Relativist

It is a causal agent, but lacks a mind. Our minds mediate our actions, and provides our sense of self.

I expect neuronal events ARE causal - the brain controls the autonomic nervous system, for example. Are you you suggesting that all mental activities ...

I don't think "you" exist apart from your physical body, but you do have a mental life. IMO, agential control is not an illusion if mental causation e...

Assuming there's no quantum indeterminacy in the mix, then there is only one possible future. But you nevertheless contribute to what that future will...

I agree. Generally, computers don't really generate random numbers - they generate pseudo-random numbers. And computer glitches are also predictable, ...

No, because the future hasn't happened. My point is that your choices establish the future.

I'm not sure I understand your point. We have the potential to be changed by everything we experience, and this can impact the choices we make in the ...

It's based on something I read in the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but I can't find it now. It may have been based on a paper by Brady and De...

Your description of free will is consistent with compatibilism. The alternative is Libertarian Free Will (LFW) which most people treat as entailing th...

ROFL!! This applies:

I have been wondering how Trump could be held criminally liable for falsely reporting the Stormy-payoff as a legal expense. As Trump says, it was the ...

I agree the prosecution has not tied the falsification to Trump, at least so far. I imagine their case relies on Cohen for this.

The story would be damaging even if it were made up. The doorman made up a story, and they still wanted to keep him quiet. McDougal was also paid off....

You're as evasive as a politician. Did she lie about having the sexual encounter? I didn't address that because it was a tangent. I had specifically a...

Are you suggesting she lied about Trump f**king her? Stormy being money-grubbing doesn't have any bearing on Trump's alleged desire to keep her quiet ...

ROFL! You didn't answer my question: how did Stormy's testimony help the defense?

I'm guessing you're implying this undermines her credibility. This is consistent with Fox News (here), but it's unclear to me how this hurts the prose...

I was referring to your response to this: I said: "So as I said, there's no evidence Biden was involved with Colangelo's taking the position to prosec...

An accusation by Jim Jordan does not constitute congressional testimony. OK, there is no direct evidence of Biden's involvement. Broadly speaking, all...

What other conspiracy theories do you embrace? More conspiracy theory reasoning. There's no evidence for your claim, but you point to an absence of ev...

You are "connecting dots", as conspiracy theorists like to do. This particular conspiracy theory is prevalent in the MAGA world. The facts you cite de...

That's inaccurate. I will grant that when any conviction is overturned on appeal, it implies "unfairness", but this is based on there having been an e...

Appellate courts overturn convictions for technical reasons, like interpretations of the law, errors by a judge, inadmissability of evidence. They rar...

They needed to rationalize Jesus divinity with monotheism. Aristotelian metaphysics helped them do that.

I imagine it happens gradually, but you are making conscious choices along the way, albeit they are naive choices strongly influenced by emotion.

There are cases where it might be, such as if you're diagnosed with a incurable illness and have only weeks to live. Being in denial is better than be...

Zealots suffering from cognitive dissonance after their mentor (and supposed messiah) was executed for high treason. It's an "extension of Judaism" th...

One can't just turn on a belief, so let's say I take a pill that causes me to believe in a god, because I want to have that chance at getting a reward...

I've previously acknowledged that a conviction might get overturned on appeal, but it won't be because there's no precedent, nor because you consider ...

Irrelevant. The charge for falsifying business records rises to a felony because it allegedly entailed intent to commit the conpiracy crime. The statu...

Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass said in court that one of the crimes Trump intended to commit was a conspiracy to promote or prevent an ...

That's true. IMO, teaching critical thinking is the priority. It could be taught in a more general philosophy class, but it wouldn't need to be.

The state waited because the feds told them to stand down, because they were investigating. The federal investigation stopped when Biden took office. ...

I was already aware the actual facts, as well as the Trumpist spin. As I've mentioned before, I think the prosecution's legal basis is weak, so there'...

You're deflecting. But thanks for sharing your opinion about the judge. FYI: I disagree.

I seriously doubt the NY Times called Colangelo Biden's "hatchet man". I read similar claims on the Fox News website.(part of my "bubble", I guess). R...

I seem to recall you complaining about media propoganda, and yet here you are- regurgitating (right-wing) media propoganda.

Sorry, I overlooked that part.

"Tending towards infinity" means counting through the natural numbers - the set is infinite. The process has no end.

My theory is that are motivated to halt, or roll back social changes (e.g.normalization of the LGBTQ communities, perceived special treatment for mino...

I agree with this much, but disagree with suggesting that the I disagree because this sense of responsibility is a part of our mechanism, and contribu...

Infinity is not reached. You're not considering what it means to be infinite in this context: it means continually dividing the remaining time (prior ...

You explained your interpretation: So...you're thinking of a limit in a vauge way ("symbolic"), and vaugely asserting the series "reaches" infinity, a...

Physics indeed is not exempt from logic. It's logically impossible to reach the 1 minute mark when all steps (even if there are infinitely many of the...

This ignores the fact that your genetic makeup, experiences, etc comprise you. That particular group of cells performs functions, including the cognit...

You're reading passivity into it; that certainly was not what I was trying to convey. The mental processes are under your control, not someone or some...

Agreed. You're pointing to the limit of a mathematical series. A step-by-step process does not reach anything. There is no step that ends at, or after...

You do go through a choice-making process, don't you? For important decisions, you may deliberate for a time, weighing the pros and cons of alternativ...

Even if determinism is true, we still make choices. It's true that those choices are a product of prior events, but the choices are still made - and w...

First of all, I agree with everything you said. Regarding the above, I don't think determinism (per se) is inconsistent with the existence of objectiv...