Friday, December 01, 2006
individuality...(utterly butterly crap)
contemporary world view,
It's easy to think that science
has come to take the place of God.
But some philosophical problems
remain as troubling as ever.
Take the problem
of free will.
This problem's been around
for a long time,
since before Aristotle
in 3 50 B.C.
St. Augustine,
St. Thomas Aquinas,
these guys all worried
about how we can be free...
if God already knows in advance
everything you're gonna do.
Nowadays we know that the world
operates according to some
fundamental physical laws,
and these laws govern the behavior
of every object in the world.
Now, these laws, because
they're so trustworthy,
they enable incredible
technological achievements.
But look at yourself.
We're just physical systems too.
We're just complex arrangements
of carbon molecules.
We're mostly water,
and our behavior isn't gonna be
an exception to basic physical laws.
So it starts to look like whether it's
God setting things up in advance...
and knowing everything
you're gonna do...
or whether it's these basic
physical laws governing everything.
There's not a lot of room
left for freedom.
So now you might be tempted
to just ignore the question,
ignore the mystery
of free will.
Say, "Oh, well, it's just an historical
anecdote. It's sophomoric.
It's a question with no answer.
Just forget about it."
But the question keeps staring you
right in the face.
You think about individuality,
for example, who you are.
Who you are is mostly a matter
of the free choices that you make.
Or take responsibility.
You can only be held responsible,
you can only be found guilty
or admired or respected...
for things you did
of your own free will.
The question keeps coming back, and we
don't really have a solution to it.
It starts to look like all your
decisions are really just a charade.
Think about how it happens.
There's some electrical activity
in your brain.
Your neurons fire. They send
a signal down into your nervous system.
It passes along down
into your muscle fibers.
They twitch. You might, say,
reach out your arm.
Looks like it's
a free action on your part,
but every one of those--
every part of that process...
is actually governed by
physical law:
chemical laws,
electrical laws and so on.
So now it just looks like the Big Bang
set up the initial conditions,
and the whole rest
of our history
the whole rest of human history
and even before,
is really just sort of the playing out
of subatomic particles...
according to these basic
fundamental physical laws.
We think we’re special. We think we
have some kind of special dignity,
but that now
comes under threat.
I mean, that's really
challenged by this picture.
So you might be saying, "Well, wait a
minute. What about quantum mechanics?
"I know enough contemporary
physical theory to know
it's not really like that.
"It's really
a probabilistic theory.
There's room. It's loose.
It's not deterministic."
And that's gonna enable us
to understand free will
But if you look at the details,
it's not really gonna help...
because what happens is you have
some very small quantum particles,
and their behavior is
apparently a bit random.
They swerve. Their behavior is absurd
in the sense that it's unpredictable...
and we can't understand it
based on anything that came before.
It just does something out of the blue,
according to a probabilistic framework.
But is that gonna help
with freedom?
Should our freedom just be
a matter of probabilities,
just some random swerving
in a chaotic system?
That just seems like it's worse.
I'd rather be a gear...
in a big deterministic,
physical machine...
than just some
random swerving.
So we can't just ignore
the problem.
We have to find room in our
contemporary world view for persons,
with all that that it entails;
not just bodies, but persons.
And that means trying
to solve the problem of freedom,
finding room for choice
and responsibility...
and trying to understand
individuality.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
evolution(utterly butterly crap)
If we’re looking at the highlights of human development, you have to look at the evolution of the organism... and then at the development of its interaction with the environment. Evolution of the organism will begin with the evolution of life... perceived through
MORE THAN WORDS(UTTERLY BUTTELY CRAP)
And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival.Like, you know, "water."We came up with a sound for that.Or, "Saber-toothed tiger right behind you." We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate... all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing.What is, like, frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth... and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this
Byzantine conduit in their brain, you know, through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying
and say yes, they understand.But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable.
And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another, and we-- we feel that we have connected, and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for
Saturday, October 28, 2006
huko mukho hangla(utterly butterly crap)
tomra sobai nishchoi ei kobita ta porechho?....good....ami emni jigges korchhilam......ami kintu porini r pore thakleo r mone nei
tobe eta bodhhoy doper der jonno lekha hoyechhilo.....hukor nam sunlei mone pore chhilam....chharo osob....ki jeno bolbo bhabchhilam?....oh haan....achha tomra ki lekho boloto blog e .....ami to ichhu bhebei pai na.....r ja bhabi ta tomader bojhano jay na karon its totally environment based ....thik achhe ekta chhotto try nichhi
take a deep breath and say ohm for around two minutes..........did u mind reach somewhere else?.....no?.....amar ta to dur durante pouchhe gechhe.....dekhle ei hochhe difference.....
first thing that mind gives me(utterly butterly crap)
H-home I-iritate J-james K-kiss L-last
M-mother N-no O-old P-past Q-quest
R-rest S-sick T-ten U-under
V-vest W-west X-xena
Y-yeild Z-????????
room no 195(based on true story)
climb up 10X8 steps and reach the corridor that leads u to G and H wing and so u turn ur head to the gloomy part of the corridor ....thats H wing......the most remote place on earth.....no voice u hear....may be some cigerrate smokes coming from rooms or grass...more likely....ya that small pic above is our wing......pretty scray na....and my room is pretty inside....ya room no 195.....and the wing from my rom just looks like this....and then u enter my room where everything smells like a dark uncertain essence of different moods ....the door is full of graffity...just shut the door.....and take a deep look in my room.....start from behind the door where mt lady of sorrow cries with me...i love her as she is my constant relief from pain that i suffer and when i see her i feel that am not the only one in pain......am accompanied by her...move ur eyes clockwise and there comes the famous paintings of love and the bitch stares at u with jealous hideous eyes.....u bitch!!.....the unprotective walls stand rounding u and u fel in a nutshell....the rrom just starts and ends with no time to think bout anything except whats inside the room....its a gr8 attraction......as soon as u enter this room....cooled by a 1 and half feet wingspanned fan.....and lighted by a jedi sword tube and for my extra dark futuristic room i also attached a bulb which instead adds a gloomy look in my room....there is a medium actually more than sufficient for me ...a wardrobe section......merely covered by handwritten doors....i wrote two of my fav poems over there......among them is my own....hehe....anyways the rest of the room the most interesting part will be discussed in the coming blogs....chow
Friday, October 27, 2006
proof of ..."god do not exist"(utterly butterly crap)
if u love to believe that god do exist ....then plz dont read this......ok so others ....can u really tell me when actually do we remember god or need god's help???......it is when we are dependent on others descision.....to make ur own descision u dont need he help of god.....for example people generally pray to god before any exam so that the paper which is set by some unknown soul on earth is easy...or the person sitting beside, know all the answers...or nothing wrong happen in the exam so that the authority punish him/her.....so as u see we need god so that the other people make the descisions so that this poor chap is helped.......for taking his descisions no god is needed.......so if u think from the descision makers point of view....he hardly considers these cases and work according to his benefits.......so where is god?......god has no job in this world.....here people takes descissions .......excuse me, can u plz telll me the correct spelling for descisions?.....coz i think till now i have typed some three different spelling for that word" ".....ok now coming back to the topic ,,,,,as we speak ....people now a days dont really care bout others and take descisions on their own will........
Hence prooved...there is no god
to start with
i really dont kno y i started blogging suddenly....to tell u the truth i am very poor in english.i make a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes and am pretty sure by now u have found some of them.......u may laugh or feel sypathetic bout it.....i dont care coz god gave brains to all to think differently.....whatever......one more thing is that i really dont have any topic to write right now......coz my life is boring ,,,,,nothing happens ....and i promise if anything happens u will be the 1st person to kno that .....my works will be marked as "true story based" or "utterly butterly crap"