The alien hypothesis?

[David Meury]

John Doe wrote, sarcastically:

"...we all know the individual "I" is an illusion;
another "sematic construct" ...

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But isn't it from a materialistic, scientific
perspective that the "I" becomes illusory?  How can a
cause-and-effect based mechanism develop a choice
making-capability that transcends the limitations of
the mechanism?  Are consciousness and free-will,
therefore, illusions, products of noise in the system
-- or something else?  The "quantum variability at the
sub-atomic level" argument for freedom seems rather
feeble to me.


		
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