I think our choices arise out of the interactions of our genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences and we are not truly praiseworthy or blameworthy. — Truth Seeker
Which path led you to this conclusion? — Truth Seeker
I don't know if I'm correctly understanding your position. If I am, then I would say you are insisting on conditions that are counter to our nature. Every cell in my body, it is famously said, is replaced every several years. My body today, at 60, has been ... what's the word? ... renewed, replaced, overwritten, many times in this way since my birth. Also, it has grown in various ways, most obviously weight and height. Still, it is my body. There are many characteristics about it that have not changed, even as the particles that it is built of have. I've been stopped by people who recognized me, even though we hadn't seen each other in decades. People have recognized my voice over the phone after several years. My body is not not my body because it is not made up of the same particles at all points throughout my life. It is my body, and has been for 60 years.Very briefly, I think the reason "we" are not truly praiseworthy or blameworthy, is there is no central being "I" upon which to attach praise or blame. — ENOAH
- https://www.livescience.com/33179-does-human-body-replace-cells-seven-years.htmlScientists have uncovered evidence showing that some neurons in the hippocampus are renewed, but only at a rate of 1.75% annually, according to a 2013 study in Cell. And some types of neurons within the striatum also regenerate, according to a 2014 study in Cell. But other types of neurons stay with a person for their entire lifetime, Bergmann said. And even the distinct cell populations that can rejuvenate are not replaced entirely, but only partly over a lifetime, he said.
After the early period of growth, suicide, and pruning comes to an end, adult neurons survive for a lifetime.
- https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/a-tour-of-the-growing-brain-complete-with-upside-down-visionPlus, unlike those of fish, amphibians, and reptiles, human brains don’t regenerate much after injury because only a small number of neurons are born during adulthood.
I don't know if I'm correctly understanding your position. If I am, then I would say you are insisting on conditions that are counter to our nature. — Patterner
I would say you are insisting on conditions that are counter to our nature. Every cell in my body, — Patterner
My body is not not my body because it is not made up of the same particles at all points throughout my life. It is my body, and has been for 60 years. — Patterner
. If I am, then I would say you are insisting on conditions that are counter to our nature. — Patterner
I didn't say we can eliminate the idea of simulation. We could be aliens experiencing a simulation of what it is like to be a human on Earth. Death could be the exit from this simulation. — Truth Seeker
That's cool.No apology is needed for your delayed reply. — Truth Seeker
Death cannot be the exit from the simulation at all, because no dead person has ever survived after their deaths. Once a person dies, he / she never comes back to reality or empirical world at all. They just totally cease to exist eternally.Death could be the exit from this simulation. — Truth Seeker
You could try to prove their existences. I doubt anyone can prove it, but it doesn't mean that you cannot prove it. If you still believe in the possibilities of the existence of an infinite number of universes, why not try to prove it first?What if there are an infinite number of universes? If so, the one-in-infinity possibilities would be real in at least one out of the infinite number of universes. — Truth Seeker
You need to read up QM then.Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct then there could be an infinite number of universes. — Truth Seeker
If an infinite number of universes existed, it would be in the mind of the believer. Never in the physical world.Unfortunately, we have no way to test this hypothesis. — Truth Seeker
Hypothetical talks are not philosophy, and they belong to mysticism or esotericism. Philosophical discussions are based on logic, reasoning, facts and the critical investigation on the facts, premises and conclusions in the issues for the verified truths. — Corvus
Nice. Truethen you see a different picture when the puzzle is assembled. — Patterner
If you were told it was going to end, because of death, or you were going to develop amnesia, or maybe some scifi thing... Would you have a problem with that? Would it bother you? — Patterner
Yes, as I said in the CaptHom thread, you have an understanding which allows you to pose questions which are relatively more free from the fetters of "xyz"For you, does what I view as the Self have any value? — Patterner
My mind is not a physical object. It is a gathering of processes. — Patterner
My mind is not a physical object. It is a gathering of processes. — Patterner
If you were told it was going to end, because of death, or you were going to develop amnesia, or maybe some scifi thing... Would you have a problem with that? Would it bother you?
— Patterner
And though I am, by being, that always presently aware-ing Body, I am only that by being it, and presently. When it ceases either that aware-ing "melts" into nature's aware-ing (which I sense it already is) or it vanishes. Either way, so what? "What" only belongs to I/me". — ENOAH
Imagination is a powerful mental event, which is a vital concept for providing us with the answers to the discussions. For example, isn't imagination the source of the idea of Cause and Effect in Hume?Fair enough. I'll do my best to comply because I respect the value in that. Please assure me you don't mean to exclude the imagination. — ENOAH
Of course, we all co-exist in this universe communicating and sharing the ideas and information via language and actions.Also, please keep in mind that even the dogs are permitted the scraps off their masters table. — ENOAH
Hypothetical talks are interesting even though they are not philosophical statements. I am a big fan of science fiction. — Truth Seeker
We don't have the means to test the simulation hypothesis. — Truth Seeker
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