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 <stat...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On 30 October 2013 16:07, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com<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 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. >> 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
