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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.But nobody disagrees with you! If you really believe this is a contentious issue then I can only conclude that you misunderstand the... -
The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.Yes it demonstrates quite clearly the mistake you're making. It's not. Compatibilism is simply the belief that free will and...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.Great! So you agree that libertarian free will is incompatible with determinism. If this was the sole point you've been making, who...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.I'm struggling to follow your train of thought here. You seem to be saying that a compatibilist that holds that determinism is true is...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.My turn to apologise. I mis-typed my question #2. It should have said: 2) do you accept that libertarian free will is not compatible...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.My pleasure. Ok. You say: This isn't just wrong, it's utter nonsense and demonstrates that you really don't understand the terms...
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The AntiChris reacted to Jarhyn's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with
I Agree.
I will also add that "determinism" discussed here, of compatibilists, is not fatalism; there is no necessitation imputed upon it. This... -
The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.That's ok, we all make mistakes. Unfortunately, though, you repeat the very same error in your follow-up. Here you quite clearly...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.At the outset it's clear that you have a fundamental misunderstanding. I'll try to explain. Libertarian free will (libertarianism) is...
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The AntiChris replied to the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist.Can you list the premises on which you base this conclusion? I may be misreading you but I'm struggling to see how your argumentation...
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The AntiChris reacted to bilby's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with I Agree.
Is it? How? OK. I agree that I will, inevitably, do what I choose, rather than doing something else. And I also agree that I inevitably...
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The AntiChris reacted to bilby's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with I Agree.
Obviously living systems (like all other systems) are quantum mechanical at small enough scales. But the idea that this is necessary or...
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The AntiChris reacted to bilby's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with Like.
QM might add unpredictability to a brain's outputs, but this is absolutely unrelated to any kind of free will, unless we are claiming...
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The AntiChris reacted to DBT's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with Like.
Yet the world is sufficiently determinist to enable us to predict events when sufficient information is available, calculate orbits...
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The AntiChris reacted to DBT's post in the thread According to Robert Sapolsky, human free will does not exist with I Agree.
If the subject is free will, how does a probabilistic world - or random events - enable free will? How is free will to be defined in...