shadowind

is our one true care the chemical in our system?
does it all come down to what drug we have floating around in our head?

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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll

Og

Brain is a computer that is driven by chemical potential energies. A PC is a computer driven by electronic potential energies.

What you are is the chemicals in your system.

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You & I, no distinction. - Tat Tvam Asi
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AB517

This is true.
Can we change to chemical signatures through repetition of thoughts or actions?

Og

The "we" that would change the chemical signatures is comprised entirely of chemical signatures. So, sure, we could change the chemical signatures. But that would be chemical potentials changing state to alter other chemical potentials.

You would repeat thoughts or actions because you have a desire to do so. This desire is the product of a confluence of other chemical patterns in a brain containing 100 billion neurons each averaging between 1000 and 10000 connections to other neurons.

There are about as many neurons in your brain as there are trees in the amazon rain forest and about as many connections between neurons as there are leaves on trees. Each connection is a complex biochemical machine capable of changing its state through analog levels.

All the glory and beauty and amazing nature of emotion and love and all of that is all expressed in this unfathomably complex network between your ears. Furthermore, just because your skin doesn't enfold my neurons doesn't mean that we are fundamentally different.

In the same way that your cells communicate with one another through chemical signals, your mouth/throat cells create vibrations that propagate to another set of ear cells that transduce the signal into that other brain.

Connections between humans may not be as steady as connections between neurons in your brain, nor as chemically stable, but that doesn't mean they're fundamentally different.

You, I, no distinction.

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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici. (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)
The self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships
You & I, no distinction. - Tat Tvam Asi
Become Who You Are

shadowind

yea, the brain is natures computer,
it seems to me humanitys only care is what drug is in their system, from dopamine to meth
endorfins to seratoin
t.h.c. to anything
what most people seem to do, if not all people, is simply find ways to improve the amount of a desirable chemical in their brain, even if its ill thought out, some behaviors that didn't make sense to me are starting to make sense now. and i've come to the conculsion that what we are is simply an animal, a intelligent one, with a brain that constantly seeks out certain pleasureable chemicals, thoses chemicals are what drives us. it is our dependence on these chemicals that make people do self-destructive/destructive things, it is also what makes people create, we are a chemical soup so to speak, and it explains why often times people don't make sense to me, its becuse their one true care, is what chemical is in their heads. what do you think of my hypothsise(sp, im horrible at spelling

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remember "for mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescirbe to oursleves is liberty"-rousseau: the concept of the general will "if we can not reconcile all opions, then let us endeavour to unite all hearts."-?"to be is to be perceived"-? "‘We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know’-Robert G. Ingersoll