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Interesting point. The way our knowledge of hard determinism would affect our actions which in turn would affect this future would have to be already ...
February 28, 2018 at 22:16
As I argued above, I can only understand the a science of behavior in terms of the prediction and control of said behavior. But what are we modeling i...
February 28, 2018 at 12:32
I think you are forcing a particular meaning on the word 'responsible' here. It seems to me that it wouldn't matter that we were all (under the assump...
February 28, 2018 at 09:12
Hi. I haven't looked into this deeply (disclaimer), but I'm surprised if it's the case that scientific theories include terms like 'self' and 'free wi...
February 28, 2018 at 09:06
Let's say that everything is determined, for the sake of argument. What now? The mere assumed fact that the future already exists in a certain sense d...
February 28, 2018 at 08:57
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I read this and thought: consciousness is knowing. And the knowing is something like the known itself with an added distance effect. We add a sort of ...
February 28, 2018 at 08:22
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Hi. So that 'it' continues, what is it for something to be metaphorical? Could we not ask if 'mind' itself is clear term? Perhaps you would agree here...
February 28, 2018 at 08:20