Rich

I don't have to prove anything. For me determinism is just a substitution for God for atheists, and I have no need to believe my life is controlled by...

??????? You at the one saying all actions are determined. Go ahead and start enumerating all of the laws that do this.

Zero. It it's impossible to predict human actions. The reason is choice and will.

There is zero logic in determinism, zero evidence, and what's more it explains nothing. It is nothing more than a desire by someone to have something ...

Ok, now you are saying there is no choice. It's OK. If you want to believe you are a pre-programmed computer, it is no skin off my teeth.

No such animal. It is a concoction of the creative mind to replace the word God. When you discover the law that created this conversation, give me a r...

The robot didn't choose. It was programmed to do it. It has no choice. If it had a choice, there would be complete havoc in the warehouse.

No such animal. You can't have your cake and eat it simply by stringing two words together. But you are not the first to try. Lots of people want thei...

If you are saying this, then the person is making a choice. I prefer to say the mind is making a choice, but no matter, a choice is being made. The re...

Of course a person can. A person can decide to go left or right. A person then does it utilizing internal energy, which is why we have internal energy...

Well if the computer brains aren't deterministic and have choice then I guess we all are responsible for our actions and the parlor game is over.

It's like this. All the computers know that they are computers, so why the heck did your computer feel it was necessary to write the post?

You think my computer has a choice? Well my computer is just darn heck upset that your computer broke the illusion. Oh, well, have your computer take ...

Does not compute. Does not compute. Are you actually holding me responsible for my choice??

Nope. All the brain computers have worked liked the dickens to create the illusion and unfortunately yours went rogue.

It's an illusion but now it's all out in the open. The fun is all gone. I'm kind of miffed (from a computer point of view) that the illusion is now go...

No problem. My computerized brain (it is taking the liberty to reveal itself right here in the open, for the first time ever), it's wondering why your...

There is memory. It is called inherited, innate, instinctual traits or unaccountable skills (idiot savants, prodigies, etc.).

Well, it isn't really up to you or anyone else is it? There is no choice. I realize your computer is writing your post, but my computer is wondering w...

Huh? You believe this? There is not a scintilla of evidence from any source to support any of this. It's a story. It's a story that people who are ali...

There is always magic in science's explanation for mind. This the magic: Some supernatural force called Selection (which is apparently obsessed with s...

We are saying the same thing, but for different purpose. My motivation is inquiry in nature and opposed to a construction of a metaphysical model. So ...

I'm not trying to create a philosophical system. I'm trying to explore the nature of nature wherever it leads me. We have different motivations. So fa...

Mind=Quantum Potential

You are asking why it's there Mind? Mind is the beginning and still exists and easy to find in all of us.

You have to add energy. The model is very straightforward. All it needs is mind (the flatline), polarity (amplitude) and energy (will) to get things g...

The ocean becomes over wave but doing absolutely nothing. This would be comparable to death or to b the sleep state without dreaming. It's a wave with...

Quanta is mind, or more specifically Bohm's quantum potential is mind. It is guiding and doing everything. Memory is mind stored holographically. The ...

Very, very brief description. Mind is quanta. The universe is quanta. Memory is mind/quanta in holographic form. Mind is evolving by creative experime...

Look, you don't know what I'm talking about, you create your own description and put it in my mouth, and then want me to explain your concoction as if...

Give it up Michael. There it's no communication here.

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As best as I can tell, you have no idea what I'm talking about.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about, but with that said you have no idea what I'm talking about so I guess we are even.

It's probably not the question I am avoiding.

I guess it depends upon ones morals. I like one on one. Others don't. No big deal to me one way or another since that is their agreement.

I wouldn't call it an organism. It was the mind (The Dao) that began the process. Pretty straightforward Daoism. The One (Mind) created Two (Yin/Yang,...

The creative mind experimenting, learning, and evolving. No need to bring in supernatural forces. It is our minds. Actually, I don't think you have wr...

You're a gas.

I'm thinking hard, but I think only children and philosophers declare themselves to victors. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You can be so silly sometimes in your quests.

It's too complicated to ever know. We can understand some aspects.

You don't have to make distinctions which is often the case. Happy to teach you.

Every symbolic distinction has a practical application. Sometimes we talk about the universe and sometimes all the aspects of the universe but it is a...

There are practical reasons too make distinctions and there are practical reasons not to. One should not confuse practicality with what may be transpi...

The ocean is the ocean. It is continuous. We make the distinctions, when viewing the ocean from a given perspective. One can turn it upside down and s...

OK. This is a path of philosophical thought worth pursuing. Science and neurologists will not pursue this line of thinking. For them something is wron...

Yes. I agree. For clarity, I would add that choices are constrained and influenced so that outcomes are always unclear. One can try but cannot predict...

What we have here is evidence for holographic model of memory. The brain has somehow changed in such a way that is now reconstructing a different memo...

He's not who you want him to be.