What are the differences between the mind, brain and consciousness … and how are they the same/connected/related?
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    Because I wonder where ‘thought’ originates from and where our consciousness goes when we die. It matters because the greater awareness we have of ourselves the greater ability we have to improve ourselves.

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    danielle ryan
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    Why are people extra nice when it’s your birthday?!
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    Because it would be good if people are just nice even on an ordinary day, it perhaps I’m a bit idealistic

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    Bernadette Basile
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    How long have we got ?
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    Because I reckon humanity won’t see this century out.

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    Robert Tuttleby
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    How do I change a tyre?
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    Jack Carey
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    How is it possible to be incredibly happy and incredibly sad at the same time?
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    How is it that humans can experience such strong, conflicting, emotions at once? Does everyone experience this? Is it possible to pay attention to just one?

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    SecretlyHappy
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    In reality, is world peace a possible achievement?
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    I’m asking this question because it is, without doubt, something that most of us want to have happen, and I would like it to be both possible and to be brought about. However, I’m wondering if thinkers who have had more experience of life and of thinking, than I have, believe that it is actually possible. It matters to me because I see peace as enabling any person to experience a positively richer experience of life, and for this reason, I view it as being something that should matter to all of us.

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    @Indigo9
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    For a nation of immigrants why have we become a less welcoming country in the last 10 or so years?
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    I’m annoyed by the illogical and racist emails that I receive from friends whose parents or grandparents came here as so called economic migrants or refugees. Ever since people like Pauline Hanson have come on the scene I’ve seen a change in our culture. I’m sure most Australians don’t want to live in a racist country.

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    Stephen Schmideg
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    Have things got better?
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    It’s just strange that people disagree so much about this.

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    Michael Lord
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    Is suffering undervalued in Australia given it’s capacity to change thinking and build character, in a person or a community?
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    As a first world country, Australians experience a high quality of life. Yet everybody suffers and hurts, and could our experience of suffering, through illness, abuse, loss, break-up, poverty, discrimination, fear etc be put into a different framework where it is recognised for what it can bring and enable, individually and on a bigger scale? The biggest national identities of white Australia seem to be based on and through hardship and suffering.

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    Athalia Zwartz
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    Why is it, that at the age of 50, I am starting to realise that everything is a feminist issue?
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    I want to teach my 2 boys why this matters, so they can be feminists too.

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    @MelissaRymer1
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    Is the attainment of physical beauty a classist pursuit?
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    We often think about beauty in terms of gender norms, but not often in relation to class. When we try to be beautiful, are we trying to shed any references to working class dom? Why do we describe poor people as “rough”? Are rich people genetically more likely to come out beautiful?

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    @mollyalanamckew
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    Could we be entering a new era of stability in Australian politics, or does that afford Malcolm Turnbull way too much credit?
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    Tom Nicholls
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    What is the minimum threshold for people to have to wear a helmet?
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    Is it pace of movement? Does it depend on the way others around you move? Should sprinters be required to wear a helmet if speed and congestion are criteria?

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    Adam
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