Just now
We as humans have been doing good I realize at the present now , there are no major world wars , no major planetary disasters , I'm looking around my room and notice that we're in a calm stage in the human evolution people and business's continue to move about and expand. Products and Produce are still coming to the consumers and or buyers. Everyone is thinking at this same moment about something over 6 billion minds on things about food to sex , to death , to marriage , going out . calling there boss or co worker , using the washroom, sleeping or go to the movies ? ignore the door and drink a beer instead the list goes on for eternity.
Everything that we see, smell, hear, taste, and touch is just a construct of our minds. We do not see the actual flower that is in front of us. As the light rays bounce off the flower and hit our eyes, electrical signals carrying neural messages from the light are sent to our brains, which then use these messages to reconstruct the model of the flower in our minds. Therefore, what we are actually seeing is the model of the flower created by our mind. Our brains demonstrate this power of reconstructing models of reality every night when we go to sleep.
Here poses an interesting question: a question that requires us to use the power of our minds to think abstractly and envision limitless possibilities. I'm as curious as I'm actually excited about reaching that moment when or if my body would cease to function and and if my brain would have full control over my mind.there is a quote iI heard before "I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying." I believe that death contained infinite possibilities.
Anyone who's had a near-death experience will tell you that your life flashes before your eyes in those few instants before your demise (considering they can see that they are about to die). If this is true, who is to say that when you actually do die, your brain doesn't re-construct your entire life (a flashback if you will) in your mind within those few moments that it continues to function after your body ceases to? If this is true, then you could be living a life that you've already lived. This would also explain the phenomenon of deja vu. Thus, you would be thrown into an endless, recursive cycle of life and death.
"In the last decades of the twentieth century, scientists began to study the complexity within the human brain. Talk about Chaos! It turns out that the brain is a galactic network of a hundred billion neurons. Each neuron is an information system as complex as a mainframe computer. Each neuron is connected to ten thousand other neurons. Each of us is equipped with a universe of neurocomplexity that is inscrutable to our alphanumeric minds. This brain power is at once the most humiliating fact about our current ignorance..." Moving on to another topic that you could agree that relates to this .......
In a way, in our contemporary world-view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God, but some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will; This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle and 350 B.C. Saint Augustine,
Saint Thomas Aquinas - these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you're gonna do. Nowadays, we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules; We're mostly water. Our behavior isn't going to be an exception to these basic physical laws, so it starts to look like whether it's God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you're gonna do, or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything, there's not a lot of room left for freedom. So, now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will and say, "Oh, well it's just a historical anecdote; It's sophomoric; It's a question with no answer," you know, just forget about it. But, the question keeps staring you right in the face. If you think about individuality, for example: who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make or take responsibility [for]. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, you can only be admired or respected, for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back and we don't really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all your decisions are really just a charade. Think about how it happens; There's some electrical activity in your brain, your neurons fire, they send a signal down into your nervous system, it passes along down into your muscle fibers, they twitch, and you might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those, every part of that process, is actually governed by physical law: chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on. So, now it starts to looks like the Big Bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of our history, the whole rest of human history and even before, is really just sort of the playing out of sub-atomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we're special; We think we have some kind of special dignity. But, that now comes under threat, I mean, that's really challenged by this picture.
So, you might be saying, "Well wait a minute, what about quantum mechanics? I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that. It's really a probabilistic theory; There's room; It's loose; It's not deterministic, and that's going to enable us to understand free will." But, if you look at the details, it's not really going to help because, what happens is, you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is, apparently, a bit random; They sort of swerve. Their behavior is absurd, in the sense that it's unpredictable and we can't understand it based on anything that came before. It just does something out of the blue according to a probabilistic framework. But, is that going to help with freedom? I mean, should our freedom just be a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That starts to seem like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic physical machine than just some random swerving.
So, we can't just ignore the problem. We have to find room in our contemporary world-view for persons, with all that that entails. Not just bodies, but persons. And, that means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuality.
And there is me ranting about everything on my mind today at least .
Good morning.
Good evening.
Good nigth.
Everything that we see, smell, hear, taste, and touch is just a construct of our minds. We do not see the actual flower that is in front of us. As the light rays bounce off the flower and hit our eyes, electrical signals carrying neural messages from the light are sent to our brains, which then use these messages to reconstruct the model of the flower in our minds. Therefore, what we are actually seeing is the model of the flower created by our mind. Our brains demonstrate this power of reconstructing models of reality every night when we go to sleep.
Here poses an interesting question: a question that requires us to use the power of our minds to think abstractly and envision limitless possibilities. I'm as curious as I'm actually excited about reaching that moment when or if my body would cease to function and and if my brain would have full control over my mind.there is a quote iI heard before "I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying." I believe that death contained infinite possibilities.
Anyone who's had a near-death experience will tell you that your life flashes before your eyes in those few instants before your demise (considering they can see that they are about to die). If this is true, who is to say that when you actually do die, your brain doesn't re-construct your entire life (a flashback if you will) in your mind within those few moments that it continues to function after your body ceases to? If this is true, then you could be living a life that you've already lived. This would also explain the phenomenon of deja vu. Thus, you would be thrown into an endless, recursive cycle of life and death.
"In the last decades of the twentieth century, scientists began to study the complexity within the human brain. Talk about Chaos! It turns out that the brain is a galactic network of a hundred billion neurons. Each neuron is an information system as complex as a mainframe computer. Each neuron is connected to ten thousand other neurons. Each of us is equipped with a universe of neurocomplexity that is inscrutable to our alphanumeric minds. This brain power is at once the most humiliating fact about our current ignorance..." Moving on to another topic that you could agree that relates to this .......
In a way, in our contemporary world-view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God, but some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will; This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle and 350 B.C. Saint Augustine,
Saint Thomas Aquinas - these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything you're gonna do. Nowadays, we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules; We're mostly water. Our behavior isn't going to be an exception to these basic physical laws, so it starts to look like whether it's God setting things up in advance and knowing everything you're gonna do, or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything, there's not a lot of room left for freedom. So, now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will and say, "Oh, well it's just a historical anecdote; It's sophomoric; It's a question with no answer," you know, just forget about it. But, the question keeps staring you right in the face. If you think about individuality, for example: who you are. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make or take responsibility [for]. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, you can only be admired or respected, for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back and we don't really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all your decisions are really just a charade. Think about how it happens; There's some electrical activity in your brain, your neurons fire, they send a signal down into your nervous system, it passes along down into your muscle fibers, they twitch, and you might, say, reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those, every part of that process, is actually governed by physical law: chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on. So, now it starts to looks like the Big Bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of our history, the whole rest of human history and even before, is really just sort of the playing out of sub-atomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we're special; We think we have some kind of special dignity. But, that now comes under threat, I mean, that's really challenged by this picture.
So, you might be saying, "Well wait a minute, what about quantum mechanics? I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that. It's really a probabilistic theory; There's room; It's loose; It's not deterministic, and that's going to enable us to understand free will." But, if you look at the details, it's not really going to help because, what happens is, you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is, apparently, a bit random; They sort of swerve. Their behavior is absurd, in the sense that it's unpredictable and we can't understand it based on anything that came before. It just does something out of the blue according to a probabilistic framework. But, is that going to help with freedom? I mean, should our freedom just be a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That starts to seem like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic physical machine than just some random swerving.
So, we can't just ignore the problem. We have to find room in our contemporary world-view for persons, with all that that entails. Not just bodies, but persons. And, that means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuality.
And there is me ranting about everything on my mind today at least .
Good morning.
Good evening.
Good nigth.