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Post by tdheyen on Mar 8, 2015 20:00:11 GMT
Taylor Andruska Code: 11632 Question 1: If I was just this body and there was no metaphysical, I would feel like there was no purpose. As if I am just living my life and not really headed in any direction. In the same sense, I would feel somewhat free. Since I don't really have a direction or purpose I could live my life however I'd please without having to stick to some plan or some goals. Being just a body and nothing else can be seen as a positive and a negative. Although I prefer to be an optimist, I can't help but to think that life with no metaphysical aspect to it is somewhat pessimistic. I'm not saying that someone who chooses to not believe in the metaphysical is a pessimist, but from an optimists point of view it can be seen as somewhat negative. Question 2: In a lot of ways I would be superstitious about many things. Such as lucky football jerseys, jinxes, and knocking on wood. But more specifically I believe in this thing called karma. I believed that bad things happened to those who did bad and that good things happened to those who did good. However, overtime I realized that karma can't be true. Karma doesn't explain when bad things happen to good people and when good things happen to bad people. By deductive reasoning one can see that karma does not exist. Like discussed in lecture, things just happen by chance. There's no secret formula, there's no guideline or rules that have to be followed, life happens by chance. website: sites.google.com/a/student.mtsac.edu/worldwideweird/
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Post by mungeekid1 on Mar 8, 2015 23:27:46 GMT
Film Questions Code-11632
1. To say that we are just “stuff” in a body is to say we’re just zombie-like wouldn’t it? Being just a body; having no soul, no personality and no emotions, is just we humans as an empty shell. If I were to realize that there was nothing “meta” physical about me I would feel just so lost. I wouldn’t know what to do. I’m not very religious, to where I wouldn’t be as worried about what lies beyond our empty shell of a life, but what would really get to me is how I wouldn’t be able to enjoy what I do now. Being just “stuff” inside a body, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy music the way I do now. Music being a big part of my life, I would feel so out of place. It scares me to think just how dark a world it would be.
2. Of course one of the biggest examples I believe represents Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” would be Santa. But for me, I would have to choose the tooth fairy. For some reason that stood out to me more. I’ve always been one to believe in things not from this world, whether they be mythological, paranormal or extraterrestrial. I remember my little brother’s tooth had just fallen out and our mom reminded him to put his tooth under the pillow so the tooth fairy can trade it for money. Of course as kids we were like, “Yeah! Money!” so he did. I was awoken in the middle of the night by the door opening and I saw my mom sneaking quietly to my brother’s bedside. It didn’t take long to occur to me that she had been lying to us about the tooth fairy. I never questioned it to her, just to keep my little brother in the little fantasy that he was actually visited by the “tooth fairy”. On a more personal note, I believe another example that I believe relates to “Allegory of the Cave” is relationships. You see only the shadows of it; or what you believe this person is like. When light is finally revealed upon this said person, they are someone entirely different and not what you expected.
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Post by Marina Avila on Mar 9, 2015 1:25:24 GMT
11632 1. I would feel empty if I had come to the realization that I was just "stuff". I like to think that there is more to my being than just "three pounds of meat" like the video says. I don’t know much about what my body is made of aside from flesh and bones etc., but I do know that there are infinite explanations to what matter is and that opens infinite possibilities to what I am. People like to put limitations on what others can do, think, create or even be. They love to restrict others from exploring and questioning the meaning of what or who they are because no one really knows what life is all about. I think I would never really believe the idea of that I was just stuff because that notion by itself can be expanded to countless enlightenments from physical to biological and more. It’s a wonderful feeling to understand that I don’t know anything at all about life since it is a great mystery to all. I appreciate all that makes me contemplate and doubt my existence because it gives me a purpose and a reason to go out there and find out for myself. I believe that if I keep an open mind I will be able to grasp a deeper understanding to whatever or whoever I come in contact with. I want to be able to see myself in others and not restrain my being to just one thing. 2. Using the example of Plato’s Allegory of the cave I can think of a few times when I believed something to be true only to find out it really wasn’t. I can remember many times as a kid I would pray to god to help me pass an exam or a class and never got anything out of it except a great feeling of disappointment and regret. I now see that if I really wanted to pass that exam or class I would have done the proper studying and I would have done alright. I was young and I thought that if you prayed to god for help he was somehow going to miraculously see you through anything. I now think about how so many people are so devoted to a god to the point of committing unspeakable crimes just to justify their faith in someone else. Why don’t they believe in themselves? I think humans are capable of great things when they have a little faith in themselves. sites.google.com/site/avilama23/philosophyspring
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Post by vanessabrianna1008 on Mar 9, 2015 2:59:29 GMT
Week 1: Film Exam Questions Code:11632 Question #1: If I came to apprehend that I was just "Stuff", I would feel somewhat useless, there would be no point of living because everything that is "meta" about me makes me who I am. I would feel as if I am not an actual human because I would lack emotions, intelligence, sense of humor, and a soul. Life would be pretty boring if I was just"stuff", because everything that I would lack has had an influence in my life, such as intelligence which has got me through grade school and now is getting me through college. Also, emotions have played a huge role in my life, I wouldn't be able to love my family or friends without emotions which would feel horrible.Therefore coming to the realization that I was just "stuff" would be hard to grasp. Question #2: About a year ago I had a job that I thought at first was going to be a good job, but it turned out to be the total opposite. This job consisted of knocking on peoples front doors and asking if they would like a "free carpet cleaning" so that sales people can get inside the house and try to sell a vacuum cleaner which cost $1500(this was not said in the interview). I was told that I would start off by making $300 guarantee a week and then after a month I would be making $1500 a month, however this didn't happen. I worked from 9am-9pm or later Mon-Sat or,and was payed $300 a week, until one day the boss try'ed hitting on me, he said that if I would be his girlfriend he would do all these things for me like pay for my car, get me an apartment, and pay me more but I didn't believe him because he was a manipulator, and he was in his 40s, married and had two kids and one of them was a year younger then me. About a couple weeks after I refused his deal, he decided that he would not pay me"guarantee" anymore I would basically have to get payed off of commission, so I ended up quitting, I was somewhat brain washed into this job that wasn't real but in the end I learned my lesson. sites.google.com/site/vanessamcmxcv/
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Post by jlimas2 on Mar 9, 2015 3:58:18 GMT
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If I realized I was just stuff and there was nothing metaphysical about myself, I would initially be sad. But then I would begin to question, “Why am I just stuff?” or “What is my purpose?”. If I attempt to explain this scientifically there must be a reason for me being stuff.
The video refers to the reason of our resistance to accept being matter because of dualism, also know as something must be beyond matter. There is a mystery behind matter. Like suggested in the video, science can explain the ocean as H2O, yet doesn’t take into account the ocean’s magnificence.
Science has yet to completely define us. We have yet to completely understand the human brain and all its complexities. A philisopher once noted that matter is made up of things that jiggle. The jiggling going through the neural connections and being sent down the pathways in our brain we have yet to fully understand. We cannot determine motives, emotions, and other subjective aspects that make a human other than the physiological and scientific explanations of the human body. Which is why we maintain dualism and reject the person confronting the opposition of simply being just matter or light. Even then we can all still be wrong of what we have discovered as a human race thus-far. Science continues to be ever-changing by improving old ideas that were once thought to be true. The way we see the world today won’t be the way we see it in the future, which is why I wouldn’t consider myself in a state of being “just stuff”.
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In the video, “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave”, it’s noted, “the world of appearance is a beguiling illusion which hides the truth of the worlds true essence” meaning your persuaded that something is true when it is not. For example, the video discusses the balloonist, in the film The Wizard of Oz, who plays antics to gain respect and power as Oz. There once was a teacher named Ms. Dettelbach who played a powerful role in my high school classroom. On the first day of school she demanded for respect and was very intimidating to the students in order to have that respect. This very intimidating teacher revealed herself as the man behind the curtain, like in Oz, when she broke down and cried in front of the entire class. At that moment, the students had a different perspective of her and no longer saw her as powerful teacher. The students now saw her an emotional person with weakness, whom just played antics to gain respect.
Another example from the video relates to, “That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense.” For example, my cousin Julia was always intimidated by my sister Jasmin. Jasmin is 8 years older than Julia. Julia always perceived Jasmin to be this older, mean person but only because she didn’t really know her. Julia referred to the mean look Jasmin always has on her face. But since I am extremely familiar with my sister I know that she is not a mean person. To me, Jasmin, who I knew was a little thing. But, to Julia, Jasmin, which she did not know was immense. I encouraged Julia to just get to know her and she would soon find that Jasmin isn’t as bad as she perceives her to be and there was nothing to worry about.
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Post by mirv42 on Mar 9, 2015 4:29:26 GMT
Mirvat Mohamed: Week 1 Film Questions – 11632
1. If I were to ever realize that my existence was nothing but a physical suggestion and nothing beyond that, I just would not be able to fathom and process it, and I simply would not believe it. In order for me to even have the ability to question what I am, a certain level of a metaphysical presence in my mind is needed to question such a thing. To say that I am only a physical existence and nothing more fundamentally suppresses my capabilities as a living soul. As it was once famously said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” If I were to say that I am made up of “just stuff,” I may as well be describing a car or a kitchen counter. These two objects are made up of “just stuff,” there’s nothing metaphysical about them. Through personal experience and a certain level of awareness I have achieved, I am more metaphysical than I am physical. Physicality has limits, and I can only be so much in my physical form. I am made up of cells and atoms conglomerated to create my anatomy. However, my metaphysical existence is virtually infinite. My thoughts and my mind are limitless, I can manifest anything that I wish to manifest with my soul, within my soul. For someone who has not reached this level of understanding, it is much easier to accept the possibility that he/she is made up of only physical material. As it was mentioned in the film Mysterium Tremendum, it is hard to believe something we have not experienced. There lies a level of ignorance when it comes to attempting to understand something that we may not have ever experienced. With that being said, realizing and accepting that I can only be made of up of some form of organic material with no other purpose but to exist tangibly, is simply annihilating and stifling my capabilities of consciousness, ultimately attempting to limit my perpetual existence.
2. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave generally happens on a daily basis. As a child, however, I believed that after turning off or pausing a movie, the little people in the film would go to sleep until I resumed watching it. I seriously believed that since I was not watching the television, there weren’t any running programs. Another example is a general idea of certain failed relationships of any kind. Whether it was a close friend to go back on his /her word or promises that were broken, these experiences were deceiving in some form. I believed one thing and it turned out to be the complete opposite and my realization in this is that our perceptions are ever evolving, whether it is a thought or a tangible manifestation, things will appear to be one thing in a certain point in our lives and it will alter as we grow.
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Post by 89smeyer on Mar 9, 2015 4:50:24 GMT
1. When asked how I would feel if I we told that I was just a "jumble of stuff" with absolutely no level of higher consciousness, my response would be that of a man in a comma. I would be physically alive, but consciously dead. I would have no connection with emotions. Happy or sad would be nonexistent in my vegetative state. Furthermore I believe that my since of the future and recollection of the past would be impaired to such a level as to submit entirely to the present. It is through the use of our consciousness that we, as humans, have the capacity to understand the passage of time and use that to our advantage in the development of our individual lives. It is my belief that the absence of the "meta" would lead one that can function on all physical levels to be no more than a biological drone. The Borg from the T.V. series "Star Trek" is a strong example of a biological drone with little to no levels of individual consciousness. Although the Borg social structure does operate with a hive mind mentality the individual Borg needs only to feed its body to survive. There is no wasted thoughts outside from the basic survival instincts within the Borg. Finally I believe, after watching both parts of the film "Mysterium Tremendum", that we as humans are made out of very small atoms that when combined together create "stuff". What sets us apart from these everyday items is our higher level of consciousness. What is consciousness? That I am afraid I can not answer, not because I lack the knowledge of what consciousness is, but because we as a species lack the understanding of how consciousness works. I dare to believe that as we continue to build faster and smarter computers we will one day soon maybe, through the development of Artificial Intelligence, better understand just what exactly consciousness is.
2. I wish to start this discussion with the statement "That which we know is a little think; that which we do not know is immense." Keeping with the context of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" I have had similar experiences in believing somethings to be true but later were found to be false. One example was when I was young I was lead to believe that my grandparents were considered to be very wealthy individuals and that after their passing my family was to receive a substantial portion of this wealth. Years later I came to realize that although my grandparents have some wealth it was no where near the amount I was lead to believe. The majority of the wealth was lost when I was very young. The idea of loosing that wealth before we even had access to it was an unfortunate yet enlightening experience. Of course I was upset when I learned about this event but looking back at it I can better see now who I have become and I believe this person to be a better person than that I could have become. Another example is something I did to my parents. When I was learning how to fly I made my first solo flight in secret with my grandfather. A year later when I made my first solo flight with my parents present of course they were very proud of me and my accomplishment. Later after they found out I soloed a flight before they witnessed it they were devastated. They told me that they wanted to be there for my first ever solo flight, they wanted to be present for that major first step in becoming a pilot. They were hurt and felt lied to. A regrettable experience on my part, however the life lesson I learned at that time is one I will carry with me until the day I die.
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Post by lxsander on Mar 9, 2015 4:51:05 GMT
Film Examination Week 1
1) When I am told that I am just a piece of meat that only weights 3lbs, I would have confusion running through my mind because that is not what I see myself as. I see myself having value but when I am told that I am just “stuff" or a body it downgrades me. It makes me think that I am just part of this realm or world that has walking bodies or stuff doing things as part of another thing. Overall it make me seem like an object doing something along with other objects with no point in what I am doing carrying a piece of meat within that body. Being told that I am a just “stuff” make it seem like I am just stuff that part of other stuff along with other stuff in a big circle stuff. 2) An example of me finding out something to be false goes back to when I was 12-14. It had to do with my sister who at the time was in her late 20’s and she would dress in dark colored clothes or majority of the time in black and would have different style combat boots, along with different colored hair. I saw her as very kind women that was outspoken and that would like to have fun and go out to nightclubs and get drunk. Up until I was 18 I had this perception of her as being rebellious for always having alcohol in her system, going out all the time, and doing drugs. It wasn’t until my mother, my sister and I were having a conversation and I jumped in to tell them how much I admired my sister. I said I admired her for being the way she was as kind but also having her fun and doing drugs while being on top of things. My sister and mother both looked at me baffled at the fact that I admired my sister for doing drugs and having fun while being on top of her priorities. They started laughing and both of them surely denied and reassured me that she had never done drugs before. I was confused and was there thinking that the whole time I thought she had done drugs. A second example was finding out that turtles cant live outside of their shell. I discovered the truth when I bought my first turtle and was playing with it. I wondered why it walked so slow and at the moment I thought it was the shell that it was carrying. I told my nephew what I thought and him the mischievous boy that he was, he pulled the turtles head and the rest is gruesome and found out turtles cant live outside their shell. Code: 11632
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Post by panda243 on Mar 9, 2015 4:56:07 GMT
Erica Garcia Professor Lane Phil 5 March 8, 2015 Final Examination Week 1 1) I would feel perplexed if someone told me I was just stuff. To say I am just stuff signifies I have no real significance as a human but a bunch of matter. This would mean I have nothing of importance to offer in life, nothing metaphysical. Yet, to realize I am just stuff makes me question I f I as a human are useful or of value because I have feelings, emotions and a capacity to ac and understand the world and how it works. So what does stuff really mean? To a certain extent to realize I am just stuff does not bother me or make me feel sad, I literally have no negative feelings to that realization. It is just interesting because science believes that matter stems down to stuff. The movie talks about 2) Two instances where I discovered something to be untrue would be when I was about 10 years old, everyone in class was waiting for “Santa Clause” to bring gifts for them. I always thought he was supposed to appear only at night when everyone was asleep. To my surprise though he showed up in the morning in his red suit and big white beard and got my classmates all riled up that I went up to him and asked him if he is truly in fact the Santa Clause, he hesitated and said, yes of course! I then got closer and yelled out he’s a fake and pulled his beard down. He was discovered and I would like to think that fake Santa was who disappointed m young fellow classmates, not me. The second discovery was of my first puppy who when we bought him, we expected a Labrador boy. Couple months passed ad I took notice that he squatted to pee instead of lifting his little foot. He later began to bleed down there and I realized he was actually a little she, who when taken to the vet, they told us she was actually a Labrador/ mix Chihuahua. But I loved her more even though I was deceived for months.
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Post by victorvargas on Mar 9, 2015 4:59:58 GMT
11632
Question 1
Matter is a lot like Legos. When isolated and unstructured, matter is seemingly worthless. However, like Legos, matter is used to create some truly amazing things. In my opinion, the value of any thing is not in what it is made out of, but rather, how that thing is applied. If someone sat me down and told me “you’re just stuff” I would relish in that fact. The film, Mysterium Trendum, describes matter a scaffolding project of many layers. The film goes on to explain that matter is not just one thing. Matter is used to create everything we know. If I am “just stuff”, that would mean that everything and everyone I know is “just stuff”. By that logic, it is not unreasonable to suggest that my body has, at least atomically, the potential to create anything and everything in the known universe. With that statement I am proud to me labeled as matter.
Question 2
As a child, I took every word my parents spoke as gospel. As I got older I slowly realized that my perception of reality was not based in facts. The first drastic shift in my perception happened when I was 4 years old. My mother and stepfather were devout Christians. As a kid, I was told that the principles of Christianity were the only truths in all religions. It was not until I spoke with classmates in realized that not everyone thought the way I was told to think. When I confronted my mother about the conflicting opinions of my classmates, she explained that everyone has different beliefs. It was at that moment that something clicked in my head. I realized that I can have my very own beliefs. I realized I didn’t have to dedicate myself to a religion I didn’t whole heartedly believe in. Another shift in my perception of reality happened when I was about fifteen years old. When I was fifteen, my father and I were driving back home from the grocery store. My dad pulled over into a bank parking lot and turned off his car. He turned to me and tried to calmly explain to me that he’d recently been diagnosed with cancer. As he went on to explain that his cancer was terminal, everything stopped for me. It was then, at the age of fifteen, that I realized how fragile life is. The fear of mortality changed the way I saw everything. After my father was diagnosed, I slowly broke out of my introverted shell and began to experience life in a new, open minded way. When I definitively realized that the amount of time I have to exist can never be guaranteed, I began to see life, not as something I need to get through, but as a series of memories I should cherish.
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Post by lxsander on Mar 9, 2015 5:34:02 GMT
EXTRA CREDIT: Film Response Responding to Panda243
Hello there Panda243, I read your response to the film examination and it was interesting that you had no feelings towards being called “stuff” because I don’t think it would affect me either because if we are leaving behind the metaphysical then all values and religion are left out of the picture so I could care less about being stuff along with other stuff. Plus it is funny that you didn’t know your dog was a female and a Labrador/Chihuahua mix. See you in class. ☺
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Post by panda243 on Mar 9, 2015 5:37:29 GMT
Extra Credit- Film Response Panda243 Reply to lxsander
I found your video responses interesting, mainly the second video. The way you associated your sister who chose to express herself with dark clothing, dying her hair and listening to rock music to her doing drugs was crazy. The best part was that you loved her even more because you thought she was on top of things in regards to life. Even after discovering the truth, you kept your feelings for her and did not let the truth affect your views or perspective of your sisters way of expressing herself.
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Post by joshm on Mar 9, 2015 6:33:40 GMT
Film Test #1
Question 1:
I believe that I would be crushed to come upon such knowledge. There simply has to be more to life than just 70 years (on average) of consciousness. I would know that my body would have everlasting effects on this natural world. Molecules that currently compose my body will never cease to exist. Even when this body dies and becomes fertilizer, the molecules that once belonged to me will be the basis for new creation. Maybe that whole reincarnation thing isn't so wrong. There would be a certain freedom that also comes with such knowledge. The removal of uncertainty would definitely simplify things. No more would I stress about what lies beyond this body. No more would I worry over the meaning of it all. I do not believe that such knowledge would turn me into Nietzche's ubermensch, but it would certainly put me on that track. My only solace would be that eternity would away me regardless of the existence of the supernatural. “Things are made of littler things that juggle.” At least the jiggly things that I am made of will continue to jiggle until the heat-death of the universe.
Question 2:
“If you ladies leave my island, if you survive recruit training, you will be a weapon. You will be a minister of death praying for war. “- Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. This line is from the movie Full Metal Jacket, a film that is renowned for its surreal look into the tragedy of war. While I truly appreciate the movie, and actually feel like the overall message is a good one, the film does not give an entirely realistic view of the experience that is recruit training. Unfortunately though, many people who have not been through Marine Corps boot camp actually believe that the movie is accurate in the way how Marine Corps recruits are “brainwashed” into becoming remorseless killing machines. Even I held this view before I went to boot camp myself. I didn't what to expect and I simply told myself that I would try to resist any sort of over-the-top brainwashing that occurred. Fortunately, the boot camp experience is not really like the one shown in the movie. First off, your Drill Instructors actually are over-the-top cartoon characters that crack jokes so often that it makes you wonder how lucrative their careers as comedians were before they joined the Marine Corps, but at the same time, everything that they do is for each recruits personal benefit. In boot camp you are not taught to abandon all humanity and become a pure instrument of destruction, instead you are taught to focus your mind and its assets on the survival of yourself and your fellow marines. In fact, I truly believe that you gain a better understanding of humanity at boot camp. Every recruit that you attend boot camp with is your brother, and you are taught to care for every single one of them. You are taught to utilize the abilities of each individual and to maintain a close relationship with your fellow recruits, while at the same time holding your bearing against the gaze of the drill instructors, because of the fact of the matter is, displaying emotions or letting emotions overtake you in the heat of battle can prove detrimental to the health of yourself and your fellow marines. Learning that boot camp was like this was truly contrary the beliefs I held before going there. Another example of how Plato's allegory of the cave holds true to my life would probably be when I originally signed up for this philosophy class and thought that we would only be discussing the opinions of long dead men. I actually thought that the field of philosophy was hardly applicable to modern issues, but after attending a few lectures and reading a few of the assigned books, I think have started to appreciate the potential that comes with understanding philosophy and how it can be applied to almost all walks of life
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Post by mountianman on Mar 9, 2015 19:31:07 GMT
first test test 11632
1. Firstly this question is a hard question for me answer Physiologically and psychologically because i am held back by the "meta" physical restraints i put on my self because i am a christian. I think the only way i could truly be able to answer this question would be if i was an atheist because i would already be in that mind set. The best i could do is that I think it would be a more sad or depressing life because the only thing to look forward to in life would be to move up the economic chain into a higher place of power and luxury. Then again technically everything could be exactly how it is right now minus the "meta" physical part that some of us in this world believe in because our 3 pounds of glorious matter would have no knowledge or thought of anything different or "meta" physical. For example in the movie "the invention of Lying" no one except the person who could lie was able to understand what lying was and everyone else just thought every thing he said was true. The same thing would apply to us if we were never introduced to or had an knowledge of a "meta" physical life but since i do know and follow a "meta" physical life no matter how much i think about how life would be in the other type of mind set it would be impossible or nearly impossible for me to do so.
2. So a few example of Plato's Allegory of the cave are when i was a child i used to believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, leprechauns, and the tooth fairy. It was easy to believe and truly believe that those people existed and would bring me candy on Easter, presents on Christmas, money under my pillow from the tooth i placed under it, and that there was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that would disappear because leprechauns were tricky. As i became older these things just seemed to become more and more unbelievable until one day i just knew they weren't true and that my parent had been the ones doing everything not these there things that i had believed had been doing it all my life. A more brief example would be when you see some one that you think i some one you know and then when you go up to talk to them for what ever reason it could be for and they turn around and realize they aren't who you thought they were and it becomes super awkward especially when you say the name of the person you though it was and then it isn't but instead of it being some random person it's some else that you do know.
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Post by barryallen on Mar 9, 2015 20:55:47 GMT
Question 1 If I was told that I was just "stuff", I would feel confused and argue that we are not just stuff, that we are more than just our brains. Maybe I am wrong, but I believe that if we were all just, as the film said, three pounds of meat, our way of thinking would all be the same and we wouldn't have different attitudes and personalities; we would be like robots. If we were just the effects of the signals being sent from our brains, then that would mean that everything that happens is a coincidence and that everything just happens by chance. If this is true then there is no sole purpose for our existence, in which case we would have no hopes to find our destiny and the choices we made would be more rational. Our lives would not have as much meaning because what we believe to be emotions and feeling would simply just be chemical changes in our body and we would have nothing to believe in. By me believing that we are more than just our brains, it gives me something to look forward to. If we are just our brains and if I am wrong for thinking that there is something metaphysical about us, I would be rather disillusioned. sites.google.com/a/student.mtsac.edu/philosophywonderland/So you are saying with a common "truth" or belief about life all people would lose their individuality and a greater norm would appear among humans? I would have to disagree. Even if our species were "simply just chemical changes in our body," nurture and nature would still play a role in the development of each person. Furthermore choices would be less likely to be rational, since that is reflective to knowledge. I would argue, people are less likely to have a greater desire for knowledge in their plot for selfishness, but rather would focus their time and energy into physical satisfaction in moments. But with a unified belief of "being meat" would there be chaos being cause there would be a unified belief of self-satisfaction immediately and would that eradicate laws, states, and ethics? Would "crime" run rampant and without consequence? I think those are the scarier questions to ask...
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