@deserttree your submission are very correct. Look at this notion:
No matter how much we humans try to deny it we are "robot". Most of us think of robots, like metal robots going bleep bloop. But I tell you also Humans are biological robots, it’s just that we are more advanced than these bleep bloop robots.
Looking at it from the point of science
Everything is just chemicals in our brain. Your personality is just chemicals in your brain and things going on in your prefrontal cortex and other places in your brain. Everything we perceive is just electrical signals interpreted in our brain as outside phenomena. Instincts are like the coding in us. We are selfish beings by nature, which is necessary for our survival. Again this is really robotic in nature. The brain is like a computer that has control over our body.
Just my submission anyway.
Besides the influence of genes and the effect of the environment on gene expression, I was just watching a documentary about how the microbes in our gut secrete chemicals that influence our moods and behaviors. Depending on the composition of microbes in our body, we may be more cheerful or more aggressive.
In fact, there are more microbes in our guts than our own cells in our body! So, it really does makes me wonder what makes us us and how much free will we really have.
I enjoyed reading both the post and the comment! 👍
nice submission @sizzlingmonkeys
a while back I had read about discovery of neurons in stomach area and their behavior as smaller brain. is that what you mean with microbes or something else? Human body is a universe of its own, so much to know, so much to learn.
Hi deserttree, yes the microbes that live in our guts release chemicals that affect our moods! The "second brain" refers to the 100 million nerve cells that line our guts and may cause such familiar feelings as "butterflies in our stomach" when we get nervous.
If you are interested in reading more about "the second brain" and the effect of gut microbes on our moods, here are two great articles from Scientific American and The New York Times.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html
I agree with you. In it interesting to compare all the activities that happennin human brain and other parts of body with how programmed codes execute.
This piece was meant to be for entertainment purposes, but I believe there can be a philosophical work done on this subject. The way human body and actions behave never stop to fascinate me.
Ultimately DNA is the proof humans were/are programmed in one way or the other.
yea i know is for entertainment purposes and also it make me think deeply because i realise Everything boils down to the desire to survive and prosper, which is rather robotic and set. We were hardwired for it as our base trait that all humans have. No matter how much you try to argue that we are unique or special in some way, at the most basic level, we are all robots and are controlled by our chemicals. We just happen to be more advanced and capable of far more. Of course there is nothing wrong with being robotic and controlled to some extent by our brain and ego, it is in fact just people letting their ego get in the way that causes them to refuse this idea, because it seems so alien and might invalidate their sense of self.
what an interestin discussion @deserttree