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*nods*

andgt;Sanduleak, I think, already mentioned the idea that andgt;people could potentially be acting moving only as the andgt;result of chemical synapses. andnbsp;I've thought this through andgt;to a great extent. I'm not too sure if I said that... but I did not intend on sounding like I don't believe...

hah!

If you're talking about all matter being made up of atoms. Then certainly it is energy.



But I guess for all practical application, it is energy that cannot be created or destroyed. The first law...

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed?

Physical reincarnation, of course.

Now was that the first or second law of thermodynamics... hmmm

Don't agree with alot of what enlightenment period philosophes have to say...

But the clean slate ideology... I believe in that.

So we have limited free-will? If those Enlightenment Period philosophes were correct, then we were born with a clean slate. But we have no knowledge, at birth, to act upon so there really is no will except survival instincts of... suck and go to the bathroom... and sleep. But as we get older we are ...

Paul, that sounds incredibly fascinating.

Anywhere that I can dig into it?

- Josh

Doesn't the fact that Angroth from that website decided to write all of that prove that he has some amount of free-will? ;) Unless he was told to do it. In which case he still has creative freedom in how to word it which boils down to style and grammar he learned at a young age (or through formal ed...

Why do we have a moral obligation to animals who do not understand moral concepts?

We know that other animals feel pain in the same way that we know that other human beings feel pain. We do not need words to understand the suffering of a famine victim whose language we do not understand. Through their physical reactions, we try to infer the pain of other human beings, even though ...

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