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    A mechanism for Free Will?

    A random event is uncaused. As opposed to a determined event. It means it is not the result of a strict deterministc path. Whilst people originate their actions, their mechanism for originating(the brain) is caused by external factors, as are their genes. Hence, everything is essentially...
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    A mechanism for Free Will?

    Not evidence. I will try and teach you what a circularity is using your own example. P1: Free will = making choices. P2: We make choices(we have free will) C1: We have free will. We can see you have simply rephrased P2 in order to make the circularity less obvious. The whole question is whether...
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    something interesting

    Ancient people noticed what you have noticed. Only humans wear clothes. They then made up an explanation for it. The phenonemon of clothes caused the imaginary explanation - the explanation didn't cause the clothes.
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    are we born with our morals ??

    I'd say two people can have very different morals from the same environment as our genes determine the way in which we react to our experiences. So, if two people have different genes, they react differently to the same experiences. Since our morality is often formed largely by our experiences...
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    are we born with our morals ??

    In general I would have to say I agree. A human 'instinct' for loving/helping others is perhaps one of the reasons humanity is such a successful species. A group of humans with this trait would definitely spread more than another group without this trait. However, I would go further and say that...
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    A mechanism for Free Will?

    Tell me of this evidence then. Give me a chance to accept it. And don't use a circular argument. If you see there is a rock, I will ask to see the rock before I believe it exists. Therefore, the burden of proof is on you. Now, we do not see 'free will' anyway. Free will is a mechanism...
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    are we born with our morals ??

    We aren't born with our morals. Morals are imposed upon us by social constraints, which don't kick in until our linguistic skills are sufficient to render the 'rules' or 'morals' that are being instructed to us. If you were born in the house of a Nazi and were force-fed Nazism every day your...
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    why do ppl have to die for?

    We certainly 'die', by any standard definition of the word...e.g. cease of activity in both the heart and brain, so i don't know what the last poster was getting at. The reason we die is that we are durable - muscles cave in after being used x amount of times (and our heart is a muscle).
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    A mechanism for Free Will?

    Not off to a good start. Free will is a thing. Therefore, by saying it exists, you are required to provide evidence for it. If I see no evidence, I should reject your concept of free-will. It is blindingly obvious the burden of proof is always on he who posits the existence of an entity, not on...
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    A mechanism for Free Will?

    All matter is physical. Man is entirely matter. We have no reason to believe humans have an aspect that is not material. You don't understand the meaning of random then. If I make a choice to go to war, and I make it by flipping a coin - i.e. heads-fight, tails-don't, then that choice(to go to...
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    Death and Dogs

    It isn't just humans that fight death. Most animals don't accept death at all; they fight it for as long as they physically can. It is perhaps the most powerful instinct embedded in life - the instinct to delay death as long as possible. There are obvious benefits of such an instinct - i.e...
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    Newcomb's paradox

    Osiris, the paradox arises not because of two differebt courses of action can be taken that are logically opposed. It is because there is a completely airtight argument for taking both(that you always get more money) and a completely airtight argument for choosing only B2. If this were any old...
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    Newcomb's paradox

    If we have a paradox then something has to 'give', e.g. in the grandfather paradox it is backwards time-travel. I propose it is the being's omniscience. What do you think 'gives'?
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    Newcomb's paradox

    It doesn't matter whether you're able to get it or not. The rule still applies that choosing both boxes will always get you more money. Even if it is the case that the only instance where you will choose two is when there is no £1,000,000 in B2, that doesn't detract from the fact that choosing...
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    Newcomb's paradox

    If I am being fallacious(I don't think I am), then it is a false analogy. Not a strawman. Now, if it were as simple as 'we should always take B2 because we will get the £1,000,000', then there wouldn't be an argument for taking both; that there is always more in both than in only one. It...
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