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Cool. Then you know he analyzes the way that we think. ?

Have you read Schopenhauer?

It's supposed to be an analysis of the way we think, so it works better if there is evidence that people have thought about it that way.

If you don't have a brexit vote once a week, you dont have a democracy. :100:

No it isn't. It's how democracy is undermined. By your logic the UK should decide every other year if it wants to remain or leave. This is about the B...

It was said that Johnson expected to be stopped. He would come out of it with popularity and therefore power. Do you believe that's possible?

Totalitarian governments work pretty well especially when there's a state religion that backs up the legitimacy of the government. The love of the peo...

In Schopenhauer?

Schopenhauer wasn't saying that there's a special thing called Will that makes things move. He was analyzing the way we think. When we think of voliti...

Will is whatever it is that makes things move. The explanation for a softball's movement is the same (fundamentally) as the explanation for the moveme...

An earthquake nudged a coffee cup off a table in a restaurant and the sound caused a man and woman to look at one another. They eventually have three ...

Yes. Hinduism is timeless. :roll:

Of course Hindus are descendants of the Avesta people. You're quickly sliding off my list of people worth responding to. :(

I'm doing my part by holding my breath and not letting the CO2 out.

So what are we doing? Theology or anthropology? I'm not interested in theology because I'm not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. If we're studying human so...

Global warming is getting out of hand. Should probably do something about it.

The Devil (the word has a Persian origin) is an image of primal defiance; the existence of a will counter to God's. The message of Genesis is that hum...

But it describes the way you see the emergence of this particular idea: as a break with the past so profound that we must struggle to understand the p...

So you see the idea of free will as emerging like a mutation instead of evolving gradually out of a stew if ideas. Or do you think it's both?

But Cicero wrote about determinism and free will (for the sake of moral responsibility) in 44 BC.

I used to be fascinated by astrological symbolism. Scorpio is a symbol of a hidden destroyer like a little boy squirming on a pew in a church. No one ...

Video games plus sociopathic?

That makes sense.

These ants always walked single file to the pumpkin patch when one day Crazy George veered off, leading the colony to eventually discover Australia.

I think he needs to go back to the OR. He's rejecting the brain transplant.

Why does Trump flirt with Putin and Kim, but he harasses Iran? Real question.

Interesting article about probability.

The classical God lived in the firmament, aka the sky. They thought the sky was a hard dome. It isn't a dome, so classical theism is false. To the opp...

"Love, and do what you will." -Augustine Notice how this could have been uttered by Marcus Aurelius.

Donald Ttump smells like moldy cheese.

First let me say that you can argue that Augustine introduced the idea of free will this way: Plotinus' view was deterministic in the sense that evil ...

In the passages you quoted A is explaining the Neoplatonic God in Christian terms. The image of a fountain is key. Stuff emanates from the One and the...

I imagine there's truth in what you're saying. I don't know which part of Augustine's divinity was supposed to be forgiving, though: the One, the Nous...

I didn't understand that you were that zeroed in on Augustine. I thought you were talking about Christianity in general. See 1 Corinthians 9:27 for a ...

You presented so much information, I'm not sure what to comment on. But let's start here. What was Augustine rejecting? It's not an ancient Greek conc...

From the Iron Age to our world, there was a shift from a world full of gods who motivated people (female divinities are generally responsible for bad ...

The fixed background is a formal system we analyze. We express our expectations (derived from rules of logical and physical possibility) as probabilit...

T Clark has rejected a nonexistent form of determinism, fdrake is banging away about his pet worldview, nobody wants to talk to anybody else. This thr...

I don't think the wave function tells you about one measurement. It tells you about multiple measurements.

Dont know. Some say science as we know it was born in the age of mechanism. As we graduate from that age, there is fear that letting go of a naturalis...

Science (which means knowledge), will fall apart when societies withdraw support. That could happen for a number of reasons.

drake was asking about the knowledge that vouchsafes causal determinism. I don't think there is any. The assumption that all causes are knowable has h...

I was addressing fdrake's question. Do you want me to explain my response?

How did I step outside? Btw: causal detetminism does not require that anyone have any knowledge of causation. It's not about knowledge. It is related ...

It's just folk wisdom that the mead you're drinking isn't going to turn into petroleum on its way down your throat without a knowable explanation. How...

I've been advised to "integrate gender neutral scripting" into my interactions.

The American and Russian revolutions have some things in common. They both started accidentally, involved large amounts of alcohol, and in both cases ...

How about Oct. 29?

50/50 is an assessment of a formal system, not the outcome of a unique coin toss. Maybe it would help if we considered an unbalanced object. It has a ...

Makes for poor peripheral vision, thus the banging into walls.