Free Will

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Tnerb, Jan 28, 2009.

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  1. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    thank you for your uhm advice...and I shall consider the issue of disclosure more over the next few months.....
     
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  3. thinking Banned Banned

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    good

    when your ready

    thinking
     
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  5. Tnerb Banned Banned

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    Yeah... yeah... consideration... yeah over.. uh, months yeah... great... wonderfulll OH dear lord.
     
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  7. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    Isn't it obvious? I'm taking control of the will-less masses. Since they admit to not having any free will they have no choice but to OBEY!

    Bwahahaha!!! Fall in line will-less PAWNS!!!
     
  8. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    some times pandoras box needs to be tested to make sure the lid seals properly.

    [cryptic side comment to those who may need it]
     
  9. thinking Banned Banned

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    is the box sealed properly ? QQ
     
  10. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    given certain behaviours noticed here [current physical location].......and in this thread...nope...not yet
     
  11. thinking Banned Banned

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    I thought not
     
  12. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes sorta.

    nope.

    Things happen from time to time for no discernable reason.
     
  13. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    as you know, pleasure when way too intense can be very painful....which is why the box is evolving.
     
  14. thinking Banned Banned

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    and Reason
     
  15. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    Then its not terribly convincing.

    Well, yes that is what it menas.

    So god spoke to you but didn't really say anything of note? The god of banal greetings is amoung us!!! You wouldn't think a god would have so much trouble saying things that could be verified.

    The way you throw the term around and refuse to expand upon it makes me think you haven't the first clue what that research actually meant.
     
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  16. cluelusshusbund + Public Dilemma + Valued Senior Member

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    Swarm---Sometimes yes...



    Swarm---nope.



    Swarm---Things happen from time to time for no discernable reason.


     
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  17. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    That is a comforting feeling for some, but it doesn't seem a justified assumption.

    All I can say is I held this opinion to begin with but several physicists who understand quantum physics have explained to me that this just isn't how it works and the evidence that this is not how it works is very well established.

    I understand this is disagreeable to some people, even other physicists, but I have to go with the current preponderence of the evidence.

    I regret I don't have the math to discuss this directly, perhaps there are physicists hanging about who can do so in the physics threads.

    The speed of light makes it impossible to know everything at one specific time interval. There is an envelope of Cdt which will effect the next moment but is further than you can know about.

    So you claim, but the evidence fails to pan out that way.

    Choosing is not a chain of dominoes. It is the complex interaction of billions of living organisms with trillions of interconnections which have both standing patterns of activity, self reference, traces of previous experience, attention, awareness, and choice.

    Just like formal logic cannot handle the self reference in the liar's paradox, your formal causality cannot handle free will. The doesn't mean there is not free will. It means your system of explaning behavior in not sufficient to the task.
     
  18. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    if you don''t already know then you will not understand nor accept the reason.
     
  19. Quantum Quack Life's a tease... Valued Senior Member

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    There is an old saying I think:
    "Ignorance is bliss" and this is one of those times when it truly is.
     
  20. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    The integral people draw unsupportable conclusions about the observer effect, such as there needs to be an observer and that consiouness is involved.
     
  21. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    You seem to be trying to equate reason and cause.
     
  22. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    A spade is a spade, unless its a trump.
     
  23. swarm Registered Senior Member

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    What chain of events is forcing you to do this!!!!
     
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