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2018-02-15 at 11:03 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by Daily What else has this thread been about if not that you ate-wannabe. Decalcify your shit before you get into philosophy debates
Mostly it has been people claiming they have free will and me explaining why that isn't possible. Do you actually see any flaws in my argument, or are you just going to say more stupid things? -
2018-02-15 at 10:49 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
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2018-02-15 at 7:08 PM UTC in Abandoned Neutrons ...In Space!Good job, buddy.
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2018-02-15 at 2:37 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by mmQ My will is absolutely affected by outside influences. It causes me to lean one way or another when making my choices.
If science can predict all of our choices, there should be no reason to philosophize or problem solve any longer.
Prior events don't just cause you to lean one way or the other... they cause your decision. Directly. As in a chain of cause and effect. -
2018-02-15 at 1:52 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by mmQ Nobody can predict my exact choices. Try it.
Science already has predicted peoples choices in an experiment. I already posted a link to this. Free will doesn't exist.
Even though I cannot personally predict your decisions without monitoring your brain activity we both know that you do not intend or have influence over the various events that cause you to make a particular decision. To claim your will is unaffected by influences outside of it is to claim you are a magical being. -
2018-02-15 at 1:44 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by mmQ Prior causes influence our options within our free will. Such as a choose-your-own-adventure story. You choose adventure A and are then limited to a new specific set of adventures to then choose from. The choice is still yours. It's free will within set parameters, not holistic freedom, but will of choice still exists.
If the choice you are going to make can be predicted before you have made the decision that's not free will. -
2018-02-15 at 12:43 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by Xlite Being aware is the difference, being aware gives you free will.
Unless your awareness is magical and somehow works outside of cause and effect it does not give you free will. And the science backs this up. Researchers are able to accurately predict a persons choice before the person is even consciously aware they have made a decision. Either our wills are the result of prior causes and we are not responsible for them our our wills are random and we are not responsible for them... there is no room for free will. -
2018-02-15 at 12:48 AM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
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2018-02-15 at 12:34 AM UTC in The Retardest Thread: Fashionably Late Edition.
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2018-02-14 at 11:23 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while alive
Originally posted by mmQ Again, you're saying nothing is ever free will except for the very first action that ever took place. That's all fine and well except it doesn't mean anything. As long as everyone feels their conscience and feels their decisions, it's as good as free will for all practical purposes.
No I'm saying those feels that people have, the feeling that they could have acted differently in the past than they did, the feeling that they are the conscious source of their thoughts and actions, I'm saying that feeling is an illusion. I don't know anything about "the first action" or anything like that, all I'm saying is that feeling people experience and describe as "free will" is an illusion. And the science backs it up. You don't have to believe that if you don't want to, facts are facts whether you believe them or not. -
2018-02-14 at 7:13 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while aliveWhatever events caused you to reply were events you did not intend and were not aware of and had no influence over. You had no choice.
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2018-02-14 at 4:46 PM UTC in Policeman beheaded and son has heart/skin removed while aliveYou can't even pick what thought you will think next. How could you choose your next action? Whatever "route" you end up going down was never something you freely chose.
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2018-02-13 at 11:37 PM UTC in Is bipolar disorder real?
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2018-02-13 at 11:33 PM UTC in Is bipolar disorder real?
Originally posted by too many posts on a new account and autism
and adhd
actually most mental illnesses have significant overlap, and there's no reason to distinguish between diagnoses, and instead doctors should focus on treating individual symptoms than imaginary constructs
the DSM handing out diagnoses has created a whole generation of special snowflakes who define their entire personality by a short label
If you really believe this I think you should make it the focus of your education/career. Change the world man. -
2018-02-13 at 11:13 PM UTC in The effect of biology on human behaviour still makes people extremely uncomfortableSo it goes.
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2018-02-13 at 7:24 PM UTC in The effect of biology on human behaviour still makes people extremely uncomfortable
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2018-02-13 at 4:42 PM UTC in I miss being a teen circa early mid 00splus ca change
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2018-02-13 at 12:54 PM UTC in Is human behavior biological?That's a great movie.
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2018-02-13 at 12:47 PM UTC in Is human behavior biological?
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2018-02-13 at 12:38 PM UTC in Is human behavior biological?Of course human behavior is biological.
