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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: yovav on 26/09/2020 09:31:03

Title: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 26/09/2020 09:31:03
I asked my wife, why are there some who watch TV shows about houses (like you... :) ), there are those who prefer shows over food, there are those who are addicted to shows about the development of life and so on.
What is the difference between them? She told me that was how we were born.
What is really the reason? 
What is really the reason why each of us has a unique will that directs him to different areas?
Is it the brain? Or were we born with a pattern of will from which our destiny, thoughts and finally our actions are drawn?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: alancalverd on 26/09/2020 09:44:17
Although some twins have shown remarkable coincidences of taste and even action, the majority develop quite separate personalities. I think for the most part our tastes in entertainment reflect our response to whatever has happened in our lives. The television battle in this house is between her "property porn" and my "aero porn", both representing history we would have been intrigued to experience and aspirations beyond our dreams. 
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Kryptid on 26/09/2020 21:00:04
It's part nature and part nurture.
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 00:19:29
Although some twins have shown remarkable coincidences of taste and even action, the majority develop quite separate personalities. I think for the most part our tastes in entertainment reflect our response to whatever has happened in our lives. The television battle in this house is between her "property porn" and my "aero porn", both representing history we would have been intrigued to experience and aspirations beyond our dreams.
What does it mean I think most of our taste in entertainment reflects our reaction to everything that has happened in our lives?
If two twins have different reactions it does not negate the sentence?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 00:20:21
It's part nature and part nurture.
This is exactly what my wife told me, my question is where does this unique nature come from ...
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Kryptid on 27/09/2020 01:17:04
This is exactly what my wife told me, my question is where does this unique nature come from ...

Genetics and epigenetics.
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: alancalverd on 27/09/2020 11:04:32
What does it mean I think most of our taste in entertainment reflects our reaction to everything that has happened in our lives?
If two twins have different reactions it does not negate the sentence?
Twins cannot occupy the same space, so they don't even see the world from the same perspective and there is no reason why they should have the same life experiences. In most cases their lives diverge in time. All they have in common is nature, not nurture.
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Bored chemist on 27/09/2020 11:13:52
What is really the reason? 
Everything that happens.
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 11:37:27
Genetics and epigenetics.
I totally agree with you.
But where did they come from ???
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 11:40:21
All they have in common is nature, not nurture.
Ok I totally agree, just I ask, where is the difference between them?
The same essence, the same genes, the same charge of molecules that is unique to each of them.
The same pattern of will.
Where did it come from?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 11:41:16
Everything that happens
And where is the root of this?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Bored chemist on 27/09/2020 12:22:59
Everything that happens
And where is the root of this?
How could it avoid doing?
Assuming that people can learn or remember, how could you have no effect on people's views as a result of their experience?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 27/09/2020 12:29:13
How could it avoid doing?
Assuming that people can learn or remember, how could you have no effect on people's views as a result of their experience?
And if I were to neutralize the environmental impact, what would happen?
Were there no differences between them yet?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Bored chemist on 27/09/2020 12:44:09
How could it avoid doing?
Assuming that people can learn or remember, how could you have no effect on people's views as a result of their experience?
And if I were to neutralize the environmental impact, what would happen?
Were there no differences between them yet?
Then there would still be innate differences.
Even identical twins have different fingerprints.

Since what you propose is impossible, even in principle, you are essentially writing fiction and can can say anything you like.
If I said "In the absence of outside influences or innate ones they would turn into unicorns", how would you ever prove that I was wrong?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Kryptid on 27/09/2020 20:03:24
But where did they come from

Evolution. Are you going to keep going with this until we go all the way back to the Big Bang?
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: yovav on 29/09/2020 04:30:45
But where did they come from

Evolution. Are you going to keep going with this until we go all the way back to the Big Bang?
It is very true, because there everything was concentrated, all degrees of the will.
And everything we see today is a result from there.
If we have ever sought a connection to a universe or to a life that is far from us, they already exist here, within us.
We are the same stars that died hundreds of thousands of light years ago. And their substance is in our bodies.
We are in fact part of a system
The question is what the consequences are and where it takes us.
Consequences we may not have discovered yet...
Title: Re: Why does each of us have a unique will and preferences?
Post by: Kryptid on 29/09/2020 06:41:03
The question is what the consequences are and where it takes us.

The consequences of everything in the Universe being composed of fundamentally the same material is that it makes it an awful lot easier to understand (experiments conducted here on Earth can tell us about the material make up of stars, planets, nebula etc.) and, if we live long enough, would make it a lot easier to colonize space in the future (since the important chemical elements are mostly the same throughout the Universe).