Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- Tell me about it.Nairn
- Sadly today's 5pm solar flare didn't wipe out the debt record. Next one, maybe, Sun?Nairn
- 8pm and I turned on the lights...
keep smiling in the darkness fattyuan - The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
https://www.theguard…mort_ - free will IS an illusion. yes.sarahfailin
- there's a narrow bandwith in which we can chose though, we are not grasshoppers.uan
- agree with @uan. maybe the destination is set but we choose how to get there.Beeswax
- The thought to choose A or B has been shown to happen up to 11 seconds after our brain registers that choice. It’s nuts.mort_
- We don't choose the destination or how to get there. We only get to look out the window.palimpsest
- That can be incredibly confronting to hear. And even worse than that, there is no YOU inside doing the looking out the window.mort_
- Technically we are making the decisions, we're just not aware of it.
From my point of view there is a YOU as there is an I. Unless we're playing pronoun games.palimpsest - Once the decision has been made at the action is taking place. Who is observing the action if it's not yourself?palimpsest
- Not playing pronoun games. The whole concept of me / self is an illusion.mort_
- Now it's clear. Thanks.palimpsest