OK. I'll nevertheless repeat myself once again, if teleological causes and formal causes ontically occur, then one cannot logically maintain that ever...
Man, read the first two sentences of the second paragraph and then read the last sentence of the third paragraph: And then reread what I previously sa...
Oh, shucks. I provided reasoning for what I upheld and yet uphold. Go to the Wikipedia website linked to and click on the term "causally" and you will...
Don't now have time to look for more in depth references. There's this for starters. Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the univ...
In a nutshell: because people today - both academic and otherwise - have been habituated into believing that determinacy can only apply to a conflux o...
It can strongly depend on what one makes, how one interprets, determinate state of affairs. This, for one example, can hearken back to the possibility...
I see this as a misconstruing of what libertarian free will entails, aka that divine spark you mentioned, as some might interpret it. How can there be...
OK. I did however clearly express "the somnio-conscious 'I'". I don't find how consciousness and somnio-consciousness can co-occur to thereby present ...
This page seems to give a good overview of teleology, but is considerably longer than this page, which also give an adequate overview. Notice that I'm...
Alright. Maybe I'm tired and it shows in my expressions. Maybe you could bother to look into the rather basic wikipedia page of final causation I've l...
That works. But to me it excludes things that are themselves important. Such that each alternative one chooses between, at the time of the choice maki...
Sure, but the "end goal" is almost always relative to context. For most any end goal invisions, there is almost always a more distant or abstract end ...
Ok. There's an intent, a goal, a not yet actualized end which you want, or desire, to make real at some point in the future. It could be a classic exa...
Are you at all familiar with the notion of final causes? In today's terms and commonly accepted metaphysics they're considered to not be causes but ex...
Yes. I do understand the reasoning. And it's that very non-teleological reasoning that I initially replied to. Somehow feel like we're going about in ...
It's based on best interpretations of this comment: How else ought this comment of yours be interpreted, especially when taken into context of what I ...
Visited my father's gravesite with other to commemorate his death. Not exactly what I take ought to be fun. But thanks anyway. On what grounds do you ...
Yes, but again, you are presuming a forced choice between randomness and causal determinacy - with a "thank god" attitude for not entertaining teleolo...
Yes, I've currently got my mind in two places at once, so to speak. And need to take off soon enough. Misread the quote to read something along the li...
As to the second question: Some previously made choices in my life, most certainly not - not due to what I know of their outcomes but due to changes i...
Not an easy question to answer. I've worked with Alzheimer's patients, some in rather extreme conditions. One such I presume mistook packaging styrofo...
In short, if the outcome is random no libertarian free will' if the outcome is causally determined again no libertarian free will. The article (and I ...
I've heard this trope expressed often enough. I think it was Lock (?) who first articulated this as being pivotal to the sense of self. But consider t...
I take from having read your post that by "I"s you intend to specify selfhoods of agential awareness. As I previously mentioned, what i myself intende...
To conjoin this with what I was previously mentioning, my own interpretation is that dreaming is a form of sheer imagining, only that in dreams the un...
I’m only taking by best shots in the dark with this. So, some thoughts. As a species we are highly visual animals. Just looked this up for accuracy's ...
No worries. Please take your time. Ah. On one hand, MU was focusing in on the visual aspects of dreams, to which I replied as best I could. On the oth...
I've so far done my best to politely and patiently engage in debate with you, as as debates should be, but you so far don't seem to understand what I ...
A thought you based on what experience? Other than that of in fact visually experiencing a pink elephant, an experience which one knows one has had. A...
Here is something that is less than opinion; Emphasis mine. Also something less than opinion: When one sees a house in a dream, one does not see the h...
Not quite. I'll be more specific. How is the paradigm of biological evolution via natural selection of itself material / physical? I for example certa...
I think I get what you're saying and, if I do, then I agree. But this in and of itself to me still begs a question of ontology: Is it all then a kind ...
Ah. I can now understand what you meant. But this is a misattribution of what I claimed. My claim, again, was that consciousness (in at least humans) ...
It's maybe subtle, but you missed the point I was making. Suppose you see a pink elephant and it in fact is an illusion. So there was no pink elephant...
No way to verify this, but perhaps you're quite wrong in this appraisal, despite the sincerity of what I previously expressed. Is one's experience of ...
Precisely! But that they have and do occur is about as undeniable as is, say, the claim that REM dreams occur. Hey, I fully agree. The difference betw...
OK, but in all this your are maybe unintentionally forsaking a rather important, if not essential, aspect of all possible experiences: the intellect's...
Your own personal believes aside, can you provide evidence that Witt was one to deny the metaphysical reality of the Good via his own writings? The qu...
To chime in a bit, experiences such as those of religious ecstasy are in no way inferential, but, rather, experiences. One would determinately know wh...
The significance of this again eludes me. And again, this readily happens when people sleepwalk. So it can and does, in fact, happen: Sleepwalkers can...
I see that just answered my last question before I posted it. Thanks, btw. :smile: I'll submit my post anyway. Interesting. Which is of course on par ...
Fair enough. I’ll try to better explain. To first reiterate, I take CNS processes to be that via which mind is in vertebrates. To use Aristotelian ter...
Barring exceptions such as those of sleep paralysis and sleepwalking wherein the individual can be asleep in part or in whole with eyes wide open, suc...
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