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Yes they do. We perceive them, that perception is an illusion, that illusion is accurate and true. Ok. We are an illusion and all illusions are accura...

No physicist claims that physics provides such an explanation as you claim, nor is the term Laws of Nature used in physics. So we are back to you havi...

Mind is that which creates. Without memory it would feel as if one is unconscious or between dream states, where there is no sense of duration, howeve...

The fundamental problem with the OP is that it is using physicalist concepts/language to explain a non-physicalist philosophy. Everything is a unity. ...

Really? How so? You can start by enumerating all of the Laws of Nature that are involved with this explanation. Then you can explain how they formed c...

You don't exist. I don't exist. Particles don't exist. Everything is an illusion. Actually, you have successfully turned Materialism into full-out Ide...

The Laws of Nature are everywhere, know everything, and are all powerful.

Find meaning in bouncing particles that are being guided by the mystical Laws of Nature. This is all there is and since this is itself an illusion, th...

Illusions have no meaning in the world of determinism and physicalism. They are neither reliable or unreliable. You are just an illusion of bouncing p...

You don't understand STR and GTR. There is no T in GTR and STR, which has a T, states all frames of reference are equivalent. Sci Fi adherents love to...

measurement either viewpoint is equivalent. Either body can be accelerating away from the other.

If you want to understand materialism, just substitute God for the Laws of Nature. The Laws of Nature act in anyway they wish and can do anything it w...

There is no privileged frame of reference under STR? Either viewpoint is coherent according to STR. STR doesn't allow for exceptions when it is conven...

There is no one understanding of Sunyata as each Buddhist sect approaches the idea differently, and it is not central to Buddhist thought. Only the Fo...

Unfortunately, you are off to a rocky start. Your entire OP is a belief beginning with #1.

You like your struggle, have it. Determinism is a religious belief system, similar to Calvinism, and some people simply want to believe their lives ar...

What perception? What is perceiving? Don't you get it? It is just bouncing balls creating illusions. All of a sudden illusions are reliable? To what?

Reciprocity of Special Relativity says there is no privileged frame of reference. If there is a privileged frame of reference, STR is wrong and Einste...

So you think there really is a mind? What is the"we" and "our"? You mean the bouncing particles don't you? The brain isn't doing anything, right? The ...

As I said, the so-called Many World's Interpretation (my description is accurate, because it is entirely fantastical in what it is suggesting) is prob...

Really? There is only one interpretation, which is totally fantastical , the Infinitely Growing Infinite Number of Universe Interpretion, that would b...

Quantum Physics supports probabilistic behavior and totally destroys Determinism. So exactly what is left? The mystical Laws of Nature. I am not a rel...

I make choices all the time. Throughout my day and throughout my life. You figure I'm going to buy into the myth that everything I do is determined ju...

You choose to believe this then believe it until your life gets so boring and meaningless you decide to believe otherwise. It's your mind that is play...

Not necessarily. Because of Special Theory of Relativity's Receprocity one can say that Earth is accelerating away from the spaceship, so it is the cl...

Reliability has no meaning anymore. It's all an illusion - supposedly. We can jettison Descartes. It's all just something, whatever it is. Time to clo...

They become meaningless much to the chagrin of Darwin. It harkens back to the days of old where all of the universe were mere puppets of the gods (bou...

I can be only speak for my own experiences. When I am dreaming I have no sense of duration, at least in the sense that I ordinarily feel duration when...

No need to struggle. Consciousness is not a byproduct of the brain, and you do have Choice. Since you have a choice, just drop the notion. In so doing...

The bouncing particles are supposedly creating the illusion of mind. Of course, one has to question the illusion being created by the particles since ...

Determinism naturally leads to Hinduism but of course it is not going to be taught this way, for it would undermine the "scientific" aspects of Determ...

Sure, for anyone who adopts Determinism as their philosophy everything is an illusion - including Determinism. It's rather Hindu in nature. I understa...

What illusion? It's just us. What a funny way to look at life? Particles are admitting illusions? I guess for some people it is fun thinking of themse...

Real time (duration) is the feeling of existence. It is heterogeneous in nature and continuous. This differs from "scientific time" which attempts to ...

It's all real, just in different forms. Everything is the mind evolving and experimenting (creating). To understand life, one must continue to observe...

The best answer I've come up with is that the Mind had learned that that this is the best way to function with other Minds. However, psychology has ob...

Mind is everywhere. It is dispersed throughout the body. The mind in the gut area is well recognized as is the mind throughout the muscular system (i....

One's life is a continuous, heterogeneous experience unless one chooses too define it differently. The rub is what do we call the state if non-experie...

This is what I wrote.

That was my point.

Different memories, different abilities.

Have you ever compared your memories with others?

We are each have different skills and capabilities as we have evolved differently (different inherited or inborn traits) which is to say we have diffe...

We don't choose what we believe, we form beliefs. We form beliefs by engaging and experimenting. The experiments themselves are partially choice, sinc...

Individuals can only voice their sentiments. Government is essentially controlled by money interests and in general political/socio-economic changes o...

We are our minds, and our minds explore and learn things and from these explorations we create beliefs which we share with each other. If there is lot...

It is always changing. Just observe.

Right, it is the Laws of Nature that are guiding EVERYTHING and they create the illusion that a good is being prevented. The concept of "prevention" h...

If every thing is determined then what is doing the "preventing"?? Compatibilists simply introduce an entirely new force of nature, apparently free fr...

Destroyed, probably not, since it is the fabric of the universe. However, it does morph and evolve. This is what we actually experience in every day l...