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Folk Music and the Environment
Jackie Blue:
Unless things like "kindness" and "cruelty" are completely independant of genetics. Then we'll still have the same problems we have now.
Edible:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 25 Jan 2008, 20:48 ---Who says God is made of molecules? Are thoughts made of molecules? Are choices? Did you decide to call me an idiot, or did you call me an idiot because of an inexorable series of chemical reactions in your brain?
--- End quote ---
Okay so if your thoughts are not made of molecules then how exactly does alchahol work.... magic....
Jackie Blue:
The act of thinking involves the firing of neurons, but are those neurons and electrical reactions really all that constitute a "thought", a "choice", or a "mood"?
It amazes me that there are people who actually embrace a worldview which suggests that they only have an illusion of free will and that everything that will ever happen in their life is inevitable.
Nodaisho:
Does that mean that they wouldn't sue if you stole their car? Or would that be destined to happen?
Jackie Blue:
The logical extension of the argument that our thoughts are nothing but chemical reactions is that every single "choice" we make is not a choice, but is rather the only possibly outcome when the incredibly vast, but nonetheless finite, amount of data is taken into consideration.
Some would argue that sufficiently advanced interactions of atoms is indistinguishable from free will, obviously, but that argument falls apart when confronted by the fact that there's no real, current way to account for choice or willpower within a strictly scientific framework.
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