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And is this being the 'will'? I would think so.

Hi Hanover.

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Good post MF. Is free will apart from other things then? Where does it reside? Truly, to conceptualize something as illusory, that something must have...

Okay, we're getting somewhere. Thank you, Jarmo. And is it just another desire, then another desire, like infinite regress? We might think this way, e...

Okay, stop talking and start doing.

:smile: Not in my neck of the woods! People are gardening on concrete patios.

Good. Sometimes it's too unbelievably relaxed, it's sinful. Building a pool is awesome! Do it! Retire? What's that? In this epoch?

Sorry for taking a long time to respond. First, let's hold off on talking about free will here. I'm requesting that someone, anyone respond to the iss...

I don't think "cause" is the right word here. And I don't understand your question because I said in my previous post that there are desires that driv...

How are you, Sir2U?

The important point here is human agency is sound and alive. While admittedly, as my post above, that other motivation/desires influence our thinking ...

Internal and external 'rewards or goals' can motivate anyone. Yes, then we can argue that 'okay, so there are other desires that control these desires...

Make that vanilla, please.

Argument by assertion. Where's your argument for "we cannot control our desires"? Because behavioral psychology attests that we can. Studies show we c...

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I'm not arguing. I'm here contributing to the others' responses. I'm not interested in arguing in favor of something that's innate. If you yourself do...

Probably.

I am suggesting you read his writings. And I want to add, read the cartesian doubt. I can't -- not to you. Doubting is a first-person account. You can...

So math is circular reasoning all along, undermining any confidence or justification in that process and therefore in the conclusion.

Yes, and no. Wittgenstein did try to explain our doubting. Doubting is innate.

Admittedly, yes. If you read polls by Gallup, for example, they try to make it as basic as possible for the general public. If you want to use individ...

I don't think there is. What would it be like to think in "units" of thoughts? Think Wittgenstein on this. There is, however, fundamental units of sou...

Sorry, there is no maybe here, not a total illusion. What if I tell you that nostalgia is an involuntary information retrieval, manifested not as touc...

Venn Diagram will work here, to present a visual overlapping of counts.

But that's the thing -- it's more than emotion. Nostalgia must have the empirical experience in order for it be nostalgia. Otherwise, we could just be...

Well, the same way others feel when experiencing nostalgia -- happy, familiar place or object. Or just a longing of something positive that I've exper...

:grin: No, SophistiCat's stats did not add up to 222%. Please read it again.

Yes you are. Nostalgia is a mental representation that's not represented by any of the things you associate with it -- happy, longing, past. I'm sure ...

No. He wants the probability to have limits of range that's meaningful. And I don't know how that happens.

This is a good example. To be fair, values can also be invalid. But I think Metaphysician's difficulty here, and other points on this thread, is the c...

Perhaps I should try 48 hours. Thanks!

4 hours on the counter -- one day in the fridge.

Yes, indeed! I've had countless failures in this battle, but I'm ready to give it another go.

It's not trivial. Refine your claims -- this is what I gather from Luke's pleas. Whenever one invokes a mathematical equation, he or she is bound by a...

You mean it doesn't make the states stable or uniform. Determinism is commutative, but results can be unstable or changeable.

If you make your own pizza dough, please do not overwork it. The key to light ( as opposed to heavy and tough) pizza crust is in fermentation, not kne...

The Pythagorean Theorem is inherently empirical -- which helps the case of the proponents of the grounding of mathematics on a fundamental, physical, ...

Yeah. I'm not sure if we could even entertain the question -- what if we're the future? But then where are the alien interstellar ruins that went unde...

They've done this for claims about pain. Also, primal fear is real and provable.

While this is not what I was thinking, the power of suggestion compels me to meander in that direction. So, are you suggesting something at all? If th...

"The World Social Report 2020: Inequality in a rapidly changing world comes as we confront the harsh realities of a deeply unequal global landscape. I...

Ah. I'm sort of mentally fumbling on this as I'm not sure whether we are confusing cause with effect here. I believe the issue we want to deal with is...

Yes, but we have instead a boom and bust economy. Economic cycle is best when it's tightened and then relaxed, tightened then relaxed, not feast or fa...

This is what many societies have been doing already. But don't think that just because something can be proven wrong, that it's going to change some p...

Thanks for summarizing the video.

Just look at the stock market. :yikes:

Hi. So, is this the evidence you've come to believe should happen if they exist?

Hi Sir2u. I'm doing well. Thanks. And you!

Hello all. It's been awhile since I've posted, but I just hope everybody is well and staying safe.