1.4, but only because I tend to reply to multiple comments in one post. And no, I do not win, because I'm sure there are some with ratios greater than...
1) Not a hard separation because I consider cognition to be a function of said physics. A dualist might make such a hard separation. 2) There is not '...
I made my mother nauseous, so I guess that counts as making a predication. It means if and only if, and I very much use it in a one way relationship. ...
Best to pick something unobserved (and not alive) if you're going to assert that. Being unobserved is not what makes something mind-independent since ...
Sure, but so many of your other quotes make it quite clear that you consider perception to be the mental ground for existence. So you regularly switch...
You define direct knowledge as that learned through perception, so here you seem to be asking me to demonstrate perception apart from perception, whic...
So now human minds are special? If that's true, then Pegasus probably doesn't exist. No contradiction since nowhere does it suggest an absence of perc...
What I equate 'existence' with is definition dependent. Most of them don't exclude material things. I equate metaphysics with cognition of the mind-sc...
I have no clue what you mean to say when you say existence (metaphysics) reduces to a physical model of the universe. The model isn't an ontological o...
I already commented on that definition. What is a negation in this context? Usually it is a transform of a logical statement, like A -> ~B negates to ...
Just so, and I've seen it (the study) done for water dowsing. It seemed to fail spectacularly under controlled conditions and yet it seems to work in ...
They (the ones using the D1 definition) are not saying that about determinism defined roughly as 'not randomness'. It's a different definition than th...
The people that use it in the D1 way (it seems pretty prevalent) just call it 'determinism'. I added the adjective, as I said above, since it is a dic...
There are many valid definitions of various words, and that definition is the first one that comes up if I ask for determinism, definition. The adject...
'Philosophical determinism' is my term, and is often the sort of determinism referenced by the dualists. It means naturalism, but that sounds good, an...
While the "experts" might say something like that, the experts don't. Space is expanding, but saying the universe is expanding implies that it has a s...
Yes. God rolling dice, as Einstein put it. Your definition: "an event within the cosmos that as event has no reason whatsoever for its so occurring." ...
I've encountered plenty of people that use definition 1, the one in the dictionary, which yes, doesn't seem like determinism at all to me. That D1 all...
None of those criteria have objective meaning, so you're saying nothing exists (E1)? The bold part directly begs EPP. As I said, you just cannot set i...
That sounds like 'hard determinism' or D2, but I notice that they use the word 'world' like there are other worlds and therefore this particular world...
Apparently not. Here is the correct one, and I fixed the prior post link. Hopefully I did it right this time. The SEP article is here and is not linke...
Fine. Then we're talking past each other because I'm not exploring nonexistence of concepts. None of those exist under E2. Concepts of them do, but a ...
The SEP article on the subject is the best I can do, and it opens with using #1 as its definition, and touching on some of the others. I got into phil...
I had counted six kinds of determinism. Short summary: 1 philosophical determinism 2 Bohmian (hard) 3 MWI 4 eternalism 5 classical 6 onmiscience Of th...
Without end? Sure, it's an infinite series, but it ends when Achilles has run 111 1/9 yards. That's a finite time and a finite distance, simply expres...
You are incapable of setting EPP aside then, are you?: You are then incapable of defending it since you cannot drive the lack of it to contradiction w...
It is valid. The phrase 'rewind time' should never have been used. Free will is often described as 'could have done otherwise' and not 'would do other...
No, the description seems to rewind only the physical part of the state, not all of it, thus sidestepping the argument in the OP paper. It's two diffe...
But I didn't say that it also existed. That's the part that would have made it paradoxical. I had explicitly not posited EPP in my example. This does ...
Thing is, the argument linked in the OP also works against compatibilism, but only if free will is defined the same way. A compatibilist cannot claim ...
I made no mention of any existence within a language field. Your comment used words that implied usage of 'existing' within the domain of time, as opp...
Yes, the argument still holds given the dualistic model. It just extends what currently is known as 'naturalism. Either way, Bob1 & Bob2 are only goin...
I totally agree with that point. The exact same reasoning can be used against dualism, the kind they say is incompatible with determinism. The claimed...
Two things here. 1) I was trying to unpack your symbolic notation, which is indeed paradoxical, but it doesn't reflect anything I said. 2) You mention...
That actually seems to say that existence is things that don't exist. Your verbal description says it means that existence is things that either exist...
Ask MoK. He's the one that said that "hysical processes in general are not possible without an entity that I call the Mind", which implies that a Room...
Don't follow, but that may be me. You reference only C and D, so let's say B is my mailbox and C is <stuff in my kitchen>. I don't know what " Let C =...
Both are. The Roomba would not be able to choose an option of which it was unaware. So maybe the left path has been visited less recently, but if it d...
I'm fine with that. You didn't answer the question asked "What fundamentally do you do that a Roomba doesn't?" when you imply that a Roomba doesn't re...
I know you're talking about mental processing of visual data, but that's far more complex than anybody here is qualified to answer, so I am instead pi...
Depends on definitions. Didn't say there wasn't anything to modify. I said that the thing modified doesn't necessarily exist. Pegasus has been our exa...
Troy was a mythical city. Is the Troy they discovered a con then? It certainly didn't have all the embellished events happen there, but some of them a...
A compatibilist says that free will and determinism are compatible with each other, but I would need both words more precisely defined were I to agree...
This is trivially illustrated with the most simple code. Take a step. Count the ways forward (don't include the way you came) If 0, it's a dead end. O...
You got it backwards. Given EPP, a thing with defining attributes necessarily exists since existence is prior to those attributes. So the answer would...
I can think of I think 4-6 different kinds of determinism, and under 2 of those, yes, you could have willed otherwise, but probably not due to any dif...
Well, a system in principle can be predicted from outside the system, it's just from inside that it has been proven unpredictable, a rather trivial pr...
It doesn't 'sound like' dishonesty either. There statement is perfectly reasonable. I have no visual perception of the object on your desk, and never ...
Determinism or no, yes, it is a complex web of interconnected factors, hardly a linear domino chain. You got this right. Don't confuse determinism wit...
So you just told me something and now I'm being accused of being grossly dishonest when I indicate that I know what you just told me. Strange claim th...
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