RE: The burden of proof relating to conciousness, free choice and rationality
February 29, 2012 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: February 29, 2012 at 11:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 29, 2012 at 10:46 pm)marx_2012 Wrote: Challenge denied and opened my friend. Read the posts beyond yours. Free choice determines every concious element of our mind, without the nature of free choice how can you define your concious life from that of a plant? Free choice is more than just some philosophical argument that you can choose to deny by your choice. If I fired a firework in the air is it your choice to look up, or to not look up. Is it your choice to perceive the the specific elements of the world that you choose, if so are you choosing to perceive whatever elements of the world, that you choose to philosophically defend by your concious 'rationality'?
I find your examples entirely unconvincing. Is this my choice, or is it simply my nature?
My perception is limited by my biology, it isn't a matter of choice. I cannot "choose" to see that which my eyes cannot detect. I cannot perceive that for which I am not equipped. Try again. Similarly, if you fire a firecracker into the air I'm likely to look up without making any "choice" in the matter whatsoever. Just as you have likely done countless times in your own life, so I'm baffled as to why you would have "chosen" this as an example..or, is this sort of thing just in your nature? Quote:Besides the physical nature of the brain, that stays exactly the same at the moment of death, what is the difference between a living brain and a dead brain? Electricity!
Looks like someone doesn't know wtf they're talking about.
Quote:What questions do you want me to answer that I haven't already?
I didn't realize that you'd answered any questions. All I see are claims, claims are not answers. But, in the name of good sport, I asked you a question about compasses, I was wondering how they behaved when you held them.
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