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Apparently it is not so complete. You see right through it. What is odd is that your bouncing particles illusion allows you to see right through it wh...

I don't believe Determinists for the most part really believe believe what they are preaching.

Worse or better is a judgment performed after the consequences are revealed. And then it is made in comparison to some idealized possible consequence ...

Determinism is meaningless and says absolutely nothing (well it says something about its adherents, but v that is a different story). The meaningless ...

I use my creative thought to conceive of new patterns that fit all observed patterns. I've never witnessed anyone who has ever come back in time nor h...

Yes, in this case I can have a high expectation that time travel in real duration is not possible.

There is a You and I. It v is the Observer/Mind. It is it very, very real. It is creating and exploring and evolving. This is how everything evolves t...

No. It might have always "been there".

People most definitely come into their lives with different "abilities".

Why do brains create comics? To amuse their particles?

Philosophically no. As I said, I look for patterns. Similarities within differences and differences within similarities. And from this, I build new pa...

Sci find is just not part of my particular way of practicing philosophy. I prefer to look at patterns and c patterns that others bring to my attention...

There is certainly no way to go back in time so there is no reason to think about what could have happened. It is as we are observing it and changing ...

Violence?? Do you have any conception of what violence is? Or are you talking about philosophical violence? The type that one uses so as to allow thei...

As this thread demonstrates, all of modern cosmology is a myth in which enumerable mystical forces are being invented and named as needed which is dir...

If nothing else, at least you have successful uncovered how pointless academic philosophy has become. Philosophy is the art of shared observation and ...

This would be very close to the beliefs of some Buddhist sects, with all kinds of possible variations. I find most Buddhists who believe this believe ...

As if now, it is clear to me that my Mind is evolving. I also observe strong evidence of the persistence of Mind (at different levels). Here and there...

I don't think we understand it at all. By understanding non-existence we would be able to much better undertand existence. Eastern philosophical cultu...

You entirely missed the point of my responded. Until you get your arms around your schizophrenic use of "I", everything else you described is nonsense...

I responded that there is no such thing as better or worse choices since consequences (long-term and short-term) are totally unpredictable. What peopl...

It makes no sense at all from any perspective. There is not one statement about Determinism that can withstand any scrutiny.

While there are as many flavors of Determinism as there are flavors of Christianity (for exactly the same reasons), it is so-named name because it is ...

A difference in taste, that is all. Both render life meaningless. Luckily, despite academic indoctrination, most people simply ignore it though since ...

The mind loses consciousness and then somehow issues a spark to regain consciousness. In between there is nothing. One knows they were unconscious due...

Of course they do, when they are unconscious or asleep and not dreaming. If I may relate, it feels like no duration had transpired.

To try to end death would be to end sleeping - it ain't going to be happen. Rather than extending life, the medical system has successfully shortened ...

So we have life that works opposite of entropy to create. It's that a Law? And everything is on constant motion. That's not a Law. It's a simple obser...

If you are asking what is the use of Free Will, then I would respond that we see humans are constrained in our choices, but the choices we make are th...

Right. It is a nice story.

Enumerate them.

What do you mean by an "I" having an effect? This is the question. Determinists stubbornly insist on a rather schizophrenic description of life, using...

In a subjective way, you have preferences in taste. However, in a practical manner, you might choose a vanilla in some ice cream store that has an abs...

There is not better or worse. There is only a choice to move in a particular direction. Consequences are always unpredictable and changing as things e...

What exactly in this article gives you hope for Determinism? That someone else shares your hope? The article says nothing new other than suggesting th...

If science operated under determinism it v would not be operating. Science has always operated on tendencies it habits that repeat approximately, that...

Precisely. North fatalism or Determinism describes nature. The Mind has choices in the direction it attempts to move.

None existence would be absence of Duration. But there still seems to be something there to existence out of non-existence.

I can't believe that Free Will is still taught as relevant. Some ideas die hard. We have choices with unpredictable consequences.

Yes there are minds within minds within minds in a continuum as there are waves within waves within waves in the ocean. The individual is continuous w...

Determinism is more than just casual. It claims everything is already determined. People make Choices in direction of action based upon experiences (m...

I have no idea what it means to act rationally. People act in many ways motivated by experiences and possibilities. I can someone know the best option...

Nothing can only be understood from the perspective of Duration/Mind. Do we experience Nothing? Possibly yes, when we are asleep between dream states ...

You (your mind) inquiring? This is what it is life is all about. Inquiry, creativity, learning, evolving. Life evolves by learning in memory.

One can observe one's own mind by mediation. One just observes oneself. Other minds after overbearing by the patterns they create, e.g. an artist's pa...

Great. I'm glad nobody is going to call it an illusion anymore. Very happy to hear about this new development. Yes. Both phrases/terms refer to some o...

Some interesting new results regarding the effect of consciousness on double-slit experiments. The results have now been overnight replicated. http://...

The Move is always involved, with some players more or less. It is a game of patterns and inches. One person's movements perceived by another. The Min...

The Mind.

Not at all. Just pointing out on a real-life scale how stupendously outlandish all scientific explanations are on all scales. Sure they can make up a ...