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Alright, I'll ask it. Does Free Will violate the Principle of Sufficient Reason?

I think this is a confusion about the dilemma of free will. Volition is just an action with a goal. An intention is simply a goal that a voluntary act...

There's the problem. BTW: ... ...what's a Gnostic doing relying on the bible for his arguments?

Well, obviously, but this essentially says nothing useful. There's no proof that there is no undiscovered species of mammal in Brazil, and there's equ...

"The same theory with another name" implies a two way lexicon. Mapping from B-series to Einstein's conception of time requires a revision. That's anot...

Fair, A-theory and B-theory are strictly Richard Gale's coinage. But Gregory here is talking about something he is calling "B-theory" and attributing ...

Why do you keep saying that? What has Einstein's theories to do with B theory?

I don't think it's even that. Ten pigeons are on the top of the roof of an apartment building. Below that, there are ten humans living on the top floo...

It sounds like you're confused. "B theory" is not Einstein's; it's McTaggart's, introduced in McTaggart's work "The Unreality of Time". In McTaggart's...

Too technical for what exactly? I don't doubt that other people are going to be different than me, but this line of argument (by which I mean arguing ...

Very little, if anything. I can imagine religious tolerance in a society that has little regard towards truth just as easily as I can imagine it in a ...

And why would that be?

I think I understand, but this doesn't really seem like it's addressing the same level as the burden carved out in the previous quote. Here's the issu...

I realize that; but the OP is inviting the implications of that answer, and Nagase in my estimation is responding to said invitation. I'm not sure I f...

I think the question begging accusation is a bit backwards. A reasonable a priori answer to this question is "possibly", or, "perhaps; let's find out"...

This is kind of a tricky question; it's asking for an intuitive answer, but the intuitions don't necessarily hold. The real answer to this question is...

Interesting... that's somewhat similar to how I view mind, only I would describe it more in terms of what's useful at the agency level as opposed to t...

That I would describe as replicable experiments; i.e., we get the same results when we repeat these experiments. To me the term "replicable effects" i...

I'm having some difficulty untangling what you're trying to say here. The demonstrations you're referring to sound like something akin to Pavlovian ex...

I don't understand that definition. Let's suppose there's a universe exactly like ours, excepting that there's "the ability to have acted differently"...

Oh, it's even worse than this; indeterminism hasn't even been demonstrated in microscopic systems. The common notion is that quantum mechanics demonst...

Agreed, but there's also "more at stake" concerning free will, and also, "it's obvious". The more-at-stake aspect can be seen two ways; there's psycho...

Let me offer a bit of deconstruction... this might actually help. Let's pause here. In mathematics, a definition is used to determine what you're talk...

Consider "The Popeye Argument" (because "I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam"). The idea here is that I am free if I'm the one that decides my ...

Sorry, I've never understood this argument; it has always sounded a bit off to me. Let me overly simplify determinism just for illustration... we'll s...

So where is this reductio ad absurdum argument that I've been waiting now 7 days for you and/or some "astute reader" to present?

You're reaching. Eyes do this: link ...and here's an example of you using that sense of the word measure: So to dissect this more, eyes do not measure...

Sans the labels, it's a direct quote. If you don't mean what you say, just say what you mean. Mantis shrimp's eyes measure... what they measure. The q...

That's incorrect. As you yourself say, "photoreceptors are just doing what they do". And what they do, with respect to responding to light, is send si...

Okay, but I'm a bit confused why you're struggling: The idea here is correct (though the phrasing's a bit strange; "equals" is a relation between two ...

Sort of (changed from yes); I'm referring to the number of photopsin molecules (available for detection). (2) has a particular effect on our eyes. A d...

I should point out for clarity that Douglas's description of color here is different than the one I've been presenting to you. They are, however, both...

I've been a bit busy; but I'm just going to fast forward to this. You're still confused over the same point. There are three completely distinct thing...

Thought you weren't interested? Let's go back to this box of crayons. There are 96 crayons here; each is a distinct spectral distribution, and we see ...

Yes. Switching form, I'll quote you with quotation marks. "It is used to pick out..." Yes."You said so yourself." I did. "Those distributions of inten...

We're not naming spectra; we're naming equivalence classes of spectra. We're "color blind" to spectra; we can't even tell RG light from Y light. Maybe...

That's like saying that if I take a black and white photo of this box of crayons, then it's a color photo, because "taking a color photo is the exact ...

...okay, then you need to learn what these words mean, so that when when you read what I write you're interpreting it correctly, and so that when you ...

FTFY. Yes, "an" idea may refer to multiple things; for example, by referring to multiple tokens; or, by referring to a type with multiple members. I'l...

There's a box of 96 crayons here. I can not only see every crayon in this box; I see every crayon in this box as a color. A deuteranope (red/green col...

Yes, but, this is getting ridiculous. You're treating this like a chat forum. Why don't you just go think about things, and come back in a bit? Or sug...

You need not go to other animals; deuteranopes (that mode of red/green colorblind) can see the class of spectra that we call red. They can't distingui...

I'm not as well versed in the visual cortex, but I am aware that certain areas of the visual cortex analyze images at different resolutions, making th...

Why would it? Aren't we supposed to be talking about what colors are? If RG and Y are both yellow, they're both yellow.

I have no clue what you're asking here. The class of spectra that I can see is the same class of spectra that a deuteranope can see. I suspect you're ...

You're explicitly being evasive; okay. No. I'm saying that no other animal perceives the set spectra that we call "red" as the same color.

Then why tell me? Sorry, but no. No, the term does not have a "range of frequencies" that it picks out; it has a "set of spectra" (an "equivalence cla...

That's not necessarily true. The Big Bang is most precisely a singularity; that's it. This does not imply there was nothing before it. In eternal infl...

A separate reply for this: This is a misunderstanding. Conservation of Energy is a law because it's something we've noticed occur under certain limits...

Let's analyze this and try to find out what this thread is about. There is a term "nothing". When we look at it that term, we have a particular idea a...