RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 1:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 2:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You may assume there is more than meets the eye, but why not make any other assumption while you're at it. "You" are actually "hosted" in a jar of peanut butter on the discount shelf at the walmart, via psychic relay, in another dimension. The question (for those who do not deeply wish to believe something else) is not "if", but "how".
But, just for shits ands giggles, I'm going to explain to you why this is a can of worms that even you don't want to open. Let's say tomorrow we have a massive breakthrough, and we learn that the brain somehow "hosts" the self, but it is located elsewhere, arises from something else. Let's say this thing that it arises from aligns exactly with your beliefs. Seems like a good day right? Wrong. I'll be there to claim that you are handwaving, attempting to hide your ignorance. You see, the self is hosted by the brain, arises from "your favorite place"...but...is caused and operated from somewhere else, somewhere undemonstrated and unknown, somewhere greater than whatever this new thing you like very much is. Down the rabbit hole we go.
(you're not seriously about to go off on tangents about eyes, or how I've somehow "cheapened" this or that are you? What's the deal Apo, it just seems cheap the way I say it, you don't like it, so it can't be true?)
But, just for shits ands giggles, I'm going to explain to you why this is a can of worms that even you don't want to open. Let's say tomorrow we have a massive breakthrough, and we learn that the brain somehow "hosts" the self, but it is located elsewhere, arises from something else. Let's say this thing that it arises from aligns exactly with your beliefs. Seems like a good day right? Wrong. I'll be there to claim that you are handwaving, attempting to hide your ignorance. You see, the self is hosted by the brain, arises from "your favorite place"...but...is caused and operated from somewhere else, somewhere undemonstrated and unknown, somewhere greater than whatever this new thing you like very much is. Down the rabbit hole we go.
(you're not seriously about to go off on tangents about eyes, or how I've somehow "cheapened" this or that are you? What's the deal Apo, it just seems cheap the way I say it, you don't like it, so it can't be true?)
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