We’ve been trying for a while. So far it all just seems like meat. Our brains don’t have any special “chemical X”. This is called the hard problem of ...
That would be whether or not the hard problem is hard Agreed. Except the hard problem asks what are the necessary conditions not what are the sufficie...
It’s not theft if no one is stolen from and no one is harmed is it? Calling it theft might make it sound wrong but you haven’t actually presented a lo...
Does it? I see no need for this highly complicated definition. Making someone do something, is making someone do something. It doesn’t matter if that ...
So you don’t believe human reason has the answer for this ethical question? Why are you reasoning about it then? And why didn’t you say so at the very...
Simply incorrect. If that were the case why would I stop at antinatalism? Why not be a pro mortalist? Why stick so such a losing strategy for achievin...
I think you’re conflating “can be dismissed” with “is false or insignificant”. All the razor is doing is saying: sure you can start with this axiom, o...
I don’t think that’s what he’s doing, I think it’s more that he thinks that as long as the information processing and deciding happened within one’s o...
Yes. I do believe that. Because then who would be harmed. It’s not like there is some announcer telling people what their children would have accompli...
I don’t have such a conviction or I wouldn’t be here, again. I do however have quite the strong conviction that you’re being a hypocrite to your own v...
First off I think that’s incredibly selfish. And second off, what happens once those good things are prevented? Who is harmed? Look at it this way: Wo...
So you wouldn’t mind if some psycho believed very vehemently in the greater purpose of cleaning sewage and so forced you to clean sewage with him for ...
it’s ok. Antinatalism was very counter intuitive for me as well. Until I spent 6 months arguing with a guy on reddit and he convinced me. Also read be...
I thought we went over this already at the very start. Antinatalism never claims to help anyone. The antinatalist doesn't think he’s doing a good thin...
ok cool so you’d be perfectly fine with genetically engineering someone to be born with 10 broken limbs and suffer tremendously because of it? After a...
And I’m here to ask everyone to take this advice and find that the favorable conditions are: never Also I just wanted to re ask another question you n...
Do you mean to say that since no one benefits from antinatalism that it is somehow virtue signaling? Is not modifying children to suffer virtue signal...
You actually truly believe that? So again I ask You have 3 starving people and 2 solutions A: feed them B: materialize 100 satiated people such that y...
why do you think it cant be known to be causal? As I’ve said before, you don’t need to imply determinism to say that one can trace the neurological ef...
But there is someone who chose to put the gun there should they be punished? But we can't say putting the gun there was causal to someone getting shot...
I had a different definition of the word control in mind that made it impossible to happen. Now, you were saying Sure it's controlled then turns deter...
Because I didn't want to say neurons control what neurons do. Because I defined control differently, as that mysterious "third way" of causation that ...
Ok phew. We're in agreement. But the language you use for it just seemed weird to me. Does the hot pan speed up the particles in it? No, the pan is ho...
I didn't say that. Just to confirm, if the bunch of neurons called "you" decides something, even though each neuron has its own life and is just inter...
Oh my God. Ok. What is "you" here? A subset of brain functions correct? This subset of brain functions is ultimately just a collection of neurons and ...
Agreed Biased probabilities are still randomness no? As I said in the other thread, when I say random I don't mean equal chances of all options I agre...
how does "control" happen exactly? How are the neurons "controlled". "You feel like you control this but it's actually just like every other physical ...
All of this was unnecessary. You can't complain about writing more while taking the time to express your frustration from answering questions that hav...
B becomes capable of deciding later no? Yet he still has to do the thing A told him to do, namely live Existence is riskier than non existence correct...
Uhhhhh. Aren't you literally proposing the mystical third way of causation that we both said doesn't exist, this "free". Something is either ontologic...
Yes. I agree. Where is the confusion here? You asked: Except it IS something random no? Even you said in that thread that if something is not determin...
But. You have different probabilities to do things before this biasing takes place no? And towards which of those this biasing takes place is not dete...
Uhhhh. What? You mean it's not something deterministic? I thought your whole shtick was that free will is basically just an expression of the fact tha...
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