dimreepr

Solipsism is where you start your philosophical journey, you being you is self evident. free will is a few steps up the ladder and you have to have stepped on each of those rungs to understand it well enough to take Pascal's wager seriously.

I often dream of an impossible destination, that's when I know it's a dream... Solipsismis just an excuse to deny reality...

At risk of another neg, are you being deliberately obtuse? Do you not realise that I'm drawing a distinction between time as we percieve it, and time that's imposed on us? One is healthier for the bank balance, of one's boss, and the other is healthier for one... Whatever floats ones boat... 😉

I'm not being dismissive of our biological clock, I'm suggesting it doesn't quiet match our quantum clock... Two points: You can't have it both way's, it's either time or culture that drive our need to eat; hunger seems to be a healthier approach. Breakfast has become a marketing exercise by the guy's that need to sell all the sugar (they don't need to grow), that's etymology for you... 😉 Just my personal evidence, but when I'm actually hungery, it's not a chocolate bar that I crave, it's a cooked horse... Why? What's your point? As far as I can tell, you've literally taken the title (of this topic) too literally, with all your naval gazing...

Who knew what a bleak expectation that would be?

Time-keeping is only for the worker's and the time and motion expert's. A rigid approach that seems to exclude half the population, good for the early bird a complete fail for the owl.

Who knew eating would evolve into such a precious etymology...

It's not 'really' there, if you can see this post... ☠️

This is essentially answered in the 'bibles', true freedom is there for the meek to inherit; this, I believe, is what confused Nietsche. His ubermenche was better than the meek... A slave is, at least, free to think; A rich man can't think past his need for money...

This is where science and philosophy diverge; politics evolved into ethics, and then we're asked, whom to kill for the best?

That's kinda my first post, the traffic jam scenario. I think time delay is a uniquely human/animal trait, as in the processing of reality via external inputs. I often wondered if you'd get an audible feedback, in an anechoic chamber and no initial sound input? It may not be appropriate in this discussion, as I'm still unsure of @studiot question. But I get the impression that it's basically mathematical, as in Zenos paradox perhaps. The association with quantum reality is more of a metaphor.

It's just a matter of time, is a misleading rabbit hole to follow...

It seems to me the question is about probabilities and how it relates to the real world, correct me if I'm wrong @studiot, so it's both It's like that cat in a box question, it's absurd to try and imagine a quantum reality that translates to our reality.

The brain takes observational evidence from the past and superimpose it on the potential present, in order to 'lift a finger'...

Indeed, an artificial concept that humans can live with, that doesn't mean that it's the healthiest way to live.

What things do you think I'm talking about? This shows that you don't understand my answer; for instance, do you think you're the same person even though all of the atoms that make up you today, are different from the atoms you were born with?

There's certainly a hefty cultural, religious and, to some extent, scientific argument that suggests, periodic starvation/fasting, is good and healthy; in many different ways. Food is one of the most insidious of addictions, especially when hunger has no part in the taste equation, who can't manage that "wafer thin mint"?

I'm the same, I prefer to wait until I'm hungry enough to enjoy the food, the longer I wait the better it tastes.

Yes, let's vote with our lack of interest, the apathy aproach to democracy... In the words of the late great Douglas Adams "Apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all."...

All of them...

Computer's aren't, even nearly, complex enough to get to an algorithm that's good enough to mimic a simple brain like a bee. For instance a bee can seem to (almost) solve the travelling salesman problem, but what would that same algorithm do about the threat from a hornet attack?

The point of philosophy, especially in this context, is to ask and answer what is real. It's like the same river that can't be crossed twice question, to which the answer is, the bridge hasn't moved and nor has the river...

Trump just wants a deal, he's like a second hand car dealer that wants his name on the, dealer of the month, wall. Putin knows that all he has to do is wait for the last day of the month, and Trump will practically give it away.

A loop that has no cause must be a paradox...

Like a traffic jam that starts with a flash of brake lights on a busy road? Some say this is how our brain deal's with reality. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a variation of the tree making a sound in a forest?