bahman

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I can hear many things in a noisy place but they are garbled. I can of course focally focus on one thing to hear carefully.

This is selection based on weight.

Perhaps you could. I can be only be focally conscious of one thing at any time. I of course could keep a few thing in my working memory.

This is basically physicalism to best of my understanding rather than only Newtonian determinism. Under physicalism we are interested to know what wou...

Why? What is compatibilist definition of free will?

Compatibilism is a system of belief in which free will and determinism are compatible with each other.

Sometimes I see the car in the background. It is matter of focus. I can just focally focus on one thing at any moment. I do mistake if what I am tryin...

I think that desire is an organic process in nature.

I don't think so. I am aiming compatibilism. Free will and determinism are compatible under Compatibilism. One need to show that is however possible. ...

I normally think of something else than deriving. That is true in most of the time something bothers the field of my consciousness. I don't see what i...

I am conscious when I am deriving. I think of something else rather than deriving. Deriving seems that is is done automatically. I cannot make any mem...

If the self is by product of brain activity then it could not create a chain of causality since brain activity respects causality unless we are dealin...

Is number something realizable in external world that we experience and we try to discuss? 1 apple +1 apple=2 apple. Something just appears in our min...

I agree with you. The power to individuate is a part of our instinct.

That doesn't make any sense.

Numbers are ideas. They could have instances in reality.

No, I meant in the regards to question I asked: Is it brain dependent or is something separate like soul? You don't have third option.

What is the third option in this case?

Come on. You just have two options.

Is it brain dependent or is something separate like soul?

And what is mind?

Come on. Please elaborate.

Yes. Have you ever heard of sleepwalker?

Could you please elaborate?

What do you believe? What is the use of brain?

Farsi/persian.

Did what I say not clear? Of course we are bounded with many things but we might be free given the definition of free will in OP. But we should be abl...

I am Bahman. I am a physicist. I love philosophy though. English is my second language. What else? Nothing.

I am saying that act of will is impossible in a deterministic world. Therefore compatibilism is wrong.

No. I am saying given a situation which is defined by a set of options an agent can decide and choose one of the option only if he can initiate a chai...

That is not correct. What does initiate a chain of causality if even the agent follow causality too? What is your definition of free will? I cannot co...

I believe that there is a doer which can initiate or terminate a chain of causality otherwise there is no free will.

I don't know if it is like this for you but I can derive miles without being conscious of deriving, unless an expected thing happen.

What is homuncular notion of awareness? I agree. I agree. Could you please elaborate on this part?

That is how I make a decision: (1) I collect options one by one and memorize them, (2) I retrieve option one by one and contemplate about each option ...

Are you conscious of the options at the moment you decide?

I think you are explaining unconscious decision. You can neither be conscious options as an coherent image nor you can consciously give them a weight.

I don't think if we can focally experience two things together. I am familiar with the experiencing options sequentially but that doesn't help when it...

Yes, we can conscious of a decision. The question is whether we can decide consciously: having both option at the same time in mind and deciding. How ...

I think I was talking about another issue.

It seems that we are only aware of choices sequentially. I want this or that. This or that is sequential mental state. I have never experience this an...

Interesting. But then why we are not aware of content of the whole? Perhaps we are disturbing consciousness by reflecting on decision while the consci...

Why should it go to that direction? What is your solution?

Everybody can only focally be conscious of one thing at a time.

You didn't get my point. Infinite regress is the process of reaching to infinity.

It is not circular. Things which change require a variable so we could distinguish different state of them. Without the variable the change cannot man...

We can experience psychological duration but that is different from duration/real duration which takes place independent of us.

Infinite regress is a process of reaching to infinity by finite step which is impossible since infinity+anything finite=infinity.

Something could be infinite, God. Infinite regress however is the process to reach infinity which is impossible. These are different.