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Originally Posted by SmartAlx  See, that's just the thing. Science backs me up. It doesn't back you up. |
Okay. Show me a set of experiments that operationalize the concept of self and provide hard data conclusively demonstrating there exist separate entities called "selves". If you want to claim it backs you up, then show me.
I make no claim that science backs me up. My epeen is smaller than yours.
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Originally Posted by SmartAlx And I do understand your point of view. It's a cop out. |
No, actually, it took me a good six years to develop the theory that claims it.
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Originally Posted by SmartAlx Can you understand my point of view? |
You claim that the heart has a desire that is either selfish or selfless at any one point, and that this defines the nature of the action undertaken. How this view is helpful, I don't know. Most people seem to share it with you, in some variation or another, and it doesn't seem to have any explanatory power whatsoever.
I cannot say I understand exactly how the cardiac muscle has desires, nor how these supposed desires somehow encompass the concept of self and its inclusiveness or exclusiveness. Maybe you should use a different metaphor for the creamy center of the emotional lollipop? (Psst. It's three licks.)