Dale, I did not mean nor imply "conscious". I am not much interested in
the distinction. From the perspective of complex adaptive systems and
emergence, what gets into what we call consciousness is the result of
emergent processes of which we are largely unaware and always will be so.
As a test, find a time when "you changed your mind". Now identify the
moment that this occurred? See if you can find what factors were
presented to you and where they came from that resulted in your "changed
mind".
I suggest that there is no "I" that is in control. Try it on.
That is not to say that anything or anyone else IS in control. To the
extent that motion occurs, it is "in your control" in our metaphor of life
in the sense that it isn't in anyone else's (direct) control.
But where it emerges from is not in any control that you can find.
Personally, I like that.
(This statement does NOT mean that you are not able to be responsible nor
be held to account by responble others. Just to head off a barrage of
responses. I am not going to go further into this last statement. I
think it's already done earlier on this list.)
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but I'd die for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
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