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I think that the probability for a neutral trait drops by time and become insignificant in a course million years for such complex phenomena, illusion of free will. — bahman
Why would you say that? — charleton
Free will is not a concept carried by the genes. — charleton
It's a conclusion drawn from experience and expressed and reproduced by logical logic. Such concepts are more like memes that genes, and like god or fairies do not have to confer any specific advantage, but can evolve through culture without any reference to somatic evolution or reproduction. Such "memes" can persist and move into other cultures like viruses move across species. — charleton
Could consciousness be causally efficacious? It is mere illusion. — bahman
Action comes before awareness. Someone's I decide which way to move and then I move. Both most times it is formed habit. The brain is nothing more than a central receiving/transmission network. — Rich
Who is taking action and who is becoming aware of action? — JustSomeGuy
So the mind and the brain are two different entities? — JustSomeGuy
I just told you — Rich
define entity? — Rich
Entity: a thing with distinct and independent existence — JustSomeGuy
No such thing. Everything is well entangled — Rich
The statement you just made implies that there are multiple "things", aka entities. You're being logically inconsistent. — JustSomeGuy
It's like waves in an ocean. Entangled forms.
To understand life one must jettison logic and imagine patterns. Art brings one much closer to understand nature am be life. Logic is only symbolic and this intrinsically incapable of grasping the whole. — Rich
I answered your question. — Rich
How does a cell do all of the things you claim it can do? What's the theory that explains these exceptional capabilities such as optimization? I suppose you have some powerful logic ready. You can start with your proposition — Rich
Illusion of free will is not like a meme. You experience it. — bahman
I'm here to discuss philosophy, and you apparently have no interest in that. — JustSomeGuy
But physics has gone past such determinism — apokrisis
the question is, why did 'evolution' result in the ability to, oh I don't know, understand the age and size of the Universe? — Wayfarer
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