RE: Do you believe in free will?
March 14, 2012 at 7:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2012 at 8:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do you have anything other than buddhism or the supernatural to present Apo? We are our brains, this is the position of demonstrable evidence. Assume anything over, above, or around that which you wish (and you may as well assume anything), but I refuse to defend what insights have been gained from scientific inquiry every time it rubs some believer the wrong way, you included. That particular burden of proof has been met, and you're free to contest it all you wish, but that's going to require evidence, isn't it? Again I'm reminded that it's fucking impossible to have a conversation about a single thing without some peddler of the supernatural wishing to argue about anything other than evidence, anything other than the focal point.
You can leave this planet, and we do, and there will still be a self, so take that long winded shit elsewhere, it's meaningless criticism. Again, if you want there to be a "fluxnarb", make your own case..don't say "you just don't understand". Show me the fluxnarb, show me where it goes, explain to me what it does? Tell me how it interfaces with the rest. Until then I'm going to assume that you're fucking with me, sending me out to look for soft spots on a bradley. We explain the unknown by reference to the known, I cannot express this more simply. You could invoke the unknown as an explanation for the unknown, if you wish, which you clearly do, but it doesn't work for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science -Enjoy Apo..just in case you forgot how to google.
You can leave this planet, and we do, and there will still be a self, so take that long winded shit elsewhere, it's meaningless criticism. Again, if you want there to be a "fluxnarb", make your own case..don't say "you just don't understand". Show me the fluxnarb, show me where it goes, explain to me what it does? Tell me how it interfaces with the rest. Until then I'm going to assume that you're fucking with me, sending me out to look for soft spots on a bradley. We explain the unknown by reference to the known, I cannot express this more simply. You could invoke the unknown as an explanation for the unknown, if you wish, which you clearly do, but it doesn't work for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science -Enjoy Apo..just in case you forgot how to google.
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