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Robert you present some interesting ideas.

Is randomness relativistic? I have no clue. My gut says no but then says maybe. If it is what does that imply for free will?

As to prolonged child abuse there is a crap load of literature on that. And anecdotally i have known so many women who were abused and every one of em is fucked up. I also…[Read more]

The little guy inside my brain is telling me i have read that initially the universe was without cause and effect. It took a few hundred thousand years to have matter assume its present form and for the laws of physics to be determined. If i am mistaken it aint my fault.

And if that is so it does nothing to bolster the god argument. It is…[Read more]

Hi Manny.

The search for meaning! What do we know? What are we gleaning? It is a fundamental human concern. Christians who truly believe seem to derive satisfaction in their delusion. Notwithstanding i have seen too many Christians who fail to find comfort in the purported knowledge of a future life when a loved one dies. If one buys the BS of…[Read more]

Davis, i would make nucs the biggest threat. Possibly no warning. Just armageddon. If it hadn’t been for a heroic Russian it would have happened already.

But disinformation that is accentuating tribalism and echo chambers is a bloody horrendous issue. Do you know whether regulation of twitter and fb has been effective in curbing the march of folly?

not sorry to have used caps..that cultural take about offensiveness of capital letters is odds bodkin.

THE ILLUSION PARADOX!

DELICIOUS ABSURDITY!

Bingo bango bongo…wingo wango wongo…i hunker for a piece of cheese!

Simon this touches on your question.

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-confirm-there-is-a-part-of-you-that-remains-you-throughout-your-life

I agree with you Unseen.

Ya know it is funny cuz i still think it is ME who is making the arguments after the little man tells me which ones to address. But even that analysis may be preconscious.

Hopefully the two can look past intellectual disagreements. I did notice Dennett giving Harris some obvious cheap shots in that video. And i really…[Read more]

Thanks Unseen.

I kinda know how it feels to have that homunculus inform me. At various times in court i would hear the other attorney’s arguments and without reflection know the flawed arguments. No thinking involved. Points A, D and L are flawed. The part of me that is aware had to figure out the weakness and that took at least a few seconds.…[Read more]

Unseen the most recent vid you posted of Dennett on free will and punishment is bereft of substance. Just like the prior vids…it is wish thinking. It seems like arrive at a position and then figure out some shit to say to support your position.

In your words… he all along the way assumes what he seems to be trying to prove.

Where he has…[Read more]

Cats are the strongest argument for free will.

I have not read any Dennett. That short vid Unseen posted was embarrassingly childish. Maybe i am fucked up and misunderstand him. I just listened to another short Dennett vid on free will. He starts out logically but again resorts to an unfounded assertion. There is no way i would waste my time reading him on free will. There is so much to read…[Read more]

Yeah i think the lime disease is scurvy.

All kinds of neurological symptoms can pop up. But if you catch it first time and get antibiotics is it about like a bad flu before ya start feelin okay

I have been reading about savants who have gifts of musical and artistic genius. Just born with it but otherwise developmentally deficient and with some it is almost like nobody is home.

I have had three bouts of lyme. It gets progressively worse. Not fun.

My impression is that Brian Greene thinks but is not certain that the yellow brick road is inalterable but i was handicapping while listening and distraction makes it more likely i misunderstood.

How is it possible for biological organisms to have free will? Roughly 3 and a half billion years ago life began on the pale blue dot. Replication with tiny variations led to an orange and craven nation. Okay enough of that BS, Glen. Presumably any form of sentience set in long after genesis. The automatic pilot of biology is an integral and…[Read more]