Whoa! You must have a very interesting life! You walk up to your computer and press the button not because you expect your computer to boot but...
Munich votes for Linux: http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1010740.html?tag=nl
Wes, you're Great! Period.
Could you just slow it down a bit perhaps? It irritates my peripheral vision. But I guess it would be a shame for Bruce to slow down, so ...
Thanks for the link. Right now I don't have the opportunity to buy the book, but it seems interesting. Could you somehow summarize (roughly) how the...
Colours are part of physical reality but physics is not interested in them for several understandable reasons. First, colours don't help to explain...
Neutral monism cannot be the answer. Doesn't neutral monism postulate that only sensations exist, and minds and material things are nothing but...
I agree. I was being ironic. I do not believe in determinism. Microphysical indeterminism can be compatible with macrophysical determinism, can...
My atoms were determined not to close the "quote" tags correctly in the previous post. The universe was weaving its net toward that fatal accident...
Oh come on, you're just determined to say so :D If rationality is dependent on genetics, then genetics is not dependent on rationality. So, it's...
Good questions. The answer essentially depends on when you call a being as "perfectly rational". Let's say a perfectly rational being, when...
Let's start with a simple, everyday observation: we do not have the power to move any physical thing by a unmediated act of will, except for our...
Or like colours? :) But seriously: We agree that there's a possibility that free will doesn't exist. What I wrote was a conceptual point, the need to...
It is true that the same logic is used in Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidean geometry, namely, classical first order predicate calculus. (If you...
I don't think so. We start from our everyday experience and the concept of "action" for example is an essential part of it. Hmm... Science might...
Truth comes in a great variety and in all forms just like mistake does: from everyday to scientific to metaphysical to spiritual, maybe even more....
Unpredictability is indeed related to our conviction that there is free will. But it's not enough. Haphazard behaviour doesn't create agents with...
River-wind, thanks for your not so concise reply. If I understand you correctly, you're trying to make room for free choices by appealing to true...
Now, one direction is fairly easy to see: if all events are completely determined, there's not much point in talking about free agents and their free...
This is true. If punishment is a means to build up certain dispositions in the punished person, then the question of free will doesn't arise (at that...
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