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Originally Posted by renordw
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I'm following everything that you're saying, until you start talking about the soul. The concept of a soul is just emergent from all of the synaptic activity in the brain, and it feels special to us because we experience it subjectively. Just because we can't understand it doesn't mean that there's anything mystical to it, it means that it's complex.
What I am saying is this: I don't believe in a soul, or even free will. The processes that go into decision making and consciousness are so complex, that we don't understand them and we attribute mysticality, consciousness, or free will to what we can't explain.
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My computer can only run simulations, calculate probabilities etc. Heck, it can't even achieve true random. It has yet to have a premonition or a gut feeling. You never have them I take it...
I get 'em bad, not all the time, but they hit hard with astonishment when they do, and can't be forced. And it's not a random thing, it's really accurate. Everyone I've known has had some level of awareness to those things. That is beyond the physical level, and part of why most people in the world acknowledge the existence of the soul.
In fact, with all these possibilities about digital existence, the soul could be the only thing that is actually real in this realm and not simply temporary data. Believe what you want, but you gotta overlook a lot of things to get there. And that sounds like free will to me
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