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I didn't mean that derisively, btw. I think it's perfectly fine to want to focus on other things besides raising children. We don't need more people being raise
by ericd 8y ago
I didn't mean that derisively, btw. I think it's perfectly fine to want to focus on other things besides raising children. We don't need more people being raised by parents who don't want to raise them.
I do think we can modify our drives, though, and that free will isn't quite as much of an illusion as you say. Visualization is pretty powerful.
But you're right that there's not necessarily a real point. If it's a complete fiction, though, I think it's a useful one.
- iamnothere 8y ago> I do think we can modify our drives, though, and that free will isn't quite as much of an illusion as you say. Visualization is pretty powerful. I agree that our drives can be modified, but who is modifying them, and based on what drives? And where does the drive to modify ourselves come from? It's turtles all the way down. To quote Hofstadter: "In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference."
- ericd 8y agoHeh fair enough.