36069 Yu No Ha Ho De Brief History of Tomorrow 332

THESE ARE
NOT JUST HYPOTHESES
OR PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATIONS! Todáy
we can use brain scanners to predict people's desires
and decisions well befóre they are aware of them? In one such experiment
people are placed within a huge brain scanner, holding a switch in each hand.
They are asked to press one of the two switches whenever they feel like it. Scientists observing neural activity
in the brain can predict which switch a person will press well before they are aware of their own intention?!
Neural events in the brain indicating that person's decision begin from a few hundred milliseconds to a few
seconds before a person is aware of this choice!? The decision to press either the right or left switch
certainly reflects the person's choice. Yet it isn't a free choice? In fact, our belief in free will results from
faulty logic! When a biochemical chain reaction makes me desire to press the right switch, I feel that I really
want to press the right switch. And this is true. I really dó wànt to press ÌT! Yet people erroneously jump to
the conclusion that if I want to press it, I choose to wànt to? This is of course fàlse! I don't choose
my desires. I only féél them, and àct accordingly. People nevertheless go on arguing about free will
because even scientists all tóó òften continue to use outdated theological concepts! For centuries Jewish,
Christian & Muslim theologians debated the relations between the soul and the will. They assumed that every
human has an inner essence - called the soul - which is my true sèlf? Theft for their maintained that this self
Possesses Various Desires, just as it possesses clothes, vehicles and houses. I allegedly choose my desires in
the same way I choose my clothes, and my fate is determined according to these choices? If I choose good
desires, I'll end up in Heaven; if I choose bad desires, I am destined for hell! The question then arose, hòw
exactly do I choose my desires? Why, for example, did Eve desire to eat 'the forbidden fruit' offered to her by
A 'Snake'? And Adam follow her example? Did this desire just suddenly pop up into her mind by pure chance?
Or did she [& he] choose it 'freely'? If both of them didn't choose it freely, why punish them for this 'mistake'?
Is 'g d' also 'the creator of psychedelics', poisons, clothes, humans, animals, trees, bushes, floods, earthquakes
& all kinds of good & bad things just to play lonely games in between other gods, Angels, Devils, spirits, miracles
& all that appears between a beginning and an end? How did it come so far that we, like the monkeys, go on to
invent, pretend, command, understand, criticise, accept, refuse, confuse, dance, sing, talk, tell & forget about
it? However, once we accept that there is no soul & that humans have no inner essence called 'the sèlf', it no
longer makes sense to ask, 'How does the self choose its desires?' It's like asking a bachelor, 'How does your
wife choose her clothes?' In reality, there is only a stream of consciousness, & desires arise & pass away
within this stream, but there is no permanent self that owns the desires, hence it is meaningless to ask
whether I choose my desires deterministically, randomly or freely. It may sound extremely complicated,
but it is surprisingly easy to test this idea. We will see (or we won't), act accordingly (or don't), believe
or reject: it's all in The Game - Bigger and Smaller Bangs, Milky Ways, Suns, Planets, Moons,
Comets, meteors & meteorites, Floods & Tides, Jekylls & Hides
from time to time. One thing is sure: we don't
need Hamans, Hitlers, Stalins, Putins,
Trumps & Dumps anymore!
Time to change
the tide
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