William Carlos Williams is wonderful. Your modern poetry class sounds really cool.
I think free will is a necessary illusion. We need to believe in choice because otherwise we cannot learn from our experiences or apply our knowledge.
I don't get that whole quantum reincarnation thing. It seems to rely on the idea of alternate realities, a concept which has never made sense to me. Are you saying that you experience many realities, or that somehow all people in the world could be one persona? I suppose if you look at it from a Life Force perspective, we all have the same life force and from that, if you combine all humanity as one, Humanity is collecting all of our experiences.
Interesting. But I don't think that this sort of metaphysical speculation has any real use in life, except as a form of mental exercize. The funny thing about disbeliving in free will is that then you can't make decisions. You choose to be unable to choose... the very act of deciding whether or not you believe it is already decided. Disbelieving in free will is wholly impractical. And then you get into the whole complicated idea of fate...
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Date: 2007-03-21 05:56 pm (UTC)I think free will is a necessary illusion. We need to believe in choice because otherwise we cannot learn from our experiences or apply our knowledge.
I don't get that whole quantum reincarnation thing. It seems to rely on the idea of alternate realities, a concept which has never made sense to me. Are you saying that you experience many realities, or that somehow all people in the world could be one persona? I suppose if you look at it from a Life Force perspective, we all have the same life force and from that, if you combine all humanity as one, Humanity is collecting all of our experiences.
Interesting. But I don't think that this sort of metaphysical speculation has any real use in life, except as a form of mental exercize. The funny thing about disbeliving in free will is that then you can't make decisions. You choose to be unable to choose... the very act of deciding whether or not you believe it is already decided. Disbelieving in free will is wholly impractical. And then you get into the whole complicated idea of fate...