Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by David Turell , Monday, August 27, 2012, 15:54 (4470 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

I don't really know what to think on this topic, honestly, which is one of the reasons I have refrained from chiming in on it too much. On one hand I see the brain as part two-way transceiver, part data processor, and part data server. However, I have seen nothing in the biological processes that explains the brains ability to do all of the things that it does. Nor have I seen anything at our current level of understanding that can come remotely close to explaining consciousness, emotion, or experience.-Your coments are right on target. - 
> I have lots of theories, and tons of speculation about the who's, why's, and whatfor's, but nothing else aside from my faith and what little we actually know from science. Anything I say would get reduced to 'God did it' and cause another round of circular reasoning that is counter-productive. My position is based on a strange mix of fact, faith, and more recently my own experiences as a designer. While that is certainly true of everyone to some extent, for those with any type of belief in a archetypical deity that does not fit precisely with the norm, getting deep into any details or reasoning for a particular belief generally only drives the subject off topic. (That's not a criticism of anyone here, it is just my general experience.)-That is exactly the 'God problem'. Religion has left us with fairly rigid concepts of a 'greater power', one that is too anthropomophic. More quantum less manlike is my guess.