You experience a brain created representation of the table from reflected energy that has nothing to do with tables.
Light is an anthropocentric term that describes the human reaction to the energy and nothing about the energy.
what table?
You experience a brain created representation of the table from reflected energy that has nothing to do with tables.
Light is an anthropocentric term that describes the human reaction to the energy and nothing about the energy.
You experience a brain created representation of the table from reflected energy that has nothing to do with tables.
Light is an anthropocentric term that describes the human reaction to the energy and nothing about the energy.
what table?
I've carried tables. So I can experience what it is like to do so. Fortunately my eyes, muscles, joints, and nervous system provides me information and from that memory to which I can refer when seeing a table.
No one said the table was in my head. A wonderful thing about information is that it can be stored bit by bit in any substance that is capable of recording it if it is served by processes which can provide such information.
Swammerdami I agree a being is conscious, has a brain and nervous system, etc.
However, consciousness is an aspect, attribute, of a being. It is not a separate thing, like are being parts brain and heart, from the being called consciousness. It's is the being's consciousness. Most of those here who use descriptors of parts like brain speak of it, the brain or consciousness, doing something that, in actuality, should be attributed to the being who is doing.
The brain does not create consciousness, consciousness doesn't do, etc. Consciousness is a construct it is not a thing. Is it a subjective thing if anything at all. Even as subjective the consciousness doesn't do create, or anything else beyond serving as a construct to frame notion. Don't bless it as being alive or even an actual part of the being. Hypothetical construct! No more.
That is what I call reductionist.
I agree with untermensche that humans and many mammals exhibit what we call conscious behavior. It's just that we can't package create in the construct. Color may be expressed by beings somewhat differently under similar conditions that is not proof that a construct, called conscious, creates anything. Creation, if there is such a thing among living beings is a being thing, being created.
Creates? Really? Explain.
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At the end of the day angst over determinism seems to predominate, but most of us forget that we are the thing that is deterministic. We are the thing that is determining. Does a bird get angsty over being a bird, or does it just keep on being a bird?
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At the end of the day angst over determinism seems to predominate, but most of us forget that we are the thing that is deterministic. We are the thing that is determining. Does a bird get angsty over being a bird, or does it just keep on being a bird?
That's my objection to the a-determinists. Why would I want to be something other than what I am? Know thyself and you will discover both meaning and purpose.
It says something about the intellectual capacity of geese and their instinctual desire to be within the flock.
Humans also have the instinctual desire to be within the flock (the tribe).
There is safety and a much better chance to survive within the flock.
A man seeks out his true love. He tirelessly courts her and wins her affection. They engage in sexually productive activity and have a child they attend to constantly.
I would say that none of that is willed behavior.
It is all instinctual behavior.
Many men wake up one day and wonder why did they did any of it when they meet and begin courting a mistress. Further instinctual behavior.
As far as distressed geese go.
Your guess to explain their behavior is as good as mine. The geese can't tell us what is wrong.
If we saw what stopped their behavior we might better understand what was distressing them.
A man seeks out his true love. He tirelessly courts her and wins her affection. They engage in sexually productive activity and have a child they attend to constantly.
I would say that none of that is willed behavior.
It is all instinctual behavior.
Many men wake up one day and wonder why did they did any of it when they meet and begin courting a mistress. Further instinctual behavior.
As far as distressed geese go.
Your guess to explain their behavior is as good as mine. The geese can't tell us what is wrong.
If we saw what stopped their behavior we might better understand what was distressing them.
you're skipping puberty, adolescence, and conditioning
A man seeks out his true love. He tirelessly courts her and wins her affection. They engage in sexually productive activity and have a child they attend to constantly.
I would say that none of that is willed behavior.
It is all instinctual behavior.
Many men wake up one day and wonder why did they did any of it when they meet and begin courting a mistress. Further instinctual behavior.
As far as distressed geese go.
Your guess to explain their behavior is as good as mine. The geese can't tell us what is wrong.
If we saw what stopped their behavior we might better understand what was distressing them.
you're skipping puberty, adolescence, and conditioning
There is only one conditioning.
You see other humans living as couples and you know people that are part of a couple.
So you can become conditioned to see that as normal behavior.
As far as growth periods? They lead to the instinctual desire for sex. Adolescents can speak of their sexual frustrations.
But the growth periods don't lead to a desire for a single mate excluding all others.
That is cultural.
In early human societies the individual was raised by the tribe. Not raised solely by the parents. The father took place in raising the child by protecting and providing for the tribe. The mother and possibly other females took care of the needs of the child.
It was like chimp societies as far as parenting.
A child felt part of a tribe with a mother and possibly other females that took special care of them. They did not simply feel part of a small family.
Isolation into small families is not natural.
The tribe is natural. We long for the tribe.
do I gotta whip out my dick again?