I think the type of governments that people have known since time immemorial will probably all become antiquated relatively soon; the big difference n...
Everything in time is created and destroyed in due time. If meaning was at any point created in time then in time it should be destroyed or in other w...
One way to simplify these debates is to do one simple thing. Ask the other person you're debating what would need to be true or false in order to brin...
Just to clarify. When i speak of the environment as an organism, or society as a super-organism (like ants), etc.. i'm really not being metaphorical, ...
Because everything has a ground on which it stands. You're talking about building castles in the sky on top of clouds. You think it rains down without...
Well yes, i agreed with him that it is not false to think of it that way, but it's not the whole story either. There are more expanded perspectives th...
That doesn't follow. If not the laws of physics then from where would chemistry be derived? It just exists on it's own? What would happen to molecules...
I know a little bit about stereochemistry, but you're making my point for me. A molecule as you say is constructed (structured) from atomic elements a...
How do molecules form? How can atoms form molecules yet at the same time have no effect on the molecules they form. If a molecule does something it is...
I'm not looking for voodoo science, but i appears or seems to me that people that believe in free will are believing in voodoo science. I'm just tryin...
This is the way i think of determinism and indeterminism together in the universe. I will begin my description at the quantum foam level where many un...
I am an indeterminist first and a determinist second. What i am fundamentally trying to say is this: This is fundamental: determinism = no free will i...
I don't believe in free will inside or outside nerve cells. It's just a complex causal effect of energy and information that has been running since th...
That's not my definition, it's from Google. "free choice" is a better term to work with than "free will" because it's more specific and focused. Now w...
I didn't say there was perfect stability. Perfect stability (determinism) would be a static condition where nothing would move or evolve; on the other...
If emergence is not deterministic then where do these consistent structures come from and maintain themselves? What is your explanation from an indete...
When you typed your sentence were you using your brain and nervous system to process your actions? Did you have a reason for typing the sentence, or w...
That is a good way of putting it. You see this is always the case; i ask for an example and i get everything else except an example. This is why i thi...
I never said there was more than one universe, but you are correct that the universe does include everything there is along with including determinism...
Read this again and notice where i mention "change": How can things change without time? How can emergence happen without time? True novelty happens a...
Not at all, unless you define X as God itself instead. Is God the first thing or is God the "thing" before the first thing? It may depend on one's def...
For every wrong question there is a wrong answer, and for every wrong answer there is a right question. For every right question there is a right answ...
Pop Quiz: (who, what, where, when, why) 1) Who are atoms? 2) What is north of the north pole? 3) Where is tomorrow? 4) When is timelessness? 5) Why is...
By non-physical i mean what lies at the very bottom of physical reality at and below the quantum foam. Non-physical for me means time, space, energy, ...
Yes but the problem is that i am not a physical materialist. Sometimes i may speak in a way that sounds like i am, but what i am doing is moving in an...
I think you're half right. Brain waves are not too different than any other electro-magnetic waves. The real difference is in the patterns carried by ...
What if repairmen came to the ship and gradually replaced every single part, but instead of throwing the old parts away they would reassemble the old ...
I remember in high school when my science teacher brought in an actual human brain for the class to observe, touch and examine. There are entire field...
I have never in my life even heard of anyone that has ever given a logical, and reasonable account of how free-will actually works. All i ever hear is...
Our thoughts about the brain are thoughts, but the brain is an objective object in spacetime. You may be conflating two different concepts "brain" and...
You wouldn't be able to see a picture or video stored in your computer's memory or HD if you opened it up and looked inside. Can you hear music on a v...
Everything else is also a thought, and that doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Why is the thinking of "the brain" specifically a problem? Ever...
1.3 billion dollars worth of questions: Is pondering and thinking not something that goes on in the brain? If so, isn't the brain a physical system ba...
Would it not be better to say that "what exists is energy (what matter is or is made of), and information (pattern). Matter is patterned energy, or in...
Not at all, i perfectly agree with you. I personally believe that the human condition is merely a stepping stone to something much bigger. Like i said...
That's perfectly natural at this point, but future generations will think differently as they always do. Evolution takes care of our drives one way or...
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