A thought for the determinists…I can’t seem to get a handle on the point of having a conciousness or self-awareness if not to provide me with free will. What could be the selective advantage of evolving a self-awareness if not to use it for actual decision making? (I am assuming here that most determinists are willing to accept evolution as a fact…maybe that’s a huge leap).
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My p.o.v. > (disregarding evolution for now!)
Your self awareness is trivial. We are incomplete without our thoughts. As we think, we are aware, therefore self awareness is equivalent to each breath we take. It never changes. We cannot alter it by highlighting its existence.[/b]
the “me” that appears to have a consience and self-awareness is not only lacking both of these, but also free will.
it is this “me” (and everything else in it’s world) that is observed objectively by, well, [see user name] (that’s “me” too).
Why, have you been chained to a post and subdued under a heavy dose of drugs? Although this may sound partly appealing, I doubt your lack of self-awareness following such a traumatic experience would sustain the unmistakeable creak of reality as the lasting effect eased its way out of your system.
Besides my own cranky metaphor, your lunatic suggestion whacks of the type of ‘eat me while you can’ scenarios that forbid seasonal encouragement. Don’t hang up! However bold a statement you may attempt under these, ahem, mis-spelled terms, a lack of presentation will deter an Almost Ready Reader from a decisive trial in ‘hit but still miss’ philosophy.
Your name transforms the aptness of style, for should I mention to someone of a certain status that each one of us finds discomfort in the reversal of pixel colours in a page, no matter the well founded scientific evidence that ever nags a shared body? Perhaps this question is better left unanswered.[/i]
i’m not “hnging up”, but i just can’t deal with this topic today.
People coming to this board and spouting opinions that they pull out their ass and then using a name like, “Objective Observer” is exactly why I stopped coming to these god forsaken boards.
Maybe you’re better off without me anyway.
P.S.: Amicable my red cherry ass.
Well my current dislike is the slowness of growth of my toe nails. I just love removing those things.