RE: If someone says to me "consciousness, therefore god", what's the best wa...
March 7, 2016 at 9:12 pm
(February 14, 2016 at 1:40 pm)robvalue Wrote: Free will is a messed up concept. Who exactly would be making the decision? A "person" is just a conveniently abstract way of describing a bunch of stuff stuck together. And not even the same stuff; it's constantly replacing itself with other bits.
The brain is similarly a massive complex machine. There is no one part in charge, the whole thing decides together. The idea of a "self" is another illusion, in my opinion.
It must take a lot of cognitive dissonance daily deciding what to do with your life and then denying your own identity and volition.
