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it's very jargon heavy. "Distal end" sounds like a fancy way of saying end goal. Is that right? What does "not yet actualized future actualized statue...

No, not familiar with any of it, that's why i'm asking you to explain it from the beginning my bro.

I would love to but your question doesn't make sense to me. I can't maintain that if I don't understand what your teleological reasoning is.

I don't think I even know what you mean. What I love about the op article is how remarkably clear and unambiguous it is. I don't think you're making y...

Anyway, the article lays out a clear scenario - a Bob1 and a Bob2 who are both entirely the same as each other and in entirely the same circumstances ...

the "thank god" was meant to be a joke

I thought you said "theological" lol.

None of that looks to me like it has anything to do with what I said. I never said any of those things at all, I don't think.

i was merely jesting. what was the reason?

Dang, didn't think mistaking what a brute fact was is ban worthy.

It's my understanding that they're mutually exclusive and mutually exhaustive. I've never been given a coherent reason to think otherwise, and I don't...

I see, I thought your repsonse sounded like that kind of tthing. No, we can all agree that if you're in a similar circumstance at a completely differe...

I don't understand what you mean by this. Most certainly not what - can you be explicit please? Are you saying the choice would be free even if it was...

yup Thank god for that And why is that fact - that the choice could be different if everything were the same - relevant? Would you still have made a f...

Ok, so now that you know it's a thought experiment, and not a real experiment, and nobody thinks it's a real experiment and nobody is suggesting we co...

Yup, the history of philosophy and science is full of people doing thought experiments without the ability to immediately conduct those experiments in...

I don't know what you're trying to say.

just fyi, literally nobody is talking about it being actually possible for us to set this up in real life. Nobody thinks we can -actually- do that. Th...

They're not models, and they're not incomplete. They're categories. For any system that evolves in time, you can categorise that system as determinist...

You haven't engaged with the reasoning presented in the article.

Determinism isn't really the alternative here. The two alternatives at play, as far as I can tell, are "libertarian free will makes sense" and "libert...

https://www.georgewrisley.com/blog/?p=47

That's not what a brute fact means in philosophy. A brute fact isn't just "a fact we can confirm". A brute fact is a fact you can't explain with deepe...

I'm a compatibilist, so I'm actually... half way towards agreeing with you - there's no significant difference, in my opinion, between the claim that ...

That's why NoAxiom was saying there's a difference between determinism and predictability.

why is it meaningless? The word has a literal meaning. It might be untestable, but I don't think it's meaningless.

good take

As far as my reading has taken me, "consciousness collapses the wave function" is definitely something some experts believe, but the vast majority do ...

Great advice. Simple yet powerful, just a little bit of structure puts you miles ahead of people who don't even try to plan out a structure.

That's certainly true for your example, but your example is atypical. When you see a mirage in a desert that looks like a body of water, and then you ...

I agree with that part of your post. I just disagree (I think) that faith can't also contradict the existence of a god. Obviously it doesn't between C...

I think you listed a lot of things faith can support or contradict. And then what you said about faith in god looks, to me, like you're saying there's...

Are you sure that the thing you said, that I quoted, is true?

You sure?

Yeah, I don't think that's a left problem though. I think we're seeing that from all quarters. The left and right are just doing that in different way...

zombie? Not sure what exactly is meant by that

As a lefty, I largely agree with this and I've been saying similar things for years. The left shoots themselves in the foot by becoming extreme carica...

Saw this article pop up: https://richarddawkins.substack.com/p/are-you-conscious-a-conversation?utm_medium=ios It's a conversation between Richard Daw...

You're welcome mate, i think people will appreciate the added clarity.

Here, i'll show you what that would look like: D1) Consider two states of a fundamental particle, S1 to S2, in which the particle exists at time t1 an...

Think of "a physical" as a steaming pile of puke. It's distasteful. You will make your own text more readable to others if you figure out a way that's...

I really recommend you figure out a different phrase to use than "a physical". Nobody knows what it means, it's not a standard phrase in this context,...

I guess what he's saying is: If the physical in the state of S1 cannot know the correct instant to cause the physical in the state of S2, then the phy...

agreed. There's no clear modus ponens there. If it is there, he's done a good job of hiding it

Generally speaking (and this is just off the top of the dome so forgive me if it's not quite right), the study of the patterns of how physical things ...

Honestly it seems like you've invented a strawman about physics to argue against

This idea that "the physical" and time are separate is so strange to me. Physical things only are what they are because of their relationship to time....

mmm... that's not very persuasive. You aren't presenting yourself like someone who knows a lot about physics. Maybe you do and it's just really, reall...

that all sounds very speculative

how do you know?