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2017-08-25 at 6:10 PM UTC in I believe marijuana should be legalizedIt'll be legal this time next year in Canada.
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2017-08-24 at 6:25 PM UTC in Do aliens exist?
…the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122
Yes, probably. And probably in ways we cannot imagine. Maybe some aliens aren't even from our universe but travel from other timelines or dimensions. Or exist on a different plane of existence all together. -
2017-08-23 at 9:13 PM UTC in whats the #1 reason i dont have a gf
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2017-08-23 at 8:57 PM UTC in whats the #1 reason i dont have a gfYou don't talk to enough girls, possibly you creep out the ones you do talk to.
You don't need a girlfriend though. Just find a girl that wears big hoop earrings and smokes and convince her you know how to fuck good. -
2017-08-23 at 3:12 PM UTC in "Nimrod" is an interesting insult.
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2017-08-23 at 11:55 AM UTC in Why are people greedy?Little bit instinct, little bit how they were raised.
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2017-08-22 at 11:29 PM UTC in The Singularity is Near.Did you read Prime Intellect yet?
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2017-08-21 at 3:13 PM UTC in How do tell my new employer i'm too much of a fuckboi to work the cash register?Just pretend you're black.
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2017-08-19 at 5:02 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
Originally posted by Falco Well then you are just dumb my man. The input of a painting to you, to me, and to anyone else is completely different because the only does not solely determine the output.
Wrong, but again, you are smokescreening; I didn't ask you if it was free. My contention is that the system overall is free. I'm asking you if one element of it can be said to have an internal proximal cause.
Will shit negro, I've answered it a billion times already.
The way you feel about a painting may be different than the way the painting makes anyone else feel, but that is because the structure of your brain has been shaped uniquely due to various factors over the entire course of your life. Nothing about the way a painting makes you feel has anything to do with free will. -
2017-08-19 at 1:05 AM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
Originally posted by Falco Could you imagine that the way that bounces around inside the system you call your body (i.e. higher order reasoning), is a response to, but not an effect of, that thought?
No, I cannot. Response is an effect. The way things "bounce around inside of you" is not something you are freely choosing any more than the thought is.
Answer my question. -
2017-08-19 at 12:55 AM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
Originally posted by Falco Anyone engaging in higher order reasoning. Like us right now.
Higher order reasoning is not an example of free will. You are not engaging in higher order reasoning because you are freely choosing to. You are doing so because at this moment you are compelled to and could not possibly do otherwise. What is free about that? -
2017-08-19 at 12:11 AM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.No.
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2017-08-19 at 12:05 AM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
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2017-08-18 at 11:48 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
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2017-08-18 at 9:34 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
Originally posted by Falco To put it simply, a compatibilist would also argue that most of your actions are NOT free will, if they are made out of first order reasoning rather than higher order reasoning. And unless you do employ 2nd or higher order reasoning, you are no different than a computer or a rock.
Then the question is simply, why does the existence of an ultimate external cause, invalidate the freedom of all the subsequent internal processes?
Because magic isn't real, cause and effect are. Your internal processes might be very complex but still follow the same rules as the rest of reality.
Say you had a choice between red and blue, you pick blue, I ask you why, you say because you like blue it's what you desired, I ask you why do you like blue, you say I don't know why I just do. Well if you don't know why you like it how is this desire something that you freely willed? At what point did 2nd order reasoning occur?
I mean this is how all our behavior works. If you think about any action, any desire, or any thought deep enough, it becomes clear that you don't really know why you do anything. If you don't know why you are doing something, how is it possibly something you are freely choosing?
Give me an example of a person with free will. -
2017-08-18 at 8:40 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
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2017-08-18 at 6:32 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
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2017-08-18 at 6:14 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.
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2017-08-18 at 5:56 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.Is a human in absolute control of their will?
No, he can do what he will, but he cannot will what he will. -
2017-08-18 at 5:56 PM UTC in Ayy lmao, a friend of mine broke both arms while mountain biking.