Freedom My teacher told me one day about something called freedom I asked the teacher to kindly speak Arabic Is freedom a Greek word for some historic...
June is on the run For so long Pushed and pulled then shunned It was so wrong These four walls crashing in Won't stop me now Cause I'm alive I'm out t...
Beg you pardon? Edit: irie /???ri?/ adjective (chiefly in Jamaican English) nice, good, or pleasing (used as a general term of approval). "the place i...
I am sympathetic to the broad thrust of your argument but find this particular premise a bit shaky. One could posit that the brains of two identical t...
Here is the story of Layla and Majnun - an Arab pre-Islamic tale of love and solitude. Very contemplative music. I gather that it's an old poem that S...
Old pirates, yes, they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit But my hands was made strong By the hand o...
Maybe you get cross just because your braincells determine you to be cross... I'm trying to be really charitable here, Isaac style, by thinking of you...
Meaning is not a thing, huh? I guess it's a nothing then, which is true in the specific case of people who make a lot of noise with their mouth to say...
Nope. In the previous lines you argued they aren't, that they differ in their 'fine structure'. I imagine that if I had to share limbs with my brother...
Yes, there could be many purposes to philosophy, as also pointed by Mo. Often we search in philosophy some ways to work on our weaknesses: to reassure...
Yes, and that is the key take away message for me: whether one adopts a determinist or an indeterminist outlook doesn't change the problem of freedom ...
Indeed. It's noticeable in many ways, one of my pet topics being the symbolic use of public space and monuments. All the Washington DC highlights (sen...
We are our mental states, own them, identify with them. And so whatever degree of freedom we have is just a part of our mental state's ways of working...
Well, Echarmion put the same idea much better than I could, so let's use his characterisation: I don't think this is a proven fact. Pretty large molec...
That is the definition of causality, not determinism. Maybe we should try and define what we are talking about a bit better. My understanding is that ...
You're completely crazy. I never said anything like that. Edit: Also you are being unfair and unjust, accusing a random stranger (me) of wanting to pu...
The important point to realize is that neither determinism nor indeterminist can ever be proven true or false, as they are statements about the ultima...
Is this sort of passive aggressiveness par for the course around here? FYI, I do work with all sorts of people, including people poorer than you can e...
No, just because he understood that he needed the structures, the laws, the culture of the empire to rule it. A certain social capital is necessary to...
In retrospect, I think you are right that determinism is neither here nor there in the issue of moral responsibility and free will. It's largely a dis...
Yours is a pre-kantian argument about the true essence and nature of things. It may be good metaphysics for demons and for risk-adverse folks, but it ...
The fact remains that people were trying to reconstruct the Western empire long after it was gone, that there was quite some nostalgia for it during t...
The article is beyond my pay grade. You keep misunderstanding extremely simple points. Let me rephrase one more time: When I see a phenomenon that dis...
I'm not really insisting that, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. I'm just saying that this is the ...
I read less and less, but always hard copies. I like the physical thing in my hand. I like to ‘harm’ it, too. To fold pages, to let rain or coffee spo...
Stochastic Having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analysed statistically but may not be predicted precisely. Well, that's wha...
Yes, the use of probabilities in thermodynamics, biology, chemistry and many other sciences could be down to measurement errors, chaotic systems, accu...
You seem to take a tiny amount of certainty and make it absolute. . In the case of the neuroscientist predicting what he will think tomorrow, the impo...
But it's dependent on knowing the laws of the universe, which is equally esoteric. Now I'm curious, do expound. It's non local, in particular. Which m...
I'm saying the techniques they use are fit for apprehending a reality that is not fully determined. These sciences don't assume full determination. On...
And yet neither thermodynamics, nor chemistry nor biology are deterministic in nature. They all use probabilities to make predictions. Something does ...
Exactly, and hence determinism is a rather esoteric idea. And likewise, you don't like the idea of randomness and you try to erase it from your POV, w...
What is not compelling to me is the story that, if the universe was to magically rewind at the time of the Big Bang and unfold again, every single thi...
Indeterminism says that some things are predetermined to a degree, but not necessarily everything and not necessarily to a perfect degree. We can make...
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