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Recent content by It Aint Necessarily So

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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    OK. What was your argument in support of your claim that will is free and not determined? I don't remember seeing one, just that that is what you believe. On the other hand, I've argued that neither possibility can be ruled in or out at this time. You haven't offered a counterargument. You...
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    Suppression of Free Speech on Covid

    That wasn't her claim. She didn't refer to sneezing with a mask, nor did she refer to the person behind the sneezer, although everybody in the room with the sneezer benefits by covering it (see below). The difference to which she referred was the difference between sneezing uncovered and...
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    One Dems Plan to Keep Trump from Presidency.

    Yes. For Trumpers, if it's Trump, it's OK. I don't really understand that kind of thinking. It's not like he's family that one stands by right or wrong. This is pure tribalism - support the leader of the tribe and attack his detractors whatever either says or does, like a swarming hive. Jimmy...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    I see no evidence of that, but what difference would that make even if correct if you don't rebut? I've already explained that since you don't make arguments (claims are not arguments, although they can be the conclusions of arguments) or refute the arguments of others, no further progress is...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    Wouldn't you agree that at the subatomic scale, our predictions are statistical? I don't think that cause and effect apply to a process like radioactive decay. But yes, if we congregate a great number of events, their collective behavior becomes increasingly deterministic. I don't know what...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    That would be the case whether the will is free or determined. The issue is whether a person chooses what to want. He will act on his wants whether they are determined for him by unconscious neural mechanism or whether they are uncaused and he chooses them. It has everything to do with free...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    I've never argued otherwise. I don't think you understand my argument. Making a correct prediction about a person's choice doesn't tell us whether that choice could have been otherwise or not just as correctly predicting the outcome of a coin flip doesn't help us distinguish between a coin...
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    Why do Humans care about anything ?

    Yes. OK, but that doesn't matter to critically thinking empiricists if you can't make a compelling argument in support of that belief. What you believe isn't interesting or useful to such a person. Knowledge is, and apart from mathematics and logic, which are generated by pure reason divorced...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    That doesn't matter. Their arguments do. Yes, you are convinced that you are right and I am wrong, but can't reasons why you think that. I, on the other hand can explain why each of us believes what he does. We use radically different methods for deciding what's true. Your beliefsmeet your...
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    If Christ wasn't the messiah, what was he?

    In order for that account to not be invented, three men had to walk to and identify a specific manger using a star as a guide, where they encountered a woman who was a virgin and a mother. That's simply not believable to a critically thinking empiricist. Think about the star part. Stars move...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    I don't think you can. For starters, if it could be rebutted, I'd be one of the ones doing it. All you've done is dissent. You disagree, but don't explain why you think you're right and I'm wrong. On the other hand, I've done just that. I've explained how you're wrong and also why you hold that...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    That's not a rebuttal, but it is consistent with this: "It's only Abrahamists that argue that a god can know the future perfectly yet mans will is not determined. It's an incoherent position - internally self-contradictory, but one he is forced to hold if he's to have an omniscient, just god...
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    Why do Humans care about anything ?

    Most have urges and desires. Most want to have pleasant experiences (the upper levels of Maslow's pyramid) and mitigate unpleasant ones (the base). Then they won't do them. It evolved through a series of undirected genetic changes and was selected by nature for obvious reasons. Those with the...
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    Do you Think we have Free Will

    It's only Abrahamists that argue that a god can know the future perfectly yet mans will is not determined. It's an incoherent position - internally self-contradictory, but one he is forced to hold if he's to have an omniscient, just god that punishes for choices made (moral responsibility). They...
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    Definitions and species (hmmm...)

    Nobody does. Agreed. For me, that's also a good enough reason to reject the claims of others talking about gods.
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