Cito di Pense wrote:..... try to return the focus to what's really important in living one's life, the responsibility for which the individual must generate, and can then accept or decline.
Ok, I'd like to hear that elaborated on.
is this possible for a free will denier?
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Cito di Pense wrote:..... try to return the focus to what's really important in living one's life, the responsibility for which the individual must generate, and can then accept or decline.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
archibald wrote:Ok, that, and the fact you've cited the eloquence of music and film three times in the last few pages....now I know you're definitely a Continentalist!
Cito di Pense wrote:See just above. I make specific protests about passing off pseudoscience as science, but that's all that really annoys me. I think it's important in life not to try to pass off pseudoscience as science, but that's just me.
You can explore with a map, or you can explore with a cargo-cult radio.
archibald wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:See just above. I make specific protests about passing off pseudoscience as science, but that's all that really annoys me. I think it's important in life not to try to pass off pseudoscience as science, but that's just me.
You can explore with a map, or you can explore with a cargo-cult radio.
Oh dear. I thought you'd have something better than that. The neuroscience of free will is not pseudoscience (or vestigal religion).
Cito di Pense wrote:If you don't understand by now that tropes and quales refer to the same concept, you never will.
Cito di Pense wrote:But feel free to be just another person with a higher opinion of his own education than someone else has.
Cito di Pense wrote:I could easily do so, but I'd have to violate the FUA. Even though it would not be out of rancor, it would still violate the FUA.
Cito di Pense wrote: I enjoy our interaction, Arch, and bear you not a speck of ill will.
Cito di Pense wrote:To me, they're both just subjective messages. They both refer back to sense data.
Cito di Pense wrote:Abstractions, OTOH, do not refer back to sense data. Try to come up with a metaphor to an abstraction. It looks just like another abstraction.
Cito di Pense wrote:………archibald wrote:This may be off-topic, but I think he's saying its all pointless because we're all going to die.
I don't say it's all pointless. That's the kind of pathetic whining you get from KiR and Andrew4Handel. There are powerful therapeutic techniques which focus on an individual's dithering about peripheral matters to try to return the focus to what's really important in living one's life, the responsibility for which the individual must generate, and can then accept or decline.
zoon wrote:Thank you. Since you have now informed the rest of us what, in your opinion, is really important for ground apes to do while awaiting the heat death of the universe, please would you expand on the reasons why we should agree with you? Why must individuals generate responsibility for themselves?
PensivePenny wrote:Because looking for responsibility to be 'generated' for them by some disembodied entity (or brain region) is like asking that same entity to 'eat' for you.
archibald wrote:zoon wrote:Thank you. Since you have now informed the rest of us what, in your opinion, is really important for ground apes to do while awaiting the heat death of the universe, please would you expand on the reasons why we should agree with you? Why must individuals generate responsibility for themselves?
Hopefully you'll have better luck with that request than I did.
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