Originally Posted by
Linkzelda
You don't have to forgive anyone, what you stated is practical, by no means you have to apologize for interrupting. And like you stated with people's preconceptions that we can learn things just from what our minds collects without us actually having to rely on other people, it depends on who's more absolute and who's more liberal. For those who state that sensory input isn't needed, they themselves are just not having a tangible grip on reality here.
Those who state that it's just sensory input and only that, and that any other means of how to experience reality is just that, they're also a bit intolerable as well. However, I don't know who you're aiming for about people who state we just have mental computers that doesn't need much input from others. Either way, if there's people that are like that, I feel sorry for them, but it seems you're creating people from Sivason's set question, or you glanced through and was just late in responding. Most of the responses I made right now is just aimed towards Sivason's questions (and just a few snippets of the arguments people stated).
But presuming you're aiming it on me, I'm not aiming to disprove Free-Will whatsoever, in fact, if I did that, that would be contradicting to the principles I have in just being an individual that scavenges for information and doesn't want to surrender himself to emotional gluing of concepts that seem good enough to not explore even more. It's just that with Free-Will, and using examples of how it's hard to conceptualize as irrefutable truth, it seems impractical. Presuming people are just focusing that being devoid of external sources and influences for "Free-Will," it usually just puts them back into muddy waters all over again, because it's bound for them to respond with a slightly or overly Solipsistic mindset.
So for people who aren't trying to be Solipsistic (to some extent), it doesn't mean everyone has intolerance for the probability of there being a Transcendentalist, Spiritual, or Mystical Vibe. It's there for good measure, but just something to add on, and not something to fully live by. For me, I don't think it's just 100% sensory input/chemicals/molecules flying about...it's that along with many, many, many, many things.
But if your post wasn't reflected at me personally, or me part of whatever group you're mentioning, I apologize, and just ignore what I said.
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