MikeL

The future is determined, we just can't see it yet because we are at the wrong part of time. We made the choices that determined it. Just because I am...

I would probably pay very close attention to free speech at the moment, particularly in cases where it becomes subversive. Expressing discontent, yes ...

I'm not using Pierce. The idea I'm using is very straight forward. We ascribe attributes to emergent phenomenon. This is like a sign or a mask for the...

I think determinism is self evident. Even pre-determinism is self-evident. I see no conflict between that and free choice. It's a temporal problem. At...

As well you should be.

I like the way you built this argument. You are right, there is no information lost in viewing this world this way. When I look at the word cat in a b...

Funny you should say that because that's what she said, so shut up before my dog eats your argument and then your mum - oops mom - because that's the ...

Hmmm, a Bill of Rights? The right to vote The right to choose your own partner The right to life The right to be tried on Earth The right to return to...

Of course.

Why is that a logical fallacy? We don't consider it a logical fallacy in Australia.

It sounds like we're on a winner.

Yes, yes and yes. Music is a type of truth in which there is a mathematical order between the notes played. Get it wrong and it is discordant. A warri...

I might have to disagree here with your definition of a selfless act. Google defines selfless as: Selfless is the opposite of selfish. If you're selfl...

A pub might suffice. Combine that with regular breaks and enough free time that those so inclined might wish to entertain the masses, you could be on ...

It depends. For me it would make me feel good, sure. But the feeling would not cause the action. It would be a result of the action. The action would ...

Hi Duke, welcome to the site. I think that selflessness occurs all the time, and I don't think it is through some imperative to ensure the survival of...

I take your point. What a great idea. I love that anybody can go rather than just a few select. I might move there myself, just as soon as I get some ...

Wow, that's a lot more than I was envisaging. It's the size of a small town. With that many you are right that you will need some regulation to contro...

If a corporation decided to take over, I don't think a handful of guns will make too much of a difference. Just bomb them from the air. As to internal...

That's a good point Wayfarer. Let science be science. They do a pretty good job after all. I think that scientists are a lot like philosophers, philos...

Hi Jamalrob, Baden has asked me to confirm this with you. ?Baden I am about to make inquiries with the Australian National University media department...

Sure.

I am about to make inquiries with the Australian National University media department. Do I have permission to use the website name, or would you pref...

Hey Baden and other moderators. Does the forum advertise anywhere like on university websites? If not, is it something we could look into? I would be ...

I think you made a very good point Fishfry. You also made me spill my coffee. Certainly self-governance is important. Should we let perhaps direct the...

That about sums me up at this point too. A part of me still feels very atheistic, but I am also aware of an awakening within me - a connection to some...

Yeah, I'll have to get into the Daoists. I like Eastern philosophy, and hope it will give me new ways to look at old things.

Sure, I take your point. Sometimes though by applying one observed pattern to a different phenomenon insight can be revealed. It has nothing to do wit...

Thanks Wayfarer, I will check Thomas Nagel out. You are right in your observation that some ideas have been crystalised here in this forum. It is very...

I think life is incredibly malleable in this regard. I find true insight comes from making up logical patterns and seeing how life fits. Observing the...

Like all types of play though Rich, they are usually preparing you for something much larger in which the skills will be required. Creativity in thoug...

Interesting. Yes we are discussing scientism by this definition - a scientism whose fallacious belief arises from semiotics. It is my contention that ...

I was reading (watching on YouTube) about a philosopher the other day who said the appeal of art to people is the fact that it captures a truth about ...

I take your point that semiotics is not boiling down the facts to support some conclusion, but I also agree with Janus that the symbol is a reduction ...

By semiotics as a human understanding via signs and manipulation of signs, I assume you mean communication? In this case a distinction could be made b...

You're right, my reading on so many topics is behind, and I would benefit from further background reading, but I also like to try and rely on what is ...

Why can't one person in time be walking a novel path while another person at the end of time sees the path that he will make through his novel choices...

We lose the driver - it becomes unreachable when we back out of our current layer. The simple question of 'What's causing that to happen?" has no answ...

Why can't we have a determined past and probabilistic future? We are the author writing the book.

Ok Jake, enlighten me. What is the GSCFI?

Rich, would you describe your idea of time as duration as analogous to a bubble passing through the time landscape whose path is unchartered and whose...

Alright, I'll whip one up.

If you're up for a chat about it come across to The First Few Cognitive Steps Required to Believe in Primordial Soup Theory - I've responded to you th...

So duration is a bubble passing through the time landscape whose path is unchartered and whose wake dissipates with distance?

No problem Hachem. Just let me respond to Rich and I'll drop the subject. So you are arguing that there is no universality to something... I'm rushing...

So you're arguing the constraint of consciousness. Free will. Let me think about that for a while.

If I placed myself at the end of time and looked back I would see an indisputable deterministic pattern. If I placed myself halfway through time I hav...

Hey, no problem, let me try and be clearer. When we describe something, anything, there are different ways we may choose to describe it. I may say the...

Isn't determinism and probabilistic outcomes two sides of the same coin? It's just where you want to place yourself in time.

Not necessarily. Global implies not local. It is what we see when we back out of our local knowledge and reconsider everything that is happening beyon...