thread: 2007-01-10 : Some questions about worship
On 2007-01-12, Matt S wrote:
Vincent, I would change my vote. I'd think you're a bit off (as I'm prone to do, given my own views), but it'd be worship. You have an object for your behavior, which I think is required for the act of worship. Since I know you don't think there is one, I said you weren't worshipping, you were revering.
If there's nothing more to the universe than matter and energy, nothing but mechanistic processes randomized by quantum indeterminacy, then I'm nothing but a meat robot myself, and my consciousness is the illusory byproduct of neurochemistry
So what if it is? That's nothing to be afraid of. You don't have to like it! But, being afraid of it doesn't make any sense to me. If it is the way things are (and I strongly believe that it is the way things are), then you're tying yourself into fearful knots for irrational reasons.
Suppose your "fears" are correct. Doesn't change the fact that you love and get mad and like ice cream. So what? Fretting about stuff as "just neurochemistry" as though that's somehow basing and devoid of meaning is like getting mad that you breathe "oxygen" rather than just "air." At least you're breathin', I say.
Meat Robotic and loving it,
Matt
P.S. We exist, says I.
