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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
What counterexamples? Like the one I gave about self-sacrifice? Ok, so what is the difference between hard determinism and "ordinary" determinism (com...
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 ...
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...
Drives towards pleasure and away from pain are constituted by forces in the brain (neurotransmitters, hormones, electrical signals). Even if we suppos...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
In the future, central regulation of economy will increase because of automation, biotechnologies and climate change. More income will need to be redi...
The organism sustains itself because it happened to evolve properties that sustain it (the self-preservation instinct). Organisms that didn't happen t...
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...
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...
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 ...
Insistence on the same perspective was part of the meaning of a contradiction already in ancient Greece: Aristotle's law of noncontradiction states th...
You can still formulate a genuinely contradictory proposition by insisting on the same perspective but such a proposition would not correspond to any ...
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...
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 ...
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...
This proposition describes me (Litewave) inconsistently by referring to me, a person who doesn't have the property of "having written this post", and ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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