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Old 06-18-2019, 07:41 PM   #62351 (permalink)
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It doesn’t work like that. As you probably know we’re in a synchronous rotation with the moon. Polar north and south of the moon is relative to the sun not earth. You can think of “up” as away from the center of the earth and “down” as toward the center of earth. So depending on where you’re standing on earth if you draw a straight line from the center of the earth (or as close to the center of the earth as a straight line allows) through your body and then directly to the moon wherever that line hits, which depends on your position on earth, would be what you’re thinking of as upside down relative to earth (meaning your place on earth)
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:43 PM   #62352 (permalink)
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Yes, saying awareness doesn't have varying levels is ridiculous and it's nitpicking to avoid the response.

Awareness is a great difference between us and pool balls.

Being aware doesn't mean you have a real choice, though.
Why would your awareness be different from the awareness of a pool ball? I mean I guess you could say that you feel different from a pool ball, but then I'm supposed to assume that your feelings are atomically different from the feelings of a pool ball and then I realize that you're going to use that difference to make yourself feel better. And I can't say anything to make this obvious difference clear to you and... omg somebody hand me a gun to put myself out of my misery.
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:44 PM   #62353 (permalink)
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How do we know how a pool ball feels?
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:47 PM   #62354 (permalink)
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How do we know how a pool ball feels?
The point is the complete avoidance of a thing that reacts to physical forces.
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:48 PM   #62355 (permalink)
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How do we know how a pool ball feels?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism

This is more interesting than free will. How did consciousness arise anyway?
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:48 PM   #62356 (permalink)
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Why would your awareness be different from the awareness of a pool ball? I mean I guess you could say that you feel different from a pool ball, but then I'm supposed to assume that your feelings are atomically different from the feelings of a pool ball and then I realize that you're going to use that difference to make yourself feel better. And I can't say anything to make this obvious difference clear to you and... omg somebody hang me a gun to put myself out of my misery.
You do understand that pool balls aren't aware right? Oh, yeah, you're still on nitpicking the 'better awareness' line.

You're making this into a "He believes this because it makes him feel better." bull**** argument again. It's a lot like Christians who say that atheists are just telling themselves god doesn't exist to feel better about sinning.

No, believing I'm different from a pool ball doesn't make me feel better. Believing in free will, a stance I never took, wouldn't make me feel better. Whether or not free will exists is completely irrelevant and it does not give existence any sort of objective importance that you think it does.
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:50 PM   #62357 (permalink)
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Old 06-18-2019, 07:54 PM   #62358 (permalink)
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Prove it.
Then OH falls back on the other Christian argument.

My proof is the lack of evidence that they have awareness. Especially understanding that awareness typically comes from living organisms that have brains.
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A pool ball's awareness is different from ours. They can, if necessary, sing.
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Old 06-18-2019, 08:01 PM   #62360 (permalink)
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A pool ball's awareness is different from ours. They can, if necessary, sing.
Pool balls are sick of the oppressive humans beating them with sticks.
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