RE: Why the vision argument is a very good one!
April 17, 2018 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2018 at 9:39 am by Mystic.)
(April 17, 2018 at 6:08 am)pocaracas Wrote:(April 16, 2018 at 10:53 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Now I propose because your actions are in reality detailed ways that we don't perceive all the details, something that maintains who we are has to know these details, and know exactly what value we ought to get through our actions.
You were going relatively well up until this one point...
jorm only gave this a sentence of her time.
I'm going to give a bit more...
Indeed we don't perceive all the detailed goings on in our brains that lead to producing our thoughts.
But that doesn't mean that there need to be something maintaining "who we are", much less that this something "has to know these details".
What we are is maintained by conservation of energy.
The details of how quantum mechanics and biochemistry lead to psychology need not be known by anything. The particles involved themselves have no intrinsic knowledge, they just do what they do.
That we, humans, collectively, can't pinpoint exactly how our psychology arises from the underlying brain activity says that we still have some more sciencing to do.
Had you no knowledge of computers, other than they use electricity, would you be able to pinpoint where and how a bunch of electrical signals in the computer correspond to the firefox tab that is displaying the AF forum? Imagine, you had no idea of the binary nature of the computer....That would be a tricky endeavor, huh?
I'd say that our understanding of the connection between the brain activity and psychology is roughly at that level. We understand how individual neurons work, we've established that neurons operating in particular regions of the brain are connected with some generic mental activities, but how one produces the other is still unknown. The "language" of the brain is unknown and there's no rosetta stone to help.
If/when we thoroughly determine that brain activity cannot account for the mind, then the soul/god hypothesis gets a chance to shine. Until then, there's no use in struggling to produce feeble arguments from ignorance.
Your last sentence there ("know exactly what value we ought to get through our actions") is indicative of your bias.
Value is something we attribute to things. Each of us attributes a particular value to everything around us. Your sentence seems to imply that there is a value that we all should attribute to something.... our actions?...
Just to show you how you can confuse subjective and objective values, tell us if the value of money, the US Dollar, is objective or subjective and why.
I am saying the brain from a biological perspective doesn't know the details to give us the exact accurate objective value to who we are. I think both you and Jo agreed with that, just don't agree we have an objective exact value, which I argue later why I believe is not a good view.
(April 17, 2018 at 9:35 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(April 17, 2018 at 9:33 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I quote:
Now if you deny their is an exact accurate you, I will propose this. What are you estimating? And on what grounds? If you say it's good enough and close enough to what you are, you are saying there is an accurate you, you just don't know it.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. What is an “accurate me”?
You do know what I'm talking about. I explained the concept and context of it, in the OP.