I believe on any number of counts, including personal experience, that we have the power to choose to be happy but the road is not altogether straightforward.
Tag: Qualia
Original thinking or garbled trope?
Too often writers feel obliged to offer up a digest or synthesis of what they have read rather than contributing anything new or original.
Creating God
I do not believe that the concept of “god and science are incompatible. Provided that we accept that we have created the concept of “god” in the first place and that through science we have the means to become godlike.
If God could be killed, it’d be dead already
“…..the philosophy of personal identity is relevant in the realm of ethics by helping us address age-old questions like whether being born is good or bad.”
Am I a Quale?
A quale is the singular form of the plural qualia. Qualia are a linguistic attempt to describe the subjective experience of consciousness.
Can Artificial Intelligence dream of electric sheep?
Physics has created the human mind; physics aided by the human mind can certainly create general artificial intelligence.