What if life is a series of switches going from on to off?

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Could it be that this is really how it fundamentally functions, except due to its complexity the nature of it is obscured (from our own consciousness)?

You want to know if you are a robot? Dive into water over your head. If you do not short out you are not a robot.

ruveyn

No. But there is some merit in the argument that free will is an illusion, masked in an incredible obfuscation of chemical reactions and neurological hoodoo.

The evidence for it consists of nothing but subjective anecdotes and philosophical hoodoo whereas the arguments against it are both statistical AND scientific....but I digress. Life is not a series of switches flipping on and off(and back again), it is actually a series of dimmer switches.







I got sent to emergency room back in february when I went swimming in an indoor pool, dived into the deep end(12 feet), and shorted out while in the water I guess I'm a robot after all, but I have quantum processors which have infinitely many values so I can do fuzzy logic.

Life is a series of many things.

I think this is exactly how it is. Not metal and circuits, but biological ones. Far too complex for us to understand, but still a system of components. Even the mind functions on chemical reactions.
I think the soul has to come into this somewhere though. Is there a uniqueness of people that somehow elevates us above mere biology? I'd like to think so. But maybe we are only a product of our biological make up and functioning.

As it turns out, neural circuits aren't simply binary. IIRC hey have a multitude of states, which is why I said that life(as our brains perceive it at the lowest levels)is a series of dimmer switches rather than bipolar switches with ONLY on and off states. Brain signals are encoded by frequency rather than by amplitude. A neuron receives impulses of varying frequency from synapses and there is some kind of summation function with a binary output that results in the neuron firing or not. A synapse is more or less a binary gate.

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Life is one damned thing after another.

ruveyn