Mistake 1: imagining the mind or brain is like a computer. Its not.
Mistake2: misunderstanding and therefore misrepresenting (involuntarilly) Sam Harris' meanings
Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by Philly » Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:12 pm
I never tried to represent Sam Harris' meaning in any way.
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The f**k Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by Philly » Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:31 pm
Oh my bad.
go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The f**k Up " at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by The Dharma Bum » Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:58 am
philly why are you so willing to be taken in ?
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by Stratego » Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:50 am
Did God have free will when he decided to create the Universe? Or were his options limited by the existing condition? Let say he wanted to just enjoy the sunlight... He couldn't because there was no light. Which meant that he had to say "let there be light."
Sigmund Freud defined four parts of a psyche; the id, the ego, the superego and the stratego. The Stratego being the highest form of morality and scientific thinking.
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by The Dharma Bum » Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:18 am
a mythical being didn't actually create objective material existence
ultimately life is merely a chemical reaction that occurs in response entirely to the demands of exergy and our perceptions of it are merely a result of our "mind", a mix of biochemically stored personal perspective and cultural influence.
we don't perceive ourselves as a few particles held to together by magnetism swirling around in a chemical soup contributing to universal energy equilibrium but that's what we really are. Can that be said to have a "will of it's own"?
I don't think it can.
ultimately life is merely a chemical reaction that occurs in response entirely to the demands of exergy and our perceptions of it are merely a result of our "mind", a mix of biochemically stored personal perspective and cultural influence.
we don't perceive ourselves as a few particles held to together by magnetism swirling around in a chemical soup contributing to universal energy equilibrium but that's what we really are. Can that be said to have a "will of it's own"?
I don't think it can.
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by The Dharma Bum » Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:25 am
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Re: Sam Harris: The Delusion of Free Will
by eynon81 » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:10 am
(shrug)
if any of this is true my life has been largely wasted.
if any of this is true my life has been largely wasted.
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