo effect isn't part of reality? [View All]

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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Oct-20-09 08:19 PM
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19. The placebo effect isn't part of reality?
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  Is memory and/or fantasy more or less real than current perception. Discuss. DaveinJapan  Oct-20-09 10:43 AM   #0 
   Because reality is not concerned with "better"  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-20-09 10:46 AM   #1 
   That's deep. Thanks!  DaveinJapan   Oct-20-09 10:51 AM   #2 
   You can create your own perceptions, but not your own reality.  AlienGirl   Oct-20-09 10:59 AM   #5 
   Touche. nt  woo me with science   Oct-20-09 10:58 AM   #3 
   "The fact that every human that existed before about 1900 has died..."  Adsos Letter   Oct-20-09 11:19 AM   #8 
   Is there a reality?  liberal N proud   Oct-20-09 10:58 AM   #4 
   Of course there's a reality -- it all started ten minutes ago.  damntexdem   Oct-20-09 12:29 PM   #11 
   "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K Dick  Echo In Light   Oct-20-09 11:01 AM   #6 
   The placebo effect isn't part of reality?  Boojatta   Oct-20-09 08:19 PM   #19 
   Legitimate physicists are trying to prove the theory that we're a computer simulation.  lumberjack_jeff   Oct-20-09 11:14 AM   #7 
   To some degree you can create your own world.  Uncle Joe   Oct-20-09 11:40 AM   #9 
   It depends -- how many of those around you can you convince that you're all on that tropical beach?  damntexdem   Oct-20-09 12:25 PM   #10 
   soon reality and fantasy will merge. once we're able to scan our brains onto neural nets.  Soylent Brice   Oct-20-09 12:31 PM   #12 
   Before I add my two senses to it,  kentauros   Oct-20-09 12:47 PM   #13 
   It's because the mods moved it to a different forum which eliminates view counts from the old forum.  Uncle Joe   Oct-20-09 01:32 PM   #15 
      Okay, thanks.  kentauros   Oct-20-09 01:37 PM   #16 
         If you don't mind me asking,  Uncle Joe   Oct-20-09 01:41 PM   #17 
            Dental pain, off and on.  kentauros   Oct-20-09 04:58 PM   #18 
   I think memory/fantasy are enhanced (or distorted) perceptions of reality.  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-20-09 12:49 PM   #14 
 

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