Actualy i wasnt being sarcastic i was being literal.
And I never said you couldnt learn to do things.
and I never said automatic setting of the brain couldnt be ignored or even trianed.
cause they can.Dogs are a good show of this.We can train them out of habits.
You assuming that my post was a sarcasm shows lack of trust in character.
I take back my
applauding.you can now go sit with the few who continually attack my posts as if I caused a Holocaust.
(And again my faith in humanity ever learning civility in simple question and answer situations dropps even lower)
Im actually not very sarcastic Im a blunt insulter.If i was to call you uncivil id do it literally more often then not.
Lets try this again,you were almost there.
Those things are training methods,And theres a reason simply telling someone to change their behavior wont work.We have little choice in the matter.
If we like cupcakes and tried to force ourselves not to eat those cupcakes,We'd have to try pretty hard depending on how important cupcakes are too you.
So choice could still vary well be an illusion kind of in the same way that beauty is.
Its simply not the way we see it.
After all you need a base of radical auto-matic set ups to allow for even the illusion of complex thoughts and choices.
So it makes sense to think our brains work similar just with different components and values.
So what purpose ,and what would a soul be for?
our emotions,our logic,our abilities and many more,have alot of auto-matic settings.yeah that can be trained,but never the less still auto-matic,uncontrolable things exist within us.and work us through our
days.It even shows us a movie when we sleep at
night.You cant force a dream.
For me this knowledge is all that I need to think "well why a soul?"
Do we really need one to be?
What is it?
How do you know it even is there?
I think we dont have souls,I think we are conscious in the same way our computors will be in the future (cause current computers are said to be only as smart as cockroaches)