(2019-02-14, 09:41 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: It always amazes me that many intellectuals can through a rigid materialistic reasoning process essentially deny the essence of their own existence as creative human beings by denying the existence of anything but deterministic causal chains and true randomness.
But surely you'll agree that the way you'd like things to be is not necessarily the way they are.
In my case, since I can't understand how free will might work, I don't feel any less creative because my creativity is deterministic + random. This extra thing that you apparently feel regarding your creativity is not in my awareness. I cannot add it to my awareness because I do not know what it is.
~~ Paul
If the existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its nonexistence, we say that thing does not exist. ---Yahzi