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I refer you to this post. I ask you to explain how determinism writes a jazz piece when, remember, you yourself said that the brain is sole agent of thought and response,

I believe it was you who stated that the brain is the sole agent of thought and response.

We prefer non-racist garbage from your ilk.

There is no flaw in the compatibilist definition of free will. There is a flaw in the INCOMPATIBILIST definition of free will.

You see, ladies and gentlemen, in Minnesota — and America as a whole — white men do not commit fraud or any other kind of crime (well, except for the convicted felon in the White House I suppose). Only blacks and dark-skinned immigrants do that. So we find a minuscule fraction of Somali...

No, with you. Obviously. Just look at the thread title. Tells you all you need to know about where you are coming from. We know your ilk,

Sure. I contemplate this post, consider it, compose in my head a response, and then write and post the response. If I am not doing that, who or what is?

Not really following this thread because it is too depressing, I note that the Roman Empire in its late days incorporated so-called Barbarians, notably I believe Germanic peoples, into their army. They were not intent on liquidating the Other, but on assimilating them for their own ends. This...

Novel Written by Hard Determinism Wins Pulitzer Prize IIDB (Internet News Service) — A novel written by the illustrious novelist Hard Determinism has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The novel, The Gallant Gallstone, was entirely cribbed from the novel The Fountainhead, also...

Quiet, piggy, :rolleyes:

It bears emphasizing how ridiculous the hard determinism of @DBT is. I’ve mentioned before how at his blog the biologist Jerry Coyne, when he isn’t attacking trans rights or plumping for slaughter in Gaza, bangs on about hard determinism and how we are all meat robots. He relates the tale of...

There is a TON of evidence and it is empirically observable RIGHT NOW. The fossil fuel industry knew about climate change as far back as the 1960s from their own scientific studies and suppressed the studies, in the same way the tobacco industry knew as far back as the 1930s that their product...

^^^ That is it right there. Well said,

Apparently the president of FIFA is sone kind of huge Trump suckup for some reason. All soccer players should refuse to play in the World Cup because of this. I know that will not happen, but perhaps at least substantial numbers will tell FIFA to fuck off.

Lmfao