I'm supplying! I'm supplying!
Dirty Capitalist talk is the new bee's knees.
In other news, I hung out with Margaret Jack today. It was great conversation. We have the same frustrations and the same political beliefs, or at least the same qualms with criticisms of socialism and emphasis on capitalism.
Me and Tyler are getting along really well. I cleaned today. It was revolutionary a little bit.
We discussed socialism today in the TA section and that was fun, but it was pretty clear only 3 of us had even read the assignments and so not much discussion went on. Or at least not as much as should have.
This is the first Friday night I've remained on the Tufts campus. I mean, I'm not doing anything because I'm pretty exhausted, but still interesting. Maybe I'll get to see everyone drunk. Won't that be FASCINATING.
My arms are so sore from working out. I don't kn ow how much longer I can keep this up. I hate swimming.
Man I can whine like a little bitch if you give me a keyboard.
Anyways, I had ANOTHER determinism talk last night with this kid Sean Keagan who seems sort of interesting, but the way he related it to quantum physics was beyond me. What I think he was trying to say was that there are particles in the brain that don't have calculated effects, and I tried to tell him just because we can't measure it doesn't mean there is an indefinite cause, and he couldn't grasp the concept. Clearly, brain particles do NOT have freewill.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. We are made up of the same chemicals that compose the rest of the world. Maybe not every particle can be measured, but their is nothing in the body that can't be reduced to chemical analysis. Just because there exist an extreme amount of chemical reactions in our brain, people can't comprehend that thoughts are essentially genetic reactions to environment (and an environment is genetic in it's own respect - air is made of 2 oxygen atoms). It becomes complicated by the fact that we see images that the brain reacts to, thus giving meaning to essentially meaningless images. And we convey emotion through language.
Agh I can't do this right now. I just ordered like 5 books on determinism including the Problem of the Soul by Owen Flanagan which I'm told is excellent. I also got something about Descartes Error, the Problem with Free Will, and more books like that. One by Daniel Dennet, a professor here at Tufts whose class I'm going to take next semester. Hopefully these books will help me better argue it. In the sense that a record gets scratched, I've repeated it so many times that my eloquency has severely deteriorated to a point where I hardly care to argue anymore.
Ok and now I'm done. Marginal benefits now equal my marginal costs.
In other news, I hung out with Margaret Jack today. It was great conversation. We have the same frustrations and the same political beliefs, or at least the same qualms with criticisms of socialism and emphasis on capitalism.
Me and Tyler are getting along really well. I cleaned today. It was revolutionary a little bit.
We discussed socialism today in the TA section and that was fun, but it was pretty clear only 3 of us had even read the assignments and so not much discussion went on. Or at least not as much as should have.
This is the first Friday night I've remained on the Tufts campus. I mean, I'm not doing anything because I'm pretty exhausted, but still interesting. Maybe I'll get to see everyone drunk. Won't that be FASCINATING.
My arms are so sore from working out. I don't kn ow how much longer I can keep this up. I hate swimming.
Man I can whine like a little bitch if you give me a keyboard.
Anyways, I had ANOTHER determinism talk last night with this kid Sean Keagan who seems sort of interesting, but the way he related it to quantum physics was beyond me. What I think he was trying to say was that there are particles in the brain that don't have calculated effects, and I tried to tell him just because we can't measure it doesn't mean there is an indefinite cause, and he couldn't grasp the concept. Clearly, brain particles do NOT have freewill.
I don't get what's so hard to understand. We are made up of the same chemicals that compose the rest of the world. Maybe not every particle can be measured, but their is nothing in the body that can't be reduced to chemical analysis. Just because there exist an extreme amount of chemical reactions in our brain, people can't comprehend that thoughts are essentially genetic reactions to environment (and an environment is genetic in it's own respect - air is made of 2 oxygen atoms). It becomes complicated by the fact that we see images that the brain reacts to, thus giving meaning to essentially meaningless images. And we convey emotion through language.
Agh I can't do this right now. I just ordered like 5 books on determinism including the Problem of the Soul by Owen Flanagan which I'm told is excellent. I also got something about Descartes Error, the Problem with Free Will, and more books like that. One by Daniel Dennet, a professor here at Tufts whose class I'm going to take next semester. Hopefully these books will help me better argue it. In the sense that a record gets scratched, I've repeated it so many times that my eloquency has severely deteriorated to a point where I hardly care to argue anymore.
Ok and now I'm done. Marginal benefits now equal my marginal costs.