Well, you’re an engineer, not a neuroscientist like Robert Sapolsky so his research carries more value than your opinion.
Well, you’re an engineer, not a neuroscientist like Robert Sapolsky so his research carries more value than your opinion.
It is anecdotal, but compelling. Determinism can’t be falsified, but neither can free will. The neuroscience is interesting, and shouldn’t be dismissed. Sapolsky’s debates are informative.
I present, the Jim Twins:
Twins separated at birth find each other and discover they’ve led identical lives source
You know, there’s a very, very strong emotional incentive to feel agency, and endless aspects of experimental psychology has shown that you stress people or frazzle them or give them an unsolvable problem, and they get a way distorted sense of agency, at that point, as a defence.
Don’t let the atheists win.
Then study theology and prove them wrong.
This person gets it. If you have to spend money to be happy, you’re fooling yourself. You’re already lost to capitalist realism.
If I have to spend money to be happy, then I’m already unhappy.
Have you tried unplugging capitalism, and then not plugging it back in?
Zero sum, the only game in town.
This kind of thoughtful introspection is the only reason to get out of bed in the morning. That, and dogs. Dogs are wonderful.
Me lord likes the precarity.
If food is inalienable right, it would have been included in the Constitution. /s
It’s Tulip Mania all over again.
In 2023, there were deaths reported on a Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya. A 2024 report said that there was evidence of human rights violations on that farm.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Or why we have nice things. Or both.
Rechargeable beard trimmer. They last six months , then the charge is less than 5 minutes.