Violent crime..... Of course if you include bankers, then crime rates have not only gone up but the scope has dramatically increased. Bastards....
Time is an illusion
THis is my point exactly. I see you have modified yours. Which is good. You can no believe that the benefits of immorallity outweigh the...
Yes, clearly choices are limited, I cannot (usefully) choose to do impossible things; but there is always a choice (provided one has free will!)....
By your definition? People continually do immoral things, quite knowingly. There are gains to be had from being immoral; the question is whether...
"want" has no meaning without free-will. "want" would just mean the optimal outcome of a calculation; where optimal means closest approach to...
Probably. From a Hippo's perspective; of course you cannot know what a Hippo, nor a person, is thinking. You can only observe their actions.
comparing a tiger to a bad person is a bit far fetched. In any event the tiger is not behavong immorally, even if tiher's have morals, which they...
Oh well... Free will IS choice; it is the ability to act (verbally, physically, mentally, etc) without any external/internal (physical) cause....
both of you!!!
Grob. Re read the entire post and THEN comment.
Sam Arris, according to his wn logic doesn't believe anything. He is merely outputting data based on inputs and has no choice in that. We can safely...
Getting there, but try: wanker
To be clear I am not proposing a mechanism for free-will; I am merely arguing that we have it. My main argument for free-will, is that without...
I believe that this is simply untrue. Observation is not a disconnected, inactive event. In order to observe something we must necessarily extract...
Ir's indetreminate. I fire a photon at a 50% refelective mirror. It may reflect, it may get absorbed. If we detect it following reflection then we...
Just to help the lame. Deterministic means that the end result is determined by the inputs. Causally deterministic means that the end result is...
That's not really even a question is it. No-one even remotely supposes that human beings operate on a system of random choices. You however believe...
We noticed. Nothing. Another argument. I build a robot which after programming states that it has free-will. Clearly it does not. How should this...
I think you're confusing "rich" with "content". The richest man is the man with the highest cash value. The man who needs the least is probably just...
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