Originally Posted By: pararealist
what i was trying to says is that you and only you can know what is right, everyone else just has their own version of right, all valid for their own individual experience.
So you are not wrong unless you think you are.


tell that to the people who thought they could fly off of a building on acid... oh wait, reality hit them to hard and they died.

Truth is not democratic, its not made up in your head. truth is truth.


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Originally Posted By: Damocles
Your CPU also calculated 1+2=2 before the Desktop can display it.
This does not mean the calculation was not intended.

Awareness of ones own though is just a normal delay in a time.delayed calculation network.
If you get aware you decided something wrong, you can still check
and correct it, before doing an action.
Thats why complex thoughts get iterated first in the head many times,
before a conclusion is taken.
Otherwise its a reflex. (like taking a leg up when walking)
You can let it run, or manually correct it. (dogshit)

The time delay doe NOT mean there is no free will. It just
means that concludions, or responses can be valued to
be analysed, changed or just intuitively and immideately chosen.

Look at the following example:
Girlfriend asks "Should I wear these clothes tonight, how do i look?"
It requires a either an intuitive answer (likely wrong) or complex iteration of answers (likely wrong too).


true, but if we are strictly talking consciousness and the role it plays on action/decision making then that means that decision was not made consciously, the inner workings of our brain created that output, and then consciously we feel like we just decided it.

Last edited by lostclimate; 12/05/12 17:01.