http://hesitating.org/2006/10/12/bloggers-are-the-new-mystics/ Thinking critically about the world so that you don't have to. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://hesitating.org/2006/10/12/bloggers-are-the-new-mystics/#comment-514 Brendan Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:42:59 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2006/10/12/bloggers-are-the-new-mystics/#comment-514 Well I've never seen the movie but your mention of the film's quantum physics link is pretty interesting... According to collegiates I know who graduated with degrees in Philosophy there's a trend in higher, eh, philosphic classes arguing that free thought doesn't, in fact, exist BECAUSE of quantum physics... Brain chemistry is regulated and controlled by absolute rules, physics, and cannot be altered just like your falling off your bike results in your head going smack on the pavement... Everything you do, instead of deciding to do, is predetermined by how your chemistry is set up and how physics apply to that model... Cheerios for breakfast? It's not because they taste yummy but because a series of physical laws dictated that you wanted Cheerios... It was physically impossible for you to decide on anything else... Maybe the script-writer for the film heard something about this and got it ass-backwards, I dunno... Well I’ve never seen the movie but your mention of the film’s quantum physics link is pretty interesting… According to collegiates I know who graduated with degrees in Philosophy there’s a trend in higher, eh, philosphic classes arguing that free thought doesn’t, in fact, exist BECAUSE of quantum physics… Brain chemistry is regulated and controlled by absolute rules, physics, and cannot be altered just like your falling off your bike results in your head going smack on the pavement… Everything you do, instead of deciding to do, is predetermined by how your chemistry is set up and how physics apply to that model… Cheerios for breakfast? It’s not because they taste yummy but because a series of physical laws dictated that you wanted Cheerios… It was physically impossible for you to decide on anything else… Maybe the script-writer for the film heard something about this and got it ass-backwards, I dunno…

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