Key point: what have you ever wanted to do that you have been unable to? |
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Key point: what have you ever wanted to do that you have been unable to? |
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Key point 2: would you be free, if you didn't know you actually weren't? |
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On the apparently macroscopic scale of neural activity I'm a soft determinist, so I think free will as a valid concept as such. |
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It's a stretch to call the media's impact "mind control." What control we are under is not organized and top-down, but convoluted and lateral. We control each other. Certainly there is disproportionate influence from those whose main aim is to amass wealth and who are good at doing it, as well as greater influence from more widely distributed impulses, such as "Me want shiny pretty" and "Me want fuck." The media is at least as much a reflection as an influence upon us. |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
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