(September 7, 2026 at 8:01 am)OakTree500 Wrote: You didn't "hunger" to see a movie, you had a personal desire........which is evolution, because doing something that makes you feel happy, is rewarding - you brain release chemicals that make you feel better.Your repeated assertion, "which is evolution", is not probative here. You can drop it.
(September 7, 2026 at 8:01 am)OakTree500 Wrote: You didn't "hunger" to see a movie, you had a personal desire........
Otherwise known as a hunger.
(September 7, 2026 at 8:01 am)OakTree500 Wrote: The universe itself, doesn't give a shit, but over the course of hundreds of thousands of years,
Therein lies the rub.
(September 7, 2026 at 8:01 am)OakTree500 Wrote: The universe itself, doesn't give a shit, but over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, humans [and other animals] evolved so that when you perform a specific action, you are "rewarded" with the feel good hormones in your brain...Its the reason why we do anything
Rewards? Incentives? Motivations? In a domino effect, all these are useless. Dominos just blindly fall, they have no control where they fall, and therefore it doesn't matter one hill of beans whether they find the destination "rewarding".
Determinism doesn't work.
(September 7, 2026 at 8:01 am)OakTree500 Wrote: The feel good hormones in your brain...Its the reason why we do anythingIn a determinism, there is no "reason" why we do anything. It's just random causality wholly indifferent to what we want.
And that's a problem because if wants such as thirst aren't somewhat dictatorial, probably NONE of the mammal species would have survived
Not sure how to make this more clear.
Quote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what your point is on this.Methinks you are.


