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Your joking? My definition of democracy was this: Which is very much a political system. About as much as a triangular square would be. Which is to sa...

Right. Only that what is quoted here is not mandatory for libertarian free will. The physical causality could be the exact same and the intent pursued...

Hey, I know we don't often agree on much, but damn that's a nice post. Wanted to so say. :grin:

Sounds like you’re addressing “chance” in the sense of a random occurrence, this since its specified as not being deterministic. Two philosophically-m...

Good question. In many ways it parallels with the dichotomy between the often heard prescription that one ought to “fear God” (at least as this phrasi...

Well, Hitler came to power in a democracy not by force but, to simplify history, by vote. Democracy is not "rule by the majority as mob" (what the USA...

I’m having a hard time with your post. This in large part due to the quantity of disagreements I have with what you've written. I’ll do my best to rep...

There’s a hitch in the first question which you pose. To be futile presupposes the requisite of fulfilling some aim, which futility fails to allow for...

I'm very glad you believe so. Thank you for so mentioning. As to retrojecting values on the past, to a certain extent this can only be true, irrespect...

Yes. Much agreed. My stance generally orients on the mythoi we live by (irrespective of whether we happen to be theists, atheists, or something in-bet...

Utterly heretical of me to say so, but if there ever in fact was an interaction between El and Abraham, why could it not be the case that El was in se...

I feel like I get it. Thanks for the explanation. Maybe this is worth expressing as a follow-up. Especially when considering the dire need humans have...

Then again, for many, “faith” simply boils down to the conviction that the “word” of God is absolute. What exactly God or this very word is remains el...

To me, it again has a lot to do with things such as this: Genesis II onward is replete with logical contradictions - which one is supposed to blindly ...

Sure, but then neither is faith in all its meanings always equivalent to unquestioning obedience to some authority or else in some authoritative given...

Yes, we again don't see eye to eye on this. I for one don't find reason to assume the observer is separate from the actor (here specifically as pertai...

Alright. While I still disagree with neurons being insentient, I can now better understand your reasoning. Thanks. If its worth saying, neurons do in ...

While I duly appreciate the comment and will, as always, uphold it in full, wanted to draw attention to certain possibilities of how at least some wel...

I'm relatively well aware of this. Thank you. :up: It gets even more interesting in considering that, from what we know, subterranean communication be...

I understand you disagree and can find alternative explanations to a single neuron learning. One could do the same for amebas if one wants to play dev...

I thought this could be of interest, or at least further clarify the position I currently hold: I should edit this as follows: this is so for certain ...

Your post clarifies your views for me some. We do hold a lot of disagreements when we get into the details. You maintain that agency will not always b...

Yes, but I don't see how that is significant to neurons being or not being sentient. Here's an article from Nature to the contrary: Neurons learn by p...

BTW, so its known, what I just wrote is a simplified model of the average neuron. Different neurons will have different physiology. Some neurons, for ...

I don't see why not. The sensor aspect of thought so defined: the neuron via its dendrites senses in its environment of fellow neurons their axonal fi...

Interesting: the same can be expressed of the neoplatonic notion of the One (its being beyond the dualities of existence and non-existence). In honest...

Nothing solid to work with here, but from the movie Gladiator (I did say nothing solid to work with) I gather the possible motif if not actual ancient...

Though unorthodox of me to do so, it's how I like to interpret the Christian jargon of "till death do us (we) part". Of course, death can also be cons...

All righty then, I'll give it a go. There's the pivotal pie scene in the original movie American Pie, for anyone who wants to take a poke. One could g...

This overlooks the importance of dendritic input. which culminates in the neuron's nucleus. As to neuroplasiticiy, it can be rather explicitly underst...

My bad then. In other words, look at silicon-based systems rather than life-based systems in order to grasp how life-based systems operate. Not someth...

I deem this the crucial premise in the OP that needs to be questioned. IFF a world of causal determinism, then sure: “neural processes are determinist...

Having read your entire post, do you then find it fair for me to characterize the duality you are addressing as a duality between an illusory consciou...

:roll: I give up.

I'm not interested in you convincing me of squat either. For Goddess's sake, I am a hardcore compatibilist - this of an indeterminsim ilk. Nor am I tr...

Step 1 it is. Yes.

And what is "a compatibilist one"? As best as I so far can tell: Either "compatibilism" is defined thus and is thereby accordant with certain forms of...

Right. Glad you made the correction you made. Still. True. You didn't describe indeterminsit compatibalism, you described a person who upholds the pos...

Especially in light of statements such as this, for the life of me i don't understand your reasoning. I'm presuming the best here, and am earnestly tr...

You don't see that an indeterminist concept of free will is logically contrary to a determinst's concept of free will - even when either will claim th...

This is a jumble of words without definition and can potentially be as meaningless as would be "the black rainbow is both white and purple" So it woul...

Yes, but you specifically specified - or attempted to - the definition of an indeterminsit compatibilist.

How do you figure that when a non-indeterminstic universe can only equate to a deterministic universe, which in today's parlance can only equate to "e...

Yes, sure. But I didn't intend to say they are the same thing. To restate more explicitly: a (type of) indeterminist compatibilism. But then again, gi...

Yes. And liberarainism can only be indeterminist by today's semantics. Hence: an indeterminst compatibiliism.

I don't get the question. The possibility of indeterminst compatibilism is what I've been arguing for, after all.

OK, it was laconically written and so incomplete: add to it "and free will does occur". (I thought this would be implicitly understood.) But, again, t...

What fault can you find with them?

For what it’s worth, as pertains to the history of ideas, the concept of compatibilism was developed by David Hume (see for example this SEP article) ...

No. Please take the time to read what I post, as in this post here. That initial post says it better, but to recap: libertarian free will can be an in...