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[quote user="Vichy"] [quote user="Stefan Molyneux"] "The 'me' that is responsible is the thing that calculates, and no it could not have ended up any differently, but it could behave differently under different circumstances." So if I understand you correctly, you...
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"The 'me' that is responsible is the thing that calculates, and no it could not have ended up any differently, but it could behave differently under different circumstances." So if I understand you correctly, you believe or act as if you have a choice, but it is an illusion, because...
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I may have misunderstood of course, but I don't think that saying "everything behaves according to its properties" denies or invalidates free will, since "free will" may just be one of the "properties" of human beings. And, of course, things in aggregation certainly...
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RnXkfs8Zgbo "Dude, I just watched your Free-will series and you did nothing but posture yourself as morally superior to determinists. Furthermore, you ban people who do not agree with your morals. It smacks of an aspiring cult-leader, plagued by confirmation bias and...
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(Edition: Second Draft. Added word count: 2400.) First, I'd like to ask for a couple of courtesies. If you don't agree with anything in the following post, stop right there, don't bother reading the rest, and ask me about it. I suggest asking specifically because it will keep you focused...
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My approach to free will is a little bit more basic, and consists of rejecting any argument against free will that requires the existence of free will (i.e. all of them). Determinists will always argue that the free will position is "an error" which we should choose to "correct" because...
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from here: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-Iq9a3uwA Seems like a strong argument against your complaint about determinism is that the concept of "life" could just be a human abstraction and that nothing is "alive" in any real sense. my response: aaa! zombie typing! aaaaaa!
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normaltim: So, I watched the videos and I'm going to post some thoughts I took notes but I'm not going to put them all down but let me know if I'm on to what you're saying. -Humans can create abstract concepts about the real world -Humans can come up with conceptual understanding of reality...
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Please watch the free will videos - to ask the question is to answer it. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E2296B98EE224335
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Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 For Silver+... Enjoy! Don't forget the videos!