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Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.
>Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Oh my, you really do have a problem with Christians don’t you.
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.
You know, usually I’m not interested in discussions about free will,
but I do so enjoy thinking about determinism and I have found, in this
thread, that examining how the brain generally works is really
interesting too.
So yeah, glad to toss in my 2 cents.
On Apr 30, 5:31 am, student13 wrote:
> Hello Lawrey,
>
> After so many weeks or may be months, I think this one thread has been
> one of the best.
> The views expressed by so many - particularly by LL and questions
> raised by simpleton and views
> of DY, Sameer, Bz and so many others have been very interesting and
> also giving some job to the brain.
>
> a lot of education and I enjoy this.
>
> and also would like to book a copy of your book at * pre- writing
> offer * :-))
>
> thanks for bringing in such a topic for discussion
>
> enjoy
> cheers
> student13
>
> On Apr 25, 2:25 pm, Lawrey wrote:
>
> > ==============HOW FREE IS FREE?===============
> > ==========Do we really have a free will?==========
>
> > Being reasonably intelligent, it will not have escaped your notice
> > that recorded history from the Bible to the present is a story of
> > murder, rape, and war, and honest ethnography shows that
> > foraging peoples, like the rest of us, are more savage than right-
> > eous. Of course humans don’t have an “instinct for war” or a
> > “violent brain,” but humans don’t exactly have an instinct for
> > peace or a “nonviolent brain,” either. We cannot attribute all
> > human history and ethnography to Cowboys and Indians and
> > superhero cartoons .
>
> > Do we surmise from this that “biology condemns man to war” or
> > rape or murder or selfishness and that any optimism about
> > diminishing it should be dismissed? We don’t need science to
> > make the moral point that is not good for our kids and other
> > living things. What may be beneficial is a realistic understanding
> > of the psychology of human manevolence. It is not a unique
> > discovery of evolutionary psychology; all the major religions
> > observe that mental life is more often than not a struggle between
> > desire and conscience.
>
> > There is a “theory” that a module-packed mind allows for both
> > innate motives that lead to bad acts and for innate motives that
> > avoid them. I do not subscribe to this a priori view. I submit that
> > we learn bad habits and violence a posteriori.
>
> > Considering we have a free will and consider the factors that work
> > against such a will, some of which are 1. Genes. 2. Anatomy of the
> > brain. 3. Biochemical state fo the brain. 4. Persons family
> > upbringing. 5. Society’s effect on person. 6. Stimuli that impinge
> > on person. Do you think that these factors have been
> > inappropriately invoked as the source of our faults and the claim
> > that we are NOT the masters of our fate? Do we really have a free
> > will?
>
> > Your criticisms and comment
> > invited.
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.
>Probably something in-between. An amalgam of characters, both real and
>fictional, whose exploits (also both real and fictional) were combined
>into a single image, exagerated, then made the mascot of a cult.
And you learned this where?