Is self control the proof we have soul?

why would the brain choose to not eat when the body is hungry and there are plenty of food available?

Because we've evolved the ability to think in abstract terms, consciousness, and higher intelligence. Asceticism is generally done to connect to something spiritual, we have a biological need for attachment, so we strive to achieve said attachment/fulfillment in many different ways.

'What is the taste of bread? That of the first piece I eat when I am hungry or the one I eat after, when I am full? What is the smell of roast? The good, dear aroma that overpowers all other smells and wafts about me as I search in vain for food, or that of the piece left over on my table? And the eye, what does the eye see? I truly believe that everyone can experience the dubious sight of one’s eye and be uncertain as to the faces of those closest to him. Look at the face of a friend you trust and you find a noble visage. You locate the nobility either in the nose or the forehead or “a certain something of the eyes”; look at him when he has betrayed you and you see a vile mouth, a sinister glance, “an expression that’s just not right.” (And if one looks at a woman before and after one has had one’s way with her, the contradiction strikes even more stridently). What is the experience of reality? If I am hungry, reality is nothing more to me than an ensemble of more or less edible things. If I am thirsty, reality is more or less liquid, and more or less potable. If I am sleepy, it is a great bed more or less hard. If I am not hungry, not thirsty, not sleepy, and do not need any other determinate thing, the world is a large ensemble of grays that are I don’t know what but that certainly are not made to cheer me up.'

P & R, C. Michelstaedler

I don't understand what you're trying to convey with this excerpt

You have no 'self', and absolutely no control.
All you have and all you are is different drives constantly fighting for control of the vessel you call you

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>stop disagreeing with dead philosophers
>you must be an NPC if you disagree with me
>my automatic robot-like reaction to dissenting opinions is definitely not indicative of myself being an NPC

>Because we've evolved
evolution is just a theory

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No.

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So is gravity, who cares? We believe the theory with the most evidence. Evolution has the most evidence

Essential epicurus is much smaller than I originally thought it would be. Did you skip his scientific views and just get to the meat? After browsing it seems like mostly outdated information.

gravity exists, we just can't explain it
evolution doesn't necessarily exist, no one ever saw it happening
>inb4 muh antibiotic resistent bacteria
its just proves adaptations happen, not evolution

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>its just proves adaptations happen, not evolution
You'll have to disprove inductive reasoning for this to make any sense.

Yes, but people will deny this unto their graves because they have built their eroded capacities for inhibition and self-control as their own personalities.

They actually think they are free when they are enslaved to their urges! See

t. very poor imagination

We've taken the same species of insects, seperated them into two groups, and let them diverge in traits over time until the two groups couldn't interbreed, making them different species.

Although the vast majority of research in evolutionary biology is focused on adaption, a general theory for the population-genetic mechanisms by which complex adaptations are acquired remains to be developed.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S., “Scaling expectations for the time to establishment of complex adaptations”, September 7, 2010, doi:10.1073/pnas.1010836107

Your mom is my animal pet.

What is adaptation over a long time?

they are still insects

can adaptations create complexity to form new species? no, it just degrades the current genetic material

If evolution is true then how are we all equal? Checkmate.

>wallace

Niggas iffy, uh, blicky got the stiffy, uh
Got the blicky, uh, drum it holds fifty, uh
(Scum Gang!)
Pop these niggas like a wheelie nigga, you a silly nigga
In the hood with them Billy niggas, and them Hoover niggas
You run up and they shooting niggas, we ain't hooping nigga
No KB, you a loser nigga, up that Uzi nigga
On the stoop, crills in my draws, your girl on my phone
She wanna fuck but keep her clothes on, I only want the jaw
Man that's really all I use her for, I kick her out the door
I don't want her, you can keep the whore, she fiendin' for some more
In New York my niggas don't Milly Rock, my niggas money bop
Blow a case a nigga throwing shots, I run 'em off they block
Quarter milli in the stash box, I grinded for my spot
Niggas talking 'bout that cash but my bag worth a lot
I don't fuck with no old hoes, only new hoes
Put my dick in her backbone, I pass her to my bro
I don't love her that's a sad hoe, she a bad hoe
I'ma fuck her then I dash home, to the cash hoe
I'm on some rob a nigga shit, take a nigga bitch
Do the dash in the whip, count the cash in the whip
I pull up with a stick, I let that shit hit
Shout out, but I fucked that nigga bitch
Niggas iffy, uh, blicky got the stiffy, uh
Got the blicky, uh, drum it holds fifty, uh
Move milli', all my niggas on fifty, uh
Talk down, pew pew pew, you silly, uh
Hit a stain, fifty bands, all hunnids
Spinning through ya block like a pop shove-it
Shoot at me I'm shooting back, I'm getting buckets
I ain't wanna take his life but nigga, fuck it
I'm on some rob a nigga shit, take a nigga bitch
Do the dash in the whip, count the cash in the whip
I pull up with a stick, I let that shit hit
Shout out, but I fucked that nigga bitch
I'm on some rob a nigga shit, take a nigga bitch
Do the dash in the whip, count the cash in the whip
I pull up with a stick, I let that shit hit
Shout out, but I fucked that nigga bitch
Scum Gang

Yes, because a bunch of small changes in isolation lead to a completely different creature than what you started with

Hey that’s a good song.

No.
The prof is the existence of the concept.
A concept of something can't be found anywhere on the human brain -or body, by that matter-. So it must be somewhere else, that place we call it the soul.

>what is an MRI

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care to extend on that?

cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2017/june/brain-decoding-complex-thoughts.html

Realtime fMRI, thank you very much

No, but doing the mashed potato is.
Look at all these niggas who missed that OP did not say "a soul."

Soul is the interpretation of the consciousness/subconsciousness

From this article, I understand they figured out how the brain processes complex concepts, meaning by this, the reasoning processes. For instance, S > P = Q, or "All humans die, Socrates is a human, Socrates will die". This is called going through judgment "All humans die" to reasoning (new judgments that you didn't know before) such as "Socrates will die".
But this study doesn't speak about the formation of the concept in itself. For instance, take the idea of the "tree". I have just written here "tree" and your mind, instantly, reflected on the imprint for intelligible species, your own concept of the tree, which is SO FUCKING COMPLEX, involves all the trees you've seen in your entire life, descriptions of trees made by your friends and family, trees you've seen in picture or descriptions read on books, poems that were talking about the tree in an analogical view, etcetera.
This concept, the "tree", is unique. Is your own Tree (with capitol T), nobody else has this concept. It's your own, and even though everyone else have a concept of a tree, no one will have the same as yours, ever. It's absolutely impossible, because that concept (like all the hundreds of thousands of concepts you are using in this instant) is formed by your own personal experiences, which change and occur by every milisecond.
That's what I mean when the concept is prof that the soul exists. You can do all the MRI scans you want, but they will just show you which parts of the brain light up when you think, when you use concepts and form judgments and ideas, that's it. But it will never show you where the "concept" is, every idea you have formed in all your life, about everything you know, tree, chair, elephant, pencil, cloud, honor, homicide, death, trial, fair. All those concepts are somewhere, just not in your mind. And I could bet my balls that no one, ever, will explain to me where are they physically located or how are they formed. And that's the beauty of it.

>Because we've evolved the ability to think in abstract terms, consciousness, and higher intelligence. Asceticism is generally done to connect to something spiritual, we have a biological need for attachment, so we strive to achieve said attachment/fulfillment in many different ways.

How contrived.