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I love maths.
I also love ornothology.
When I do both together I like to call that Owlgebra.
I'll get my coat.....
Your argument is obviously flawed.
I know you can't - but either that is because of blind faith, in which case admit it, or it's because you think my argument is flawed, in which case argue against it.
jjohnjil,
Just to save repeating lots of things I have already posted, here is a link to the thee page article I had published in Mensa magazine which should answer some of your points:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/135283340@N03/albums/72157699355958882
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Alan
Thanks for the article but, having read it, I tells me that you attribute the human ability to make choices to something that cannot be investigated and ignore all the research that is going on, including in your own field - computers. Stephen Hawking said he envisaged computers outdoing the human brain within 100 years and I agree with that view.
To say that you can't understand how something works and so attribute it to something that you also can't understand seems to me to be going down a one-way street to nowhere. Some ancients attributed thunder to the wrath of Thor, precisely because they didn't understand it. As they had no way of investigating Thor, someone defied those religious beliefs and began studying the phenomenon itself and got to the truth - that's what experts in the brain are doing all over the world.
This is why I believe religions, of all varieties, stifle research, simply because they are happy to put everything that is a complete mystery at the moment down to God. All the great thinkers of yesteryear were persecuted for even suggesting that there were other explanations to be had, but through their perseverance we have made giant leaps forward.
So try to look at the problem, without jumping on an unevidenced explanation for it, and you may see things differently.
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Gabriella,You are entitled to your opinion. Others are available. You didn't explain how you got from Vlad stating some posters are obsessed by his posts to him 'clearly' revelling in anything. Maybe he was being ironic. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore as there are more interesting topics to discuss - we'll just have to disagree on this.
I posted the texts because they so well describe what Vlad (and to a lesser extent you) actually do. His behaviour has been described. That he clearly revels in his modus operandi doesn't mean that others fall for it though.
I do not live in the past.
Whatever physical events I consciously invoke to facilitate my chosen actions take place in my conscious present.
I live and exist in my conscious present, as do my thoughts, words and actions -...
...none of which are random, neither are they entirely predetermined by the past.
Whatever physical events I consciously invoke to facilitate my chosen actions take place in my conscious present.
I live and exist in my conscious present, as do my thoughts, words and actions...
...none of which are random, neither are they entirely predetermined by the past.
It is not that I have forgotten any of your replies. I just can't agree with your concept of a freedom which is entirely predetermined by past events.
