You are using an undefined term and then claiming to have won a battle against another who cannot understand you.
Ever heard the one about pigeons playing chess?
The self exists as a gestalt of bodily factors. It exists in the same way a computer or car exists but, without all the necessary pieces, it ceases to be.
"Cogito, ergo sum" is circular reasoning and assumes that thought is controlled.
"If one conceives of religion and science according to these definitions then a conflict between them appears impossible. For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals...
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume : Sect. iii. Of the Influencing Motives of the Will
The Psych was thankfully AP so it actually had interesting stuff. The Philosophy class was only offered as an Intro so...we watched the Matrix and talked about Jehovah.
“Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.”
―Peter Wessel Zapffe
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