(October 14, 2019 at 12:28 am)Grandizer Wrote:(October 14, 2019 at 12:12 am)Acrobat Wrote: Those physical process cause us to recognize values and meaning, but we’re not the arbiter of them, we’re a passenger, not the captain. We don’t dictate the destination.
My consciousness mind might see a value being attached to certain things, a meaning to life revealed, but I watch this as a man at a movie, not as a director.
I’m a character and a reader of a story, not it’s author.
Ok, you can put our consciousness aside, no problem. Biological processes in our bodies lead to the act of assigning meaning and value. Assigning itself would be explicable in terms of the physical, in accordance with how our brains are wired to perceive.
Our biological processes are all contingent process. Determinism doesn’t begin at our biology. External deterministic factors act on our biology, causing it to recognize certain values and meanings.
Our biology isn’t the captain here either, just another passenger on the ship. P4 is unavoidable, in my view.
