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Why would you set the intention? If you have no motive/intention for the act of setting the intention, then the intention just appears in your mind wi...
September 16, 2021 at 15:36
If the act of setting our intention is free, you need an intention to set the intention. Regress again.
September 16, 2021 at 07:38
When one shuts his mind to the suffering of others, his mind will become severely constricted and wither. Sooner or later his own happiness will disap...
September 15, 2021 at 20:36
Reminds me of Eastern religions and Gnosticism: being born on Earth is a mistake, gotta get out of the cycle of reincarnation. Reach bliss by extingui...
September 15, 2021 at 20:22
What would you call my view of free will then? My view is that all our acts are ultimately completely determined by factors over which we have no cont...
September 15, 2021 at 19:33
Still, the desire is yours, and so the pleasure from the fulfillment of this desire will be yours too (and I will be happy too, of course). So you are...
September 15, 2021 at 19:29
The part that we can do what we want (although our wants are determined by factors over which we have no control). You can do something without a moti...
September 15, 2021 at 19:24
But why would you choose to prioritize carnal pleasure over ethical or vice versa? It seems you would need a motive to prioritize it. We are getting i...
September 15, 2021 at 08:49
But apparently the second value is greater for you, at least in that moment, and that's why you chose it. Why else would you choose it? You can have m...
September 14, 2021 at 21:41
But why would the will choose one side or the other? I can only imagine that the will has motives, some stronger than others, and the will's decision ...
September 13, 2021 at 21:22
Why? It's the gist of a standard neuroscientific description. And why would you resist punching the person? Whatever reason you would have for the res...
September 13, 2021 at 11:26
Yes, and still it seems that the difference between hard determinists and compatibilists is trivial in that they both say that in a deterministic worl...
September 13, 2021 at 11:12
It seems not only implausible but also self-contradictory. What does "concerned" mean? Does it mean that it would make the "concerned" person happy or...
September 13, 2021 at 10:52
What counterexamples? Like the one I gave about self-sacrifice? Ok, so what is the difference between hard determinism and "ordinary" determinism (com...
September 13, 2021 at 01:51
Is it? If you mean cases where someone sacrifices his own pleasure for someone else or for some honorable principle, don't you think such a sacrifice ...
September 13, 2021 at 01:06
Yes, we choose the option that seems to maximize our pleasure and minimize our pain (according to our evaluation). We are programmed that way. An auto...
September 12, 2021 at 22:24
Drives towards pleasure and away from pain are constituted by forces in the brain (neurotransmitters, hormones, electrical signals). Even if we suppos...
September 12, 2021 at 19:19
Let's clarify what you are saying. Free will can overcome an internal force in the brain, such as inclination to fall asleep, no matter how strong the...
September 12, 2021 at 16:57
Inclination is not a physical force? But inclination to fall asleep is a physical force in the brain. All physical forces give acceleration to mass an...
September 12, 2021 at 16:38
Why would it matter how strong an inclination is if free will is not a force? You said that free will is not a force and can choose against all inclin...
September 12, 2021 at 16:12
You think that the power of will can overcome any inclination to sleep?
September 12, 2021 at 15:50
Why? Obligations are just something we want to fulfill to avoid pain of punishment or conscience. They seem compatible with the fact that ultimately a...
September 12, 2021 at 15:34
Ok, but if mankind went extinct it would cancel the opportunity for further human experiences and their evolution. Surely it would prevent a lot of ex...
September 12, 2021 at 14:57
I agree that rape is wrong (except perhaps for extreme situations where it would be the only way to enable survival of mankind by reproduction). But I...
September 11, 2021 at 11:27
Just wondering, in what way did you arrive at the opposite conclusion?
September 11, 2021 at 10:19
What is an "inclination"? For example, if someone feels sleepy does he have an inclination to fall asleep?
September 11, 2021 at 10:10
Even with determinism, pain is still painful and joy is joyful, and we all want to avoid the former and have the latter, by definition. But the world ...
September 06, 2021 at 22:26
And where does our physical realm exist? If it is embedded in a larger space, where does the larger space exist? Space is just one of many mathematica...
August 27, 2021 at 11:46
Yes. If these beings acknowledge that every thing is what it is and is not what it is not, they will have the same logic as us. (If they didn't acknow...
August 27, 2021 at 08:15
Right, and it works, but it's not easy to widen the circle of such love and compassion. The good news is, as Steven Pinker has documented, that human ...
August 26, 2021 at 21:51
In the future, central regulation of economy will increase because of automation, biotechnologies and climate change. More income will need to be redi...
August 26, 2021 at 19:09
The organism sustains itself because it happened to evolve properties that sustain it (the self-preservation instinct). Organisms that didn't happen t...
August 26, 2021 at 17:58
Well, it's funded with increased taxes and mandates insurers to accept those with preexisting conditions without extra charging.
August 23, 2021 at 21:48
Interspersed with collectivist stuff like Obamacare and now Biden's infrastructure bill.
August 23, 2021 at 21:16
The idea of a centrally planned economy was destroyed in 1989. The idea of free markets was destroyed even earlier, in 1929. Since then most of the wo...
August 23, 2021 at 20:30
My view is that the Big Bang occurred because it was logically possible and logical possibility = existence.
August 21, 2021 at 14:02
It seems more natural to relate "at the same time" to "be" rather than to "object": An object can be potentially F and potentially not F, but it canno...
August 15, 2021 at 10:04
Ok.
August 15, 2021 at 10:00
I don't see that the article attributes the phrase "in the same respect" to the object. It seems more likely that "in the same respect" refers to the ...
August 15, 2021 at 08:51
Insistence on the same perspective was part of the meaning of a contradiction already in ancient Greece: Aristotle's law of noncontradiction states th...
August 15, 2021 at 08:24
You can still formulate a genuinely contradictory proposition by insisting on the same perspective but such a proposition would not correspond to any ...
August 15, 2021 at 07:44
In the space with taxicab metric that fishfry mentioned. You may object that that is actually not a circle but he did use the standard definition of a...
August 15, 2021 at 07:40
A genuinely contradictory object cannot exist so any object in reality can be only seemingly contradictory.
August 15, 2021 at 07:24
In Euclidean space they are mutually exclusive and I tacitly assumed this kind of space. Thanks for pointing out that there are also spaces with such ...
August 15, 2021 at 07:20
Square circle as a genuinely contradictory object would look like a square and like a circle from the same perspective (and at the same time and under...
August 14, 2021 at 08:08
This proposition describes me (Litewave) inconsistently by referring to me, a person who doesn't have the property of "having written this post", and ...
August 14, 2021 at 02:11
As far as I know, property in first-order logic is regarded as something that can be had or satisfied by an individual and it is not necessary to inte...
August 14, 2021 at 01:36
Some are, for example "1+1=2" (I hope). Some are not, for example "Sum of interior angles of a triangle is always 180°."
August 14, 2021 at 01:29
It is not true that in some other possible world I wrote the post. Only if one of those possible worlds is this world. It would be true in this world ...
August 14, 2021 at 01:23
Set theory is based on the simple and self-evident fact that objects constitute a collection. A collection can be defined by listing all its parts or ...
August 14, 2021 at 01:09