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But we never deal with the statements in the abstract, but with their evaluations in some terms, even if syntactic terms. We deal with analysis, conje...

That is true, when you think about it. But is that how you feel about it? Isn't knowledge ultimately a feeling of conviction that you don't need to fi...

I know that it is me who brought it up, but I dare say that the precise function of the amygdala is not that relevant to our discussion. Unless you ar...

You are right that many complex criteria are connected to values, but the recognition of basic object features, I believe is not. As I mentioned, we s...

Sorry, I saw your reply just yesterday evening. This is difficult for me to process. I realize that you like to be general and broaden the scope, but ...

Edit: Sorry for not replying, but I am in a sort of a flux. I apologize, but I expect that I may tarry awhile between replies even in the future. This...

I wouldn't even require uncertainty. For example, theism generally ascribes omnipotence and omniscience to the deity, yet no one claims that they are ...

I would still ask you, as per my above question, if you are biased to accept only optimistic resolutions of your theist concerns, why shouldn't people...

Human cells are made of many quantum particles. Neurons and synapses are made of many quantum particles. Admittedly neurotransmitters are not made of ...

Free will implication, heh? I'll settle for tonight.

Alright. I say, we can leave it at that.

Basically, I mean that we cannot talk about non-determinism or determinism at the scale of the universe and its entire history. At least not empirical...

I can shake on that. Although that is the physics definition and this is a philosophy forum, so people may have different intended ideas behind the sa...

I agree with that, I think.

But don't you think that lack of determinism within spatially and temporally confined setups, as in the double-slit experiment, is not the same as the...

So, to the extent of QM being locally non-deterministic at a certain scale, I agree. And there is nothing more that can be said about that, I think.

I agree with that. This is how physics works. At least locally. Globally, as I said, we cannot discuss. (I am not alluding to superluminal effects, bu...

Well, then you understand why I don't consider it the opposite of determinism. It still has predictive utility. And consequently it makes certain proc...

It still has to guarantee sufficient utility. Meaning it has to be deterministic enough.

It doesn't. At least not in physics. That was just to clarify that QM non-determinism isn't just some arbitrary outcome. It includes underlying proper...

@"Olivier5" I should actually make a correction, that my "factual non-determinism" is not verifiable by finite number of observations, but two such hy...

But if some such representation is possible by any species, then the world is approximately deterministic, at least on the necessary scale. And if tha...

What I meant is, that as long as indeterminism doesn't include the notion of propensities, it is testable by a finite collection of observations. QM i...

In relation to the human condition, such as morality, the irrationality of our existence lies exactly in the fact that the initial state of the enviro...

Yes, but the point is, while we don't have to limit ourselves to our experience, we still must have some restraint to our concept's meaning to evaluat...

I didn't think so. :smile: Could you be just a tad bit more specific?

Are you suggesting that some of my previous posts are contradicting?

Actually, there are multiple kinds of dimensions here. The features that determine the instant of experience are indeed in one dimension. What I meant...

I actually agree. By coordinated quantum events, am I mistaken that you probably mean quantum entanglement? In either case, we can explore them, but m...

I realize that. There is also the extended mind thesis. But I still claim that resting free will on non-determinism via QM implies that the standard d...

If non-determinism at the scale of the brain function is negligible, this will be pertinent to those views that rest freedom on non-determinism. In th...

@"Olivier5" I apologize if I translated your suggestion of hidden ontology as theistic inaccurately. In either case, if you could elaborate what you m...

I agree that this would be outlandish. At least in the sense of local prediction, we know now that this cannot be done. Globally, as I said, non-deter...

Please, check my next to last response. I don't mean to be impolite, but I don't want to double post it. "Quantum uncertainty is not arbitrary non-det...

I want again to stress that physics does not and cannot claim anything about determinism at the global scale of the entire universe. It only deals wit...

Quantum uncertainty is not arbitrary non-determinism. It just changes deterministic induction with statistical induction, but it is not the same as la...

Healthy skepticism is justified, but doubt is not an argument. If we start doubting the exhaustiveness of our observations, we are not going to make a...

Science is not unquestionable and empiricism does not axiomatically exhaust all that we can call our experience. But at least we are compelled to scie...

That is true for anything relying on inductive inference, not so much specifically for determinism. Non-determinism and determinism can be both empiri...

Yes, the underlying concept doesn't change, but just its expression or application. Although, not just in relation to communication, but also its pers...

To a more complete disclosure, I want to make another example. But I hope that you will answer the above question. Lets say there are two puppets gove...

I simply... disagree. Not for pragmatic or legal moral accountability, not for abstract ethical one. I agree with you that QM non-determinism is neces...

That is true. I rather cockily answered "yes and no". I do partly agree with you. There are many layers to the phenomenon. I want to be clear that I d...

@"Janus" What I mean is, assuming you are not a dualist, do you suggest that a quantum indeterminacy of some kind, by simply spurring a chance decisio...

Why are claiming that the person is not their convictions, values and intentions. Are you suggesting dualism? If you are not, what do you propose is t...

I think that you are objecting, because a person could technically abstain from applying their personality. But that is again due to their convictions...

@"Janus" Just to clarify. When I say "transfer of the values within to actions without, which we consider your freedom", I don't mean to say that ther...

They are what we identify you as. You don't really "have them" in that sense. We don't blame you for having them, we are more-so blaming them for havi...

I am not sufficiently literate, but I can give you my perspective. I believe that according to your expectation, what we would credit for the moral ch...

This reminds me of a Blackadder response - "Yes.. And no." I think that according to your above statement, the technical definition of a class does no...