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Solemente



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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Lucidx]
#11427750 - 11/10/09 05:59 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lucidx said: I wonder if like some great secret is revealed about lifes mysteries when you die.
I highly doubt it, but it would be cool if that were true.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Lucidx]
#11427877 - 11/10/09 06:16 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Lucidx said: But you are not you unless your brain lets you be you.
You are part of your brain but your brain is more you than you are.
You are just a peice of your brain, you cannot control your brain completely so your brain controls more of you than you control it.
If you want to be you, and your brain doesn't want you to be you, you won't be you.
You can't control the chemicals your brain makes and how it affects your thought process, your brain is like your big brother.
What if I fry my brain
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Solemente]
#11427886 - 11/10/09 06:17 PM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Solemente said:
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Lucidx said: I wonder if like some great secret is revealed about lifes mysteries when you die.
I highly doubt it, but it would be cool if that were true.
I used to think about this all the time. Like you finally see what "reality" really is.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Frost]
#11430508 - 11/11/09 12:55 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow, some great ideas and interesting concepts going around in this thread! 
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Frost said: Do you all agree or disagree that there is something more to us than the physical shell and internal components that have come to define who "we" are?"
I think theres a spirit / soul. In the most logical terms I'd say its a kind of energy that inhabits the body. Its a force that we are yet to document and measure scientifically but we can see that it exists.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: trip forever]
#11430526 - 11/11/09 01:00 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think we will go into a different environment where we exist as just energy. We may gain more insight or even lose the insight of being human but I don't think any being ever can know everything.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: nice1]
#11430864 - 11/11/09 02:18 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Inorrect, because life suks.
Duck you, you quack.
Now, for a lecture.
You CAN control your brain,
The more you try to the more you learn how.
Its simple, just TRY.
If you can do it but for an instance, then habitually you can eventually do it for a collection of instances.
Control is a pattern of repitition that is but a collection of instances where a particular shape, color, etc, re-creates itself anew...we all have control, just varying percentages of it.
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Edited by AlphaFalfa (11/11/09 02:21 AM)
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: AlphaFalfa]
#11430956 - 11/11/09 02:33 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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however, this road aint for the faint of heart.
It requires honesty and alot of 'but yes's.
Its not much fun either sometimes, its more fun when you see the effects.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: nice1]
#11430972 - 11/11/09 02:36 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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nice1 said: Its fucking crazy how empathy is just a chemical in my head. Drugs like MDMA show that.
Basically, how much I like you is pretty much dependent on a chemical in my brain. Wheres the free will!?
Define: Free Will
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I'm not convinced free will even exists. I watched an experiment last week that showed the brain decided chemically to make you perform an action up to 4 seconds before you consciously decide to perform the action. Proving that our belief that it was *me* that performed the action is false - if conscious decision can be called *me* or *my free will* that is 
I can't really define free will because I need to know what I am. Who and where is this *me* ?
I don't know!
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: nice1]
#11431174 - 11/11/09 03:52 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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chemicals do everything.
chemicals chemical the chemicals that are chemicaling the chemicals.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Morgenstern]
#11431497 - 11/11/09 06:39 AM (14 years, 3 months ago) |
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Mataspore said: I liked whatever you just posted Frost.
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Solemente said:
Ya, it's not too bad. I'm excited to go back to where I was before I was born after I die though.
But once all brain process and thought is lost, reality truly does not exist anymore.
No one will ever know what absence of reality is. Even psychedelics won't "really" do it.
and by that, I mean dead.
I'm hoping nano technology is advanced enough in the future to keep me living forever I don't want there to be no more reality, thought or conscience.
-Also i think the sub-conscious part of our brain is us, and we can't control it!
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Exactly.
Death is a scary thing, that we can't interpret.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Solemente]
#12198807 - 03/14/10 03:13 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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Day man...
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Bahaga]
#12198966 - 03/14/10 04:20 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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We are all just chemistry, and one day, hopefully, we will be able to edit that chemistry and be whatever the fuck we want to be.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: Thisfire]
#12199325 - 03/14/10 08:27 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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that experiment was specifically when the conscious mind is kept occupied i believe though i may be thinking of something different.
but yeah. me and decypher were talking about this a little. there IS a metaprogrammer in there.
who programs the metaprogrammer? turtles all the way down, but like someone mentioned, we have control over our chemical cascades.
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Re: empathy is just a chemical in my head [Re: truekimbo2]
#12199328 - 03/14/10 08:28 AM (13 years, 11 months ago) |
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you and this "free will" talk
learn to deal with inevitability
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