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So, in general, we appear to be outcroppings of the Everything, but really we are still the essence of it, as anything would be, there really only bei...
September 04, 2019 at 23:22
Since Existence is a given, having no opposite that could be, is all there in the block universe as everything, instantaneous, via something like as l...
September 04, 2019 at 23:03
Yes, we may get to something like that. Since my 'God' description had a "problem", I need to back off of it somewhat, leaving but what could be so. I...
September 04, 2019 at 22:39
The "no blame" conclusion is good for those who must honestly admit that 'God' is a maybe, however unlikely, those who didn't accord to the deal to ac...
September 04, 2019 at 22:21
So, to somehow have the deeper kind of free will hinted at, although not well defined, one approach is to shift the action to a consciousness, as a di...
September 04, 2019 at 22:11
Well, yes, since you're investigating 'freedom', but for everyone, too.
September 04, 2019 at 20:47
It wouldn't seem to be in the seven or so great extinction events so far.
September 04, 2019 at 20:32
It wasn't stated clearly, but it is shooting down that life had to come from a larger life, and so forth… since that makes a regress. Thanks for doing...
September 04, 2019 at 18:31
So, then, as for free will, I'm figuring that its proponents want to have consciousness to be the cause of what one does, in real time, rather than an...
September 04, 2019 at 18:22
We have to lay out the bare essentials first and see how that goes before layering more upon. It is an eternal First and Fundamental Being, with a cre...
September 04, 2019 at 18:02
First, we need to know what 'free' means in reference to the will—beyond someone saying that they have it. What is it free of, concerning the will or ...
September 04, 2019 at 05:16
OOO GOD OOO Higher being of humans or AI is always ever in our future, and never in the past, for more complexity only lies in the future and less onl...
September 04, 2019 at 05:09
Also see 'eternalism', which is the same idea, and 'presentism', which is the other mode that time could have. Something clear that would at least giv...
September 04, 2019 at 04:50
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September 04, 2019 at 03:27
Inspired by Shelley's style: — The Love Story of the Earth and the Moon — I am thy moon, thy constant satellite, Thy crystal paramour of day and night...
September 04, 2019 at 02:57
S.O.U.L Push forward, and deeper, beyond thy fears; We guide thee, we lift thee, we dry thy tears; We’re illumination beside thee—of The Spirits Of Un...
September 04, 2019 at 01:45
length, width, depth, 4D—your world-line; 5th, all your probable futures; 6th, jump to any; 7th, all Big Bang starts to ends; 8th, all universes’ line...
September 04, 2019 at 00:47
I don't know, for I was also picking something up from the floor and drinking a beer.
September 04, 2019 at 00:36
Now you're asking for it! Life’s a continual cosmic energy dance, From an ultimate underlying happenstance. We’re immersed in matter’s universal rhyth...
September 03, 2019 at 23:57
And I'm using my cell phone, listening to the radio, conversing with passengers, eating a candy bar, smoking a cigarette, rolling a joint, steering wi...
September 03, 2019 at 23:52
Free will is not a fixed will voting as it must, nor is it 'random', which is the worst unfree, nor is it even having all known block universe futures...
September 03, 2019 at 23:49
The real story: ?? ??? ??????? ???? With flora mystical and magical, Eden’s botanical garden was blest, So Eve, taking more than just the Apple, Pluck...
September 03, 2019 at 22:12
I could posit that the will has more inputs than we know, such as indications from the 5th dimension of the block universe about all of our possible f...
September 03, 2019 at 22:02
OK, here goes: Probability for no ‘God’ 0. Note: It is not a factor herein that the Biblical and thus necessarily fundamentalist ‘God’ has been demoli...
September 03, 2019 at 21:04
By Rovelli: “Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Sc...
September 03, 2019 at 18:56
Difficult Rhymes Orange Healthful orange is the common man’s color; So, to make the expensive look cheaper, Such as with a hotel, they paint it orange...
September 03, 2019 at 18:23
I am normal; you can talk to me.
September 03, 2019 at 18:11
You can't get out of Bible Study that easily. I see from here that you also have 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead on you bookshelf. First, 'God' threw o...
September 03, 2019 at 18:10
Such are the ridiculous lengths believers go to in order to let 'God' shirk responsibility for human nature being such as it is. Glad you could make i...
September 03, 2019 at 17:34
Well, they did, and so the bubble is bursting. In short, for starters, some like you have suggested that consciousness itself is causal, due to common...
September 03, 2019 at 16:54
OK, you assert that the mind instantly manages every thought and decision in real time, replete with memories looked up and all such figuring of relat...
September 03, 2019 at 05:01
That's right, no clues, no detective work, but only a mind appearance notion.
September 03, 2019 at 04:58
Analogous would be that we don't have any other evidence than somehow the notion only appears to us, and that's it, no blood, no fingerprints, no came...
September 03, 2019 at 04:56
evidence = it appears to us that…
September 03, 2019 at 04:53
No, not analogous.
September 03, 2019 at 04:52
Well, contempt, yes, if 'God' didn't really design our human nature, but that instead each one of us personally defined our human nature from scratch.
September 03, 2019 at 04:30
Assumptions either way are out, as not being for sure, we thus having to remain agnostic to the free or not of the will. Probabilities and self-contra...
September 03, 2019 at 04:19
Who's up for us here estimating the good probability of a quite normal Person-like system of mind as 'God' or the estimating that there is no 'God'? C...
September 03, 2019 at 04:16
Yes, much 'appears to us' in our second story as formed from the non-apparent neurological boiler room on the first storey, but luckily science and it...
September 03, 2019 at 04:09
Let us then leave free will to be undefined. Perhaps other responders might either clarify or note that it's neither known what it is or what it is no...
September 03, 2019 at 04:04
I give neither blame nor credit for the will doing what it means to do.
September 03, 2019 at 03:58
Then you should put that in since it is surely true. No, it is more that you will be held morally responsible because you're the one who did it.
September 03, 2019 at 03:55
Should the mind be immaterial, what are the implications, if any? A spirit of life evolved? Does that make some difference?
September 03, 2019 at 03:46
All I have to do is assert it in the same question begging way that you do, to match your style, but ungrounded assertions will be challenged.
September 03, 2019 at 03:43
Yes, but to apply as a real life exercise it as true you need to show it. I could violate that too and just assert that (2) is false using the same li...
September 03, 2019 at 03:41
That's great wordage. I'm in one of them lately. We're at the point you hinted at, as a revelation even from a free willer that 'free will' has no def...
September 03, 2019 at 03:35
1. If everything I think, desire and do is the causal product of prior causes and/or indeterministic chance, then I am not morally responsible for any...
September 03, 2019 at 03:27
Well, then, could you freely state its opposite so we might get a hint of what it could be by some kind of contrast?
September 03, 2019 at 03:04
I knew that. Compilation error… 'it': undefined reference. You're not alone; no one has been able to define what else is outside of fixed will and ran...
September 03, 2019 at 02:58