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- Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:14 pm
- Forum: Help Desk
- Topic: Zionist feminisation of society
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Re: Probably from Illinois, too
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:48 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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. Faust, the questions I left below on the nature of consciousness are important if you want to convince me we are already robots (in any sense other than organisms about their organic business). I think I am safe in saying that the robot would have nothing left of an indeterminate nature. It would...
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:31 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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I've already provided evidence that random events could occur. You've, so far, provided no evidence to suggest that everything is caused. An assertion doesn't make something so. To rejection the possibility of random events because you can imagine that radioactive decay might not be random isn't ov...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:51 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Shah, Everybody talks like that for obvious reasons, but I have encountered many people who believe they have libertarian free will. I'd imagine that they hold such views because it feels to them like they have free will. I'd also imagine that they've encountered enough folks who reject free will o...
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:48 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Faust, It's all hidden variables sheesh. I mean we cannot see everything that happens, so just because you can't predict it doesn't mean it's not there. Quantum theorists want to be magicians or something. Speaking of magic, on what grounds are you suggesting that nothing can occur randomly? It see...
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:00 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Faust13, No randomness really cannot exist, I don't know where you're going with this. Give me an example of randomness, something that is totally uncaused, and rolling dice isin't random in the physical/reality sense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_slit_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:58 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Matt said, The experience of free will is always there, but the determinist repudiates the reality of it. I must be the only person who doesn't experience it. . freewill is an illusion that is all. Of course, but it's an illusion that I don't have, and everyone else I know claims to have it. Am I m...
- Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Richard Dawkins V. Ted Haggard
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For I cannot see any benevolent and loving god who will allow evil to happen especially to people that don't have freewill. Nothing happens outside God and his will by definition, even by most definitions Christians use. This logically leads to the conclusion that ideas like benevolent, loving and ...
- Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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. (moved to here) David writes: No determinist worth his salt would ever conceive of determinism in this way. It is cartoon determinism which you are describing here. Understanding determinism as a philosophic principle has nothing to do with recognizing patterns in nature or making predictions abo...
- Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:39 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Since you do seem to know a lot about this, why don't you help me to understand it better...but don't go into causality, I'm well aware of that...I would like you to go into the psychology of mind that thinks you are determined. It is not that I don't understand the definition of it...I just cannot...
- Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:36 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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Determinism has nothing to do with free will. When we imagine free will in such a way that it can be proven false by determinism, we should see that such a conception of free will is false even in a partially or completely random system. One is not free to will what he will if that which he wills i...
- Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:33 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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- Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:43 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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PT, It is why what Radhakrishnan said makes more sense to me…our past determines what we are in the present, but the choice to change our future is free. Sounds quite right, and if a reasoning consciousness was an absolute slave to determinism to the core, then those that think that they think, a...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:03 pm
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- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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How do you know this to be true? Is consciousness randomly parceled out? Is the ability to gain wisdom a genetic crap shoot? I think not. It is why what Radhakrishnan said makes more sense to me…our past determines what we are in the present, but the choice to change our future is free. To me, th...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:12 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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- Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:08 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
- Replies: 145
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Since you do seem to know a lot about this, why don't you help me to understand it better...but don't go into causality, I'm well aware of that...I would like you to go into the psychology of mind that thinks you are determined. It is not that I don't understand the definition of it...I just cannot...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:59 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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Faust13 wrote: But what caused causality? What's the reason for causality to exist? And don't say because you prefer rationality over irrationality. What I don't understand about the infinite causal chain of the universe is that there's no cause for this causal chain, and, there's no cause or reaso...
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:43 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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- Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:10 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Richard Dawkins V. Ted Haggard
- Replies: 68
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- Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:08 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Richard Dawkins V. Ted Haggard
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Eternal Tom wrote: Religous debates, much like moral debates seem pointless, since they aren't empirically proveable I agree that debating religious beliefs which are rooted in empiricism (e.g. God is a big grandfather in the sky) is a waste of time. It is like debating whether aliens exist on othe...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:57 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Problem of Causation
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It goes much further and deeper than that. Your depiction of my conception of causality is very wide of the mark. I spell out my thoughts on causality and its logical poofs in some detail in my ebook, so I will refer you there if you're interested. - But what caused causality? What's the reason for...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:55 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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- Mon Feb 26, 2007 4:56 pm
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Can God...
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- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:34 am
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- Topic: Problem of Causation
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Problem of Causation
Anyone read Hume's causation problem? From what I got out of it, it just seems to me to be Hume's superficiality and desire to have fun with skepticism. Can we actually not be able to 'see' this causality?
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:26 am
- Forum: GENIUS FORUM
- Topic: Free Will and the definition of Experience
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