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If something knew the number of all the grains of sand in the world then that something would be God.
The logic arguments that have been said/presented here over and over and over again (and that I'm getting quite tired of) for one. And then everything that we are made up of being deterministic for another, that cannot produce non-determinism, or a non-deterministic result.What facts?
You keep referring to these supposed facts....yet your description of determinism is something that isn't only impossible to prove....but impossible to disprove.
In the world of facts, this sort of claim is called "not even wrong".
I would agree that a lot more evidence exists for determinism than free will.Would you agree then that no evidence exists for determinism?
It's a simple logic argument, and a logic argument that makes perfect sense, if someone is being honest, etc.Since we cannot ever do this "proof".
Desire to leave the room will never be the only cause influencing their choice or decision ever, etc, but who they were/are up to the point of being put in there each time, will also have a major, major influence, and I would argue "total influence", on what door they will choose each and every single time, etc. And without anything ever being any different, or ever changing, then they would make the exact same choice the exact same 100% of the time, or each and every single time, etc.Well I wanted to know what "cause" you imagine exists that results in this hypothetical outcome that repeats under the impossible circumstances required for the unachievable proof necessary for determinism to be true?
Since the cause for opening either door is "desire to leave the room" and both doors fulfill the effect of the cause....what possible "cause" forces, for example, a left or right choice every time?
Well, that's a laugh, since the only thing I am using right now is logic and reason, etc.The logic is inductive....and frankly I don't have to disprove it. A guy named Hume already pointed out long ago that there's absolutely nothing logical about induction long ago. If you feel one of the few attempts to disprove his claim (I think 4 or 5 of the 7 serious attempts to counter his claim basically start with the concession he's correct, so you'll want to pick one of the other 2 or 3) is well founded....let's hear it.
There you go....you'll like this part as it's relevant.
3) There are also causal generalizations. Hume says that we can’t determine the hidden causal powers of particular things (p. 195 - e.g., the coldness of ice, or the nourishing power of bread) simply by scrutinizing them carefully. Instead, we infer these capacities from our experience with those kinds of things.
As much as I dislike being one of those guys who references some long dead genius who graduated university before puberty....he's got a point that seems rather relevant. That point is....
There's absolutely nothing logical about your position here. It's essentially a faith based belief.
Yeah, whatever.No need to....I only did it in response to you doing the same earlier to these other fellows.
I'm not here to argue Philosophy.Now that we agree intellectual snobbery and ad hominem attacks aren't good arguments....perhaps address the points above.
I'm sure you can understand Hume here...I mean, he did basically have to rewrite his initial book in a dumbed-down sort of way for anyone to understand what he was saying but it's been well trod since then. You'll get it first try.
It's a thought argument/exercise.Again, this impossible experiment without any evidence for doesn't somehow create any facts about the issue.....you understand that, right?
I think it's completely illogical to say you can keep everything the exact same, but get different results at different times.Because I can just as reasonably say that if we were to run such an experiment....I believe you'd see different outcomes at some point.
And if you knew all of the factors involved in a simple coin toss, you could also predict that or those each and every single time, etc.You may be able to flip a coin and get tails a certain number of times....but heads will come up eventually.
There's no secret ingredient. My memories, my senses, my biology...it's not one thing. It's as you said - the sum total of all things. Just like it's not one 'secret ingredient' that defines life.Yet that something must possess all the information that you possess, about every experience that you've ever had, from your mother's nurturing, to your first drink of coffee, to the anguish that you feel about your impending last breath. And if all that you are is the sum total of those experiences, then what secret ingredient makes you conscious...
Maybe were not yet.Then what secret ingredient makes you conscious that wouldn't also make that omnipotent entity conscious?
And I think that as we went further back in evolutionary time then we'd see consciousness gradually decreasing until it becomes simply instinct. Or even simple automatic behaviour like a flower turning to the sun.Maybe were not yet.
Or maybe "consciousness" is relative, and is maybe only based on any beings current level of knowledge, and/or awareness, etc.
I'm more conscious than my cat, but not nearly as conscious as any kind of God-like being is or would have to be if such said kind of being exists, etc.
Take Care/God Bless.
Don't know, probably a question best left to all the Philosophers.And I think that as we went further back in evolutionary time then we'd see consciousness gradually decreasing until it becomes simply instinct. Or even simple automatic behaviour like a flower turning to the sun.
And we could liken that to very early life. At what point does something have enough of the characteristics of life to be classed as alive?
And I'd assume that if one accepted that free will exists then one would say that consciousness would be required. It makes no sense to say that you can make a free will choice if you're not conscious.Don't know, probably a question best left to all the Philosophers.
But there do seem to be different levels of consciousness.
Some people would maybe argue that it's how you define free will maybe, etc.And I'd assume that if one accepted that free will exists then one would say that consciousness would be required. It makes no sense to say that you can make a free will choice if you're not conscious.
So if consciousness is a gradually evolved state then does it make sense to say that free will is the same?
You can have something like a virus that has some of the attributes of life. And some creatures that exhibit some aspects of consciousness. But how can you only have some aspects of free will?
Surely you either do. Or you don't.
But as far as far as being totally free to do either one or the other, in my opinion none of our choices are ever that free (yet), and are, in fact, always already chosen for us by prior causes always right now, etc.
Which therefore means they are determined.
It could probably be traced all the way back to the BB, when the very first particles were very first, first set in motion, and all was determined from there.So they're determined... but determined by what? Chance?
Well, I have a theory about that? That if there are other possibilities playing out anywhere (they would probably all have to have been just slightly different with each BB) then that is an addional dimension, or adds another dimension to our dimensions, etc.Random quantum events give rise to a classical, material, deterministic world. But why this particular deterministic world? Why a world with me in it, instead of a world with me not in it?
It could be some kind of fail-safe I guess, to prevent that particular kind of stupid from going any further, and/or evolving, etc.And also, who also wants that kind of stupid to evolve anyway, or be in their evolutionary gene pool anyway, etc.
Does that assume that you are special in some way? You might just as well ask why is that rock here.Why a world with me in it, instead of a world with me not in it?
The logic arguments that have been said/presented here over and over and over again (and that I'm getting quite tired of) for one.
I would agree that a lot more evidence exists for determinism than free will.
It's a simple logic argument
In your two door experiment, if you never change anything, or never introduce anything new, and the person is also the same exact person each time, then the person will always, always make the same exact choice each and every single time, or 100% of the time, etc.
And what door they will choose, will have already been determined by their previous past experiences elsewhere, or what kind of person they were before that or up to that point.
Desire to leave the room will never be the only cause influencing their choice or decision ever
Well, that's a laugh, since the only thing I am using right now is logic and reason, etc.
Let's try this then... Can you keep all conditions the exact same, and I do mean "all conditions the exact same", and then "run it" or start it that way each and every single time, etc, and ever, ever get different results any of the time?
I think it's completely illogical to say you can keep everything the exact same, but get different results at different times.
Does that assume that you are special in some way?
You're dangerously close to presenting a teleological perspective on the universe. It hasn't been designed for anything. And in the grand scheme of things you are as important to the universe as the rock. That is, not at all.So it wasn't a matter of chance, or serendipity, or luck... the universe was specifically prearranged to create a world perfectly designed to contain me. Of course the rock could make the exact same claim, and it would be right of course. It too is special, because for some reason the universe had to create it.
God is aĺl knowing omnipresent, he sees the beginning and the end, only in your miniscule of existence does free will exist, we are humans in existence under the power of the Alpha & Omega God Jesus ChristSo free will cannot be compatible with determinism. And if existence is deterministic then free will is an illusion.
Your humanistic claim is false, God Jesus Chist is the beginning and the endYou're dangerously close to presenting a teleological perspective on the universe. It hasn't been designed for anything. And in the grand scheme of things you are as important to the universe as the rock. That is, not at all.
What's illogical about it is that there is absolutely nowhere in the known universe that we have yet to be able to observe that you can run the exact same conditions and get a different result. And that's also the logical argument, and the proof. Now prove me wrong about that, and I may have to revaluate my present position, but until then, there is absolutely no situation or circumstance that we know of where you can run the exact same conditions, and get a different result.Oh ok...well I'm not asking you to present an argument already made a bunch of times. I must have missed it. Just go ahead and give me a post # and I'll take a look.
Anytime you feel like presenting evidence I'm more than willing to consider it.
It's not.
There's nothing about the two door thought experiment that changes cause and effect....you simply haven't two possible effects of the same cause.
Why?
I don't see why any past experiences would be relevant to the unique situation described in the 2 door example nor do I know any potential characteristic which demands anyone always choose left or right.
What other cause are you possibly referring to here?
Nah, I'd say confirmation bias is pretty heavily at work here.
What conditions?
What's illogical about it? What possible evidence do you have that all situations all causes have only 1 resulting effect?
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