(September 29, 2012 at 12:39 pm)whateverist Wrote:(September 29, 2012 at 11:25 am)Omni314 Wrote: Determinism all the way. a ball can't decide whether or not to roll down a hill, a electrical impulse doesn't control where it goes in a brain, people down decide where they go or what the think.
But are you really convinced by the logic of this or are your neurons just firing as they will and must? Why would you waste your time trying to convince us all of determinism if you truly realized the necessity of our brains making the sense that they do? Oh yeah .. what choice do you have? Go right ahead .. but know that your arguments have all the significance of the wind blowing. I don't blame either of you.
Actually, what gets posted is influenced by previous posts (if you read them). The brain is just too complex for us to understand how it works, but I just can't accept that our thought is anything more than neurons firing in a specific pattern... .alas, not repeatable, because you can't replicate the initial condition of any thought, due to it's great complexity, of course! and because previous actions/thoughts create new neural pathways which will influence any future thought.
