On Sunday, March 10, 2013 11:35:31 AM UTC-4, spudb...@aol.com wrote: > > Moreover, some people appear to hang tough with life, and do not commit > suicide, despite the intolerable conditions of their life. Which is > something of a puzzle, I suppose. Some people do and some people don't. So > maybe its a biological condition that makes us hang in there? >
Maybe biology doesn't care and it's up to us personally and directly? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > To: everything-list <everyth...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> > Sent: Sun, Mar 10, 2013 10:21 am > Subject: Re: Dartmouth neuroscientist finds free will has neural basis > > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:13:55 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 3/9/2013 6:23 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> An automatic pilot only controls the plane to the extent that it extends >> human intentions to control the plane. The automatic pilot can just as >> easily be set to crash the plane into a mountain as soon as possible and it >> won't know the difference or care. >> >> >> So that proves that people who commit suicide aren't conscious...? >> > > No, it says nothing about the consciousness of people who intentionally > commit suicide. I don't see the connection. People commit suicide because > the experience of living their lives is qualitatively intolerable, not > because they have a programming error and can't tell the the difference > between killing themselves and not killing themselves. An automatic pilot > is incapable of committing suicide. > > Craig > > >> Brent >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
