Hello to you all! Welcome to My Webl. Today we will return once more to that problem that has haunted me before... consciousness and free will
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I'm with you up until the bit about the one path. If you're presented with two cups, you can always still make the choice to go with the less probable on a "gut feeling". This outlines two visible choices (paths) for one instance alone (or three if you count walking away from the cups entirely), so how many hundreds of thousands or millions of different forks in the path we are walking have we passed? We arrived at our current location by a combination of fate (I am/was fated to have brown hair, for instance) and choice/free will (I can choose to dye this hair blue); this combination of fate and choice is the very manifestation of destiny (where we currently are).
The hair thing was an arbitrary example. Another would be that I'm fated to be hungry, but I have to choose to eat (I won't just do it automatically), and then I have a plethora of choices as to what to eat.
Do you play poker? Sometimes people will make the choice to call when probability dictates they should fold. Is this ignoring certain information or hedging your bet on on the fact that a 2/3 chance to lose is still a 1/3 chance to win?
Re: We may not be able to control our feelings....zorander22April 17 2006, 19:29:47 UTC
Is everything ok, or was the heavy sigh for denial in general?
By the way... we may not be able to directly control our feelings... but we are very good at controlling out thoughts. So if you choose to interpret the information you have in a different way, you can control what you feel, at least to some extent, because our feelings are based off of our information. For example, you think someone said they love you, you may feel incredibly happy... but then if you hear the exact same words and think they meant something else, then you may feel sad, or hurt.
Some very interesting theories here Daniel...I will definitely come back for a visit when I have more time to read. I hear little hands getting into things right now!
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Do you play poker? Sometimes people will make the choice to call when probability dictates they should fold. Is this ignoring certain information or hedging your bet on on the fact that a 2/3 chance to lose is still a 1/3 chance to win?
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By the way... we may not be able to directly control our feelings... but we are very good at controlling out thoughts. So if you choose to interpret the information you have in a different way, you can control what you feel, at least to some extent, because our feelings are based off of our information. For example, you think someone said they love you, you may feel incredibly happy... but then if you hear the exact same words and think they meant something else, then you may feel sad, or hurt.
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