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August 26, 2019 at 18:29
I think your perspective is interesting. Would you say the The Inter Mind Model is basically idealism? Do you feel that imagining something like a CM ...
August 26, 2019 at 17:58
Premise one is wrong, therefore your conclusion does not follow
August 26, 2019 at 17:18
Thank you for welcoming me! I agreed with your criticism of my apparently reductionistic description of cogitation. I was merely trying to convey that...
August 26, 2019 at 16:46
Well said, and this is why I think the people who argue, "well if there is no free will why are we even having this discussion? You can't convince me ...
August 23, 2019 at 20:55
This is very interesting to me. According to this, what we perceive as "the self," could just be the product of this symbolic communication within the...
August 23, 2019 at 20:46
So I guess where you and I would have difference, is you believe there is some kind of meta phenomenon of the mind, some will, which affects reality, ...
August 23, 2019 at 20:23
It sounds like you and I are in agreement. I agree, "free" will is an illusion. There is no homunculus initiating causation that could be said to serv...
August 23, 2019 at 20:07
Ok, then it seems like we both agree, randomness does not generate free will. I had a very hard time understanding your poem, so take that for what it...
August 23, 2019 at 19:44
I agree you do not need free will to quarantine criminals. I was simply relaying the argument that Daniel Dennett makes. And I do not agree with Danie...
August 23, 2019 at 19:43
no, not worst. In the context of attempting to create a case that there is such a thing as "free will" by invoking quantum indeterminism, suggesting t...
August 23, 2019 at 19:24
indeterminism gives you randomness at best, ie not free, and there is no evidence that what occurs at the level of the particle scales up to sufficien...
August 23, 2019 at 19:00
If there is something that can be described as "will" (typically defined as choosing something, or causing something to occur in an uncompelled manner...
August 23, 2019 at 18:56
I agree completely with your sentiment. Yes, the economic system functions as a machine, in the respect that you have described. That is to say, that ...
August 23, 2019 at 18:44
I would agree with this, although I would add an additional element. I would argue that the human is compelled by biological/survival needs which over...
August 21, 2019 at 18:10