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[quote user="Stefan Molyneux"] I always do find it most disappointing that determinists simply do not seem to have the intelligence to grasp this basic fact: If I steadfastly maintain that Zeus does not control the weather, it makes absolutely no sense to write a long letter to Zeus indicating...
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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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CCS: I think the division falls along the lines of free will and determinism. If its determined then it is the natural course. If there is a concious decision to deliberately change this natural course by will it is synthetic. If beavers are conciously choosing to change the natural course then it would...
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Stef talked about one possible psychological basis of determinism as a defense mechanism which allows people to forgive bad parents. Here is another theory. Assumptions: There is a conscious brain and a subconscious brain It is possible for the conscious brain to reprogram/redirect/influence the subconscious...
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The idea that free will is compatable with determinism is called "Compatibilism". The idea that free will is not compatable with determinism is called "Incompatibilism". I side clearly with incompatibilism, and in favor of free will. I do not believe that there can be a middle ground...
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It seems that one of the most heated and seemingly unsolvable debates in the intellectual world is the one between determinism and free will. This is a subject which has troubled me personally for a long time, that is until I realized that there is a middle ground between the two. I will now attempt...
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