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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    You didn't mention that Hawking was talking about quantum events. That's something major. So you accept they don't affect determinism. You must then admit we are slave to the probabilities of other quantum events and still have no free will. My question: What quantum events have an effect...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    I agree.
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    The implications are of no matter when it comes to the truth. You should 'believe' in the truth because it is the truth, not because it suits you. I am trying to better understand what I am and I'm trying to persuade people to my thinking, so that they may better understand themselves. Your...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    That isn't determinism. This is: 1. Physical objects, down to the microscopic scale, move and operate based solely on physical laws. 2. Our brains are solely physical objects 3. Our brains operate solely on physical laws Argue against that. If our brain is functioning on physical laws...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    We shall analyse the whole passage (and another one) from his book, Grand Design P32 -"the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets." P72 -"Quantum physics might...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    That isn't determinism Determinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    This doesn't make sense
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    You obviously don't know what determinism is. It isn't that everything has an effect on you. It is that if all variables that do have an effect on you are kept the same the same outcome would be produced. "Determinism is the general philosophical thesis that states that for everything that...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    The way a dice falls is not due to probability. It's due to the way it is thrown. If all the variables acting on the dice were constant it would fall the exact same way every single time. The probability, however, that the variables allow it to fall on a given face is 1/6. In the same way the...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    The usefulness has no bearing on whether or not it is true. It is nothing like God. It has no supernatural mystery surrounding it. "Its like God all inclusive yet undefinable" What are you on about? How is molecules moving in the brain based solely on physical laws inclusive yet undefinable...
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    Should homes have personal firearms?

    The US has 100 times the gun crime as the England an Wales (actual statistic) The prevalence of guns increases the crime rate
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    Meat Eaters = Selfish (Steve & Bill)

    A few points. Animals kill other animals. Humans are animals. Humans can kill animals. We've found a particularly efficient way of hunting. Two creatures are drowning - One pig and one 3 year old human. Who do you save? The human. We exist to continue the species by any means, like any...
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    Determinism - Do agree with it or not?

    Determinism is the concept that essentially we don't have free will (of course, depending on your definition) It goes, in my own words, as follows: 1. Physical objects, down to the microscopic scale, move and operate based solely on physical laws. 2. Our brains are solely physical objects...
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    Views of witchcraft

    Knowing the scientific method isn't knowing science. Knowing how evolution works is knowing some science. Being able to investigate that and reach the conclusion is knowing the scientific method. So if I claim my knowledge of science is better than you I'm not claiming I know the scientific...
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    Views of witchcraft

    Witchcraft doesn't seem to question itself. Science does. That's why science changes. You said: So your new comment doesn't address the fact that medieval people wrongly called magic science. Your old comment said that because people called it science then there must be science in it (because...
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