AB,
I am fully aware that an infinite regress for the concept of conscious control is the inevitable conclusion derived from the materialistic, time related cause and effect scenario.
Then if you are aware of the problem of infinite regress how would you propose that a decision-making “soul” would not itself by your “reasoning” also require a mini-soul to do its thinking and so on forever?
But the problem with this is that it allows no form of control - just inevitable reactions to past events over which we can have no control - we cannot control the past.
Why do you think that’s a problem, aside that is from the problem of holing below the waterline your preference for how you would
like decision-making to work to satisfy your religious beliefs?
So in this scenario there can be no concept of reaching verifiable conclusions - because in order to reach such conclusions you need conscious control - not uncontrolled reaction.
Given how often your mistake here has been explained to you without rebuttal, at what point should we conclude that you’re deliberately lying now? Yet again: memories emerge from the sub-conscience, and decision-making is the evaluation of them at a different level of awareness. All of this though can happen within a logic-and evidence-based paradigm of a materialistic system. The conclusions thus obtained are generally verified by benchmarking against real world experience – the medicine cures or it doesn’t; the ‘plane flies or it doesn’t etc.
You on the other hand junk all that reason and evidence in favour of an
a priori set of faith beliefs, that you then seek to justify with an “it’s magic innit?” “soul” as if that explains anything at all.
The obvious reality is that we do have the conscious control which is essential to reach verifiable conclusions.
I’ve schooled you on this error countless times already. Calling something “obvious” does not mean you’ve somehow justified the claim with an argument. If you want to do more than just assert a logic- and evidence-denying “magic soul” to be real then, finally, you need to address the epic logical problems that claim gives you.
You claim that such control is a logical impossibility.
Yes, and rightly so for the reasons that keep being given to you and that you always run away from.
But it is a reality because we do have the ability to consciously control our thoughts to reach consciously verified conclusions.
Again: mindless assertions are not arguments.
Try again.
I know that this does not fit well with the concept of conscious awareness emerging from material reactions which have already occurred.
That’s right, it doesn’t. That’s why your utterly daft "concept" is not just wrong but also preposterously wrong.
So you need to re asses your basic premiss that we are all constrained to exist and perform in a time related, materialistic cause and effect scenario.
No, YOU need to “re assess” (sic) the unrelentingly irrational and dishonest idiocy you keep peddling here with not even the attempt at addressing the arguments that explain clearly
why it’s irrational and dishonest.
What are you so frightened of that you will never even try to do that?
You are the controller - not the past.
“You/I” can in practice only exist as a function of the past because decision-making cannot happen in a supposed “present” without invoking “it’s magic innit?” to get you off the hook of the fundamental logical contradiction that gives you.
Try at least to understand and remember this the next time you’re tempted to post the same dishonest idiocy you’ve tried so often here before.
