too vague of a statement for me to agree or disagree with. I think more than 50% (but certainly not all) people especially in physics would agree with...
yes, effectively, if you could match the physical arrangement of a previous period in time, there's not much distinguishing that from time travel I su...
smallism is probably the majority view of most people in the hard sciences - if I'm interpreting what it means correctly. "Smallism" to me looks prett...
The thing I don't like about this framing is that it's impossible in a practical sense - we'll never get to a point where we can do that perfectly, an...
it doesn't seem so far like any of your takes about compatibilism match what normal compatibilists think. Most compatibilists don't rely on any sort o...
None of this seems connected in particular to compatibilism. Compatibilism is perfectly compatible with the idea of causality moving exclusively forwa...
but I do think it's an important conversation to have. I mean if we're talking about free will and causality, really we're talking about when it makes...
no one thing causes human choices. It's always a complex network of causality, and sometimes it becomes unclear where the buck really stops. But part ...
well, I've read many thousands of words about compatibilism, written by compatibilists, written against compatibilists, written about compatibilism in...
exactly, the op doesn't spell out enough information to even start to judge it. Is the painter god and can always tell the future? Is he just really r...
but what does retro casualty have to do with any of that? I know a lot of compatibilists, and they don't have a model of the world involving retro cau...
What does "compatibilist" mean in this sentence? It doesn't look like it means the usual free-will/determinism kind of compatibilism, but I'm stumped ...
no, I think that's really unlikely. I think there's probably some base structures that are pretty damn similar between humans, but those are things th...
Well, surely it's possible just by pure chance. If I asked a hundred people to guess a number between 1-100, I might guess the number they guessed cor...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2147696-blind-people-repurpose-the-brains-visual-areas-for-language/ People use the same parts of their brain for...
Because you're thinking of thoughts as these concrete singular unambiguous thing, but human thought isn't like that. When I think of an apple, and you...
I've never understood this to be a problem. I mean, you can say the same things about ai. ChatGpt 3 has different array matrices activations for "a ca...
determinism is more specific than fatalism. Fatalism is the idea that the destination is determined (by some kind of spiritual force, usually), but th...
That seems a bit like it fails the Occam's Razor sniff test to me. The only behaviour that truly needs "feelings" in order to explain, that I can see,...
the thing that stops me from being a pansychist is, if consciousness is fundamental, then that means (by my reckoning) everything is conscious. Atoms,...
If questioning God has got you in a twist, consider this: If God doesn't exist, then every joy you've ever experienced, everything beautiful you've ev...
okay well panpsychism still requires some emergence to get to human consciousness - the type of information processing and thoughts that are typical o...
I did not understand that scenario at all. The field is black, but yesterday it was painted white? I... don't understand Edit. I understand. You're sa...
There are a few reasons situations like this happen. 1. Like I said, awareness. People are generally more aware of some conflicts than others, and mor...
I don't think the whataboutism is particularly helpful. People don't know everything happening in every conflict in the world. If Israel did something...
this is such a silly myth. Guess what, Biden isn't popular, you're right! People didn't come out to vote Biden in, they came out to vote Trump out! It...
yeah, seems weird that he'd "wow" at that. Presidents have power through words alone. They sign papers with things written on them. They sometimes wri...
I agree, I think we, as in human beings, are mechanistic even if quantum physics is random. Maybe I just have a different idea of what "mechanistic" m...
no problem about the "vast" thing. In any case, I still don't see any consensus among the relevant experts that "we aren't mechanistic", quantum physi...
which reality is that? What have I fabricated? Did this woman really not say these things? The lengths I go to are "reading the words of his employees...
he left, but not by choice. That's like saying a child wasn't misbehaving because his parents eventually dragged him out. In fact, it's exactly like t...
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