Free Will - Life, entropy and information

Part II in the series on Free Will

Entropy, life, brains and minds

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[chapellkarina]

loving this video.. You have great stuff on here!

[rozeboosje]

@chapellkarina Thank you :-)

[rozeboosje]

@zimtran007 Most certainly :-)

[zimtran007]

You really should convert to "Marmetism" (the worship of Punksatony Phil) As worship of the great gopher of western Pennsylvania relieves all of life's anxious paradoxes. ( [dot] punxsutawneyphil [dot] com )

[zimtran007]

@rozeboosje Ohhhhhhh ! You were referring to "you" personally and "I" personally. Where as I thought you were referring to the "you" and "I" in the more abstract sense. In which case both "you" and "I" would refer to the same person / soul, depending on whether it was you or I doing the referring. Yes, in that case they would not be identical, and in fact could not be. Unless perhaps I am the future you, but still then the concept of "identical" would be problematic.

[rozeboosje]

@zimtran007 The "I" I think of is equated with an entity consisting of a self image based on over 40 years of accumulated experiences, the overwhelming majority of which you are entirely ignorant of and unfamiliar with. The "you" you think of consists of some moving images on a web site and a few, admittedly, rather enjoyable dialogues and your impressions of them. There is certainly some overlap between the two, but they can't be identical.

[zimtran007]

@rozeboosje How do you know that the "I" that you think of is not the "you" that I speak of ? See, now I'm going to ask for proof your assertion: (("I" you think of) != ("you" I speak of)). Walk me through the logic.

[rozeboosje]

@zimtran007 But the "you" you speak of is not the "I" I think of.

[zimtran007]

@rozeboosje No I was just pointing out that the phrase "Man is made in the image of God", was just an attempt to "get at" the idea, that's all the phrase really means. We're never going to find some prose or set of words that describes what the soul is. But we don't have to, because we are souls, so we have inside knowledge about what a soul is you might say. you don't need "soul" defined, because you are one.

[rozeboosje]

@zimtran007 Of course there is no clear demarcation between "me" and "everything else". "Me" is this organism's focal point in reality. At its center it seems quite solid and unambiguously "me", and most of reality seems equally clearly "other", but the transition from one to the other is smooth and non-discrete. "reality" and "me" are inextricably linked.