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Consciousness is exactly as we are experiencing it. It is a creative life force that is constantly experimenting, learning, and evolving. It is differ...

The two depend upon each other. Introducing any other concepts pollutes determinism with non-determinism. We (and all of experience) is an illusion em...

This is ultimately the problem with Determinism. How does it explain ANYTHING if the universe is just bouncing particles? It can't!, So it makes all o...

Yes, this is the real time of existence.

There is no such thing as "one", "will", "free", "responsibility" in determinism. These are all illusions that emerge (quite magically) from particles...

To find an already to this problem one must attempt to grasp the actual feeling of time and existence. When one is asleep there is no sense of time th...

Only if one skips over specifics and replaces it with a magical idea. Let's examine the thought process: you have a neuron and PRESTO! it creates cons...

There is zero evidence of this and pretty much universally rejected by law because it is counter to everyday experience of life. So why is it adopted ...

Mind is exactly what it is as we personally examine it. It has the ability to imagine future actions and exert energy (will) to achieve those actions....

There is no dualism. The mind exerts its own energy as a wave. Try it out. User your mind to move your legs or feet. It works.

Will is energy that the mind applies to move the body in a specific manner. Outcomes are unpredictable because of innumerable constraints. The legal s...

What people have are choices in direction of action that are constrained. The legal system actually had it about right differentiating between premedi...

OK. Determinism isn't true, so no reason to discuss it. There are more pressing issues that deserve attention.

What did you explain? It just happened? Some particles interacted and Voila! existence? And particles and interactions? The Big Bang Genesis)? Where d...

To leapfrom matter interacts with energy to the whole universe and everything we feel and experience is what is called faith. You want this story to b...

So matter interacts with matter. Ok. And the rest of the story, I mean the whole story... pure, unadulterated story telling, of the most creative type...

There is only one deep theory about nature and that is QM which is totally probabilistic. Other than this, you have the Laws of Nature which is not a ...

And that is about it. The rest is a magical mystery tale, conjured up by atheists so that they have their own God to worship. It is really quite amazi...

The biggest problem with determinism it's that there is absolutely zero evidence for it. Other than that, it is a nice story of how the Laws of Nature...

The Laws of Nature act in mysterious ways and it is not for us to understand them - not that understanding had any meaning anyway.

Determinism acts in both ways and all ways, because it is more of a religion than a philosophy. All one has to do is assign whatever attributes one wi...

A group of matter that is experiencing? Care to take a stab at the line of demarcation and how that group is performing that trick. Are they talking t...

As I said, certain aspects of driving (and many, many or things in our lives) are habitual. However, if you are driving while completely unconscious, ...

In other words, it is just an illusion that scientists are discovering anything. They are merely puppets of the Laws if Nature like everyone else.

There is no "I" in any form of Determinism. There is only the state of the universe which is all caused by the Big Bang. Any attempt to assert an "I" ...

There is no I in a deterministic world. It is all an illusion. Enlightened Determinists realize that they are not enjoying anything. All is without me...

You have made the mistake (as if such such things actually exists), of thinking you are thinking. Determinism has already determined everything that w...

You are mixed up. The brain doesn't make any decisions and I have no idea what "you" is. There is no trauma. It's all last illusion that determinists ...

Your discussion of brain states is irrelevant as far as determinism is concerned. You might as well talk about toenail states. There is only a univers...

It is a bit more complicated than this. In a deterministic world EVERYTHING is determined. Every single particle (including quantum particles, which i...

There is a difference between losing partial consciousness while still maintaining life functions (e.g. breathing, blood circulation) along with conti...

With determinism there is no moral responsibility, because the only responsibility lies in the first cause which set off the chain of events. Presumab...

Desire seems to be built into life, as described in the Four Noble Truths. However, desire can be moderated be replacing one big desire with many litt...

Part of driving is learned habit (body/muscle memory). Part of it better be quite conscious as I described. You are perceiving an image and consciousl...

To me it does, but I've spent many decades contemplating it. However, the issue I was trying to point out is that your OP describes certain beliefs as...

They are one and the same.

As I described it.

There are always many options. Only on tests are there two.

It's just there.

It's what is exploring, creating, and communicating. It's us.

The above statement basically says it all. I use my brain pretty much in the same way I might use a transmitter/receiver. It is a tool of the mind.

Of course there are habits that one isn't always conscious of. But you are claiming you drive while unconscious - and live to tell about it. This is a...

What is the use of brain? I use my brain.

What exactly do you see in nature? I see change/evolution. What "rule" of cause and effect are you referring to? The one at the quantum level?

You realize that there is zero evidence for either of these statements. Your "fact" it's a belief.

You are driving while unconscious? Ok.

Wow, if I made choices like that on the highway, I would have been dead by now, not to mention the hapless fate of others who happened to be on the ro...

The history of Christianity is far more complex than simple text and the history of the Bible as a living and changing document is not the sole or may...

Of course. There is an image in my mind and I consciously decide to take action in a certain direction. What's going on in your mind? Are you groping ...

I have no idea what you are experiencing in your mind but I described what I am experiencing in my mind. It is quite conscious and deliberate.