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I agree that we are all unique. The reason we are unique is because we are products of the interactions between unique genes, unique environments from...

So, how would you explain consciousness?

That's interesting. Thank you.

Some have called Hume a Bundle Theorist when it comes to the question of the self.

Being me feels like being a self. According to the book I recommended in the first post in this thread, this is an illusion because the self is a proc...

The self feels like an entity even though it is not an entity but a process. This is what I mean by the self being an illusion. If solipsism is accura...

The self feels like an entity even though it is not an entity but a process. This is what I mean by the self being an illusion. I like your idea of pr...

Thank you for your interesting reply. I have spoken with people who meditate regularly who said that they experienced the silent self which is beyond ...

Thank you very much for your detailed post. I didn't really understand the quoted text because my brain is depressed which diminishes comprehension. I...

By sentient I mean conscious. Philosophical zombies behave as if they are conscious but are not actually.

What's the difference between self and consciousness?

I agree.

Thank you very much.

Source: https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-are-our-choices-and-actions-considered-free

I agree.

Thank you very much.

I agree with your statement about assigned culpability. I also agree that there is no actual culpability as the choices we make are determined by prio...

Thank you for your recommendation.

Thank you for your kind wishes. You are most welcome.

Why does our brain have limited capacity? Why aren't all living things all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful? How do you know that someone could ha...

I am having second thoughts about your "dumb physical processes." Clouds making shapes are indeed a dumb physical process. However, brain activities a...

You are most welcome. However, if my actions are inevitable, either due to secular determinism or due to divine predestination, do I or anyone else de...

I understand your point now. Thank you for taking the time to explain it more clearly. I agree with you now. We don't fully understand how the brain w...

How do you know that someone could have done something else at the time and place of the doing instead of what was done? How do you know that mine is ...

Thank you for skimming the articles. Your argument for how determinism removes our brain's credibility did not make any sense to me. I don't know if t...

Did you read the two articles I gave you links for? It's possible that our brain scanners are not yet good enough to see everything. Time will tell. U...

It's not possible to think freely. Can you think up everything there is to know about dark matter and dark energy? No, you can't. Can you think of a t...

I wish you were trying to convince me. I am all-loving. I would love to be all-knowing and all-powerful also. I long to prevent all suffering, inequal...

I disagree. Genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences determine and constrain the choices made by organisms. This is a fact. This is why banana ...

Are you joking? They are not silly or loopy or irrelevant. They are as factual as the Earth orbits the Sun.

"Push yourself" means to do something that takes effort e.g. I am suffering from depression, CPTSD and chronic pain. So, it takes a lot of effort for ...

Thank you for the reading recommendation. "Ants don't play guitars." is a fact. "Humans don't fly like the birds." is also a fact. Just as what I said...

Genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences determine and constrain the choices made by organisms. This is a fact. This is why banana trees don't ...

Is that assigned culpability or actual culpability?

I have no idea what that means!

I am not trying to give you anything new. Determinism is not a new idea. I have told you how you can prove to me that you have free will but you have ...

I have seen brain scans of people who were suffering from depressive episodes. I have seen brain scans of people who were suffering from manic episode...

I am not a professional philosopher. I am not even a student of philosophy. For me, science is the way to truth. That's why I conduct experiments to d...

It sounds like a contradiction to me. It's saying someone was alive and dead at the same time or angry and calm at the same time or excited and bored ...

I provided you with the determining effects of genes, environments, nutrients, and experiences. If you don't remember what I said, please read my post...

I don't know what it is like to be you or anyone else. I have never been happy and unhappy at the same time.

I agree.

How can you be both happy and not happy at the same time? I have never experienced. I wish we were all telepathic - that way we could really know what...

It's a matter of evidence. I have provided you with the evidence. You failed to forever refrain from the 27 things I asked you to refrain from. You fa...

No, the significant life experiences I listed actually happened. That's why I was able to compare the before and after states. Don't worry about sayin...

I agree.

I am not convinced that being souls would give us the highest freedom. Being all-knowing and all-powerful would give us the highest freedom. I do some...

Have you read all of my previous posts in this thread? It does not seem like you have. I don't know if souls exist or not. How would an immaterial sou...

Thinking is not free from determinants and constraints. For example, I can think only in the languages I know. I can't think in languages I don't know...

I asked you "Can you give me one example of a choice that you have made that did not have any determinants and constraints?" You have not given me eve...