One of the 'must know how to play' if you have a 12 string. Plus a lot of Supertramp. Luckily I'm a big fan of both bands.
Yeah Supertramp is recognisable for their 12 string sound. Also America, some of Led Zeplin and Eagles. The intro to Hotel California is great with Don Felder on 12 string is great especially live.
Good example with the vinyl. It's a physical process (the needle in the groove) that produces a physical event (sound waves) which in turn produces events within the brain which produces an emotion. Which then might determine an action. That we are unsure of where the emotion 'lives' doesn't exclude any of the process which determines the act.
Except the experience itself cannot be reduced to the physical processes and event. Why should we experience 'what it is like to be something' in the first place. Why should a lump of grey jelly like matter produce this.
Its like the ghost in the machine where the wiring and electrical signals are producing consciousness. This would imply if we can map out the brain we can create a computer, a robot with consciousness.
A group response in lean times is even more efficient. And rich people rarely get rich on their own. But an interesting tread on socialism v capitalism as it relates to evolution might be worth looking at some time.
Yeah its interesting. Its like there are two forces at work. The survival instinct which may potentially stop at nothing to survive. Then the moral and empathy side to us that moralises over these things like there is a greater good than just survival even if that means giving up our own survival for another. I think this goes much deeper than just an secondary consequence of biological evolution.
Those characteristics evolved because they were beneficial in forming groups. Which were more beneficial than going it alone. Not really relevant to this discussion. And I won't be commenting on transcendent or spiritual matters. For obvious reasons.
In a way it is relevant. When I say a spiritual sense or a sense of some reality beyond the physical world such as consciousness I mean it as a sense of self beyond the physical world that is real in the world.
In that sense this relates to free will because if there is this sense of self beyond the physical world then this also implies that this sense is expressed in free will. We believe that our choices can make a difference and change reality and that we are not just passive players subject to deterministic processes.
And no. There is no evidence for this.
First we have Wheelers delayed experiment on the quantum level. On the macro level I think we have lots of examples. For instance an individual that discovers something in their present which changes how they see their past. They never look at their past in the same way. That also changes their present for obvious reasons as its changed how they feel and percieve things. This will also change their future because their perception is what they base the future on.
This can happen on a collective level as well where complete paradigm shifts can happen in that reality itself is changed such as moving from the classical view of physics to the quantum one.
Again, we are talking about orders of magnitude a very long way beneath the level at which events occur and decisions are made. And even if it wasn't so far removed, introducing randomness into the process is hardly likely to convince anyone that free will exists. Quantum effects fail if they don't affect us. And fail if they do.
But how do we know how the quantum world scales up to the macro. I don't think its severed and is obviously fundemental to everything. So iut has to filter up in some way and it seems that it is best understood through consciousness and mind. There is some connection between the quantum world and mind but we just don't understand it yet.
But we are sort of with experiments which is scaling up quantum effects tothe macro world.
Researchers have put a sapphire crystal containing quadrillions of atoms into a superposition of quantum states, bringing quantum effects into the macroscopic world
www.newscientist.com
That sounds like an appeal rather than a statement. Surely it must be more complex! Because...well, because we just know that we have free will!
No just a recognition that we just don't know so its either more complex or is based on a completely different way of thinking that we don't even know what questions to ask at this time.
That and the fact that we have this persistent sense of self, a real self in the world, intuition that free will is a real thing and we can make a difference rather than being fooled and deluded into thinking that this is the case. That we actually experience that difference happening and it was us in the drivers seat at least sometimes, in important times and not as passengers. That we had real choices that made real differences.