On Aug 16, 10:08 am, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our body precisely follows the deterministic biochemical reactions > that comprise it. The mind is generated as a result of these > biochemical reactions; a reaction occurs in your brain which causes > you to have a thought to move your arm and move your arm. How could it > possibly be otherwise? It's not only possible, it absolutely is otherwise. I move my arm. I determine the biochemical reactions that move it. Me. For my personal reasons which are knowable to me in my own natural language and are utterly unknowable by biochemical analysis. It's hard for me to accept that you cannot see the flaw in this reasoning. "Why did the chicken cross the road?" For deterministic biochemical reactions. "Why did the sovereign nation declare war?" For deterministic biochemical reactions. "What is the meaning of f=ma"? For deterministic biochemical reactions. Biochemistry is just what's happening on the level of cells and molecules. It is an entirely different perceptual-relativistic inertial frame of reference. Are they correlated? Sure. You change your biochemistry in certain ways in your brain, and you will definitely feel it. Can you change your biochemistry in certain ways by yourself? Of course. Think about something that makes you happy and your cells will produce the proper neurotransmitters. YOU OWN them. They are your servant. To believe otherwise is to subscribe to a faith in the microcosm over the macrocosm, in object phenomenology over subject phenomenology to the point of imaging that there is no subject. The subject imagines it is nothing but an object. It's laughably tragic. In order to understand how the universe creates subjectivity, you have to stop trying to define it in terms of it's opposite. Objectivity itself is a subjective experience. There is no objective experience of subjectivity - it looks like randomness and self-similarity feedback. That's a warning. It means - 'try again but look in the other direction'. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
