(September 17, 2013 at 7:53 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(September 17, 2013 at 7:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yea, maybe, like understanding like cancer happens. It is important to know, but nothing to celebrate.
They don't like the mundane answer. That what we call "we" or "I" or "conscious" is nothing more than our brain in motion.
Theists stupidly like to mistake the car and the speed as being the same when only one object exists, the car. "Speed" is not physical but a description of the car in motion.
Lol, no, not celebrating their choice. I just think it's an interesting phenomenon that our brain is so desperate to preserve this sense of uniqueness and sense of self that when threatened, it will allow us to believe in something else so that our identity can be preserved.
It should be studied, but the only context of the word "interesting" I could use it in would be like biologists and psychologist study how people come up with fucked up conclusions.
People fill in gaps, and that is all that is going on. It is important to study how people psychologically mistake the Halloween olive in the covered bowl mistaking it for an eyeball.
But our "identity" is a collection of biology and motion, not magical and most certainly temporary. We will all meet the same fate as the earth and sun.
