charleton

Perplexed by name; perplexed by nature. Seems you want to keep your deterministic cake but want to eat the free will topping too. Who or what decides ...

Sometimes posts are designed to agree. Surely it does not always have to be confrontational. Since we are discussing induction it is worth pointing ou...

I don't know. But its not me that believes in magic. That would be you.

As you know full well the sun does not rise, has never risen and never shall. Inductive knowledge has furnished us with the truth that the appearance ...

Are you suggesting that humans are able to act against the laws of cause and effect when the rest of the universe has to comply with it?

Single celled organisms probably. What's the "free will" guys answer?

This is a lecture version of fake news. This is a towering straw man of bollocks.

This is not the case. Determinism is an explanation of choice which is completely lacking from those who propose free-will.

The self is not static. Like all things it changes and evolves. The physical world is matter in motion; action and reaction.

The compatibilist position finds that all acts are determined. "Free" acts are determined by the self, which is itself determined. So - no.

This is false. Open up your computer, your fridge, your TV, your DVD.... ad infinitem

A common enough misconception.

Well there is what science has shown us, then there is your imagination. I think the latter is more like a void.

A bold, empty and unsubstantiated position.

No. logicians agree that deduction offers no new information, only clarify that which is know. Take the standard syllogism, we already know that Socra...

Yes me too, but somewhat less vacuous than your suggestion.

Why not? What other examples have you got? The chemical pathways are well understood and can be replicated in a test tube.

What we call in the UK: bollocks.

Cyprus is divided between the Greek south and the Turkish north. What value is sectarianism? How about Catalonia, Wales, Scotland - what next? Cornwal...

Kurdistan, Palestine, East Timor, Cyprus, South Ossietia, Hawaii, anymore for anymore????

I'm puzzled by this. Do you think these are facts if there were no human brains at all? ~If so how?

No I do not that THAT. I said what I wanted to say and not your straw man version. And No the choice is not between the illusion of purpose or "morpho...

Capitalism is the American nightmare, which has crushed all the dreams of ordinary Americans. It's just a pity they don't know it. To maintain the so-...

So if a person wins the lottery they ought not deserve the payout since they only won through luck?

As I said , it is of no importance the LITERAL meaning of evolution. In the context of the thread we are interested in the entire body of theory which...

YOU SAID Whether the purpose is survival, or conformity to a sexually selected morphology is immaterial to the argument. I disagree for the reasons I ...

No disagreement could be two people with the same POV having different reactions, or two people having a different POV and disagreeing for that reason...

I think you mean Aristotle's fourth cause ortelos. It's interesting to note that Darwin explicitly credits Aristotle in Physicae Austcultationes for p...

Etymological and semantic arguments are not relevant here.

YOU SAID This is not correct, since in order to examine the question of ID we have to be able to offer explanations about the APPARENT purpose to huma...

Thepurpose is material in that there is none. There is no goal here. Brute forces of nature simply and indifferently "conspire" to make living things ...

When we build homes???? How does nature change?

1) Newton codified gravity 332 years ago 2) He asserted that the "law" was universal and maintained by the action of God 3) He was wrong on many issue...

This is not exactly true. "IT" does not select anything. Nature and the forces of the environment RESULT in the selection of more successful and "fit"...

Stop rolling out your turd, and find out what it really means.

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was written in 1686 Check your basic arithmetic!

When Einstein said "God does not play dice" he was affirming the utter deterministic nature of the universe, and denying any miraculous or antirecessi...

200 years??? LOL

We simply cannot expect our models of the universe to be immune from inadequacy and eventual revision. Do we live in a universe of waves or particles?...

This is just a failure of the atomistic paradigm, it does not refute the simple fact that effects are the result of causes.

"why are we here?" Is no question. How do we come to be here might be a better one, and that can be answered by looking at natural history.

This is so obviously the complete opposite of what is evident. But that aside why would life aspire to that which began everything. You you even know ...

It's not even a question.

LOL. That's like saying its impossible to find evidence of pages of paper in the content of a book. BTW. This "." is a period. You said period period.

Don't buy into this free will clap trap, as this flies in the face of the massive advances in science of the last 250 years which assert determinism. ...

Sub-category of deduction.

That is all we have. Deduction can only say it is true because we say it is!!! Deduction is basically playing with definitions; nothing more.

True. But nonetheless the findings of science are reliable, and the deeper science is able to describe what seems to be going on the more reliable are...

This is of key importance. And is something that science is apt to forget at crucial times. Paradigms tend to get established and hard to shift. Thoma...

Yes. Empiricism is about what the world demonstrates and not what principles you hold about it. It's basically repetition; then formulate an hypothesi...