Can't write this now.
God demands we choose free will, even though he's deterministic. Quixotic much? (ha, spelled that right too!)
Yeah, you're alive.
Free will is choice. Choice relies on knowledge. Knowledge points to determinism to make the best choice. In a rational system of course. God is rational, right? Requires belief to exist? If so, how much? 51%? So if a war breaks out between two diametrically opposed religious factions, the fanatics kill each other off. Whoever is left on either side is either the victor or rational enough to realise religion is actually a bad idea that causes more problems than it solves.
Your span is so short young mayfly, yet ye do not despair. Our best minds die and wither just as they have come to maturity. An unlimited storage medium that has a time limit or a limited storage medium with no time limit.
A: God gave man choice
B: Man chose to create God
Good chicken egg style one there.
I took that Avonex on Independance day. Irony much? The human mind IOS looks like a lava lamp texturemapped with a black and white diamond tile pattern. The tiles are pretty small. Think Spectrum ZX graphics demo.
It might have been a dream.
I am forced into free will, because decisions made on my behalf won't leave me half as miserable or happy as my own. Flaming Tit would simply die.
Just hold together. Hold together dammit! If we can make it to 2037 we'll be in the clear.
Showing posts with label choice. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
#96 Should I choose?
Looks like I'm going to start falling apart pretty soon.
Just hang on. Not much longer. 5, maybe 10 years. The future is already happening.
If I had made a choice, wouldn't I notice the consequences? I guess not. Consequences are only ever negative, right?
Does it matter-no. It doesn't matter.
Good thing I can just drown it out with music.
Just hang on. Not much longer. 5, maybe 10 years. The future is already happening.
If I had made a choice, wouldn't I notice the consequences? I guess not. Consequences are only ever negative, right?
Does it matter-no. It doesn't matter.
Good thing I can just drown it out with music.
Monday, June 14, 2010
#94 Rational choices
Now this of course presumes irrational choices are not always taken. They toatally are.
I got a bit of bad news recently. Pretty nasty debuff, but it's not like I can't do anything about it. I can do something about it. Have I said the same thing twice there?
So you know there's 3 things to do in most case. There's the choice between the three. That's the free will, but there's not an awful lot of it, and it only makes big differences in a large cumulative fashion.
How many choices does it take to make a difference? One? A hundred? How would you know? Is one choice enough to tip a domino? Has it already been tipped?
Why would you want to know. Satisfy to a satisfisory standard, propagate the species, make better than what you arrived into.
If it's all so easy, then why can't I do it?
I got a bit of bad news recently. Pretty nasty debuff, but it's not like I can't do anything about it. I can do something about it. Have I said the same thing twice there?
So you know there's 3 things to do in most case. There's the choice between the three. That's the free will, but there's not an awful lot of it, and it only makes big differences in a large cumulative fashion.
How many choices does it take to make a difference? One? A hundred? How would you know? Is one choice enough to tip a domino? Has it already been tipped?
Why would you want to know. Satisfy to a satisfisory standard, propagate the species, make better than what you arrived into.
If it's all so easy, then why can't I do it?
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