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Sep. 8th, 2016|09:10 am |
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Determinism arises from observation, but who is observing? “If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.” Each of us is more than one entity. We interexist among what we perceive to be our individual self, but much deeper than that is consciousness that we cannot be conscious of. How could we possibly prove that this unknowable sentience is causal? Is it so impossible that in consciousness may exist an originating function that has nothing preceding it? Consider an unsprouted seed: If we were to visit inside it, we would witness its urges and desires, but they are all left undone. Yet there they are! If we follow it backwards, where do we arrive? The seed falls off a plant which placed the urges in it? What made it do that? Its antecedents? What happens when those urges are no longer in the seed? What caused them to leave? |
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