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Causal is not equivalent to deterministic. Bohm's quantum equations are causal and non-deterministic. They have to be, always, because quantum theory ...

Check out Calvinism. I believe you will find it quite appealing.

Quantum says that there is no determined outcome - not until the observer gets in the act. I know it must be difficult for people of such deep determi...

Equally so we may discover proof of God. Faith is something to cherish. However, zero evidence of snow kind and with contrary evidence pretty much the...

Speaks for itself. There is nothing more beautiful than a kind-of-determinism that rests on the kind-of-things that determine bound together and neatl...

Sure. We have habits - which can be disrupted by choice. Just one choice destroys determinism. If it can be done once it can be done again and again. ...

I am to those who have studied the industry and how it works with government. Just what one would expect if they understand human nature and history.

Don't trust and definitely verify. Observe the numbers of people being killed, sit back and meditate on the numbers. They are astronomical.

The issue is there is no such thing as a peer review that is not subject to prejudice, economic influences, biasses, and outright fraud. Opioid studie...

Precisely what happened. At the time there was these belief, this faith, that at some point humans will understand all of the Natural Laws (God's Laws...

One can study academic philosophy by reading books over and over and over again. This is sufficient for such an endeavor. However, this is not studyin...

It has always been, since the dawn of time, a matter of some trying to dominate others because that is what that they are good at. The Mongols a good ...

It's all biased. Of course the process of peer review and its inherent biases have been brought into consideration. There are all types of biases flow...

I agree that emotions can be perceived as another sense that feels something. I would say that emotions are guides to choices that we make just as oth...

The problem is there is not one shred of evidence to support such a view other than faith. Such a belief is exactly equivalent to Calvinism and other ...

Unfounded idolatry. They are what they are, and human like everyone else.

I would argue bias and outright fraud it's most likely to b be found in the medical industry where the money is beyond imaginable and growing leaps an...

I agree. Scientists are humans and carry all the biases of any human (economic greed, glory, power, etc.). It is fanciful thinking to believe that som...

Agreed. And sometimes the sailor heads for a giant wave and just overturns. Lessons learned - if the sailor survives. Life is about learning.

Yes, but the choice could have gone either way. It was not made until I (my mind) made it and then directed it. I am not suggesting that choices aren'...

That's determinism in a nutshell. A whacky idea that gets more and more entertaining (in a comical way) as one seeks to understand its ontological imp...

That is not an illusion. The amputee is still feeling the missing leg. It can be explained by viewing the body differently, but no reason to get into ...

No, determinism had no foundation as does the idea that there is no choice. It is an explanation that is indistinguishable from Calvinism.

Well then, you have to come up with a cute explanation on how this illusion is created. One can look to Hinduism for inspiration. Lacking faith in the...

If there is no choice, then you have determinism which is undermined by quantum physics and everyday experience. Determinism, if nothing else, is sogg...

No wiggle room required. Quantum physics pretty much destroys determinism. As for choice, we all experience it every day of our lives. Or choices are ...

So there is no choice. You cannot have your cake and eat it. (Next stop: Choice is an illusion).

It's a choice is being made then determinism is destroyed. There is a real choice being made by the mind. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Of course, this is the ultimate silliness of the determinist philosophy/religion. The Natural Laws that are determining everything is arguing with its...

That's not what I mean. I said build computers (solid state electronics) not program computers. If the world was random, the Internet would fall into ...

The issue is that existence is in constant flux. We attempt to freeze it in order to make practical use of it, for example it is a pencil until it is ...

Choices are constrained. I am not free to go through a solid brick wall. But I can choose to try to go around it, over it, or under it. Results are un...

There are definitely regularities (habits) in nature but this is far, far, far from an absolutely deterministic universe. All calculations are approxi...

One does not have to have complete freedom in order to have a non-deterministic universe. There are constraints, but there is the creative impulse whi...

The issue is that quantum theory speaks of an interaction between an observer and observed with being about define what they are or what are the bound...

In regards to Newton's Law: 1) They are only applicable to large bodies of non-living matter. 2) They are approximate in nature. 3) They have been rep...

Do you feel that Newton's Laws comprehensively determine and can predict everything in the Universe? Is it your position that Newton's Laws is equival...

Then define the laws of nature that comprehensively determines everything.

The term laws of nature has no concrete meaning. It is simply some supernatural force that it's omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, and determine...

Choice is made by the mind. The electrical impulses are the result of the choice. An analogy would be the transmission if a TV show from a studio prec...

They are measuring some electrical patterns in the brain and calling it the choice. There is no basis to call it such. This is what I mean by goal see...

Deep level? Here is what Bohm writes of his equations in his book Science, Order and Creativity (1987): "Although the interpretation is termed causal ...

It is not deterministic in any sense. In the world we live in, it is probabilistic. Of course, scientists can invent a meta-world of some sort, which ...

I don't know what is Free Will. I do know that as humans, we makes choices as to the direction of some action, by virtue of will. Choices are not free...

Here lies the rub. There are no such laws. What we have are a hodgepodge of equations and theories about certain aspects of matter, none of which come...

You can't build computers based upon a random roll like a die. You can build one based upon Schrodinger's equations. There is a big difference. As far...

Which interpretation would this be? I know of no such interpretation, since inherently the Schrodinger equation (which is Quantum physics) is probabil...

Science travels a different path nowadays. The one lined with money. I have as much faith in their pronouncements as I have in Merck's or Big Tobacco....

I think that once one begins looking at the mind as some neural systems, all is lost. It would be like looking at a TV set to try to understand the na...

There is no quantum randomness. It is probabilistic. If it was random, then the Schrodinger equation would be worthless. I have no idea what is free w...