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10 Jan 2010, 12:29 pm

SporadSpontan wrote:

So then how do new experiences come about?
How do people accomplish things that have never been previously accomplished?
Yes we may base our decisions on an expected outcome - but there can be several choices of decisions and several choices of outcomes. What causes the selection of an outcome over another outcome if it's not our own free will?

I'd go further on this than Sand did - our nonmeaningful choices are just as destined as the meaningful ones. Also, having a new experience, having a new idea, inventing something great or making a spectacular peace of art or music - none of that poses any contradiction, nor does having seven or eight possible choices, ie. if you keep rolling back time and watching how you evaluate those things, you can keep replaying the same timeframe and keep seeing conclusion 1 or conclusion 9 arrived at by the exact same means at the exact same time because the inputs and your states of mind are *perfectly* identical.

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10 Jan 2010, 12:37 pm

There's no pervasion that just because we can't observe any other possibilities when we look backwards - that there aren't other possibilities when we look forwards.

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10 Jan 2010, 12:39 pm

"Life - it'll kill you eventually"

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10 Jan 2010, 12:41 pm

That reminds me of a fly trying to get through a window by repeatedly trying to fly through the glass. He needs to just go around and find the door. Better than that, he should be happy to be outside because if he came into the house he would probably get killed. Some flies wouldn't continue to fly into glass windows. Once you get your mind set on something though, it's hard to find another way to think.

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10 Jan 2010, 12:42 pm

"life" is a jumbled "file"

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10 Jan 2010, 8:20 pm

Magnus wrote:

Most thinking is merely a rather elaborate configuration of reacting.

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10 Jan 2010, 8:26 pm

b9 wrote:

"life" is a jumbled "file"

It always takes me a while to think about your posts. Life is File. We can reprogram our own brains.

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11 Jan 2010, 7:06 am

Abandon the past and grasp the future

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11 Jan 2010, 7:18 am

paigetheoracle wrote:

Abandon the past and grasp the future

You can no more abandon the past than you can re-form your bones and flesh to become an elephant, a crocodile, a flock of bats or a nest of ants. We are our memories and our experiences and we can use them in a new way to perhaps attempt some novelty but no novelty is entirely new and the future evolves, it does not spring into existence as an alien totality.

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11 Jan 2010, 7:28 am

Poop happens.

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11 Jan 2010, 10:20 am

Magnus wrote:

b9 wrote:

"life" is a jumbled "file"

Life is File. We can reprogram our own brains.

that does not compute.

i am at the mercy of my brain.
what i think is not decided by me in a topological way.
my "brain" is beyond my consciousness of what it reveals to me..
i just experience what it shows to me.

sorry my power reserves are low and i may have to go and park myself.

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12 Jan 2010, 4:52 pm

We're all in this together, so try to play nice.

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22 Jan 2010, 4:39 pm

The meaning of life in one sentence (or less) :roll: topic

Life has meaning when one is actively aware of it, and when not aware of it, it does not.

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22 Jan 2010, 6:59 pm

Ultimately futile.

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22 Jan 2010, 8:31 pm

maximize utility!

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26 Jan 2010, 5:06 pm

Oh s**t!

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