Hello? Is this thing on? That is what I'm telling you - your analogy is flawed and does not represent the the nature of speech and its influence on ot...
Sure. Some say it isn't the falling that kills you. It is the sudden impact against the ground that does. So the point is that there are more immediat...
That doesn't make sense. What makes the blue the input and not the yellow when they both exist in equal terms prior to mixing them? What role does mix...
That was my point - that I did something with what you said that you did not intend. Yet I showed that in that moment of duress I made a decision that...
I was merely showing that your example is flawed as it does not accurately represent what NOS4A2 is saying, nor does it represent what we observe happ...
What is the "you" in this explanation, and what is the relation of "stands before it" - spatial, temporal, etc.? If you are describing a view doesn't ...
your analogy does not accurately represent what I said. Where in your analogy is the dampening or amplifying the kinetic energy and redirecting it for...
Why would I believe that someone making such a demand would keep their word? I would rather us all die together quickly by gunshot than torture my wif...
Information and information processing? Input-output? Blue and yellow the input, mixing them together is the process, and green the output? What color...
That's because AI hasn't been programmed to acquire information for its own purposes. It is designed to acquire information only from a human and then...
What does "force" mean in this context? The force of one's words is dependent upon the listener as you showed in your first sentence. What "force" wou...
Point taken, but who gets charged with a higher crime - the inciter or the person(s) that committed the crime? The fact that the person that committed...
What is a choice? It seems to me that you are not simply saying that free choice doesn't exist, but that choices don't exist. The glove not fitting wa...
Then you agree that having more information allowed her to make a more informed decision. You agree that more information gave her a choice whereas be...
Like...? Even if there were we would still need to define those words to understand what each other means and to avoid talking past each other. Which ...
To taste a mango means a mango was in your environment, and so on for every other example you provided. Exactly - One's physical environment inevitabl...
A choice in that analysis would be an IF-THEN, ELSE IF-THEN, OR ELSE statement. That is basically the structure of a choice. Freedom comes in degrees ...
I would have thought that religion falls under environment. What does it mean to be brought up to be Christian if not that they were raised in a Chris...
But you used religion as an example of a determining factor of one's current choices. So how can you say they are not free from determinism if I just ...
Would you agree that having access to more information equates to having more experiences? Exactly. Some information is irrelevant to the current goal...
I have defined defined free choice as the capacity to have access to all information to make informed decisions. If you don't like that definition tha...
That's what I said. We experience the society (culture, the religion, and the traditions we are born into.) we are born into. If the society is based ...
As I already pointed out, a law-breaker is an example of someone where the society had no determined effect on them. You quarantining them and adjusti...
This is an odd thing to say. Something that does not exist can't make any choices, so you're pulling the rug out from under your own argument. What do...
Maybe, but if you assume that a proposition must be either true or false (LEM), then it follows that a proposition cannot be both true and false (LNC)...
I see your point which is why I pointed out that the word, "some" was not used. If it were then it would be obvious what you are saying. What if one w...
Then what you're saying is that to be free of determinism is to not exist as any determinate thing (not exist at all). Is this why people say they are...
But this is nonsensical. It is determinism that allows one to determine their own outcomes. Ok, so now you're focusing on your goals, not just your ch...
So your saying we can only be free if we live in a world where prior events do not determine our choice, but also our choices would not determine the ...
What would a free choice look like - experiencing the option to go get ice cream when you see your child drowning in a pool and choosing that option? ...
I didn't see the word, "some" in the original quote and that seems to make a difference. The original quote seems to be saying "either all narratives ...
Using this same line of logic, an individual could pretend to be a radical collectivist but is actually an authoritarian radical individualist that co...
Which genes, environments, nutrients, or experiences, or combination of the four, gives us the capability to have or make choices? You use the word, "...
Since I don't know if the Matrix exists or not, I take the red pill as an experiment. When I wake up in a "new reality", how do I know it is the true ...
Isn't the common thread of those cases where it is impossible is where the distinctions have been clearly defined and are in opposition (law of the ex...
and when the inciter claims that they were incited by another's speech, where does it end? All this does is create a society where no one takes respon...
It wasn't philosophers that contributed to our knowledge. It was scientists and inventors of technology. It is through science that we have been able ...
I'm trying to understand your notion of hierarchical (vertical series). I only see causation as temporal. Upper vs lower levels of reality do not play...
I don't know. Which framework is being used by a toddler when they reach the cognitive milestone of object permanence? Can it even be described as a "...
Which framework are you using to reach such a conclusion? Does an toddler "subscribe" to the idea of object permanence (realism), or is it simply natu...
Seems like the same thing to me. Direct and indirect realism are false dichotomies. One must be in direct contact with some part of the world and indi...
But that is nonsensical. It would be like asserting that one is both a bachelor and a married man, so of course no one is both a Christian and an athe...
Yes, we seem to be struggling with the same moral dilemmas we've been struggling with for 1000s of years. Religion and politics stem from ethics and e...
I agree as well. I've pointed out before that many people on this forum like to discuss what dead philosophers have said, but what they said is a prod...
Haven't you said something like "it's not a personal attack if it's true"? Would it be a personal attack or an observation to say that you are a contr...
Not just a table, but a person that put the book on the table. A cause is not necessarily just two interacting things, it could be a multitude of thin...
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