Kudos on your review of possibilities. I'd add a few observations. First, as metaphysical entities gods to my view can in fact "know" the outcome of r...
Yes, the rationalization that the materially deprived (globally) are such is their own fault due to personal flaws is easy to understand psychological...
I understand your struggle, since yours is an atypical reaction to alcohol. As to the advantage, while I can identify admittedly minor competitive adv...
Depends on perspective. Legally? To the state. Morally? To yourself. Ethically? To your "community" (depending on whose standard you are referring to)...
Well the OP inquires about the "origin" of antisemitism, which predates Modern community behavior by millenia. Though kudos to you for not a bad revie...
Well since in Real Life here on planet Earth while physical systems are getting more and more complex, biological systems are rapidly becoming simpler...
Arguing about charitable giving loses sight of the fact that by definition it is voluntary, that is free of moral obligation. If it was obligatory it ...
The tactics used by groups have more to do with the technology and infrastructure available to the warring parties than their moral superiority. Sure,...
Nah, much more likely to be: L. Did you strike my client with your fist? Yes or no. D. Well, he came at me with a tire iron... L. I asked you YES or N...
Exactly my point. Lawyers are almost universally understood to be a prime example of someone uninterested in the truth, and instead seek to manipulate...
Though one can argue there's no such thing as an inherently "yes/no" question, just askers not interested in the whole truth, instead seeking to artif...
Wow. Where to start? First, the robots that beat humans at rock, paper, scissors 100% of the time essentially cheat (that is they don't have any "thin...
Well the programmer of the robot can predict with 100% accuracy what his robot is going to choose. Unless his program notes (accurately) that the thre...
I’d love to hear the details of this trivial experiment. If a Determinist can’t use his Determinism to predict outcomes, what is the practical value o...
Got it. There are some things we know and others we don't. We know there are initial conditions before a "decision" is made (though don't know them in...
Okkaaayyy... You may be unimpressed with those who I have conversed with before (which is entirely reasonable) yet at least when they state a contrary...
Well, since in your view, Determinism can have antecedent state X leading to many possible resultant states, that (as I stated previously as you quote...
Whatever the absolute judgement on the Hiroshima bombing is, relatively speaking the firebombing of Dresden had similar casualties (to the Nagasaki bo...
Huh? As a Free Will believer, I completely support the concept of (true) choice. In other words I believe that the conversation we each have in our mi...
No one has been able to predict human decision making, no matter how detailed their knowledge of the antecedent state might be. If such predictions co...
As a non-expert in the history of leadership, but a close observer of leaders in the present day one aspect of why things are the way they are now is ...
Why? Because the Modern religious live in a soviety that holds science and technology in high regard, therefore logic has more credibility that faith ...
Your post hoc analysis suffers from a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics when trying to use biological and mostly psychological differences be...
Exactly. The physical realm is where proof and logic reside. The metaphysical is where belief and faith rule. Thus why "proofs" of the existence (or n...
Disagreement is, I agree, predictable and ultimately desirable. However, there should be agreement on the step up of the problem, that is what is know...
Basically, there are three temporal steps in what we label decision making: just before, during and the outcome. The outcome is completely observable,...
I am, in fact saying your use of the word "available" is nonstandard. If an "alternative" will never be selected, is it really available? I do not con...
True, from the "decider's" perspective, he's going through the motions we commonly associate with decision making, but to an outside observer who has ...
To my understanding your comments make no sense. Firstly, if antecedent state X ALWAYS leads to resultant state Y, there can't be decision making goin...
Just to be clear, the ANTECEDENT brain state is what I describe as the physical and electrical state of the brain. While pondering occurs (obviously) ...
Determinists state that decisions are an illusion (in favor of antecedent brain states instead). I happen to believe that while brain states can and d...
Well part of the problem is that Free Will is purported to explain animal decision making only (not simple physical systems), thus terms like "non-det...
The problem with statistics, especially about "race" is that folks tend to accept and repeat stats that support their worldview and downplay or ignore...
Sure, the pendulum is swinging off center in that particular direction. But not acknowledging that in the past the pendulum was swung in other directi...
Can't be? Not really. Won't be? Sure, lots of them. Basically look at any luxury brand now. They're all "natural", "organic" or "handmade". Just becau...
CRT, like all theories, is open to legitimate criticism. However any intellectually honest review of it has to acknowledge that at this point both CRT...
I agree about the worries of individuals, though that is fodder for the Economics Forum. The concepts I outlined are valid, though (here in the Philos...
Art has been created by nonhuman intelligence for decades (if not centuries). Our local zoo has sold art created by elephants for quite some time. In ...
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