Dmitch
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Belief can also occur as an artifact of experienceJim, your first post on this was about your 'belief' and now this one is about your 'experience'.
Hardly convincing.
Belief can also occur as an artifact of experienceJim, your first post on this was about your 'belief' and now this one is about your 'experience'.
Hardly convincing.
. There are many reactions going on in the cell but the cell has a highly organized internal structure and compartmentalization. It isn't just a vat of chemicals it is like a factory with assembly lines.
... so once you have a goal, yeah, the brain has a lot to do with pursuing that goal and especially keeping your attention on track of that goal. What neuroscience doesn't have a whole whole whole lot to say about is how you choose these goals.
Well if you're just your brain you're really not very different than a robot and people who are really dedicated to believing it's on the brain will say yes I'm basically just a robot. But a lot of people who think that they want it to all be the brain will go actually I don't really want to think I'm a robot
The other big argument philosophical dispute that you get in with - with people who think that way is that they genuinely want to be committed to the the belief that science can answer every question. So a lot of the cultural battle that goes on is around the issue of whether science can answer every question. And in our current culture that's a hard battle that is really being fought out every day in the culture at large. And and so a lot of the difference between the two sides really boils down to do you think science can answer absolutely every question and and and people who really want to believe in genuine choice and want to believe that human beings are intrinsically different than robots do not believe and I do not believe that science can answer every single question that that science can totally describe what a human being is.