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Thread: Evolution without accidents and also no intelligence?
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Silence Wrote: (2023-07-10, 02:20 PM)
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While I applaud Shapiro's courage in face of live, materialist/reductionist fire; the wrongheadedness of his statements still confound me.
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Thread: New evidence for UFO craft reverse engineering?
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Ninshub Wrote: (2023-04-29, 03:51 PM)
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Yes it's well known that The Daily Mail is what it is. However it's not a rational response to simply dismiss the article on that basis since it seems to be a...
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Thread: New evidence for UFO craft reverse engineering?
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Thread: What is a Law of Nature?
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| A law of nature is the mathematization of the observed regularities. I'm not sure what more you can ask.
~~ Paul
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Thread: Another demonstration of chatGPT 4.0 capabilities
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| I asked it to "Write a function that takes a string and prints a list of all the English words in that string." It wrote a program in Python that did what I asked. But it showed sample output that was...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-19, 09:32 PM)
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Well ideally you would read all those papers, top to bottom...
edit: I mean this seriously, I do think the order matters.
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I read the first three...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-19, 06:54 PM)
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Finding Free Will: Causation in an Indeterministic World (https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/84351/hebnerthomas_Final_Draft_202...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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David001 Wrote: (2023-02-19, 05:48 PM)
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Well I don't know, on a PC (which is typical) you have a set the computer reads an opcode (a set of bits) that forces it to perform some sort of test - e.g. ...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-17, 06:36 PM)
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This makes no sense to me. If the decay was "true randomness" there wouldn't be a stochastic half-life.
Seems to me it's obviously neither determin...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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David001 Wrote: (2023-02-17, 05:53 PM)
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Yes about materialists who feel responsibility! I think if the proponents of materialism (inevitably with no free will) pushed harder, they would come out wi...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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stephenw Wrote: (2023-02-16, 08:51 PM)
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First, radioactive decay is not a random state, only per "particle"!! There are firm patterns established from data. That is how they calculate a half-life...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-16, 07:41 PM)
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The Born Rule and Free Will: Why Libertarian Agent-Causal Free Will Is Not “Antiscientific" (http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11893/1/Born_Rule_and_Fre...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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tim Wrote: (2023-02-16, 12:16 PM)
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Could we ever actually ascertain that, Sci? Ultimately, however, I suspect Paul would want to blame "god" (who has apparently not given us enough free will), henc...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Silence Wrote: (2023-02-15, 11:49 PM)
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This refreshes where I landed with this. Paul's asking a seemingly coherent question, at least to me. However, I don't see any possible way to answer it. I...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-15, 07:42 PM)
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Thanks, I'll be curious as to her response.
Still not sure the question is coherent, but ideally she can make sense of it....maybe she'll use the t...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-15, 07:21 PM)
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What did you ask exactly?
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Here is my message:
Helen,
Greetings. A few of us have had a years-long discussion about libertarian free will. I k...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-15, 06:27 PM)
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You should just email her directly then?
I'm curious to see if this "method" question is coherent.
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Well, that was quite a good video. Steward di...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-15, 06:09 PM)
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You should check in with a philosopher like Helen Steward and/or a neuroscientist team like Tononi & Koch.
If you do let us know the replies, as I'...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Valmar Wrote: (2023-02-15, 04:58 PM)
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After being given so many detailed answers over so many various comments... you want me to give you answers?
What can I even possibly tell you that you have...
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Thread: Free will and determinism
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Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2023-02-15, 04:02 PM)
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Best just to go through the whole thread. I mean you're asking questions here that were answered in replies to you there...
Also this thread has pa...
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