On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:00:58 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: > > This is one of the "big questions" along with "something rather than > nothing" etc. >
That one is easy. Nothing cannot exist. Nothing is an idea that something has about the absence of everything. > > > On 31 October 2013 12:35, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On 30 October 2013 16:07, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]<javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> > We don’t know that chemical reactions are unconscious... >> >> The brain is chemical reactions and consciousness seems to happen when >> these chemical reactions happen, and not when they don't happen. This >> we know. We don't know if consciousness of a strange type happens when >> a hammer hits a nail, for example. It might, it might not. The hammer >> might also have free will: "I hit the nail because I decided to hit >> the nail. If I didn't decide to hit the nail I wouldn't have hit it. >> Sure, my action could be ascribed to a series of mechanistic events, >> but these mechanistic events follow from my decision, not the other >> way around." >> >> >> -- >> Stathis Papaioannou >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
