RE: Moral Nihilism
May 19, 2009 at 9:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm by infidel666.)
I see it like this.
Each person is born with a genetic profile that causes a specific set of thousands of trace hormones to be manufactured in that person's brain.
These hormones define a set of proclivities that dictate certain CHANCES that the person will react in a finite number ways in response to given stimuli. The actual response chosen is RANDOM.
Each time the person reacts to a set of stimuli, feedback on the result stemming from that response is fed back into the brain, influencing development of physical, neural pathways that modify that person's behavior in response to those same stimuli.
As these pathways develop and the person's behavioral possibilities are modified, the illusion of choice appears. The person erroneously perceives that they have free will.
If the person went back in time, the dice wouldn't necessarily fall the same way, especially if that person "remembered" the future and had the feedback from the previous "choice" modifying their behavior.
But it's all kneejerk reactions. Each of us is a velvet tracing of Pavlov's dog. Human brains are just biological computers. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. The end.
Each person is born with a genetic profile that causes a specific set of thousands of trace hormones to be manufactured in that person's brain.
These hormones define a set of proclivities that dictate certain CHANCES that the person will react in a finite number ways in response to given stimuli. The actual response chosen is RANDOM.
Each time the person reacts to a set of stimuli, feedback on the result stemming from that response is fed back into the brain, influencing development of physical, neural pathways that modify that person's behavior in response to those same stimuli.
As these pathways develop and the person's behavioral possibilities are modified, the illusion of choice appears. The person erroneously perceives that they have free will.
If the person went back in time, the dice wouldn't necessarily fall the same way, especially if that person "remembered" the future and had the feedback from the previous "choice" modifying their behavior.
But it's all kneejerk reactions. Each of us is a velvet tracing of Pavlov's dog. Human brains are just biological computers. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. The end.
