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Personally, I think perhaps we are the machine, right now. Everything that has happened now has already happened, and we’re just reliving it. Who knows what ite
by xwdv 4y ago
Personally, I think perhaps we are the machine, right now. Everything that has happened now has already happened, and we’re just reliving it. Who knows what iteration of the loop we might be on right now.
Perhaps on our first run free will was much more obvious and abundant, in ways that we simply can’t even imagine right now, kind of like trying to imagine light when you’re born blind. However, the end result still ends up being exactly what you experience now, minus the running dialog of free will.
Our body is controlled by our mind, and our mind is controlled by our consciousness, which is capable of observing and altering our mind’s thoughts. But as far as I can tell, we don’t seem to have any mechanism for “observing” our consciousness. That is the missing freewill component, which may have only existed in our first run.
- colordrops 4y agoI suspect being able to directly observe consciousness will involve transcending the individual self and end up solving the problem of free will, in that there is no single self to have free will, i.e. consciousness is not tied or confined to any single individual.
- xwdv 4y agoSo everything we experience now on an individual level is just the result of that unified consciousness’s choices?
- colordrops 4y agoAssuming that our individual oerception of experience and agency applies analogously to this greater consciousness, then I suppose so, but I don't know if our narrow minds can comprehend or express the way it operates.
- dsego 4y agoSimulation theory by Philip K Dick https://youtu.be/bbW6ZOmoFgY https://youtu.be/bbW6ZOmoFgY
- rytill 4y ago> But as far as I can tell, we don’t seem to have any mechanism for “observing” our consciousness. That is the missing freewill component, which may have only existed in our first run. Do you think the "first run" version of yourself would have made your HN comment?
- xwdv 4y agoI think somehow the free will of my first run’s version must have willed my consciousness to think about this thought and come to this conclusion.