Dacu
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Another old post from philosophyforums of mine.
Consciousness has proved to be a point of interest for critical thinkers for a long time.
I often have pondered over it as I am expecting you will have done.
Personally I now believe consciousness is a facade a combination of nothing but
what has already been thought and you remembering what it was you thought giving off
an impression of consciousness and free will.
What are the implications of this? Well it is pretty clear nothing we do is done by free choice
everything we do is predetermined by actions that have happened around us in our environment since our birth
and our inevitable reaction to the actions.
When looking at consciousness people have over looked it and over analyzed it to the point they believe it is the same thing as free will.
It is not. The proof is in the word and definition "the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc."
Yes we may be conscious of our actions but are we in control of them? No I don't think so, we believe we are but the fact that we "decided" to go brush our teeth is inevitable as death.
Neuro-linguistic programming is an interesting field to research, in which the person can anchor certain "actions" to bring out the desired "reaction".
Is this conscious on our behalf? No. Is it free will? No. It is just further proof that our actions are fixed after certain events.
Darwin may well have uncovered the revolution of evolution over large periods of time but still to this day I have yet to see someone tap into the thus far unventured realms of short term evolution of the brain and its processes.
This is because of the facade of consciousness and free will. Somehow through all my life experiences it has led me to write this for whatever reason, some of you will
always argue it is because I chose to. Perhaps I did but I also did not. The fact I have wrote this will cause some thought processes to occur in your brain.
Which will inevitably trigger some more "conscious thought" and then you will deliver the action which will most likely be a reply or whatever else depending on all your previous experiences.
With this of course some predictability must come about yes if the persons life was monitored at all times, if every action and reaction was recorded into a computer and then you entered a command or action into
the computer it would hopefully predict a reaction. Once you had this you could make sure the action chosen happened to the subject of the experiment and the same reaction should be recorded of what the computer predicted.
Twins are very similar and usually to some point supposedly think the same and sometimes even say that same words at the same time or finish each others sentences, this I believe is because they have been subject to almost all the same things in their life.
Making them effectively the same person. It would be illogical to claim that somehow based on free will if every person had it that they would react in exactly the same way.
I think it would work with any 2 babies put together from birth to around the age of 5. Twins of course though are the best fit as they are genetically indifferent and almost in most cases would not be subject to any mental disabilities that the other would not be.
Consciousness has proved to be a point of interest for critical thinkers for a long time.
I often have pondered over it as I am expecting you will have done.
Personally I now believe consciousness is a facade a combination of nothing but
what has already been thought and you remembering what it was you thought giving off
an impression of consciousness and free will.
What are the implications of this? Well it is pretty clear nothing we do is done by free choice
everything we do is predetermined by actions that have happened around us in our environment since our birth
and our inevitable reaction to the actions.
When looking at consciousness people have over looked it and over analyzed it to the point they believe it is the same thing as free will.
It is not. The proof is in the word and definition "the state of being conscious; awareness of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc."
Yes we may be conscious of our actions but are we in control of them? No I don't think so, we believe we are but the fact that we "decided" to go brush our teeth is inevitable as death.
Neuro-linguistic programming is an interesting field to research, in which the person can anchor certain "actions" to bring out the desired "reaction".
Is this conscious on our behalf? No. Is it free will? No. It is just further proof that our actions are fixed after certain events.
Darwin may well have uncovered the revolution of evolution over large periods of time but still to this day I have yet to see someone tap into the thus far unventured realms of short term evolution of the brain and its processes.
This is because of the facade of consciousness and free will. Somehow through all my life experiences it has led me to write this for whatever reason, some of you will
always argue it is because I chose to. Perhaps I did but I also did not. The fact I have wrote this will cause some thought processes to occur in your brain.
Which will inevitably trigger some more "conscious thought" and then you will deliver the action which will most likely be a reply or whatever else depending on all your previous experiences.
With this of course some predictability must come about yes if the persons life was monitored at all times, if every action and reaction was recorded into a computer and then you entered a command or action into
the computer it would hopefully predict a reaction. Once you had this you could make sure the action chosen happened to the subject of the experiment and the same reaction should be recorded of what the computer predicted.
Twins are very similar and usually to some point supposedly think the same and sometimes even say that same words at the same time or finish each others sentences, this I believe is because they have been subject to almost all the same things in their life.
Making them effectively the same person. It would be illogical to claim that somehow based on free will if every person had it that they would react in exactly the same way.
I think it would work with any 2 babies put together from birth to around the age of 5. Twins of course though are the best fit as they are genetically indifferent and almost in most cases would not be subject to any mental disabilities that the other would not be.