Why, when there is such a straight forward resolution? The mind is a byproduct of brain activity in the same way playing Go is a byproduct of computer...
If the mind operates in the manner of evolution (we know epistemology works that way, so why not) then there is no requirement for information, or exp...
It does seem utterly wasteful and counter-evolutionary to claim that consciousness and free-will are illusions. For this to work in evolutionary terms...
You can't have determinism and causality. Quantum mechanics has shown them to be incompatible. In the language of entanglement and the Bell inequaliti...
According to physics, the answer is YES! I don't particularly like the flavour of quantum mechanics that the Free Will and the Strong Free Will Theore...
It's absolutely noting to do with time. It is everything to do with the in-principle indistinguishability of identical instances of you, or anyone els...
It's absolutely nothing to do with time. And He cannot tell which decision you will make, in principle. All that can be known is what proportion of th...
I think science needs to come to the rescue of philosophy, yet again. No, God cannot tell us what we will do in the future, because what we will do is...
We don't use induction, mostly because there is no such logic, or method. Sure, we may generalize, but we do so from data that is already reported in ...
So now we need three unjustifiable principles to certify our knowledge as true: Causality, the future will be the same as the past, and that the unexp...
Except that view has been falsified: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/quantum-experiment-shows-how-time-emerges-from-entanglement-d5d3dc85093...
I think you are using terminology in a non-standard way. While it is easy to follow the nerve impulses to their final destination in the visual cortex...
Don't you find that a bit of a leap? Why do people keep assuming living creatures are aware of themselves? I suppose it's "obvious"? We don't however,...
So, your argument is that Darwin's words on the matter are irrelevant, and that he is wrong about his own theory. I am suppressing laughter. I could e...
You should read some Darwin, particularly the book and chapter I have been referencing. Darwin clearly states that if the variations are determined, t...
That is pretty nonsensical. Evolution requires ontological chance/randomness. If biodiversity has happened as a deterministic inevitability from the i...
You would have to be quite the disingenuous sneak to claim that I anywhere quoted Darwin directly, or claimed those were his exact words. I told you w...
Except that our deepest theories of reality are deterministic, and have been tested to extraordinary accuracy. No violation of Unitarity has ever been...
So, let me repeat myself. The testable theory that was asked for is Quantum Mechanics. The Guiding Principle is the CTD-Principle, which is proved to ...
As I mentioned earlier, this type of determinisn - SUPERDETERMINISM - turns Reality into a conspiracy theory. However, the type of determinism that re...
Although you don't understand how determinism works in Reality, it doesn't matter, because those who deny Free Will because of determinism, but advoca...
OK, let's hope you aren't going to make a fool of yourself. Is that all it means? Causes? OK, given quantum entanglement, how does that work out for y...
I find it strange that those who deny free will in the face of determinism, because the two really aren't compatible, baulk at the notion that evoluti...
As you know, determinism works both ways. What if the final conditions of the universe require agent freedom to have come into existence? I mention th...
You could even use the term SUPERDETERMINISM to emphasize that even quantum mechanics provides no loophole to escape the conspiracy theory that is Rea...
The theory is quantum mechanics, which is falsifiable, tested, and long-unfalsified. The principle the theory adheres to is the Church-Turing-Deutsch ...
According to science, we can change what we will. Also, it seems apparent that people do this all the time. It's not as if we can be genetically deter...
The English are almost exclusively the descendants of the Corded Ware Culture. When you call them "mongrels", which you must if you hate them, then yo...
If you are about to measure the spin of a particle, what difference does it make if the particle is entangled with another or not? Alice still measure...
The electrons will be in different locations, with non-overlapping wavefunctions, so you can label them as you wish. Usually they are labeled after th...
Perhaps you get the idea that the scientific method is an algorithm, because you confuse it with the purported inductive algorithm for obtaining knowl...
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