(October 26, 2011 at 10:05 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Do we have any control? You're assuming that we do in the "external idea" but why would we, just because it's external? Maybe theres another layer of control over that, turtles all the way down. I'm also not sure that I enjoy being one of your errant and dissenting thoughts..lol, living in the confines of your head..within some nebulous singularity.
This why I am still on the bench with this idea. If we have no control, then Occam's Razor applied, biochemical thought is all that is necessary.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy