salyavin, I'd say that in any moment, especially when it comes to writing,
there are literally infinite possibilities. BUT...given that our neuron
pathways are like dirt roads we are more likely to take a path that's been
taken many times before. It's neurological and quite beyond psychology, even
the mechanistic psychology of stimulus and response.
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 1:14 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?
---In [email protected], <jr_esq@...> wrote :
None of us is a machine or random in here. According to rabbi Kraft, humans
came from Adam and Eve. In Hebrew word analysis, Adam means both the spirit of
Hashem and the mud from the earth.
Are you in the process of converting to Judaism John? Just curious as you seem
to be posting a lot of Old Testament cosmology these days.
My guess is that Bhairitu is wondering whether we are too predictable in our
responses on here.
I also think randomness and machinelike thinking play a part in everyone. When
we get a stimulus that requires a response we have many options and we all
probably cycle through many memes of explanations we've picked up on our
journey through life. What we consider the best response will be the one that
chimes best with what we have persuaded ourselves is reality, and we have
different ways of persuading ourselves, some insist on hard 5 sigma data before
accepting new cosmological theories (me) and others judge incoming data by how
well it fits in with other things they (or someone they respect) have decided
is true.
Clearly we can kid ourselves in a major way or can close down options because
they don't fit, which is fine as long as you are sure they don't. Most science
is done in people's heads to work out whether an experiment is even worth the
effort. Definite randomness there in the creation of ideas to test, but
channelled towards a hopefully correct response to explain the machine which is
what we are. Somehow...
Truth is tricky but Genesis is a great story. One of my faves.
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
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