RE: Is free will real?
December 28, 2014 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2014 at 6:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 28, 2014 at 1:34 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'm pretty sure nobody here is living in a near-perfect zen-like condition, watching detachedly as his body goes through a deterministic, hormone-driven existence, and always maintaining a cool, rational vision of a purely mechanical universal truth.Well, I couldn't lay claim to any of that, no - but why should I or would I, and what would it have to do with the veracity of my positions? If any of that was an accurate description of how someone with my positions -should live- and yet I didn't.....then you have what -an appeal to hypocrisy - ? Get that shit outta heeeeyah?
Quote:Frankly, I think the ideas you guys are willing to own up to and the ideas you guys actually live by and act on are highly unlikely to be the same.
Then, frankly, you'd be wrong. I can see why you'd think that though, from your POV. As before, I don't have the same list of attachments to these various concepts we've been discussing, so alot of what you see as conflict just doesn't factor in to the way I view my experience juxtaposed against our knowledge.
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