Hym "See, I'm coming at it from the contingent angle when I think I should be coming at it from the random angle... Let's run it through... When it comes to brain activity... Is it determined, yes or no? If no then it'
s random. If
yes, then what is that determining factor determined by?
Ok. So that least me to think: I decide to eat something. If I'm
hungry before I eat then you can say my decision was contingent on my hunger and I
don't control my hunger, therefore, determined. But if I forgo eating when I'm
hungry then what? What could that possibly be determined by? What us the decision to forgo eating contingent upon? If nothing, is it random? Am I randomly forgoing food? If the decision to forgo eating is not contingent on
anything, is it random or is it deliberate? Can't be both. Can't be neither. I have food. I could eat. Why am I not eating? Is it random? I
don't see how it's impossible to make a non-contigent conscious decision... To not eat. And you can say,
well, if it's deliberate, to you control the neurons that are telling your mind-brain to not eat? And to that I say, I
don't need to manually combust the gas in my engine to control where the car goes. Internally, I'm doing (deliberately) what equates to pressing the gas and tilting the
wheel. I think there's some conflation going on here."