Comments on: nothing but sophisticated meat machines http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/ The search for Truth and the nature of reality. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tom Allen http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-37187 Tom Allen Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:23:14 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-37187 Someone has said: You have to know that you can't do anything and you must act as if you can.I don't know why, but I like this better than the guy who says: Well, since I can't do any different anyway might as well open my fly and let my whanger hang out. Someone has said: You have to know that you can’t do anything and you must act as if you can.I don’t know why, but I like this better than the guy who says: Well, since I can’t do any different anyway might as well open my fly and let my whanger hang out.

]]> By: Steven Witt http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26424 Steven Witt Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:03:37 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26424 Free Willy...oh that's right, Marcelo already has. Free Willy…oh that’s right, Marcelo already has.

]]> By: Rob http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26412 Rob Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:37:20 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26412 From the article: "Even if your wife knows you will order the chile rellenos, you have to live your life to find out....our actions are determined, but so what? We still don’t know what they will be until the waiter brings the tray." I like that. In other words there may be no free will, but the next moment is still totally unknown until it happens... From the article:

“Even if your wife knows you will order the chile rellenos, you have to live your life to find out….our actions are determined, but so what? We still don’t know what they will be until the waiter brings the tray.”

I like that. In other words there may be no free will, but the next moment is still totally unknown until it happens…

]]> By: Fred Claret http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26397 Fred Claret Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:08:31 +0000 http://advaita.thepodcastnetwork.com/2007/01/09/nothing-but-sophisticated-meat-machines/#comment-26397 A few days ago I sat down and meditated on the "me" the ego. It didn't take long to see the sense of me arising and falling away only to arise again in a different guise. Also it was easy to see that it was nothing more substantial than a will o the wisp. Later as I sat in my room in London on the planet earth , with wind and rain outside, at 8.35pm with white walls and a blue carpet, with an ache in my knee with my old blue jeans on, and the noise of a train going by the idea that I was in control of my life, that I had actually chosen all this just seemed totally absurd and it was obvious that all I could do was think I was in control of my life. A few days ago I sat down and meditated on the “me” the ego. It didn’t take long to see the sense of me arising and falling away only to arise again in a different guise.
Also it was easy to see that it was nothing more substantial than a will o the wisp.
Later as I sat in my room in London on the planet earth , with wind and rain outside, at 8.35pm with white walls and a blue carpet, with an ache in my knee with my old blue jeans on, and the noise of a train going by the idea that I was in control of my life, that I had actually chosen all this just seemed totally absurd and it was obvious that all I could do was think I was in control of my life.

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