MaxTheAlmighty t1_itqbw5k wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:08 PM

Reply to comment by SovArya in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 24, 2022 by BernardJOrtcutt

This story creates a cool concept: we can't pretend to be good if we have never fought evil. And i also dislike the concept that being a good person means NOT doing bad, rather than doing good.

SovArya t1_itqcdmw wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:11 PM

Yes, not doing bad is the way. Not doing is the exercise. As we did the thought experiment. It is not easy. It's hard. Haha

MaxTheAlmighty t1_itqcnsj wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:13 PM

We realized that the lack of free will is an illusion the mind of the soul creates to explain the limited brain in the limited body.

SovArya t1_itqdj98 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:19 PM

My guess is we simply didn't have the capacity to disprove it before. Now we have experiments capable of checking the chemicals in the brain.

The chemicals makes us do stuff. And stopping that is not automatic.

So the process will be don't move, think before you do. Think before you do.

MaxTheAlmighty t1_itqe1r1 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:22 PM

We should accept that we don't have full control on our brain. Maybe God created us this way because It was needed to. Maybe the human mind is just very weak and has difficulty controlling the brain and istincts like anxiety or mosquito hate, but very strong compared to the animal mind (the animal soul probably isn't real).

SovArya t1_itqegbq wrote on October 25, 2022 at 3:25 PM

I think you're not wrong. I also think we can't really function if somethings are not automatic. That's why it's really hard to make a synthetic lifeform.