The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will

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(2017-09-03, 05:21 PM)Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: Sorry I don't understand what you mean?

I'm trying to make any sense of that article. As far as I can see, the writer here, Marko Vojinovic, is a materialist. That is, he is missing out of all things that does not exist in his world-view. Some estimates or guesses say that we don't know about 90 % of everything. So he is dealing with a fraction of reality, if not materialism is true.

He is also extremely theoretical; his definition of determinism is wrong, even within the scope of materialism; There is no place for any calculations; There is no initial state of anything here, and so on.

If we understand that he is dealing with limited data, then we might possibly have some hope for understanding his flowchart diagram, that is there to give us a visual view of his thinking.

The diagram has two outcomes: "Non determnism" and "Cognitive instability", and this he manages to derive from the question; "Do you trust experiments?"
So who is "you" here? Is there supposed to be one outcome from each and every person? And what has their trust in anything to do with determinism?

We can ignore the "Yes" path of the diagram, as that lead to "Non determinism" no matter what. But the "No" path might be more interesting. It leads to something called "Superdeterminism". So what is that? We have to look it up. (Do not trust Marko to tell us). It appears to indicate that there are causes coming from "outside space and time" , so that is definitely going in the right direktion. But, unfortunately, he deems superdeterminism, possibly together with his odd question, to be cognitive instable. Not because it is, but because he is a materialist, and he thinks so.

http://www.informationphilosopher.com/fr...inism.html

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RE: The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will - by Slorri - 2017-09-03, 09:33 PM

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