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41st U.S. President George H.W. Bush Dies, Aged 94
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Logicians have but ill defined
As rational the human kind.
Logic, they say, belongs to man,
But let them prove it if they can.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @12:02AM (2 children)
And if our consciousness does exist in some other dimension?
Did it exist before you were born? Don't be stupid. Consciousness emerges from the meat. It is the meat, nothing more. You only doubt this because you are afraid of the preachers, subconsciously or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @02:38AM (1 child)
Not true, I had the benefit of growing up without any religion shoved in my face. I learned about them but never once had to go to church or listen to a preacher. I think the first time I went to a real church service was for my great grandma's funeral.
In college I studied hard science and the concept of consciousness bugged me. Is it possible to arbitrarily make a choice?
There are two typical answers. Yes and no.
If you say yes then there is something more than mechanistic processes at work. Possibly it is an emergent phenomena that dies with the body, possibly it is energy in a different dimension that interacts with our universe for a short time.
If you say no then there is no free will, we are just complicated machines that think we're alive.
The real point is that we don't know, and to just ASSUME the answer is the height of stupidity while you treat it like the most obvious common sense thing around.
Personally I believe there is more to life than our three dimensions, but I won't go around preaching that like it is the Truth. You should be equally cautious with your own unproven beliefs. Since you fit the stereotype check out Rick and Morty: A Rickle in Time, the relevant bit is where Rick starts praying to God as he is about to die and truly realizes that he doesn't have all the answers. Not that it is proof of anything, just an example of how a towering intellect is faced with the cold hard truth of ignorance.
So maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but at least realize when you are making baseless assumptions that are actually just popularized belief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @02:53AM
You're engaging in furious mental masturbation. That's just some thing the brain does because it can't sit still for half a second, so don't take it personally. You find that you will learn much more by not thinking at all. Try to quiet all those voices in your head, and actually listen.