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Geoffrey Newton

"Why do you say consciousness is more than feeling our emotions, thoughts, pain and emotions."

When I look at the Mona Lisa, it is more than just a bunch of colours on a canvas. It is an organized painting that evokes mystery and…

1 min read4 days ago

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Geoffrey Newton

"Consciousness is just that essentially undeniable sense that we are literally feeling and…

Thank you for an erudite and thought provoking essay, in an age where computers are increasingly integrated into our lives, and are said to…

1 min read4 days ago

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Geoffrey Newton

"Where is the I that claims these things to be me?"

"The self exists and it doesn't exist. It's like a shadow."

2 min readApr 27, 2024

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Geoffrey Newton

Thanks for a tour de force and overview of our current climatic situation.

if we were living in a rational world, this formulae would work, using aggregate demand to switch from carbon to renewables, but where I…

1 min readApr 7, 2024

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Geoffrey Newton

GOD=Belief

What a wonderful thought provoking essay, so let me address it succinctly; God is belief. Without belief there is no morality, trust or…

1 min readMar 26, 2024

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"This inditement of modern culture that so many people have been brutalized and driven to this…

Theses people, like all of us, are the casualty of a cynical political strategy that Nixon started when republicans realized they could…

1 min readMar 17, 2024

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Geoffrey Newton

"We don't know how the brain produces or sustains consciousness."

Great thought provoking essay. in age of AI, where computers are said to be faster and smarter than us. We need to know what we are, and…

1 min readMar 14, 2024

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Great article and excellent research, putting a reflecting mirror in front of our cognitive…

MIT "Limits of Growth" predicted this half a century ago, and the shocking thing about that report was not its prediction of collapse…

2 min readMar 10, 2024

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Geoffrey Newton

"Where in the evolutionary tree do we place truth and beauty?"

Thanks for a thought provoking essay, with important points that have major implications. You pose important questions, like the biological…

2 min readMar 8, 2024

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"Our government is built on checks and balances, empowered by bipartisanship, and without a…

Nobody ever says that about the Supreme Court and Democrats, arguably more important than a grid-locked congress, given abortion, civil…

1 min readMar 5, 2024

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Geoffrey Newton

Geoffrey Newton

I am a retired Pharmacist and author with 40 years experience of community pharmacy, specializing in mental health and addiction,, living in Canada.

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