You see the brain. The brain does not see you.
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About a deity full of love and compassion
- Thread starter Skeptisch
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You see the brain. The brain does not see you.
waitasec
Veteran Member
the brain sees itself...
You can model the world as "you, seeing things," or you can model the world as brains with eyes. Either way, there's "you, modeling the world."
waitasec
Veteran Member
waitasec
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waitasec
Veteran Member
the brain is aware of itself...
me and my brain are one...it's an eternal feedback of mirror images
Got'cha.
'Me' and 'My brain' are already two.
Assuming 'Me' and 'My brain' are one -- I am very compassionate and I grant you this -- then what mirrors what?
I grant that I may be missing something and therefore the question.
waitasec
Veteran Member
awareness mirrors the self...
The human brain is an engine of belief. How that engine works depends how it is wired. The basic wiring is done at a very young age. When we grow up in a faith based environment there is a good chance faith becomes a virtue and the cruellest events, like tsunamis and earthquakes, can still be seen as acts of compassion and love in disguise.
When we grow up in an environment of logic and reason we tend not to give credit to an unnatural deity. But it is always our brain and its wiring that is involved in the decision making. Rational, open-ended, honest inquiry has always been the true source of insight into such processes. If faith it is ever right, it is right by accident.
Neuroscientist Sam Harris The Moral Landscape is a wonderful read on that subject.
Who says they are "cruel"? i.e. what is your hard-wired faith-based virtue that lends itself to the image of these natural events as "cruel"?
Except, of course, for accrediting cruelty where cruelty is due.
Rational, open-ended, honest inquiry has always been the true source of insight into such processes. If faith it is ever right, it is right by accident.
AntEmpire
Active Member
Look for the anwser within, don't go without.
I understand. But what is within-without of? I mean what is that surface which defines within and without?
waitasec
Veteran Member
the amygdala....
But that is external fully to the observer.
