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offline freqy on 2008-09-30 12:06 [#02241294]
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between left or right? ....PC or Mac.?.....play aphex or
[]pusher?

or do we have no choice at all in the situation!

is it just how we are at that moment due to the chain of
events that got us there? we weigh up all the factors we can
in our mind and the direction we take is based on the
results?
blah blah an ting.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-09-30 12:24 [#02241297]
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choice is limited by its environment


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-09-30 12:27 [#02241298]
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Limitation is a condition of choice.


 

offline noseburger on 2008-09-30 12:27 [#02241299]
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like the roll of a dice.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2008-09-30 12:28 [#02241300]
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right/pc/aphex.

you need to be firm freqy, don't show them your fear.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2008-09-30 12:42 [#02241302]
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i don't know my/human brain that well. i don't think anybody
does


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2008-10-01 00:24 [#02241377]
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Right / PC / Aphex


 

offline cx from Norway on 2008-10-01 00:50 [#02241379]
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you're all slaves of your environment :D

WHILE I ALWAYS HAD A CHOICE.



 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2008-10-01 01:04 [#02241380]
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choice is just about all we have.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2008-10-01 01:32 [#02241382]
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dont we choose?


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 01:56 [#02241384]
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when you need the toilet REALLY BAD to the point of
EXPLOSION. you do not have a choice....as your mind cannot
take anymore....the very strong electronic waves created and
sent to your brains by the stretched tissue makes you wee
your pants fast and strong..

i have a choice between an apple and an yellow acidy grape
fruit right now all the signals in my head say "take apple"
due to past experiences of grapefruits destroying my taste
buds witgh acid. is that a choice ? or just the logical
selection due to past experienes.

are our choices based on past experiences and the physical
sensations we have at the moment ( exploding bladder)

am we just an organic computers that think we can
manipulate or programing...."i choose to take a physics A
level exam this year....or is that physics stimulates me
with wonder and that possitve feeling makes me go for that
choice...im not gonna take a knitting exam...it does nothing
for me...so i did not have a choice at all really !?!

.



 

offline beatpirate from the seven seas on 2008-10-01 04:39 [#02241390]
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choice even is predictable in many many cases.
look at your friends and what they choose to do
and you can see how they act.
this goes beyond their taste in foods and habits.

but take hobbits, you can learn everything you need to
know about them in 30 minutes; still they can surprise you!



 

offline FlyAgaric from the discovery (Africa) on 2008-10-01 04:43 [#02241391]
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TOILET IS TRICKY ONE. SOMETIMES I NEED POO BDLY BUT NO
TOILET ROUND. SO I HOLD IT. BUT THE MOMENT THE TOILET IS
NEER, ITS LIKE THE POO TIKES ON LIFE OF ITS OVVN ND I HEV NO
CONTROL.


 

offline FlyAgaric from the discovery (Africa) on 2008-10-01 04:44 [#02241392]
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SO I RUN FSTLY OR I POO IN MY PNTS


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 05:08 [#02241394]
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;p
haha


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-10-01 06:16 [#02241395]
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brot


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 07:54 [#02241407]
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Knowledge is always incomplete, therefore choice is always
limited.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-10-01 08:12 [#02241414]
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weapon of choice


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 08:34 [#02241428]
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TOILET: i cannot choose to not urinate ect. But i could
choose to let it run down my leg or i could fill a balloon.
It would be hot and would smell of sugarpuffs.


 

offline nightex from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2008-10-01 09:46 [#02241457]
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Its too complex to understand that everything begins with
choise. The world is indeterminable, how u can say that
enviroment crucial for our choises, and vice versa we cant
proove that exists something in human like free will.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2008-10-01 10:57 [#02241470]
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have you ever shat your pants at work ?


Attached picture

 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 11:02 [#02241472]
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just because a decision may be 99.9% predictable and also
conditioned by the environment it's made in does not mean
its not a free choice


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 11:10 [#02241473]
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all these atoms electrons and thingies are whirling around
banging into things ,chain reactions going on everywhere
governed by nature ...so if i can choose to change these
reactions which control thoughts and physical actions which
are all atoms and particle thingies ..what am i made of to
change the directions of electrons ?


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 11:11 [#02241474]
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a spiritual force which can modulate the laws of physics?


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2008-10-01 11:15 [#02241475]
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methinks you're conditioned most of the time


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 11:17 [#02241476]
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your brain and your consciousness is something over and
above the particles it is made up of/supervenient on.
If you looked at the universe purely in terms of atoms and
molecules and electrons then you can explain every event
without having to refer to choice or rationality at all
(even though, as far as we're concerned, rational choice is
governs many events).
Even though you can influence atoms and molecules, and you
are made of nothing more than atoms and molecules this is
not nonsensical.
Although of course it is mysterious how we consciousness
arises from just atoms and molecules. A spiritual force
which can modulate the laws of physics?


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 11:25 [#02241482]
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so i was right!? WOO HOO!! :P

hey........

if i chop my arm off ...i am still me.
if i chop my heart out and put on a machine ...im still me.
if i have a stroke ....i am still me.
if i take out the part of my brain that is for sight me is
me.
if i wipe my memories its still me.?
so i am wondering ...which part of the brain is me?

is there an antenna to the spiritual world inside my head is
this what you are saying ...like a remote controlled body?




 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-01 11:25 [#02241483]
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Knowledge is always incomplete, therefore choice is
possible.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-10-01 11:28 [#02241485]
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word. and since choice is possible, so does new knowledge


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 11:29 [#02241486]
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Well its by no means a closed case what constitutes "you".
You could argue that if you have your memories wiped you are
not you, allthough that is a rather stringent condition of
identity, because then an amnesiac would not be the same
person from day to day.

I would say that there is no part of the brain which is you.

If it were possible and your entire brain was mapped to a
computer program and then your physical brain destroyed,
would that computer program be you?
If you have a lobotomy are you still you?


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 11:31 [#02241488]
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even if knowledge is complete, surely choice is still
possible?


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 11:33 [#02241489]
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but that doesn't mean its not free. I maybe conditioned by
my enviroment to have certain values and tastes but that's
not incompatible with me being held morally responsible for
the decisions I make based on my values.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-01 11:40 [#02241490]
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Depends on what you mean by knowledge.

Assuming total knowledge, including knowledge of values,
what would be good and bad, right and wrong, would most
likely rule it out, or at least render it much more
susceptible to the "a choice is simply the only logical
conclusion of all the facts" argument.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-10-01 11:45 [#02241491]
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*tilt*


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2008-10-01 11:52 [#02241493]
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Logical: A reasonable solution to a problem

Reasonable: Capable of reasoning; Rational


 

offline freqy on 2008-10-01 12:16 [#02241496]
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"If it were possible and your entire brain was mapped to a
computer program and then your physical brain destroyed,
would that computer program be you? "

how would we know too? haha :p



 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 12:59 [#02241499]
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yeah I see what you mean there, I was thinking of choice in
general rather than value judgements


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-01 13:36 [#02241503]
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Choice isn't possible without letting value play a part; if
you choose without letting the two options have different
values for yourself, you could just as well have flipped a
coin, meaning that even though you do “select”
one of the options, you have not made a choice
between them.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 15:06 [#02241513]
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this thread is for proving to everyone else that you're
right cleva. POST NOW!!!

choice for dummies by ampi max.
yes we have choice


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 17:19 [#02241544]
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There is no such thing as "you". There is only the physical
entity that you call you, which is entirely manufactured by
thought, and therefore has no real substance.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-01 17:21 [#02241545]
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Whose thought is it, if it isn't your thought?


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-10-01 17:39 [#02241547]
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It is natural to name it "your" thought but everything you
know was implanted there by your culture, otherwise you
would not even understand how to use language or interpret
anything.

You are full of bits and pieces of what everybody else has
experienced before you. You cannot claim it for yourself -
you are truly a second hand human being. You think you have
choice, but thought is restricted to a limited pool of
knowledge, taken from what you have been taught and what you
have access to learn, which is always limited.

Like a prisoner has choice, but its severely restricted by
his environment, the same applies to you.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2008-10-01 17:48 [#02241553]
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everything you know was “implanted” there by
your culture, otherwise, you would not even
understand how to use language or interpret anything.

You are full of bits and pieces of what everybody
else has experienced before you.

etc

you catch my drift.

Choice isn't restricted by environment, the
environment and its “restrictions” are the
conditions of your choices.

good night.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-10-01 17:55 [#02241557]
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i choose not to choose


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2008-10-01 17:58 [#02241558]
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you've chosen that because of your social upbringing. yawn.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2008-10-01 18:12 [#02241569]
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wrong actually, i choose to ignore my social upbringing, and
by chance just came up with the same answer i would have
made had i not ignored it...

how do you like them pomaceous fruits?



 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2008-10-02 02:59 [#02241600]
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I don't want to accuse you of being a bit of a thickie, but
you're not really concentrating on what's being said.

"You/Your" is just a word, convenient for the purposes of
communication. The spoken word is not the thing. The word
mountain is not the mountain. The written word is the
crystallisation of thought, not something that is alive and
rooted in truth.

This is very much part of humanities problem, the
symbolisation of words/images, which in themselves have no
tangible meaning, and then of course the worship of
individuals whose thoughts and words have become
crystallised then manipulated and distorted thus losing all
of their essence. The information they spoke itself being
second hand information, that's all it can be - nothing
original can ever be spoken.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2008-10-02 03:17 [#02241604]
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om


 

offline divil from Ireland on 2008-10-02 04:55 [#02241606]
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left/pc/squarepusher!


 

offline PORICK from fucking IRELAND on 2008-10-02 04:55 [#02241607]
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"This is very much part of humanities problem, the
symbolisation of words/images, which in themselves have no
tangible meaning"


What, like "your"?

Fuck off.


 


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