You seem to be arguing yourself out of existence. If what constitutes "you" is just part of the continuum of matter in this universe with no individual power or contol, there seems to be no point in there being a "you". My conception of reality is that I exist and I control my own destiny, and no amount of scientific evidence can change this most basic perception of my existence.
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"My conception of reality is that I exist and I control my own destiny, and no amount of scientific evidence can change this most basic perception of my existence."
Well I agree with this and share the OP's view... so meh this to the power of a googolplex.
" My conception of reality is that I exist and I control my own destiny, and no amount of scientific evidence can change this most basic perception of my existence."
Jesus doesn't run your life?
isn't this just the paradox of free will? that we experience life as though we have free will and an individual identity, even though there doesn't seem to be any physical evidence for this to be the case? that's not a new conundrum, and is usually dismissed by the fact that we barely understand the physics involved yet and definitely do not understand how consciousness and identity function; there's far too many gaps where a perfectly reasonable explanation might yet be hiding.
My conception of reality is that I exist and I control my own destiny, and no amount of scientific evidence can change this most basic perception of my existence.
Except things like harness the electricity to power things like computer and the internet. Without such things, I would have no clue you existed.
*raises a glass* Right on! (well, mostly. Right track, anyway)
Though, I may want to point you to the Anthropic Principle. Science kinda does accept that you exist.
We all control our own destiny....right up to the point of intervention by politicians, or criminals, or the economy, or reckless drivers, or cancer, or the needs of others, or dumb luck, or carelessness, or disease, or .......... Fill in the blanks. NOBODY has control of his own destiny, except in their sci-fi dreams.
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, for tide and chance play a part in all things".
Not exactly my favourite person, but he was spot on there.
No one has complete control over their destiny.
I'm more inclined towards the happy medium. I have some individual power and control, but I certainly don't control my own destiny. For example; I was born a woman, which deprives me of male privileges, but I was born as white in Sweden by educated parents, which endows me with a lot of other privileges. These privileges and lack of privileges are completely outside my control, and they are very important to my destiny.
The Luc Besson film "Lucy" will fuck you up, Al.
Scarlett Johansson accidentally OD'ing on an ultra-powerful synthetic drug that causes her to become - in $cientology terms - an OT-infinity , in which all of MEST becomes her bitch, said drug turns her into God, but prior to that - and being almost shot by a Taiwanese crime lord - she turns into a bioelectronic megacomputer, and gives Morgan Freeman all knowledge on a flash drive.
...oh, and Scarlett will be playing The Major in a live-action version of "Ghost in the Shell": with the full blessing of Masamune Shirow, no less.
...I guess you never had an 'argument' to exist in the first place, never mind have such argued into invalidity.
...oh, and Rene Descartes, bitch.
Said the insignificant mote on an obscure rock orbiting an unremarkable star in the unfashionable arm of the butt-fuck-nowhere galaxy.
@whatever, I don't mean to offend, but the mear idea that humanity has any cosmic importance at all seems the height of folly given our knowledge of the universe. As the saying goes "Space is big, really big". The same goes for time.
@NotaReptile
Even if your assumption is true, it doesn't invalidate the part I have quoted.
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