Truth Seeker

You have to ask LuckyR for her/his definition. I have already given my definition.

Thank you very much for your clarification. Please read the reply I posted 15 minutes ago. It is the second last post from your post. Can neurological...

Knowing things with complete certainty is helpful for decision-making. Making decisions with total ignorance is highly risky. I agree with your statem...

Sorry, I had not noticed your question. Let me try to answer it here. You asked: "So, would it be fair to say that in your view, any biological organi...

I agree.

I never said that complex neurological systems can't be deterministic. As far as I know the decision making process in complex neurological systems is...

Thank you for your wise advice.

I understand the process. Thank you for explaining it.

Randomness is not free will. Randomness is just randomness.

I agree with you.

I agreed with what LuckyR said because I interpreted his definition to be talking about biological organisms making choices. I can see that you interp...

Having a will is a prerequisite for having free will. We have a will but it is not free. It is determined and constrained by our genes, environments, ...

That's interesting. I didn't know that a computer program could have 1+1= 257 or -35 etc.

I agree. Having a will is a prerequisite for having free will. We have a will but it is not free. It is determined and constrained by our genes, envir...

You are most welcome.

I agree with you.

Thank you for clarifying what you mean. I agree that people before Galileo and Copernicus used to believe that the Sun orbits the Earth but that didn'...

I have read many contradictory definitions of free will and don't agree with any of them. That's why I came up with my own definition. If you don't ag...

I don't think of statements as judgements. 1 + 1 = 2 is true. The Earth orbits the Sun is true. The Earth orbits Mars is false. These are not judgemen...

There is no universally accepted definition of free will. My definition of free will is a will that is free from determinants and constraints. I clear...

Truth is not one's judgement on something. Truth is what is real. If I say that I went to the Moon for a holiday when I actually did not go there, tha...

I agree.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Did you see the Robert Sapolsky video?

I agree with you.

I agree with you.

This is wise.

Yes, we do learn the label "dream" from our caregivers. However, that does not preclude the possibility of our perceived reality being dream or halluc...

I agree with you. News reports and history books often include selected 'truths' while omitting inconvenient truths.

If one is convinced that one is right when he or she is wrong, this can lead to catastrophes. I remember a mentally ill person who jumped off a tall b...

I agree with you but it is still possible that your perceived reality is a simulation or dream or hallucination or illusion. That's why I said I am 99...

Yes, indeed.

Please explain why you think: "All the sensory perception I have through my own senses must be taken as 100% truth until they are found, and proven as...

I agree.

From my perspective. I agree that the world looks flat to me when I am at home on Earth but it won't look flat if I was on the International Space Sta...

Along with shared subjectivity, there is also exclusive subjectivity e.g. only I know the contents of my dreams and what thoughts and recollections oc...

Thank you for the interesting link.

Thank you for letting me know. I had never Googled shared subjectivity until I read your post. I came up with the concept many years ago when I was di...

Being conscious is a prerequisite for experiencing dream or hallucination or illusion or simulation. That's why I can be 100% certain that I am consci...

I am not saying this at all. On the second last post on page three of this thread, I have stated that I know 7 things with 100% certainty.

I agree with everything you have said except for this statement: "And see, you are bringing it up yourself, invalidating therefore your first statemen...

So far, I am 100% or completely certain of the following: 1. I am conscious. 2. I am typing in English. 3. I am not all-knowing. 4. I am not all-power...

I see. Thank you.

I agree.

I understand. Thank you.

How do I know that something self-evident is true? My perceptions could be real or simulations or hallucinations or dreams or illusions.

How can a duck's consciousness be replaced by an alien? Is consciousness something separate from the body that can be put in different bodies or is it...

I agree that a shapeshifting alien could be pretending to be a duck and we would not be able to tell without analysing blood samples, etc.

I agree with you.

I agree with you.

I am not convinced that reality works in a way that requires absolute uncertainty to exist for absolute certainty to exist. The two ends of the electr...