One of the problems with quantum reality in human minds is that quantum reality does not LOOK like anything. Humans like to see things that they can s...
Keystone, since you understand that 0.9 means move from one room to another, then please tell us what the following expressions mean: 0.938K 330.five ...
The way I look at it our perception of reality is solid objects and liquid and gaseous; and then there are black hoes and sub-atomic particles and qui...
Here you say as if only humanists rode on human dignity as a special characteristic. Then you say it's even in the Mein Kampf. "Die Würde des Menschen...
So it's not a humanist thing, it's a human thing. So stop saying that it's humanists who ascribe dignity to humans. You are cherry-picking worse than ...
Your near-sighted, biassed and communist (in the bad sense, not in the good sense) way of looking at things is shown very clearly in this post of your...
I and the Opening Poster did not practice psychologist (to use your vernacular) at all. We talked about psychiatry in a vein of philosophical approach...
1. Whom are you addressing? 2. You are asking for proof. That's a tall order as science itself can't provide proofs. (Many threads on this forum about...
Fee will and determinism are both hard to prove empirically, because of the nature of causation. We can roll two balls and predict which way they will...
In a way that's true. No psychiatric patient ever achieves full recovery. The recovery percentage (which I define as a spectrum, similar to the spectr...
finally an intelligent discourse that I read with interest, with voracious interest in "what's next in this series of thoughts." The picture you so ni...
Personally, I like to use the term "fatalism" instead of predetermination, because predetermination sounds too close to determination, and therefore t...
I think that in a world where determinism is true, the world's course will be indistinguishable from predestination. A predestinated world can continu...
Okay, but nothing can subjugate the will anyway. So whether you go along or not, your will will not be subjugated. And whether you go along or not, yo...
This is patently false. You can't oppose and succeed in defeating the rules of determinism. But let's say you can, for argument's sake. Then your conc...
No, but they do affect the will and the will will respond in a predictable way. Maybe my post was too long for readers. Maybe I should have just said ...
Can you give a quotation or reference where humanists say "we ascribe dignity to humans and not to other species"? Is it your own interpretation and e...
I don't understand this. It's not the French part I have trouble with. It is the English text that I can't make heads or tails out of. For instance, I...
What I said above in the previous post is about the subjugation of our will. I concluded that the will can't be subjugated. However, that does not mea...
Okay, I forgot for a moment what the original post was. "Can our wills be subjugated / dictated by external things?" If and only if this is the questi...
Now I became spellbound. ---- I agree with the "what more do you want" part, in a socially just society nobody would feel they are pulling more than t...
You're jumping into extremes. "you work hard, and yet don't see anything from your work." That is not true. You see something from your work. "that's ...
This is a good scenario, because it taxes the reason. Is the prison subjugating your will? Not at all. Are the people who locked you up subjugating yo...
thanks for so thoroughly answering my questions, and explaining your answers. Knowing that some can't be explained in a single paragraph, if they can ...
You are mistaken in believing that everything that subjugates your will has to be human-like. You are also mistaken by thinking that preferences are p...
This is where my warning of "what is something free of" comes in. You are not free to follow your preferences. It is your preferences that dictate you...
That is wrong. If you know, it is predetermined. If it is predetermined, you won't necessarily know. And people know dick all. That's why future is un...
One thing you have not considered, and many others also haven't: Freedom is relative term. Both in magnitude and in amount. And there is another thing...
Question is whether "you" will know if others are knowing that you will have bacon and eggs for breakfast. If you are a contrarian then you will have ...
I don't undrstand why you say that DeLeon's plan was unsuccessful. America has a prosperous working class. Public education is mandatory. There are el...
You did not give reasons; only personal views. I can't argue with your personal opinions not expressed as philosophical assertions. I have reasons tha...
Why would people be unable to make themselves happy, 180? If Maslow's Hierarchy holds, people will simply achieve the state of need of self-actualizat...
I agree and I don't. Yes, the wealth should be redistributed in a way to make humans live humane lives. That I agree with. I would like to improve on ...
So was I. In America this has been the case since the second half of the nineteenth century. Randian-fantasy capitalism does away with systematic expl...
1. free of governmental restrictions. 2. free of conscientious decision making. 3. free of overlords and their capricious demands. 4. free of insane r...
I agree. The big fish eat the little fish. Except for the Sherman Anti-Combines act in the USA, and similar laws elsewhere. Perish or thrive. Freedom....
Original poster: Noble and brave thought. Especially on this site. Because although we are not political, and there is no money at stake, nor lives, n...
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