RE: My view and reasons for them. Atheist and Christians welcome here. (short)
May 6, 2018 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2018 at 2:51 pm by Quick.)
(May 6, 2018 at 2:34 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(May 6, 2018 at 2:31 pm)Quick Wrote: I hope we are not understanding each other. That would be best.
I think there are things that I take as a given because I am hardwired to think that way and has nothing to do with the free will I have chosen, if that is what you are asking?
Conversation over. Thanks.
I'm not a strict determinist either. As I stated earlier on this forum, I believe consciousness and the unconscious are not entirely predictable. I think that because of this element of randomness of how our neurons fire that what it is that dictates our behaviour in an absolute sense is, well, miraculous. I think we are hardwired for some processes, but that for others there is something very mystical about the way our brains work. I also think that there is an element of free will that one does have, but that our free will is something that is deep within our unconscious. Something directs us and I am not entirely sure it is actually us that directs us but I think... I think one way to say it would be that it is our soul that dictates certain things. Magic in your terms.
But your individuality and your present need will be swept away by change,
and what you now ardently desire will one day become the object of abhorrence.
~ Schiller - 'Psychological Types'
