(March 18, 2010 at 3:23 pm)RedFish Wrote: 1. We have a mind capable of over-riding our basest instincts, including that of self-preservation. If we were purely instinctual, and had no 'choice', would we be able to do this? I think not.Or do we? Is this in reference to some sort of "free will"... or in reference to our capacity to intentionally kill ourselves?
Quote:2. You can't. We have to quantify the whole world, in order to give us the illusion of control over it. Every measurement/ value judgement we make is purely from our own perspective. And therefore flawed, to some extent.Why would a thing be "flawed?" simply by being subjective? Define what you mean by "quantify" and "control"?
Quote:3. It's a film about a killer whale. (sorry, my screens a bit hard to read) ... A friend insists that fate is pre-determined, and we have no free will. Where's the script then? Would have to be pretty big to account for everything in the universe. More than a couple of gigabytes anywayWhy would it have to be large? <-- Evidence? Why could it and the other 1032143289432147123 47923472304712047124702910843490019018299892832331636172363723984932491019319823471238947320914730219847321643126408231648932674832748327409873029473201947832098470923758947184937 universes within the "Extraverse" in the 34892th dimension not be stored in the space of a hydrogen atom and watched over by a being with omnipotent powers within those universes <-- Evidence?
If evidence: does this apply to all other potential existences? <-- Evidence?
The entire thing seems to me an argument from expectation (<insert proper name for fallacy here following strikeout of former understood but improper?>)... but the universe (and beyond?) does not necessarily conform to one's expectations.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
